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Decline in car sales sends Ford packing

Melvin Durai Ford Motor Company recently announced that it is leaving India, saying goodbye to all the drivers it had hoped to lure with cars such as the Aspire, Endeavour and Freestyle. No more aspiring and endeavoring in the competitive waters of India—Ford is freestyling...

What ails our police

Pinak Mishra, IPS Recently, while interacting with IPS probationers at the Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel National Police Academy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi lamented over the negative image of the police and exhorted the young officers about to enter the force to work assiduously on changing...

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Cybersecurity and banking

Bighneswar Swain Cybersecurity is the blend of people, policies, processes and technologies employed by an enterprise to protect its cyber assets. Cybersecurity is augmented to levels that business leaders define as balancing the resources required with usability/manageability and the amount of risk counterbalance. On secure...

STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP IN WATER

Dr Padmalochan Dash To realise the Water Mission envisaged by Prime Minister Narendra Modi it is important to give official sanction to an autonomous “Institute of Indo-Israel Strategic Partnership in Water”. It is believed that the proposed institute can be a catalyst in achieving India’s...

Benefits of WFH are too enticing

Melvin Durai Millions of people around the world were forced to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of them normally work in an office, but took advantage of Zoom, Skype and other online platforms to work remotely. Some have already returned to work,...

State of our varsities

Prakash Sarangi The ranking of higher education institutions in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), Ministry of Education, Government of India, for 2021 has been declared. As before, we are disappointed by the performance of the universities and colleges funded by the government...

File photo of Puri ravaged by cyclonic storm Fani that wreaked havoc in coastal Odisha May 3, 2019

Cost of natural disasters in India

Sanjay Kumar Rout The Covid-19 pandemic has hit countries across the world, including India, resulting in vanishing economic activities, deaths and affecting millions of people. Meanwhile, the wrath of nature has left no stone unturned to hit human footprint menacingly. Economic losses are soaring. The...

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Cow protection as a fundamental right

SN Misra Justice SK Yadav of the Allahabad High Court has recently stirred a hornet’s nest by observing that “fundamental right is not only the prerogative of beef eaters, rather, those who worship the cow and are financially dependent on cows also have the fundamental...

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Celebrities too deserve some privacy

Melvin Durai Neeraj Chopra was fairly well-known before this year’s Olympic Games, but winning a gold medal in Tokyo propelled him to stratospheric stardom. He became a national hero and legendary athlete with a single throw of the javelin, and everyone wanted to know everything...

Let’s not allow fear to silence freedom

Arpit Sarangi The Chief Justice of India in a recent lecture observed that “law can be used not only to render justice, it can also be used to justify oppression.” He went on to say that a Rule passed by Parliament can be classified as...

 

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