Opinion

Prakash Sarangi The ranking of higher education institutions in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), Ministry of Education, Government of India, for 2021 has been declared. As before, we are disappointed by the performance of the universities and colleges funded by the government...

Sanjay Kumar Rout The Covid-19 pandemic has hit countries across the world, including India, resulting in vanishing economic activities, deaths and affecting millions of people. Meanwhile, the wrath of nature has left no stone unturned to hit human footprint menacingly. Economic losses are soaring. The...

SN Misra Justice SK Yadav of the Allahabad High Court has recently stirred a hornet’s nest by observing that “fundamental right is not only the prerogative of beef eaters, rather, those who worship the cow and are financially dependent on cows also have the fundamental...

Melvin Durai Neeraj Chopra was fairly well-known before this year’s Olympic Games, but winning a gold medal in Tokyo propelled him to stratospheric stardom. He became a national hero and legendary athlete with a single throw of the javelin, and everyone wanted to know everything...

Arpit Sarangi The Chief Justice of India in a recent lecture observed that “law can be used not only to render justice, it can also be used to justify oppression.” He went on to say that a Rule passed by Parliament can be classified as...

Debasish Mishra Acting on the Prime Minister’s insistence, the Union government has decided that medical colleges across the country will now have 27 per cent reservation for the Other Backward Castes (OBC) and 10 per cent reservation for the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS). The idea...

Dr Bhaskar Nath Biswal The ‘Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana’ (PMJDY) launched by the Central government on August 28, 2014 has completed seven years of successful implementation. In the first week of its implementation, the Department of Financial Services, Government of India, made a Guinness...

Melvin Durai Zerodha, the Bangalore-based financial services company, may have some of the healthiest employees in the world—and I’m not just talking about financial health. The employees are healthy because of an incentive programme that rewards them for meeting their fitness goals. If they meet...

Padmalochan Dash In the face of imminent threats from hybrid warfare imposed on India across spheres, the protection of critical infrastructure (CI) must be at the forefront of the country’s internal security management. Infrastructure is said to be critical when, first, it is indispensable to...

Santosh Kumar Mohapatra Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman August 23 launched the National Monetisation Pipeline comprising brownfield assets with an aggregate monetisation potential of `6 lakh crore, which will be available for lease/licensing to private investors over four years from 2021-22 to 2024-25. For the...