Opinion

Dhanada K Mishra The biggest concern that experts have flagged about the new National Education Policy is the challenges of implementation, going by our record on such matters particularly in crucial areas of health and education. In 2009, the state government had formed the Higher...

Mary Fitzgerald ‘The baby is dead. We can’t assist you here.’ By the time she heard these devastating words, the pregnant Yasmelis Casanova had endured a long and painful journey, passing through multiple COVID-19 checkpoints, to the hospital in Caracas, Venezuela. She bled for hours...

Anita Saluja PV Narasimha Rao never dreamt to be the Prime Minister, as he was no lobbyist and did not have the instincts in him to side-step anybody. In fact, after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, he had packed his bags and returned to his...

Saeed Naqvi It reflects on the civilisational power of Lord Rama in this ancient land that Independent India’s five Prime Ministers involved themselves in the affairs of his birthplace at Ayodhya. Jawaharlal Nehru, Rajiv Gandhi, Narasimha Rao, Narendra Modi and, tangentially, VP Singh in between....

Dr DK Giri Islamabad has launched a fresh attack on India. Following the new map released officially by Nepal, Pakistan seeks to engage India in a cartographic war. The government supporters say the new is a fresh rendition of the old one issued in 2017....

Bharat Jhunjhunwala The two areas of the Union government expenditures on healthcare are curative and preventive. According to the National Health Accounts Estimates for India, 2018, the government spent `9,134 crore in 2015-16 on the 31 lakh government employees; or about `7,000 per person if...

Edmund S. Phelps The robots are no longer coming; they are here. The Covid-19 pandemic is hastening the spread of artificial intelligence (AI), but few have fully considered the short and long run consequences. In thinking about AI, it is natural to start from the...

Santosh Kumar Mohapatra With the number of Covid-19 victims rising exponentially, it is vital to assess where India stands in terms of medical capacity to provide the necessary healthcare. India’s poor health infrastructure belies any hope, and the health sector is in the doldrums. The...

Kaushik Basu As the Covid-19 pandemic rages on, our understanding of it is improving. Through a combination of epidemiology and physics – including knowledge of the virus's character and how aerosols float in the air – we are learning more about how the microbe infects...

Dr S. Saraswathi Prime Minister Modi has said that the new National Education Policy (NEP) will mark a shift from “the burden of school bag” to “experiential learning” with focus on “job creators” instead of “job seekers.” The NEP seems to usher in a mini...