By Rajendra Shende Recent studies show that new dreams driven by short-time achievements make us forget the real objective and purpose of long-term missions. The global environmental accord called The Montreal Protocol on Substances that…
(Editors: This is part of a series to mark a year of the demonetisation announced on November 8, 2016). By Amulya Ganguli Much of the efforts of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders to explain…
By Veturi Srivatsa So much of cricket is being played around the world — Tests, One-Day Internationals and Twenty20s. The so-called pecking order is going for a toss with each passing series. India, who got…
By Amulya Ganguli The Sangh Parivar is displeased with the judiciary. Its latest grouse is about the Supreme Court’s ban on crackers. First off the block to express discontent was the Tripura governor, Tathagata Roy….
By Amit Kapoor and Chirag Yadav The Indian LED lighting industry is going through a boom phase. According to some estimates, the market has grown at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.5 per…
By Vinod Behl Much against the expectations of the real estate sector, this year’s festive season is turning out to be somewhat disappointing for property developers as aspiring home buyers are extra cautious about investments…
By Vivian Fernandes New Delhi, Oct 18 (IANS) The Andhra governments flip-flop on extensive cultivation of unapproved genetically-modified (GM) herbicide-tolerant (HT) cotton seems to be symptomatic of the complacency which has infected even regulatory bodies…
By Amit Kapoor The lack of jobs is beginning to haunt the Modi government. The Reserve Bank of India’s recent Consumer Confidence Survey shows that public perception is also beginning to take account of the…
By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Oct 15 (IANS) If Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah’s ‘Congress-mukt Bharat’ (Congress-free India) campaign has hit a wall in any state, it is definitely Punjab. The unprecedented…
By Vikas Datta Human development owes much to philosophical ‘gadflies’ who search for the ‘truth’ about us and our world – not only to discover it but also find if it conforms to what we…
By Amulya Ganguli The reason why the UP election results in May were a showpiece for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was that they represented, in the party’s opinion, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s continuing forward…
By Saeed Naqvi How indistinguishable the Congress ideologically is from the BJP was the theme of the main edit page article written by French scholars Christophe Jaffrelot and Gilles Verniers in the Indian Express on…
By Nury Vittachi A reader said she saw me in her city. “But I’ve never been there,” I said. “I just have a common face.” This happens a lot. I once recognised myself on the…
By Taponeel Mukherjee Current debates around job creation and growth numbers in India suggest a slight slowdown of the economy. Besides the fiscal stimulus and concessions, what the economy really needs for long-term growth is…
By Vikas Datta “And they happily lived ever after” is usually an ending found — or desired — in fairy tales. But further adventures are always possible for the protagonists, with the journey continuing after…
By C. Uday Bhaskar Almost 16 years to the day since the US embarked upon its war on terrorism against the Afghan Taliban on October 7, 2001, as reprisal for the enormity of the 9/11…
By Amulya Ganguli Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat’s advice to cow vigilantes not to bother over much about judicial strictures shows a measure of annoyance with the roadblocks which the Hindutva lobby is…
By Vikas Datta A living example that literary art has no national landscapes or limitations, Japanese-born British writer Kazuo Ishiguro, the 2017 Nobel Literature laureate, is possibly its first recipient whose range of evocative works…
By Abhas Mitra On October 3, 2017, the Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to three American physicists “for decisive contribution to Laser Interferometry Gravitational Observatory (LIGO) detector and observation of gravitational waves”, a sort…
By Nishant Arora New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) Google’s India-born CEO Sundar Pichai is a big fan of artificial intelligence (AI). No doubt these are early days for AI, but for him it is the…