Opinion

Saeed Naqvi Jaswant Singh’s final goodbye acquired extra poignancy. Ushered into his study in my mind’s eye by the reliable Thomas, his secretary, I can see him induce a smile by way of politeness, gesture with his right hand, slowly nodding his head disapprovingly. He...

Sophia Kalantzakos The climate crisis and the Fourth Industrial Revolution – with its breakthrough technologies such as artificial intelligence and 5G networks – are setting the world on a geopolitical collision course. Both the drive to decarbonise and the battle for global technological supremacy depend...

Ratikanta Panda Thomas Robert Malthus in his essay on ‘Principle of Population’ argued that unquenchable urge to reproduce will be permanent; and that while resources will continue to grow in arithmetic progression, population shall grow in geometric progression. There are claims and counter-claims to the...

Bharat Jhunjhunwala Good news is that our exports were more than imports in the April-June of the current year 2020-21. The combined trade is known as “Trade Balance.” Excess of exports over imports is known as “trade surplus.” We have made such a trade surplus...

Dr. D K Giri Prime Minister Modi made an impassioned speech on September 22 on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the United Nations. The crux of his speech was its reform and expansion and India’s membership of the UNSC. He implored, “How long...

Iain Campbell & Caroline Winslow Air conditioning (AC) may be cooling us, but it's cooking our planet. Countries around the world have experienced scorching temperatures this summer. This August was the second hottest on record. Global warming and more intense summer heat waves, coupled with...

Prof Radhakanta Barik The Odisha Universities Act, 1989, has been replaced by a new law through an Ordinance of the Odisha government. Under this, universities will not have autonomy in terms of formulating courses and in recruitment of teachers. These would be handled by the...

Anita Saluja It was Congress-Mukt Bharat for the BJP. But now, it seems that the BJP is also keen to get rid of its alliance partners. Gone are the days, witnessed during the Vajpayee era, when the allies were treated with respect and their voices...

Melvin Durai How long would it take you to multiply 869,463,853 by 73? It takes 20-year-old Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash of Hyderabad just 26 seconds to produce the answer: 63,470,861,269. It would take me about 26 minutes to do it, most of that time spent searching...

Dr. Santosh Kumar Mohapatra The Covid-19 pandemic has unleashed a health disaster, precipitous economic downturn, and humanitarian catastrophe in India as well as the world around. India has become the worst-performing of all major economies during the pandemic. Indian economy trumpeted as the world’s fastest-growing...