Opinion

Bimal Prasad Mohapatra Now, US forces are leaving Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of Taliban facilitated al-Qaeda terror attack on US in 2001. And this is about to happen without accomplishing the forces’ much tom-tommed assignment of releasing the landlocked nation from the clutches of...

Melvin Durai It takes five to seven days and costs Rs 1,299 for an Indian to get a tourist visa for Bangladesh. But if you don’t have the money or you’re in a big hurry, there is another option: wear a tiger costume. Tigers have...

Bharat Jhunjhunwala Think of 100 computer professionals sitting in separate cubicles in a hall. They are solving a Sudoku puzzle with 50 rows and 50 columns. One who solves the puzzle first shouts that he has solved it and shares his solution with all participants....

Bighneswar Swain Ransomware is a type of malicious software cyber criminals use to block you from accessing your own data. The digital extortionists encrypt the files on your system and add extensions to the attacked data and hold it ‘hostage’ until the demanded ransom is...

Kirti Ranjan Mallick If the ocean was an economy, it would be the seventh-largest in the world but ironically only 5 per cent of this huge water body has been explored. For today’s changing world, the oceans are defining features on our blue planet. Millions...

Sudha Devi Nayak It was in the eighteenth century that the British felt the want of a good dictionary to know their language in more detail. Dictionaries were there with lexicographers making tremendous efforts at corralling the entire language. One of the greatest literary figures...

Sanjib Kumar Karmee It is already one and a half years since the first COVID-19 case was reported in Wuhan, China. Wuhan is home to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and the Wuhan Center for Disease Control. Both institutes are leaders in bat-coronaviruses research...

Dr Siba Sankar Sahu The theme for World Environment Day 2021 is “Ecosystem Restoration” and it has been declared as the “UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration”. There has never been a more urgent need to revive damaged ecosystems than now. The Convention on Biological Diversity...

Dr D.K. Giri India had finally shaken off its hesitation in joining others in demanding thorough investigation into the origin of the virus. This time the demand is direct, unlike last year when 62 countries moved a resolution in World Health Assembly, the apex organ...

Bertrand Piccard Our world is extraordinarily inefficient. We waste enormous quantities of energy, water, raw materials, and food. We even waste our waste and the precious resources it contains. We do so not necessarily because we lack ecological awareness, but rather because the society we...