Opinion

Dr DK Giri In a violent clash between the Indian and Chinese soldiers last Monday at Galwan Valley in Ladakh, over 20 Indian soldiers, including a colonel were killed and more were injured. Casualties are reported from the other side, but the exact number is...

Bertrand Badré and Yves Tiberghien In order to pave the way for renewed international cooperation in these times, three myths need to be debunked. The first is that COVID-19 qualifies as an unexpected "black swan" event for which no one could have prepared. In fact,...

Shiv Kunal Verma Galwan will now forever have the same ring to it as Nam Ka Chu. Judging from the initial reports, the tactics adopted by the PLA were similar to what the Chinese did after the cease-fire had been declared in November 1962, when...

Nishikant Dubey The central government has set itself an ambitious task of achieving a nominal GDP of $5 trillion (Rs 350 trillion) by 2024. Debt markets have played a major role in developing the global economy by providing sustainable long-term capital to fuel growth in...

Devinder Sharma The year was 2006. There was excitement in the air. Throwing out the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) Act, Bihar had undertaken futuristic agricultural market reforms. With no mandis coming in the way, sarkari economists and policy-makers were exuberant at the immense possibilities...

Melvin Durai When I was growing up, an adult gave me this advice: "Watch where you step. You may step on something unpleasant." This is so true. I got a big shock a couple of months ago when I stepped on a scale. We have...

Prof. Udaya S Mishra and Balakrushna Padhi Based on a population count of 42 million in 2011, Odisha’s population is estimated to reach 44 million in 2021. There after, the growth would slow down to reach 45 million plus in another 15 years. At the...

Jagdish Rattanani In the big cities of India, and less prominently in the smaller towns, private hospitals are now imprinted in the public mind as mercenaries ready for the kill. The signs are everywhere and the collapse is almost complete. These modern-day glitzy edifices which...

Shivaji Sarkar Heading towards a grave scenario, the Indian economy faces contraction in the current and possibly the next financial year. This follows almost a global pattern of pushing a large chunk of people to extreme poverty, $1.90 a day, as part of an estimated...

Saeed Naqvi Pictures of unrelieved despair everywhere on TV and, that too, in the course of an extended house arrest (lockdown), does leave one, to use Faiz’s words, with “pain where the heart once was”. Heaven knows there were problems then too; but in these...