Opinion

The sanctified cockroaches, an epithet given by a tall member of the judiciary, are rocking the country’s systems as a deep unemployment or disguised job situation engulfs. While the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2023-24 puts overall unemployment at around 3%, it reveals a much...

International criminal tribunals once focused on bringing defeated leaders, such as Serbia’s Slobodan Milošević and Liberia’s Charles Taylor, to justice. But the International Criminal Court has gone further, issuing arrest warrants for incumbent leaders—notably, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. While...

By DK Giri The villagers in Arunachal Pradesh have lodged complaints that the PLA is taking their land inch-by-inch and even whisking away their livestock. People in Ladakh have been making similar complaints. The initial reaction of the Government of India is often denial, or...

By Chander Gupta I had been contemplating holidaying with my wife in a foreign country this summer, but we were feeling deterred by visa hassles and long-duration flights. Being in our sixties, we are inclined to take it easy. Both of us are having passports...

By Ian Buruma Anthony Fauci has had a long and distinguished career as an immunologist. But you wouldn't know that from his recent hearing before the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Republican senators hurled gratuitous attacks on the former director of...

By Lee Jong-Wha Around the world, governments are again using the tools of industrial policy—subsidies, tax incentives, public finance, trade measures, and strategic regulation—to shape their economies. South Korea is no exception. President Lee Jae-myung’s government has launched an ambitious strategy to promote semiconductors, AI...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken to Instagram, aiming his messages at the tell-it-as-it-is generation called the ‘Gen Z’.  The RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has also chimed in to the current times by opening conversations with them. The entire establishment, it appears, wants to listen...

For more than two decades, digital platforms have monetised our attention and social interactions. But today's AI models extract value from another source: our collective knowledge. Every article, photograph, code, video, and online comment can be turned into training data—trillions of so-called tokens—and ultimately into...

In a first, the national song Vande Mataram will be sung from the ramparts of Red Fort during India’s 80th Independence Day on 15 August. Outlining the new ceremonial sequence, the Ministry of Defence in a statement said that the song will be sung following...

By Dr Debabrata Swain The elephant, Earth’s largest terrestrial mammal, is deeply woven into Odisha’s cultural, spiritual, and geopolitical history. Simple and serene with its magnificent proboscis, this gentle giant requires massive, unbroken forested terrains to forage, consuming hundreds of kilograms of foliage and grass...