Setting the day’s agenda for conversation
Bengaluru/By Vishnu Raja/The on-going brawl over telcos move to charge consumers differently and discriminate in favor of some apps opposed to others, had once existed in the past, but only in a realm of…
|By K Raveendran| India has raised tax rates on petrol and diesel, taking advantage of falling oil prices to bolster government…
|By Rashidul Bari| When I was writing Grameen Social Business Model, a book detailing the search for a weapon to use…
By Bjørn K. Haugland & Erik Rasmussen How can we use the pressure from global risks such as extreme weather or…
|By Rashidul Bari| Palestine and Israel, once known as cradle of civilization, have become the hub of cemeteries in modern times.…
|By K Raveendran| The Chinese presence in the UAE, Gulf and the Middle East is well-entrenched, with China becoming almost a…
Americans continue to renounce passports to escape tough tax scrutiny although the number of Americans renouncing U.S. citizenship declined 13 percent…
|By K Raveendran| Is the ‘irrational exuberance’ man at it again? Allen Greenspan, whose description of the state of the market…
In the world’s biggest country, railways are still a route to riches. With nearly 1 billion passengers a year and $42…
Coca-Cola’s Facebook page is supposed to have the biggest fan base for any brand. As per the latest tally, the page…
Dubai is set to become a smart city in the next three years, which would see a thousand government services going…
It is now clear that the chances of a fire sale of Dubai’s ‘jewels in the crown’ — a reference to…
|By Rajhkumar K Shaaw and Santanu Chakraborty| For the first time in five years, Nilesh Dedhia is buying Indian stocks. The…
|By K Raveendran|The recent vote by the European Parliament to allow visa-free travel to Europe for UAE nationals and the reciprocal…
| By K Raveendran| Dubai is at such an interesting juncture that it lends itself to analyst opinions that are mutually…
A last official link between the Gulf’s colonial era and its commercially dynamic present, Bill Duff devoted his life to Dubai…
|TAP Special|If you are lucky, maybe you can buy your stolen credit card details from the black market yourself. If you…
|By Pranay Gupta| When I look out of the windows of my 25th-floor apartment in Dubai, I see the Persian Gulf…
|By Kalyani Shankar| With the arrival of the AAP party chief Arvind Kejriwal in the national scene, after he quit his…
During the past two years, statistics show that Dubai’s economy is on the path to a robust recovery. Some say that…
Dubai is considering the introduction of a salary threshold for being eligible to own a car, Director General of Dubai Municipality…
U.K. billionaire Richard Branson said his Virgin Galactic venture is on track to carry its first fare-paying passenger to the edge…
CNN has reported on the plight of Burj Khalifa residents who faced the threat of unplugged air-conditioning and out of service…
Oven-hot pizza delivered to your home by drone! Sounds like fantasy? Well, this could become a reality in Dubai and elsewhere…
|By K Raveendran| Indians across the world celebrated the elevation of Satya Nadella as the new CEO of Microsoft. Dubai, with…
|By Pankaj Mishra| There is a great, virtual storm blowing through India today, and the most frantic people in the country…