Opinion

CAN COMMUNITY-BASED INITIATIVES PREPARE US FOR THIRD WAVE?

30 Aug 2021 05:55 AM IST

The death toll in India due to the Covid-19 outbreak stands at over four lakh since the first case came to light in January 2020. If we consider the plight of nearly 230 million being pushed back into poverty due to lack of employment during the first and second wave,

ROBERT KENNEDY’S ‘ASSASSIN’ ELIGIBLE FOR RELEASE AFTER PAROLE

30 Aug 2021 05:54 AM IST

MYSTERIOUS DEATH Sirhan Bisara Sirhan, a Palestinian convicted for the assassination of former US Senator and Attorney General Robert Kennedy on 5 June 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, is now eligible for release after the Parole Board’s recent decision. However, whether he comes out from the jail

India’s Partition and the reign of terror and horror

30 Aug 2021 05:51 AM IST

PM Narendra Modi’s announcement of observing ‘Partition Horrors Remembrance Day’ will at last enable us to collectively and publicly pay tribute to Partition victims and also mourn them.

KABUL ATTACKS AIMED AT ESTABLISHING US-TALIBAN NEXUS

28 Aug 2021 05:40 AM IST

The ISIS has claimed responsibility for the twin fidayeen strike at the Kabul airport on Thursday which has left more than 100 people dead and scores of others critically injured. It is evident that a turf war has broken out between terror organisations in West Asia with Afghanistan as the

Asset monetisation: Facts versus propaganda

28 Aug 2021 05:39 AM IST

Asset monetisation, based on the philosophy of ‘creation through monetisation’, is necessary for creating employment opportunities, thereby enabling high economic growth and seamlessly integrating the rural and semi-urban areas for overall public welfare.

DEVELOPING MODEL VILLAGE TO IMPROVE PEOPLE’S QUALITY OF LIFE

27 Aug 2021 06:08 AM IST

India is a country of villages. Seventy percent of its population resides in 6.5 lakh villages. The main source of employment for the rural people is agriculture and those who do not have land, either have joined agriculture as landless labourers in the villages or migrated to metros in search

Suppressing Partition horrors and manufacturing convenient realities

27 Aug 2021 06:07 AM IST

In the discourse surrounding India’s Partition horrors, often manufactured and convenient truths have dominated, generating a miasma of falsehood and self-deception.

DEMAND FOR CASTE CENSUS IS ALL ABOUT POLITICS

26 Aug 2021 03:21 AM IST

As if caste as an intrinsic part of our socio-political structure 75 years after India’s independence was not enough, now we have several political parties demanding a census based on caste. When the movement should have been away from identity politics, a renewed push is being given towards a direction

Remembering the forgotten horrors of Partition

26 Aug 2021 03:15 AM IST

Just as with Punjab’s Partition, the horrors of Bengal Partition began some time before Independence. But not much is known about them.

UTTAR PRADESH ELECTIONS WILL SHAPE NATIONAL POLITICS

25 Aug 2021 07:20 AM IST

With elections in the ‘cowbelt’ state barely six months away, the focus has shifted to heartland politics. The BJP is currently in power and with the green signal been given for the Ram Janambhoomi temple reconstruction, it certainly won’t like to be out of power when the construction begins. Hence

Young entrepreneurs hold the key to booming economy

25 Aug 2021 07:18 AM IST

Seeing India’s vast young population and well-acknowledged IT potential, technological entrepreneurship is the need of the hour. Let our entrepreneurs and skilled workforce be the main drivers of an inclusive, self-reliant and resilient Indian economy.

PANJSHIR NEEDS THE WORLD’S HELP

24 Aug 2021 04:48 AM IST

In Afghanistan, the Panjshir province, around 150 km north of Kabul, is putting up a stiff resistance to the Taliban. Surrounded by insurmountable mountains and with a single entrance to the valley, it is the only pocket which the Taliban have failed to capture, yet. Once the seat of Northern