Elon Musk has competition from Boeing, NASA

A colony on Mars

Business Standard

India must bargain hard at the upcoming conference of parties

Target Marrakesh

The BCCI's legal wrangle does players and fans no favours

Just not cricket

The specifics of the new plan to tackle NPAs will be interesting

The bad bank debate

Nitish Kumar's prohibition policy will reverse Bihar's gains

Ever more draconian

The buyer must know how to monetise it more effectively

Twitter on sale

The rate cut is the MPC's way of supporting domestic growth

A calculated gamble

WEF's index shows India has gained in perception

India's competitive edge

Don't think small

New Delhi must anticipate effects of higher oil prices

The OPEC surprise

Sustained efforts are needed to expand the tax net

The black money haul

Parliament, rather than the courts, should settle the debate

The right to be forgotten

Thursday's strikes send a strong signal to Pakistan

A decisive action

RBI would be justified in opting for continuity

Cause for a pause

India's ratification of the Paris climate deal was inevitable

Smart turnaround

An executive order is adequate to set up the rail tariff body

End the delay

Mr Trump did himself few favours in the first presidential debate

Advantage, Ms Clinton

Govt must augment storage and reduce wastage in agriculture

Water: Missing the real point

Only directly elected and empowered officers can run smart cities

Needed: Smarter mayors

By altering the dynamic of the India-Pakistan antagonism to a question of comparative economic attainments, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has adroitly succeeded in tamping down the febrile war rhetoric from Parivar hawks and elements in the security commentariat after last week's fidayeen attack on a forward base in Uri in Jammu & Kashmir, along the Line of Control. Increasingly boxed into an undesirable course of action following his initial restrained response that the attack would not go unpunished, Mr Modi chose the time and place to deliver his message well. His call for a "war on poverty and unemployment", delivered with customary flourish, followed the exchange of oratorical hostilities between Pakistan's prime minister and the Indian diplomatic contingent to a largely uninterested audience at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) and built on the striking description of Pakistan as the "Ivy League of terrorism".By choosing to frame his riposte at a public meeting ahead of the Bhara

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