Opinion

Dr Bhaskar Nath Biswal The ‘Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana’ (PMJDY) launched by the Central government on August 28, 2014 has completed seven years of successful implementation. In the first week of its implementation, the Department of Financial Services, Government of India, made a Guinness...

Melvin Durai Zerodha, the Bangalore-based financial services company, may have some of the healthiest employees in the world—and I’m not just talking about financial health. The employees are healthy because of an incentive programme that rewards them for meeting their fitness goals. If they meet...

Padmalochan Dash In the face of imminent threats from hybrid warfare imposed on India across spheres, the protection of critical infrastructure (CI) must be at the forefront of the country’s internal security management. Infrastructure is said to be critical when, first, it is indispensable to...

Santosh Kumar Mohapatra Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman August 23 launched the National Monetisation Pipeline comprising brownfield assets with an aggregate monetisation potential of `6 lakh crore, which will be available for lease/licensing to private investors over four years from 2021-22 to 2024-25. For the...

Debashis Acharya Investment in cryptocurrencies has exponentially grown in recent times. Globally speaking, at the end of Q1 2021, the crypto market capitalisation was $1.9 trillion. Compared to the Q1 of 2020, the market witnessed massive growth in market capitalisation (+146% vs -8%) and trading...

Shreya Tewari & Ashirbad Nayak In India, over the past few years, availing basic utilities has become increasingly reliant on access to the Internet. The pandemic has aggravated this dependency drastically. Citizens look to the Internet to meet their every need, ranging from groceries to...

Melvin Durai My wife, Malathi, does not like to drive. Her car remains parked on our driveway 99 per cent of the time. Malathi drives it only on weekends, usually to go shopping and to ensure that snakes and other creatures do not start living...

Sampad Patnaik In December 2019, the Washington Post published its investigation into an 18-year-old propaganda by the US government about military successes in Afghanistan, while “hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable.” The Post mentioned that it could only publish after a three-year-long legal battle...

Malay Mishra Four burqa-clad Afghan women auctioned at a street corner and a Taliban elder forcibly dragging away a small Afghan girl in full view of her parents who turn their back and walk away on the wailing child. At the Kabul International Airport, there...

Melvin Durai In my next life, I want to be farmer. Farming is hard work, with no guarantee of making a good living, but let me tell you something from personal experience: there is something magical about sowing seeds, watching them germinate and eventually harvesting...