Opinion

ISSUE GUIDELINES TO STOP SOURCING OF CRITICAL EQUIPMENT FROM CHINA

09 Mar 2021 02:37 AM IST

If media reports are to be believed, the Chinese provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices, Huawei has bagged a contract worth Rs 300 crore with one of India’s telecom giants. This has given rise to several questions, the most important being why this Chinese company

Why are they keeping fake handles and accounts?

09 Mar 2021 02:35 AM IST

The Centre’s recent rules for checking the misuse of online media, social media and OTT platforms are drawing criticism for being contrary to freedom of expression. However, critics must understand that the rules are for self-regulation and to ensure that no nefarious or anti-national designs are spread in the disguise

SUNIL GAVASKAR’S GLORIOUS 50 YEARS IN TEST CRICKET

08 Mar 2021 02:02 AM IST

Without any shadow of doubt, Sunil Gavaskar has perhaps been the greatest Indian batsman of all times, notwithstanding the iconic status of Sachin Tendulkar and now Virat Kohli. On Saturday, the Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) honoured this legend at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on

Inequality within equality in women’s education

08 Mar 2021 02:01 AM IST

India needs to evolve a national strategy to ensure gender and social equality across different sectors of education, domains of knowledge, as well as institutions of higher learning rather than creating supernumerary seats sporadically in a handful of institutions.

SASIKALA’S QUITTING RAISES SEVERAL QUESTIONS

06 Mar 2021 01:42 AM IST

A majority of political analysts were of a considered view that V.K. Sasikala, a close aide of former Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa would be the “X” factor in the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections which are barely a month away. However, the lady who was recently released from the prison on

Communism in China: A hundred years later

06 Mar 2021 01:41 AM IST

As China prepares to celebrate the centenary of the Communist Party, the world must remember the massacres which Communist regimes have unleashed throughout history and question why Xi Jinping’s march towards the ‘New Era’ is marked by such aggression directed at neighbouring countries.

TIME TO GET THE COVID-19 VACCINE

05 Mar 2021 02:47 AM IST

This is the one topic that everyone is talking about these days—have you got vaccinated or not as yet. And if so, which one? The vaccine hesitancy that we saw in the early days of the roll out with even health workers hesitant to take the needle is no longer

India set to make a V-shaped recovery

05 Mar 2021 02:46 AM IST

The sharp improvement in the performance of core sectors and the quick resumption of high activity levels in the economy indicate that India is close to achieving a fast-paced and broad-based V-shaped recovery in the third quarter of FY21.

NO, MINISTER

04 Mar 2021 02:24 AM IST

Even teams led by experienced and expert captains suffer from occasional self-goals. These are usually a consequence of the best of intentions, but end up as embarrassments. There was in the recent past a stray statement by a Union Minister that the gallant soldiers of the Indian Army had moved

Embedded patriarchy in science must end

04 Mar 2021 02:20 AM IST

History and research have shown proof of how few women in science have received their due, despite making discoveries and providing services which have led to the progress of modern science and civilisation. Decision makers must find a way to put an end to the gender bias.

G-23 LEADERS SHOULD HAVE WAITED TILL THE ASSEMBLY POLLS

03 Mar 2021 02:09 AM IST

The Congress is fighting two battles, one is the electoral one against the BJP in the oncoming Assembly elections and the other is the battle within as some members of the G-23 fired another salvo from Jammu last week. Whichever way you look at it, it’s a tussle for power.

Why PM Modi can’t be Ronald Reagan

03 Mar 2021 02:02 AM IST

In a country where three-fourths of the population is either facing acute poverty or dependent on agriculture that is contingent upon the grace of rain gods, welfare spending becomes imperative rather than a choice. The lack of an Indian Reagan is partly due to electoral reasons but also partly due