Top 6, time to stamp your class!

New Zealand have added young pace bowler Tim Southee to their squad for the third Test against India starting here on Friday. "Tim's inclusion gives us additional options with the new ball, and strengthens the attack against this strong Indian batting lineup," selection...

High forex reserves can worsen recession

High foreign exchange reserves have, in the current global recession, saved Asian countries (including India) from the travails they suffered in the Asian financial crisis of 1997-2000. So, they must aim for rising forex reserves in future too, right? Wrong.In truth, high...

Life Starts at 40 for Glen McGrath

Glenn McGrath is in his 40th year. He is a man raising two children and running a full time charity founded by his wife, Jane, who passed away last year after a long battle with cancer. And yet, in the coming weeks, he will add to his many commitments by pushing his frame...

A sub-prime crisis, or something more?

Yet we talk of a globalised world, a global order and a global way of doing things. How silly we could get? Experience of the past decade or so point out to the fact that there is a distinct dichotomy in the approach to economics by the Asian countries on one hand and the...