India needs to tread the innovation path to progess
By Amit Dasgupta Innovation worries us. At one level, many perceive it as a threat to their jobs and, in fact, to their way of thinking and behaving. It challenges what they are used to….
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In rural India, less to eat than 40 years ago
By Pavitra Mohan As India’s 70th year of Independence begins, widespread progress is evident, but in rural India, where 833 million Indians (70 per cent) live, people are consuming fewer nutrients than are required to…
92% of villages ‘electrified’ have houses without power
By Charlie Moloney As many as 78 per cent of the 18,452 inhabitable villages the government set out to provide with power have been “electrified”. However, 92 per cent of the 10,072 newly-electrified villages include…
Driverless cars on the horizon, but India far from ready
By Nishant Arora New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) It was Google that first flagged off self-driving cars. Tesla Motors, GM and Ford soon followed, and now with two bold moves, Uber, the on-demand car pioneer,…
Only 1 of 27 Indian sports bodies has athlete as president
By Devanik Saha Indian marathon runner O.P. Jaisha said she fainted at the Rio Olympics on a hot, humid day because no Indian sports official provided her with water or glucose water, a reminder that…
Despite sporting glory, Indian women struggle to rise
By Saumya Tewari In the 2016 Rio Olympics, shuttler P.V. Sindhu became the first Indian woman to win a silver medal; Sakshi Malik the first Indian female wrestler to win a medal (bronze), gymnast Dipa…
Focusing on IP alone will not increase access to healthcare
By Amit Kapoor Access to healthcare is a major challenge in developing countries as this involves making available affordable and quality medicines to people living in poverty. Goal 3 of the UN’s sustainable development goals…
Embracing Cloud can help India master digital era: Oracle
By Nishant Arora New Delhi, Aug 22 (IANS) India is poised to become the world’s leading market for Cloud, and for US software major Oracle, Cloud is a force-multiplier that the country must embrace to…
Dipa Karmakar, coach Nandi braved ‘conspiracies’ to reach the top
By Subir Bhaumik Agartala, Aug 21 (IANS) Dipa Karmakar’s coach Bisheswar Nandi had once sought the intervention of the Tripura government to “save the career” of the promising gymnast from “unnerving conspiracies”. In a long…
Why India wins only a few Olympic medals
By Amulya Ganguli The joy felt by Indians over the successes of P.V. Sindhu in badminton, Sakshi Malik in wrestling and Dipa Karmakar in gymnastics is understandable. At the same time, the question needs to…
Key elections are near: Kashmir, Pakistan can wait
By Saeed Naqvi Kashmir is ablaze and relations with Pakistan are at a low. Consequently, the communal cauldron is on a slow simmer. The gas can always be turned on for it to bubble over….
77 mn women added to banking system in 1 year
By Saumya Tewari As many as 358 million Indian women (61 per cent) have bank accounts, up from 281 million (48 per cent) in 2014, the biggest jump for “banked” women among eight South Asian…
Narsingh’s case an indictment of NADA and political forces
By Veturi Srivatsa Ironically, the day woman wrestler Sakshi Malik brought in India’s first medal from the Rio Olympics, the cricket-loony country may have had greater pleasure in their team’s ascent to the No.1 position…
Sindhu assures second medal for India as Narsingh’s Olympic dream ends
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 19 (IANS) Star shuttler P.V. Sindhu entered the women’s singles final to assure India of a second medal at the Rio Olympics while the Indian contingent suffered a blow with wrestler…
In 2016, Karnataka charged students, union leaders with sedition — Amnesty latest
Bengaluru, Aug 18 (IANS/IndiaSpend) The police investigation against Amnesty International India — for slogans raised during an event the global advocacy organised — is the second such sedition complaint registered in Karnataka this year after…
Phasing out hydro-fluorocarbons the next big challenge
By Rajendra Shende It was hotter than normal in Vienna when US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived there late last month. He flew straight from an international meeting with 45 countries on IS-related terror…
47 mn Indian youth drop out by 10th standard
Silvio Grocchetti & Charlie Moloney India has 47 million youth of secondary and higher secondary school-going age out of school, according to a report by the Montreal-based UNESCO Institute for Statistics and Global Education Monitoring….
Torrent shutdown brings cheer for video-streaming players in India
By Nishant Arora New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) The sudden demise of the two biggest BitTorrent players — website Kickass Torrents (KAT) and search engine Torrentz — has left Torrent lovers in a limbo globally,…
Modi criticises Pakistan, its 15-year terror bill Is $118 bn
By Chaitanya Mallapur As Prime Minister Narendra Modi criticised Pakistan — without naming the country — for supporting terror groups, 671 infiltration incidents and 738 terrorist attacks were reported in Jammu and Kashmir over the…
India yet to realise its economic freedom
By Amit Kapoor It has been just over 69 years since the stroke of the midnight hour when India awoke to life and its freedom. Over the past 69 years, we have had many of…