TR EMERITUS

(25 Sep) - B S Anand Singh, the BJP MLA from Vijayanagar (Hospet) constituency in Bellary district, who was likely to be arrested by the CBI in the Belekeri port iron ore export scam case, has left for Singapore. The CBI had summoned Singh, who was Tourism Minister in the Jagadish Shettar government, for questioning to its... 

(27 Sep) - Scores of people were feared trapped or dead after a five-story residential building collapsed early Friday morning, the fifth deadly collapse this year in and around Mumbai, a city with crumbling housing infrastructure and poor building standards. At least 11 people were confirmed dead. The authorities said it was... 

(Forbes, 17 Sep) - Barring any major disruption, the speed at which China is growing in terms of total GDP will enable it to catch up to the U.S. by 2020. China will then go on to surpass America. During the 1978-2011 period China’s high average rate of growth–about 10% annually–was the result of Deng Xiaoping’s 1978...