Opinion

Prime Minister Modi during his independence address from the ramparts of the Red Fort August 15, 2014 declared the demise of Planning Commission, a 64-year-old old institution founded on Command economy model of the Soviet Union. Arun Jetley described Planning Commission as ’redundant organisation, relic...

In the last few weeks New Delhi has witnessed footfalls of a bevy of foreign diplomats. The Foreign Ministers of Russia and Mexico, the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, the US Deputy National Security Advisor, and the Netherlands Security Advisor were in New Delhi...

If we blinked, we would have missed the visit of the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. He was in New Delhi, 24-25 March 2022, meeting his Indian counterpart for three hours and a short meeting with the National Security Adviser. His visit to New Delhi...

When she died in 1997, Jeanne Calment of France was 122 years old and had set the world record for oldest person ever. She became a centenarian in 1975 and lived for almost a quarter-century beyond that, but what her doctors were probably wondering was...

Considering low visibility and lesser management cost, dependency on ground water is substantially high in comparison to surface water. Besides, when majority of rainfall occurs during monsoon over a few odd days, ground water resources sustain us for rest of the year. Probably that is...

I wasn’t taken in by a recent announcement. The trending news of some top-notch IT companies recalling their employees to offices! Microsoft declared it in one of its company blog posts. Cognizant is planning to throw ajar its office premises, voluntarily for its staff, from...

Melvin Durai The International Gymnastics Federation has criticised Russian athlete Ivan Kuliak for wearing a ‘Z’ on his chest at a gymnastics World Cup event in Doha, Qatar. The 20-year-old gymnast had taped the ‘Z’ symbol to his leotard and wore it on the podium...

Melvin Durai Two middle-aged American men, Steve and Ralph, were discussing the Russian invasion of Ukraine and all the sanctions that had been imposed on Russia. The United States and its allies, for example, had frozen the bank accounts of many wealthy Russians. The European...

Nikunja Bihari Sahu The National Science Day is celebrated in India to reminisce the landmark discovery of the Raman Effect by eminent physicist Sir CV Raman February 28, 1928 and his subsequent felicitation of the Nobel Prize as the first Asian in Physics. The life...

Anwesh Satpathy In a review of Satyajit Ray’s ‘Apur Sansar’ (The World of Apu), the critic Dwight MacDonald castigated Ray for being “self-conscious.” MacDonald, along with many western critics of that time, didn’t consider Ray capable of handling the complexities of city life. This was...