Opinion

Kaushik Basu Neither Joe Biden nor Kamala Harris was my first choice among the contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination in the United States. But, when Biden, by then the party’s presumptive nominee, announced earlier this month that Senator Harris would be his vice-presidential running...

Poonam I Kaushish What is it about the Central Bureau of Investigation that has it always in the eye of the storm? A talented Hindi film actor Sushant Singh Rajput is found hanging at his residence June 14 in Mumbai. A shocked nation eulogies him,...

Jagdish Rattanani In a course on journalism that I taught years ago, one exercise I often asked was for the class to roam around Mumbai’s famous Mohammed Ali Road during the holy month of Ramadan and pick up sights, sounds, stories as the fast is...

Shivaji Sarkar The Indian economy is on life-saving policies such as incentives, special packages and lending. Even the daily wage workers and small farmers are being considered to be brought under bank-funded credit schemes. RBI hints at severe inflation risk and the Index of Industrial...

Saeed Naqvi  The mother of all blasts at the Beirut port August 4 would have qualified as the West Asian 9/11 though the objective circumstances are totally different. But 9/11, the great tragedy though it was, happened just when a muscular US, victorious in the...

Nikunja Bihari Sahu Russia’s announcement of a vaccine for Covid-19 is reminiscent of the Space Race during the Cold War period, when the US and the erstwhile USSR were competing hard to place the first satellite in Space and then Russia surprised the US and...

Bharat Jhunjhunwala The Union government has sought to dilute many provisions of the Environment Impact Assessment Notification (EIA Notification) in order to speed up the establishment of factories and mega cities and making of highways. As per the plan, the requirement of public hearing is...

Bibhu Dutta Basantia Annemasse is a small town in eastern France. It’s just 4km off Geneva border and many expats who can’t afford exorbitant Geneva rents and hotel rates come and stay in Annemasse. Residents of Geneva prefer to come and shop in Annemasse as...

Andrew Scott Dissatisfaction about GDP is growing. Many economists, policymakers, and other critics question the ability of this central measure of government and social success to recognise the welfare gains from technology, account for environmental degradation, or capture rising inequality. With developments in artificial intelligence...

Dr Sanjay Kumar Panda Industrial Revolution and production of clothes by machines or power looms broke the monopoly of handloom in the textile sector. Plain clothes with less design were produced by power looms at a lesser price, which affected the market and the interests...