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Say what you will, but the inflation rate, at last, is falling. That is according to official figures. You might say you are still paying slightly more for whatever you buy. But a falling inflation rate does not mean falling prices as if you are paying less for what you buy, but only that rise in prices is somewhat slower. This is a common mistake that people often make when inflation rate is said to be falling and the average man in the street says that he is paying more.

During the run-up to the BJP-JD(U) breakup, a sentence in a TV news programme which crawled along with others at the bottom of the television screen, said that Narendra Modi has asked Rajnath Singh to talk to Nitish Kumar.

New Delhi: The contentious border dispute with India has not detered China from accepting the growing popularity of Bollywood films, particularly the hit film – 3 Idiots.

New Delhi: India is dismayed by the reports suggesting that Sri Lanka has planned to dilute certain key provisions of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution which would deny the Tamil population of rights of equal citizens.

New Delhi: India and Argentina to expand the scope of bilateral trade and investment.

In Myanmar, with international investments finally picking up, economic prospects look promising - ironically, human right analysts remain concerned over the long term negative impact of such economic progress on the country’s persecuted minorities.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The United Democratic Front (UDF) Government led by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has been buffeted by yet another controversy. Ironically, this time, it is the Chief Minister himself, the so-called USP of the Government, who is in the eye of the storm.

LUCKNOW: At a time when Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has been announced as BJP’s mascot for campaign and his close lieutenant Amit Shah takes command of party in Uttar Pradesh to sell Hindutva and Rahul Gandhi visits Amethi and gives call to send 40 MPs to Lok Sabha from the state, both the parties should learn lessons from Handia by-polls where they lost deposits.

Ranchi: Tribals of Jharkhand, under the aegis of Jharkhand's Adivasi Jan Parishad, the body of various tribal groups, staged a massive demonstration today in Ranchi against their conversion efforts by Christian machinery in the state. A rally of above 5000 tribals, including large number of women, raised slogans against conversion on behest of foreign forces active in the state.

At last, the Finance Minister Mr Chidambaram has recognised that there are no quick-fixes to lift our economy from the morass into which it has been driven, more by our own past failings rather than as a fall-out of uncertain global environment. Yes, trade and finance are areas where the economy has had to bear the impact of volatile financial markets and weak post-crisis recovery in major developed economies hitting investment inflows and exports for nearly two years.