Opinion

When she died in 1997, Jeanne Calment of France was 122 years old and had set the world record for oldest person ever. She became a centenarian in 1975 and lived for almost a quarter-century beyond that, but what her doctors were probably wondering was...

Considering low visibility and lesser management cost, dependency on ground water is substantially high in comparison to surface water. Besides, when majority of rainfall occurs during monsoon over a few odd days, ground water resources sustain us for rest of the year. Probably that is...

I wasn’t taken in by a recent announcement. The trending news of some top-notch IT companies recalling their employees to offices! Microsoft declared it in one of its company blog posts. Cognizant is planning to throw ajar its office premises, voluntarily for its staff, from...

Melvin Durai The International Gymnastics Federation has criticised Russian athlete Ivan Kuliak for wearing a ‘Z’ on his chest at a gymnastics World Cup event in Doha, Qatar. The 20-year-old gymnast had taped the ‘Z’ symbol to his leotard and wore it on the podium...

Melvin Durai Two middle-aged American men, Steve and Ralph, were discussing the Russian invasion of Ukraine and all the sanctions that had been imposed on Russia. The United States and its allies, for example, had frozen the bank accounts of many wealthy Russians. The European...

Nikunja Bihari Sahu The National Science Day is celebrated in India to reminisce the landmark discovery of the Raman Effect by eminent physicist Sir CV Raman February 28, 1928 and his subsequent felicitation of the Nobel Prize as the first Asian in Physics. The life...

Anwesh Satpathy In a review of Satyajit Ray’s ‘Apur Sansar’ (The World of Apu), the critic Dwight MacDonald castigated Ray for being “self-conscious.” MacDonald, along with many western critics of that time, didn’t consider Ray capable of handling the complexities of city life. This was...

Melvin Durai I haven’t stepped on a plane in almost a decade and I’m not eager to fly again anytime soon, largely because of all the animals I might encounter on a plane—and I’m not just referring to rude passengers. I’m mainly referring to other...

Bikash Narayan Mishra The global banking sector remained resilient and robust during the once-in-a-lifetime pandemic period of two years. High capital buffers and lower leverage enabled the global banks to carry out normal banking operations. The asset quality, however, has suffered marginally in some parts...

Bhaskar Nath Biswal Like other countries during the pandemic, India also faced the challenge to sustain the learning outcomes in schools and colleges, building skills and reskilling population, providing employment and continuity of livelihood to one of the largest labour forces in the world. The...