Opinion

When you open a new bank account and set up online access to your account, a bank employee may say something like this to you: “Do not share your password with anyone!” And you may find yourself thinking, “Of course not. Do I look like...

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the first of its kind, was sent to space to investigate the cosmic matter by analysing the light coming from it. The HST has shown that the distant galaxies are more redder than the nearest galaxy and the phenomena is...

If you’ve ever been scuba diving in the ocean, you’ve probably come across schools of fish. Unlike the majority of youths, fish enjoy being in schools. They spend not just weekdays in schools, but also weekends. That’s because schools promote learning, and fish know they...

India-US 2+2 ministerial dialogue between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh took place April 11 in Washington DC. This dialogue was preceded by a virtual meeting between Narendra Modi...

Hollywood superstar Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock March 27 at the 94th Academy Awards function. It was over a poor joke which offended Will’s wife and enraged him to lose his temper in a fit of anger. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),...

For most people, just completing a marathon of 42 km would be a major achievement. But that’s a walk in the park for ultra runners like 35-year-old Sufiya Khan of Delhi. Khan was recently certified by the Guinness World Records for the “fastest time to...

Prime Minister Modi during his independence address from the ramparts of the Red Fort August 15, 2014 declared the demise of Planning Commission, a 64-year-old old institution founded on Command economy model of the Soviet Union. Arun Jetley described Planning Commission as ’redundant organisation, relic...

In the last few weeks New Delhi has witnessed footfalls of a bevy of foreign diplomats. The Foreign Ministers of Russia and Mexico, the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, the US Deputy National Security Advisor, and the Netherlands Security Advisor were in New Delhi...

If we blinked, we would have missed the visit of the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. He was in New Delhi, 24-25 March 2022, meeting his Indian counterpart for three hours and a short meeting with the National Security Adviser. His visit to New Delhi...

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...