Opinion

Saeed Naqvi  The mother of all blasts at the Beirut port August 4 would have qualified as the West Asian 9/11 though the objective circumstances are totally different. But 9/11, the great tragedy though it was, happened just when a muscular US, victorious in the...

Nikunja Bihari Sahu Russia’s announcement of a vaccine for Covid-19 is reminiscent of the Space Race during the Cold War period, when the US and the erstwhile USSR were competing hard to place the first satellite in Space and then Russia surprised the US and...

Bharat Jhunjhunwala The Union government has sought to dilute many provisions of the Environment Impact Assessment Notification (EIA Notification) in order to speed up the establishment of factories and mega cities and making of highways. As per the plan, the requirement of public hearing is...

Bibhu Dutta Basantia Annemasse is a small town in eastern France. It’s just 4km off Geneva border and many expats who can’t afford exorbitant Geneva rents and hotel rates come and stay in Annemasse. Residents of Geneva prefer to come and shop in Annemasse as...

Andrew Scott Dissatisfaction about GDP is growing. Many economists, policymakers, and other critics question the ability of this central measure of government and social success to recognise the welfare gains from technology, account for environmental degradation, or capture rising inequality. With developments in artificial intelligence...

Dr Sanjay Kumar Panda Industrial Revolution and production of clothes by machines or power looms broke the monopoly of handloom in the textile sector. Plain clothes with less design were produced by power looms at a lesser price, which affected the market and the interests...

Ban Ki-moon On top of everything else, the Covid-19 pandemic has triggered a global education emergency. With more than one billion children out of school because of social-distancing and lockdown measures, the crisis threatens to leave behind a ‘Covid generation’ whose future prospects have been...

Melvin Durai My fourteen-year-old son, Rahul, is 5-foot-8 (172 cm) and still growing. I can’t help wondering how tall he will be in a few years. I’m 6-foot-2 (187 cm) and my wife is 5-foot-2. So, Rahul is right in the middle — and about...

Dr Sanjib Kumar Karmee During the 74th I-Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has highlighted the successful examples of how India's capabilities are explored. Among other things, he noted, "We are emphasising on increasing the use of ethanol to reduce pollution caused by petrol. Five...

Ajit Ranade In the run-up to the 2012 presidential elections in the United States, the Guardian newspaper published a story of how the Obama election campaign was building a huge database on voters using the power of Facebook. This was thus the first election in...