Opinion

CONGRESS GAMBLES ON SIDHU-CHANNI COMBINATION IN PUNJAB

20 Sep 2021 03:08 AM IST

By naming Charanjit Singh Channi, a third time MLA from Chamkaur Saheb and a former minister as the first Dalit Chief Minister of Punjab, the Congress High Command has got into a damage control exercise following the dramatic resignation of Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday. In fact, the central leadership

India urgently needs a thorough Himalayan policy

20 Sep 2021 03:06 AM IST

The time for philosophy and romanticism is over; the Chinese have built more than 600 villages near India’s borders. Something needs to be done, and done now.

STIC TRAVELS APPROACHES GOLDEN JUBILEE WITH UNPRECEDENTED RECORD

18 Sep 2021 06:25 AM IST

It was precisely 48 years ago, when former Delhi University Students’ Union president Subhash Goel launched his own travel agency, STIC, which at that time meant Students’ Travel Information Centre. His aim was, and is even now, to help students get international tickets at discounted prices to enable them to

PM Modi: The visionary and innovator

18 Sep 2021 06:21 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Narendra Modi has clearly been the most popular and powerful leader in independent India because he has always been his own person, never allowing others to define who he is, which eventually is the true hallmark of great leaders. SOCIO-POLITICAL MEASURES On the socio-political front, clearly, the

LEVERAGING NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION WITH SUCCESS ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS

17 Sep 2021 01:20 AM IST

Man has been using language— both verbal and nonverbal— as a tool of communication for centuries that allowed him to interact with the environment and to regulate his social behavior. Nonverbal communication adds to the information as communicated through verbal format using multiple channels like facial expression, vocalizations, artefacts, gestures,

Millennials, relationships, and the pandemic

17 Sep 2021 01:15 AM IST

The Wimpy Kid is in a way a metaphor for how younger people across the world have become more indoor oriented because of technology. If technology had made millennials more housebound, the arrival of this new deadly virus has compounded the problem.

US MUST SANCTION PAKISTAN

16 Sep 2021 01:33 AM IST

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s statement that some of Pakistan’s interests were conflicting with that of the United States and that Washington would reconsider its ties with Islamabad, are of immense significance. His was the first public pronouncement of the Joe Biden administration’s Pakistan policy. President Biden’s phone call

Thoughts on the International Day of Democracy

16 Sep 2021 01:31 AM IST

UN’s most powerful organ, the Security Council is a face of unrepresentative and imperious decision making at United Nations which blatantly ignored even some most compelling demands made during the pandemic by nations beyond its five permanent members. So what provokes this world body to declare a day of democracy?

FREEDOM FIGHTERS DON’T DESERVE TO BE KEPT MERELY LANGUISHING IN HISTORY BOOKS

15 Sep 2021 06:22 AM IST

On September 14th Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a trip to Aligarh to lay the foundation stone of a university named after Raja Mahendra Pratap, a Jat icon and yet another freedom fighter who did not get his due during earlier regimes. Whether it was the quest for the 17

Kerala’s new woes: Narco terrorism and love jihad

15 Sep 2021 06:17 AM IST

Kerala Catholic bishop’s claim of ‘narcotics jihad’ is becoming a political flashpoint across the nation. To ensure peace and stability in the region, Kerala government has to take cognisance of the issues. If it does not, Centre should intervene, lest things go out of hand.

TALIBAN 2021 ARE NO DIFFERENT FROM TALIBAN 2001

14 Sep 2021 05:16 AM IST

In 1984, Amitabh Bachchan was featured as a Police Inspector in a film called Inqilaab. In the last scene, he bursts open with an automatic gun in the Cabinet meeting being chaired by the Chief Minister and his senior Cabinet colleagues and shoots down all of them as they were underworld

The tightening of nuts and bolts in a relay race

14 Sep 2021 05:13 AM IST

Factionalism is a part of democratic politics. There are leaders and their aspirations. The job of the leadership is to reconcile differences as well as accommodate and counter claims.