Expenses

Are you paying more than your spouse for house expenses?

Ask any couple these days and they would say that both of them pitch in 50 percent each as far as household expenses go. But, is that the right way to go about sharing the expenses?

Modi-mania takes markets to high, but Indian consumers remain pessimistic

While Prime Minister Narendra Modi's election triumph two months ago and his promises of economic revival buoyed business confidence and India's financial markets, consumers remain pessimistic and anxious about the future.

Budget 2014: 8 tricks Chidu may use to show you right numbers

On past track record, the chances are Chidambaram will outdo himself this time on account fudging. He will use one, or all, of the eight tricks indicated below to claim the numbers presented are the real thing.

Cost of Syria's three-year-long war has crossed $103 billion: US

The devastating civil war has almost completely halted industrial activity in Syria, said a senior official from the Palestinian UN Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa), Alex Pollock, presenting a report on the country at the New America Foundation in Washington on Thursday.