By Prof Vivekanand Jha Premature death and disability from cancer is a great tragedy that hundreds of thousands of women and their families in India and other developing countries face every year. Of the various…
By Ali Peter John Two days ago, Dharmendra was in his bungalow in Juhu (these days he spends most of his time on his farm in Lonavala, where he is busy writing poetry in Urdu)…
By Azeez Anasudhin London, Dec 8 (IANS) Weekends are usually peaceful days at Westminster. But the ongoing Brexit debate has changed Britains ground zero of power. The Big Ben and other towers are covered with…
By Amulya Ganguli The Congress deserves two cheers for recovering from being down in the dumps in 2014 to a position where it is believed to be posing a credible challenge to the Bharatiya Janata…
By Rajendra Shende Is humanity in peril due to climate change? The much-publicised underwater meeting of the Maldavian cabinet 2009, just about two months before the 15th UN Conference on Climate Change (COP 15), was…
By Vishu Mishra & Dr Abhijit Banerjee One of the few encouraging trends in the global efforts on mitigating climate change is the rapid adoption of solar energy across the world. This change is driven…
By Taponeel Mukherjee As the Indian economy evolves, value-creation opportunities in real estate will exist as much in capturing the consumption-growth upside as in pursuing strategies of specialisation. The last decade has seen significant investments…
By Amit Dasgupta India faces a critical challenge in the education sector that has, tragically, been of its own making. In each area, whether primary, secondary or tertiary, supply and resource constraints, infrastructural inadequacies, lack…
By Amit Kapoor While investment in critical social infrastructure like education is a pre-requisite for a country’s sustainable development, government expenditure on education in India, as a percentage of GDP, has declined from 3.1 per…
By Arman Ali They say Newton adored his cat and her kitten. To make it easy for them to enter his house, he made two holes — a small one for the kitten, and a…
By Veturi Srivatsa Exciting things are happening in the world of hockey for the Indians to sit up and take note, rather than be preoccupied by the murky goings-on in Indian cricket. China and Ireland…
By Sahana Ghosh and Mayank Aggarwal New Delhi, Dec 1 (IANS/Mongabay) John Allen Chau, a 26-year-old American missionary who “illegally” paddled his way to the remote shores of North Sentinel Island in the Andaman and…
By Amulya Ganguli The British magazine, The Economist, once wrote about the Chinese growth figures being stir-fried. Is India emulating China in keeping with the “Wuhan spirit”? To those wary of the “dismal science”, as…
By Manuel Pulgar-Vidal Imagine, as a leader of a small developing nation, you are faced with the oncoming existential crisis that is climate change, but every time you try and implement a new policy your…
By Rajiv Dogra The November 23 attack on the Chinese consulate in Karachi by Baloch separatists brought into global view, once more, the Baloch trauma. The Balochistan Liberation Army, which claimed responsibility for the attack,…
By Frank F. Islam India’s public healthcare system is sick. In late September, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration launched Ayushman Bharat, meaning Long Life India, to address this illness. This initiative, which has been described…
By Taponeel Mukherjee The debate around “pricing” of services and goods is of interest to the government, the private sector and consumers. When the “service” in question relates to essential ones such as transportation, electricity…
By Amit Kapoor In this globalised world, there are many voices cheerleading the belief that location holds no relevance in competition. This view, that globalisation, escalated by advances in technology, has created a borderless world…
New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) India Resurgence Fund (IndiaRF), a joint venture of Piramal Enterprises and Bain Capital Credit, on Monday said it has invested $156 million in Chennai-based Archean Group’s marine chemicals business. IndiaRF…
By Shakti Sinha The death of American evangelist John Allen Chau in the North Sentinel Island of the Andamans has brought into focus the existence of tribes who are still in the Neolithic age in…