Opinion

Environment and the right to life: The conjoined twins

04 Oct 2021 03:34 AM IST

Environment is a sentient being, and we must conserve, protect and nourish it so that the right to life is nourished and protected.

LATA MANGESHKAR, THE MOST REVERED LIVING LEGEND OF INDIA

02 Oct 2021 07:04 AM IST

Lata Mangeshkar, the Malikaye Mausiki (Empress of music) is without doubt, the most revered and popular Indian of the present times. She turned 92 years old on September 28 and has expressed her desire to record one more song for her countless admirers and fans. She has dominated the playback

Digitising health, PM-Poshan, and more

02 Oct 2021 07:02 AM IST

So far more than 2 crore people have availed free treatment under the Ayushman scheme, half of whom are women. Diseases are one of the key reasons to push families into the vicious cycle of poverty and women of the families are the worst sufferers as they always relegate their

PREVENTING CERVICAL CANCER IS A POSSIBILITY

01 Oct 2021 06:11 AM IST

Every 6 minutes a woman is diagnosed with gynaecologic cancer and out of the five types of cancer prevalent in women, cancers in cervix uteri are found to be the most common type. In India, more than 122,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and more than 67,000 die of

Regulators starting to embrace Digital Assets

01 Oct 2021 06:07 AM IST

Digital Assets are increasingly being used by governments and multinational corporations as well as millions of investors for a wide range of totally legitimate purposes. Regulators are responding by introducing regulation and guidance that are sorely needed to keep the ‘bad actors’ at bay.

US ANGER WITH PAKISTAN IS SHOWING

30 Sep 2021 05:41 AM IST

In a significant move, 22 Republican Senators introduced a legislation in the US Senate on Tuesday seeking to impose sanctions on the Taliban and the foreign “entities” that have been supporting them. Titled “Afghanistan Counterterrorism, Oversight, and Accountability Act”, it was introduced by Senator Jim Risch and was co-sponsored by,

Sankhya philosophy and the saga of Higgs Boson

30 Sep 2021 05:38 AM IST

If the creation process of the Sankhya philosophy and the Higgs Boson experiment are studied in a comparative perspective, then it can be inferred that the element which has been called ‘Tanmatra’ in the Sankhya philosophy is the latent form of energy, which scientists, in the language of physics, call

Reimagining India’s nutrition paradigm

29 Sep 2021 05:58 AM IST

There are some fundamental issues that need to be understood about the nutrition paradigm in India. First, two fundamental driving forces for good, and growth is the development and participation of women in the workforce and national decision-making, and the healthy progress of a young population, boys, and girls. Then,

WITH RAHUL’S ‘RISE’, CONGRESS TAKES A SHARP LEFT TURN

29 Sep 2021 05:55 AM IST

The Congress, especially under Sonia Gandhi, has been moving steadily towards the left of centre. But it still managed to keep the centre in its sights. During the UPA years, while Sonia Gandhi’s National Advisory Council gave the government a socialist turn, the Manmohan Singh cabinet became the face of

Need to expedite the implementation of NEP 2020

29 Sep 2021 05:54 AM IST

Setting a time frame for implementation of all the recommendations of the policy would require an intelligent guess.

THE PUSHBACK STARTS AGAINST CHINA

28 Sep 2021 04:09 AM IST

The Quad joint statement released post the meeting of the leaders of India, the United States, Japan and Australia was surprisingly focused and clear about what the four countries wanted to achieve. Surprising because until now the Quadrilateral Dialogue was at best a chatroom, an amorphous body, which was not