Opinion

WITH MODI’S ENTRY, BATTLE OF UTTAR PRADESH GETS EVEN MORE HIGH PROFILE

15 Dec 2021 06:39 AM IST

It’s going to be Modi vs Akhilesh in Uttar Pradesh by the looks of it. From being a chief ministerial state-level battle, the entry of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has upped the stakes for the UP polls. But then for any state election during the Modi era, the Prime Minister

NATIONAL SECURITY COMES AHEAD OF SPURIOUS NARRATIVES

14 Dec 2021 07:07 AM IST

It is of immense significance that Saudi Arabia has banned the Islamist preachers’ group Tablighi Jamaat, by calling it “one of the gates of terrorism”. Riyadh has also asked the clerics of the Kingdom to devote their next Friday sermon on the dangers of following the Tablighi Jamaat and the

PM Modi is the only hope for returning farmers

14 Dec 2021 07:06 AM IST

The expenditure on agriculture has increased by at least five times and every year now more than Rs 1.25 lakh crore is being spent to make agriculture more productive.

VIRAT KOHLI’S REMOVAL AS ODI CAPTAIN WAS GRACELESS

13 Dec 2021 06:16 AM IST

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has developed a habit of courting controversy. In the latest instance, how Virat Kohli, whose contribution to the game has been phenomenal, was removed as the One Day International Captain, was not only graceless but extremely in poor taste. Sourav Ganguly,

Largest democracy is in need of a strong Opposition

13 Dec 2021 06:15 AM IST

The need for a strong opposition has never been more urgent; not to stall the government policies but to act as a constructive watchdog to insist on full debate and deliberation and demand scrutiny, transparency and accountability and to flag issues of larger national and public interests.

THE ‘GENERAL OF GENERALS’ LEAVES BEHIND A RICH MILITARY LEGACY

11 Dec 2021 06:10 AM IST

The tragic death of General Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika, and 11 others in a helicopter crash on Wednesday, has shocked the entire Nation. The country’s highest-ranking Defence official was not an ordinary soldier but amongst the most capable and competent officers who served the armed forces with distinction after

Education and the pedagogy of empowerment

11 Dec 2021 06:08 AM IST

The purpose of education is empowerment. Inductive learning, teamwork, curricular co-creation, and imaginative play are only some of the pedagogical tools teachers can deploy in an era of student attrition in online learning.

THE MAGIC POTION FOR SUCCESS IN THE INDIAN E-COMMERCE SECTOR

10 Dec 2021 01:46 AM IST

One of the biggest business revolutions of the digital age has been the emergence of the global e-commerce industry. Whether you want to buy a pack of toothpicks to the most expensive gadgets available in the market, fashion, or footwear, everything is available at a click on the leading e-commerce

Karmic carcinogens and cancer: A surgeon’s perspective

10 Dec 2021 01:43 AM IST

The Karmic carcinogens that we are inducing into the environment today have emanated from the materialistic and short-sighted philosophy of ‘unlimited, more, and instant’. We are craving for an unlimited buffet when our bodies’ needs are essentially limited.

BIDEN’S SUMMIT FOR DEMOCRACY RILES CHINA

09 Dec 2021 04:26 AM IST

President Joe Biden’s two-day “Summit for Democracy” on 9-10 December 2021 has riled China to no end, maybe because an invitation never went to it in spite of it having the world’s best form of democracy, which it calls the “whole process democracy”. An angry Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi

A lethal touch to the ‘Preamble’ of India’s Constitution

09 Dec 2021 04:25 AM IST

The politics of our country is on a test drive of majoritarianism being ferociously provoked as a cause for achieving national unity. In consequence and eventually, everyone starts feeling insecure and the state appropriates a role for wartime preparedness against the heightened environment of insecurity.

MASKS, VACCINATIONS WILL TACKLE SPREAD OF THE NEW COVID-19 VARIANT

08 Dec 2021 02:11 AM IST

Even if the new variant of the Covid-19 virus is yet to spread in India at the scale it has spread in Europe and South Africa, all the trappings that accompany a new variant are there on the ground at Delhi’s T3— the fear, panic, and the chaos. With international