Opinion

Dr D K Giri American President Joe Biden has set September 2021 as the new deadline for the US troops to pack off from Afghanistan. The NATO soldiers will follow suit. Afghanistan government will be left to defend itself. President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai has reassured...

Melvin Durai If you’re a full-time employee of a large organisation, you probably enjoy a number of benefits, including paid holidays, sick leave and maternity leave. These benefits vary widely from employer to employer, as well as from country to country. The movie streaming company...

Santosh Kumar Mohapatra The coronavirus pandemic is the greatest global trauma since the Second World War and unprecedented in most of our lives.  Calling the pandemic, the world’s worst public health crisis in 100 years, an Oxfam report in 2021 said it triggered an economic...

Malay Mishra In the climax scene of the iconic film Joker which fetched that year’s Academy award for its lead actor, the protagonist after shooting dead the anchor point blank, one he had idolised all his life, on a live interview set to the utter...

Dr Siddhartha Sahu With the recent deaths of sanitation workers in Cuttack hitting headlines, the Orissa High Court took suo moto cognizance of the matter. The High Court observed that manual scavenging is a shameful practice that shocks the judicial and collective conscience, and sought...

Dhanada K Mishra In 2019, the treasury department of the UK government commissioned Prof. Sir Partha Dasgupta of Cambridge University to carry out a comprehensive global review of the economics of biodiversity. Coming on the heels of the IPCC’s ‘Special Report: Global Warming of 1.5...

Vappala Balachandran The Maharashtra Police-politician squabble is now being legally processed by the CBI under orders of the Bombay High Court. Hence, this analysis is not on that specific issue but on a larger subject of police-politician relations affecting the general public. While one should...

SN Misra & Sanjaya Kumar Ghadai World Economic Forum’s recently published Gender Gap Report (2021) shows that India has slipped by 28 places compared to the Gender Gap Report (2020), with a ranking of 140 out of 156 countries surveyed. Sadly, in South Asia, India...

Ashok Mahapatra No country is entirely self-sufficient, and every country relies on maritime trade to sell what it has and buy what it needs. Shipping helps ensure that the benefits of trade and commerce are more evenly spread. However, it is a pity that the...

Jayati Ghosh One of the most significant socioeconomic changes accelerated by Covid-19 must surely be the rise of digital labour platforms. Of course, platform-based employment had already been growing exponentially before the pandemic. But the combination of lockdowns and stay-at-home orders, and the consequent greater...