New Delhi, July 30 -- Policy reports from multilateral institutions are often an antidote to insomnia. But not theGlobal Debt Report 2025 released by the OECD in March. It has characteristics that com... Read More
New Delhi, July 16 -- The US administration's 9 July deadline for trade deals and tariff announcements has come and gone and been extended to 1 August. Since 'Liberation Day' in April, which should ha... Read More
New Delhi, July 12 -- Tennis, it has sometimes been said, has skipped a generation. The reference is usually to men's tennis, which has transitioned somehow seamlessly from the improbable longevity of... Read More
New Delhi, July 4 -- Ahead of a practice session on Centre Court at Wimbledon a few days before the tournament started, Carlos Alcaraz, the defending champion, and Novak Djokovic, who lost to the Span... Read More
New Delhi, July 3 -- Earlier this summer, an unusual depiction of a zebra gifted to Mughal Emperor Jahangir drew attention to the Iranian artist Mansour, who had painted it. A white nephrite jade cup ... Read More
New Delhi, June 28 -- First impressions of places we have often day-dreamed about can have the hallucinatory effect of a fairy tale. As a teenager just graduating from high school in 1961, the teenage... Read More
New Delhi, June 18 -- On few subjects is there a greater generational divide in the developed world than on the merits of having a cocktail. In the past couple of decades in the US, sales of alcohol t... Read More
New Delhi, June 4 -- In a world of wildly exaggerated claims for artificial intelligence (AI), the paradox is that the mythology which leads governments to favour manufacturing over services often see... Read More
New Delhi, May 21 -- Some months ago, Canada's ruling Liberal Party was 25 percentage points behind the Conservatives, the country's right-wing opposition, in pre-election opinion polls. Then, Mark Ca... Read More
New Delhi, May 8 -- Asked a question about Berkshire Hathaway's earnings power over the past financial year by a London-based economics professor at the company's annual gathering of shareholders on 3... Read More