DEHRADUN: It’s not hard to guess Kiran Sandhu’s favourite colour. Blue streaks the silver curls crowning the veteran artist, stains the palms of the women working on her farm in Uttarakhand and flows through fabrics that hang from clotheslines like rivers.Turquoise, cobalt, teal… an indigo spectrum»»»

Sharp increases in tariffs on imports of foreign goods likely will do little to reduce the U.S. trade deficit and may not stop it from rising further, suggests a paper discussed at the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) conference on March 27. “U.S. trade deficits are high and likely to r»»»

My view is that it is a bear market rally in the US. The reason to be sceptical about the rally in America is that you have a double whammy - tightening of higher rates and shrinking balance sheets - which is negative for liquidity. This year India is not the best market, because of the monetary ti»»»

The selloff in cryptocurrencies gained new momentum on Monday, with bitcoin tumbling to a six-month low and other tokens seeing big losses. Bitcoin fell below the US$33 000 mark, continuing a six-day downturn. Ether retreated further, too, and touched its lowest point since July. Across the crypto »»»

"I had no idea what a mixed-orientation marriage was... until I suddenly found myself in one." I stood at the edge of the pool with my toes gripping the cold stone. Treading water, my husband Stuart smiled encouragingly, patiently. We had been married for 27 years, and for most of that time, he und»»»