By Amulya Ganguli There has been an element of unseemly haste and even recklessness in some of the recent acts of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Such hurried initiatives have been seen in its impetuous…
By Neh Srivastava Other than food and water, shelter forms the third most important component of the basic human requirements. It was fitting that the government turned its attention to that. It wasnt for the…
By Tish Sanghera Mumbai, Nov 21 (IndiaSpend/IANS) As India has become wealthier, more of its citizens are leaving its shores. An estimated 17 million Indians were living abroad in 2017, making India the largest source…
By Amit Kapoor Divorces are always messy, but none have so much at stake as the separation of Britain from the European Union (EU). Almost two-and-a-half years after 52 percent of Britons who voted in…
By Amit Dasgupta India-Australia relations are a classic example of unrealised potential and a tragic tale of consistently missing opportunities, despite multiple areas of strategic convergence and shared interests. It is almost as if apathy…
By Rajendra Shende If you Google “Edmund Hillary” you will get seven million references to his summitting Mount Everest with Tenzing Norgay in 1952. But when you Google “George Mallory”, who made a gallant effort…
By Amitabh Bachchan The Gateway of India, at first instance, appears to be an odd frame for the type of conversations that follow. It was, after all, built to commemorate a state visit of a…
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 17 (IANS) Religious leaders who were taken into preventive detention from the Sabarimala temple premises on Friday night were granted bail on Saturday. The most prominent among the detained — Hindu Iykavedi (HI)…
By Nitya Kaushik Mumbai, Nov 17 (IANS/Monggabay) In November 2012, a tigress and her two cubs began a journey from their home in the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve, Uttar Pradesh. She had somewhat uncharacteristically left the…
By Amulya Ganguli Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has lived up to his reputation as a Hindutva hawk. There has been no mellowing of his attitude as is common in the cases of other…
By Sanjiv Kataria Like many proud Indians I get upset when faced with alarming reports that point to the poor employment rate of India’s college and university graduates. The IT industry body Nasscom’s reports point…
By Suprita Das For a country thats as cricket-crazy as India is, its amazing (read “really really unfortunate”), that the womens game, up until very recently, has got such little attention. As I understood during…
By Nikhil Arora The battle between the Indian government and its central bank is neither new nor unique. Though the ongoing spat between the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the government can boast of…
By Taponeel Mukherjee Given the current economic scenario of India, it would be prudent to have our eyes on the pressing issues that need the attention of the government over the next six years. Policy…
By Amit Kapoor As the world stands on the brink of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, powered by a wide range of new technology breakthroughs such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), advanced robotics, Internet…
By Saeed Naqvi Sunday, November 11, happens to be Maulana Abul Kalam Azad’s birth anniversary, forgotten this year as it has been in the past. The Maulana is an inconvenient name to remember at a…
By Rajendra Shende Read this: “The world is falling apart. The future of humanity is hanging on a cliff, on the edge of catastrophe. But there still is hope and a window of opportunity to…
By Taponeel Mukherjee As the retail industry story unfolds in India, new strategies come to the fore. Recent news of Amazon acquiring a stake in Future Retail is an indication that the strategy will be…
By Amit Kapoor In a refreshing change of pace for the government, which has been reeling under challenging economic circumstances of late, the release of the World Banks Doing Business report last week provided some…
By Nishant Arora New Delhi, Nov 6 (IANS) Breaking his silence on Apple’s India presence, CEO Tim Cook admitted last week that his business was flat in the country in the fourth quarter amid weak…