Opinion

IS KERALA PUSHING INDIA TOWARDS A THIRD COVID WAVE?

20 Jul 2021 05:38 AM IST

Will a third wave of Covid-19 hit the country and will it be as devastating as the second wave? Considering the nightmare scenario earlier this year, followed by predictions of cases starting to spike by August and latest by September-October, those in government, both at the Centre and the states,

Opposition to population bill is communal

20 Jul 2021 05:36 AM IST

Some critics have argued that the UP govt’s move targets Muslims since members of the community are allowed polygamy and many guided by religious practices do not believe in using artificial methods to control birth. They need to understand that every religion predates discovery of methods of population control.

SIDHU’S APPOINTMENT SENDS A STRONG SIGNAL TO CM AND HIS SUPPORTERS

19 Jul 2021 05:22 AM IST

In a late-night development, the Congress High Command put to rest all speculation regarding former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu declaring him as the next president of the party in the state. The announcement came after frantic last-minute efforts by supporters of Chief Minister Amarinder Singh failed to make any dent

Revisit policies pertaining to teachers’ education

19 Jul 2021 05:21 AM IST

NCERT and the RIEs should collectively identify issues and trends that will have an impact on prospective teachers to become an effective workforce, especially promising innovations in education to cater to the requirements of children coming from diverse backgrounds.

RELIGIOUS EVENTS SHOULD BE HELD ONLY IF COVID PROTOCOLS PERMIT

17 Jul 2021 04:43 AM IST

In these troubled times, governments and people must understand in clear terms, that it was paramount to observe Covid protocols in order not to endanger the lives of fellow human beings. In this context, the needless controversy over the Kanwar Yatra has erupted with the Uttar Pradesh government allowing the

PM Modi’s Varanasi, a model exemplary on myriad counts

17 Jul 2021 04:41 AM IST

From world-class infrastructure to express trains, from underground cabling to waste treatment plants, from a cultural convention centre to modern traffic control, from a multimodal terminal to a container depot for perishables, Varanasi has witnessed a transformative revolution in the last seven years, all because of the sincere efforts of

SHARAD PAWAR: THE SUCCESSFUL CURATOR OF ‘FAILED EXPERIMENTS’

16 Jul 2021 04:42 AM IST

No other person than Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar can be more suited for the title of being a ‘successful curator of failed experiments’. A politician who strives to be in the talks for his skills of curation is the NCP supremo, however, the talks revolving around him

The Butterfly Effect in Ladakh

16 Jul 2021 04:41 AM IST

For years, China and the US, the world’s two superpowers, have been competing to win the battle of supremacy, then the Covid-19 arrived, as insignificant as the flutter of a butterfly’s wings; it has, however, triggered immense changes in the world.

CHINA IS BOUND TO FAIL IN AFGHANISTAN

15 Jul 2021 03:45 AM IST

China is the latest player in the 21st-century version of the Great Game of controlling Afghanistan and its neighbourhood. As the United States, unable to defeat the Taliban for over 20 years, leaves Afghanistan to its own fate, China is stepping in, if not by sending its own military, but

Cooperation Ministry or cocooning cooperatives?

15 Jul 2021 03:44 AM IST

At a time when the nation increasingly looks up for intercultural dialogues to create new pluralistic discourses of political economy, the Ministry of Cooperation represents the likelihood of monolithic free trade catechisms, proliferating multinational investments, and spreading communication networks which altogether threaten to dismantle the local economy.

WITH NEW TEAM IN PLACE, NOW IT’S TIME FOR GOVERNANCE

14 Jul 2021 06:16 AM IST

Finally, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reshuffled his Cabinet. The exercise has set up in place an edifice of maximum government. But will this revamped entity now deliver maximum governance? Are the critics right when they claim that the expansion focused more on politics than administrations? In what is seen

Decoding the Dragon’s geo-technomics diplomacy

14 Jul 2021 06:09 AM IST

Today, the global industrial complex is not only vulnerable to China’s supply chain dominance but also a hostage to its complex web of industrial networks and control.