Opinion

Gopabandhu Mahapatra The Reserve Bank of India has written off Rs 68,607 crore of debt relating to 50 top wilful defaulters till September 30, 2019. The write-offs are technical or prudential in nature. In Banking terms, write-offs means, to remove bad loans from the balance-sheets....

Melvin Durai One of the worst aspects of the coronavirus pandemic is that we're not supposed to have visitors in our homes. Indeed, it's been several weeks since my wife and I had any guest in our home and I'm really starting to miss them....

DC Pathak In the sphere of national security, the rationale for cooperation with other countries in both 'Intelligence-sharing' and a 'coordinated response' in regard to a 'threat' is the convergence on the identification of the 'enemy' behind the threat. This is the raison d'etre of strategic...

Gordon Brown This is not a discrete one-off episode, Wellcome Trust head Jeremy Farrar has warned. “This is now an endemic human infection.” Covid-19, as Farrar suggests, knows no boundaries, geographic, political, or otherwise. Nor must, our efforts to defeat it. No one can be...

Here begins a series on the future that awaits us all once the COVID-19 threat is overcome. Specialists share their views on the possibilities that lie ahead.   —EDITOR Humankind faces an unprecedented spell of uncertainty and panic, thanks to Covid-19. This has led to widespread...

Bharat Jhunjhunwala India has three advantages compared to China. One, our population is younger. One-half of our population is below age 28 -- against the 38 for China. This means there is likely to be less infection of Covid-19 in India. Two, India is a...

The Odisha government is proposing bicycles as the preferred mode of transportation during the lockdown. However, hardly any official is seen using bicycle to travel within the five to ten kilometre distance between his office and home. Perhaps it’s time both city administration as well...

Santosh Kumar Mohapatra In an extraordinary decision, one of country's oldest asset management companies (AMC), the Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund, has decided to close six of its open-ended debt mutual funds schemes (otherwise known as fixed-income debt schemes) effective from April 23. Those six schemes...

Charudutta Panigrahi The ground-breaking idea of Panchayats handling the registration and monitoring of the migrants, in Odisha, puts the management of the people in the hands of the community. Faced with a pandemic, this move is both audacious and progressive. While the Panchayat is going...

Udaya S Mishra and Balakrushna Padhi A major Sustainable Development Goal is to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.” This is time to take stock of Odisha’s position on the educational front as per the most-recent survey conducted...