Opinion

Melvin Durai Among the most popular books in Spain in recent years is a series of ultra-violent crime thrillers featuring the detective Elena Blanco. The books were written by Carmen Mola, which is a pseudonym (or pen name) used by a female professor in her...

Prof SN Mishra The Millennium Development Goal 4 had set a target of halving the percentage of population suffering from chronic hunger. By the end of 2015, this target was met by 73 countries (including India). Yet 800 million still did not have enough to...

Melvin Durai Around Christmas, last year, my wife and I adopted a dog named Lulu from a pet shelter. She had been found on the street, but her condition indicated that she had a previous owner. She was extremely skittish—any loud sound made her jump—and...

Bruhaspati Samal Having a vast network of 1,56,721 post offices, India Post, the largest postal network in the world, completed its glorious journey of 167 years October 1, 2021. Due to its widespread presence in rural and poor areas, it has not only protected national...

Santosh Kumar Mohapatra Apart from the ideological assault on the ethos of the public sector, the very purpose of divesting or privatising the public sector and various public services or leasing out national assets is mainly to generate resources to bridge the fiscal deficit and...

Melvin Durai Bolt, a San Francisco-based financial technology company, announced recently that it would be switching to a four-day workweek. “It’s all about keeping standards of execution high, while still putting the team’s health and well-being first,” Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow told FastCompany.com. Meanwhile, TAC...

Narvijay Yadav In the post-pandemic era, domestic tourism is likely to grow, as people are fed-up with monotonous lifestyle, following the work from home culture. However, safety and hygiene are considered to be the new luxury. With the possible opening of foreign tourists’ entry into...

Melvin Durai Ford Motor Company recently announced that it is leaving India, saying goodbye to all the drivers it had hoped to lure with cars such as the Aspire, Endeavour and Freestyle. No more aspiring and endeavoring in the competitive waters of India—Ford is freestyling...

Pinak Mishra, IPS Recently, while interacting with IPS probationers at the Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel National Police Academy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi lamented over the negative image of the police and exhorted the young officers about to enter the force to work assiduously on changing...

Bighneswar Swain Cybersecurity is the blend of people, policies, processes and technologies employed by an enterprise to protect its cyber assets. Cybersecurity is augmented to levels that business leaders define as balancing the resources required with usability/manageability and the amount of risk counterbalance. On secure...