Opinion

Dr Sanjay Kumar Panda The National Handloom Day is scheduled to be observed August 7, 2021. Initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2015 in Chennai, this celebration seeks to reiterate the importance of handloom in the socio-economic-cultural fabric of our country and boost the...

Dasarathi Mishra The Covid-19 pandemic could be a game-changer for digital financial services. Low-income households and small firms can benefit greatly from advances in mobile money, fintech services, and online banking. Financial inclusion as a result of digital financial services can also boost economic growth....

Melvin Durai One of my favourite moments from the Tokyo Olympics came in the finals of the men’s high jump, when the top two competitors, Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar and Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy, decided to share the gold medal. The tall and nimble athletes,...

Tushar Gandhi For the past two years, frequent reports in the press suggest that the government of India through the government of Gujarat is going to redevelop Sabarmati Ashram and build a ‘Grand World Class’ monument there. There are many, very loud rumours but there...

Nikunja Bihari Sahu While over 40 crore vaccine shots have been administered to adults in the country, inoculation drive for children against Covid-19 is yet to take off and is long due. The education sector has been hit badly by the pandemic with school children...

Dr Bhaskar Nath Biswal Covid-19 changed the life styles of people across the world. Apart from having a big impact on the physical health, it heightened sensitivity about psychological concerns. The fear of contamination of the disease by self or family member, restriction on movement,...

Santosh Kumar Mohapatra A lot of discussion has been going on in support of the economic reforms that were introduced in our country in July 1991. But it is rarely discussed that the reforms were imposed on us by the IMF and the World Bank...

Melvin Durai Mirabai Chanu is being celebrated all over India and deservedly so. She didn’t just lift 202kg at the Tokyo Olympics, she also lifted everyone’s spirits. I was excited about Chanu’s silver medal for two reasons. First, by winning a medal on the first...

SN Misra India in April-June, 1991 shipped 67 tonne of gold to garner $600million from the United Bank of Switzerland and the Bank of England to tide over its precarious foreign exchange balance. PV Narasimha Rao as PM realised that market economics rather than socialism...

Pinak Mishra “Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come,” wrote Victor Hugo. The Sub Inspector of Police recruitment in Odisha this year is indeed a special one. For the first time, 26 transgender persons will...