S Viswanathan

The Maha epigraphist is no more

Iravatham Mahadevan (IM) earned a reputation as an upright, principled and efficient officer of the IAS. He served the Industry Department at the Centre...

Ananth Kumar, articulate politician

Under the UPA I & II Tamil Nadu and Kerala were well- even over - represented in the Union Council of Ministers. Not so...

Build special bilateral cooperation

The British Business Group, Chennai, promotes business between UK and India. BBG has as its members business leaders, expatriates of companies engaged in manufacture...

Piped gas for TN cities soon

A 9 million tonne refinery is to be set up by the Chennai Petroleum Corporation at Nagapattinam at a cost of Rs 30,000 crore...

From a lodestar to a meteor

Carlos Ghosn, the man with a rockstar like reputation, was arrested in Japan on charges of fudging. How the mighty has fallen! For a couple...

Rice, the prized crop of Asia

Do you know that rice is not grown much beyond the Asian continent? With 2.5 billion more mouths to feed by 2050, there is...

Between the bang and the whimper

The recent spat between the government and the Reserve Bank provided a lot of grist for the media mills. There are a few causative...

Pulling millions out of poverty…

Large financial institutions like the World Bank, IMF and KfW lend for countries and projects across the globe. ADB funds countries in the Asia...

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