Opinion

Santosh K Patra Earlier this month, popular actor without any B-Town blood Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead in his apartment. He was 34; an excellent student, an astrophysics enthusiast, a philosopher at core, a dance freak, social service-minded and philanthropist. He was just out...

Saeed Naqvi Globalisation may not have been part of the discourse 45 years ago when Indira Gandhi shelved Civil Liberties after declaring the Emergency, but it is not possible to sketch that bleak episode on a wide enough canvas without touching such disparate points on...

Taponeel Mukherjee As the Indian consumer market recovers from the coronavirus-induced lockdown and the ailing economy gradually heads back to normalcy, the spate of deal-making in the telecom sector has firmly brought the focus on the Indian consumer markets and the potential the consumer market...

Kent Harrington Like the leading character in a long-running television series, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has kicked off the latest crisis on the Korean Peninsula with familiar theatrics. After cutting off all communications with South Korea, the Kim regime bombed the building in which...

Bharat Jhunjhunwala Delhi-based Observer Research Foundation has said that today China is leading the world in a number of technologies such as in genetics, hypersonics (faster than sound), 5G Internet and facial recognition through Artificial Intelligence. In coming times, the technologies of 5G, Artificial Intelligence,...

Daron Acemoglu With more than$7.5 trillion owed to external creditors, emerging economies' debt-service costs are becoming increasingly onerous just when they need as much fiscal space as possible to confront the Covid-19 crisis. While there is a strong case for cancelling much of this debt,...

Ashok Mahapatra In cooperation with other QUAD members, expand its membership to include countries whose territory is being claimed by China and form our own Garland of Coalition. Ever since the 1972 meeting between Mao Zedong and Richard Nixon, the world has accepted a One...

Santosh Kumar Mohapatra The Centre is on a privatization spree despite the hits the economy has taken in the context of the COVID-linked lockdown. The stress is on shaping a “more coherent” Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) Policy. It is a moot point whether the nation...

Ajit Ranade The border conflict in eastern Ladakh has claimed 20 brave soldiers -- the worst casualty along the India-China border in more than 50 years. At best of times, the line of actual control (LAC) which is not an internationally recognised border bristles with...

SN Misra Of the various COVID-linked economic packages announced by the government, an additional allocation of Rs 40,000 crore under the MGNREGA programme has attracted special attention. The prime reason for this is that it is likely to create additional 300 crore man-days of work...