Mahesh Trivedi

Record number of Indian women to embark on Hajj without male relatives this year

A record 2,340 Indian Muslim women aged above 45 years will embark on the Hajj later this year without a male guardian even as the federal government ...

New consumer protection laws worry India’s doctors, e-tailers

As the general elections draw nearer, the Indian government is all set to enforce stringent, long-overdue laws for empowering every consumer but the ...

As polls near, Indian govt cuts tax on movie tickets but fans are not amused

With the recent poll debacle in five states and now crucial general elections just four months away, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party ...

This globe-trotting executive has world’s largest collection of shot glasses

Globe-trotters are dime a dozen but India’s Amit Doshi is a jet-setter in a class, or rather, ‘glass’ apart. The 58-year-old senior ...

India may slash import duty on gold as smugglers make hay

The Indian government is seriously contemplating slashing import duty on gold, setting up a gold council and bringing out an integrated gold policy ...

India’s only kite museum in Ahmedabad passes with flying colors

Ahmedabad, the largest city in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat, boasts 30-odd museums but the Kite Museum in the 607 ...

Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown leaves Indian techies in limbo

With Donald Trump swearing up and down that rules for employment-based visas would be tightened by January next to protect the interests of local ...

Modi’s party on name-changing spree as India’s general elections draw closer

With the general elections in India less than six months away, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is almost ...

India’s 30m job-hunters seethe with anger as unemployment scene turns tinderbox

India’s 30-million-odd frustrated job-hunters are fretting and fuming over the federal government’s failure to provide employment even as ...

India’s diamond industry fast losing luster as woes mount

The world’s largest diamond industry in India has sunk into depression, thanks to successive multiple blows of rupee volatility, liquidity ...

Funds, farmers put spoke in wheel of India’s bullet train

Even more than a year after it was flagged off, India’s Rs1.1-trillion ambitious high-speed bullet rain project is chugging along at a ...

Strict, partial ban on firecrackers sparks row ahead of Diwali festival in India

The partial but no-nonsense ban slapped on toxic firecrackers by India’s highest court to check fast-rising air pollution levels just a few days ...

Beacon of hope for India’s 100-million lonely senior citizens

India’s 100-million-odd senior citizens are ploughing a lonely furrow, thanks to the lackadaisical attitude of government and society toward ...

Indian govt’s bank merger plan triggers fears of job losses

The Indian government’s sudden and far-reaching decision to merge three state-owned banks without consulting the stakeholders has sent ...

Police punish parents as India’s underage drivers create havoc on roads

With a record rise in the number of fatal road accidents involving underage drivers, the police and courts of law in the bustling cities of India have ...

India’s judges, lawyers turn Good Samaritans for flood-hit Kerala

The rain-ravaged southern Indian state of Kerala has received aid in cash and kind from everywhere but the yeoman’s service rendered by the ...

Indian travellers, students take rupee value fall on their chin

The Indian rupee has been plumbing newer depths against the strengthening US dollar for the past one month, burning a hole in importers’ pocket ...

World’s ‘tallest statue’ a ladder for Indian PM Modi to climb to top post again?

Some 3,000 laborers and 300 engineers are sweating and slaving to complete the world’s tallest statue in India by October 25, just in time for ...

190 million Indians do not have a bank account – enter ‘postmen bankers’

Come September, India’s 350,000-odd well-trained postmen will turn smart bankers, offering doorstep financial services to even the last man ...

Begging no more a crime in India but rehabilitation a Herculean task

The 400,000-odd flat-broke beggars in India must have heaved a sigh of relief with a top court of law ruling that seeking alms is not a crime, and ...

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