Opinion

“There are no shortcuts in life!’ Or is there? “Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life” is a recently published book by the Oxford University mathematician Marcus du Sautoy. He argues that shortcuts are more common than most think in all...

Eating omnivorously and ubiquitously has become the consumption norm of our times! This new Epicureanism of unregulated gluttony has been the driving force of our modern lives. Gastronomical innovations and transformations seem to bombard the matters and manners of food in our times. Rapid and...

When you open a new bank account and set up online access to your account, a bank employee may say something like this to you: “Do not share your password with anyone!” And you may find yourself thinking, “Of course not. Do I look like...

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the first of its kind, was sent to space to investigate the cosmic matter by analysing the light coming from it. The HST has shown that the distant galaxies are more redder than the nearest galaxy and the phenomena is...

If you’ve ever been scuba diving in the ocean, you’ve probably come across schools of fish. Unlike the majority of youths, fish enjoy being in schools. They spend not just weekdays in schools, but also weekends. That’s because schools promote learning, and fish know they...

India-US 2+2 ministerial dialogue between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh took place April 11 in Washington DC. This dialogue was preceded by a virtual meeting between Narendra Modi...

Hollywood superstar Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock March 27 at the 94th Academy Awards function. It was over a poor joke which offended Will’s wife and enraged him to lose his temper in a fit of anger. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),...

For most people, just completing a marathon of 42 km would be a major achievement. But that’s a walk in the park for ultra runners like 35-year-old Sufiya Khan of Delhi. Khan was recently certified by the Guinness World Records for the “fastest time to...

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...