The Union Budget this year has left ordinary tax-paying Indians inordinately angry and frustrated. In the 10th year after he delivered a ‘dream budget’, Finance Minister,
P Chidambaram appears to have lost his touch; ironically, the economic situation today is the best that any Finance Minister could have wished for.

In contrast, Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav, badgered by...

Interest rates continue be a worry but the panic looks done for now

In mid-January this year, Merrill Lynch’s global emerging market equity strategist, Michael Hartnett, said “undercapitalized, underleveraged and underowned emerging markets remain in the midst of one of the great bull markets. 2007 will be an inflection point for global imbalances triggering a new phase of this bull market...

How often have you been furious at the insensitivity, apathy and lack of accountability of various government entities and did not know how to make your grievance heard? Many of us believed that consumer courts are the only real recourse for those determined to seek justice. But that is a tedious and, often, frustrating process that could drag on for a decade through various courts....