By Oommen C. Kurian Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has surpassed Kerala as the state with the highest life expectancy in India for all ages, barring life expectancy at birth, according to data released on October…
By Lt. Gen. Kamal Davar (retd) The last three weeks may not have been historically momentous, as some in the establishment would like us to believe, but certainly India has been in the news, both…
Salgaon (Sirohi district) In a classroom in the government school here in southwest Rajasthan, about 25 students from standards 3, 4 and 5 standing in a circle, animatedly recited a story spoken by a specially…
By S. Binodkumar Singh On October 8, 2016, in a series of anti-militancy crackdowns, 12 Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militants were killed in Gazipur, Tangail and Dhaka districts. Seven of them were killed in the…
By Vikas Datta It is a rare country that remembers all its heroes, let alone recognises their contribution — even war heroes, otherwise lionised for political benefit and as a conveniently vicarious symbol of service…
By Veturi Srivatsa Soon, the Indian cricket board might cry before the Supreme Court in a filmi style that “tareekh pe tareekh, tareekh pe tareekh, tareekh pe tareekh milti gayi My Lord, per insaaf nahi…
By Saeed Naqvi The four-year-old Syrian boy with a burnt face found his way to the final debate at Las Vegas in the US between the Republican candidate for President, Donald Trump, and the Democratic…
By Amulya Ganguli Till a few weeks ago, Akhilesh Yadav appeared uncertain about how far he should go in challenging his domineering father and canny uncle. He had started off by claiming that he takes…
By Shreya Shah Mehsana (Gujarat): “Is Khema Bhai there?” B D Sagar shouted out in Gujarati to a small group of people sitting under a tree on a dusty knoll, in the outskirts of Mehsana…
By Rajendra Shende Clayton Christensen, a professor at the Harvard Business School, wrote in the Harvard Business Review in 1995 about the concept of ‘disruptive innovation’. He described it as “a process that takes root…
By Nishant Arora New Delhi, Oct 19 (IANS) When it comes to building Smart Cities, Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud are two key components to make things work. For Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins, these…
By Shreya Shah Indias participation in a global agreement on climate change will reduce the countrys greenhouse gases equal to closing one-sixth of its thermal power stations over the next 35 years, according to an…
By Amit Kapoor Goals 1 and 2 of the UNs Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) envision eradicating poverty and ending hunger in an extreme form in the world by 2030. Much will depend on how developing…
By Bhaswati Mukherjee In the end, it was a unanimous election by acclamation of the new United Nations Secretary General (UNSG), Antonio Guterres. The winds of a new Cold War in the corridors of the…
By Vikas Datta Humankind’s capacity to comprehend pales before its ability to misinterpret or misappropriate — and neither prophet nor philosopher is immune. For the latter, none can beat this lonely, tragic but most misunderstood…
By Kedar Rai Hyderabad, Oct 15 (IANS) Micronutrient malnutrition because of iron and zinc deficiencies is a serious public health problem in low- and middle-economy countries worldwide. In India alone, about 80 percent of pregnant…
By Saeed Naqvi Americans and the Russians are leaping over the threshold in Aleppo — almost. Note the rhetoric: US State Department Spokesman, John Kirby, says: “Extremist groups will continue to exploit the vacuums in…
By Amulya Ganguli Like nature, politics abhors a vacuum. It is not surprising, therefore, that after several days of uncertainty, Tamil Nadu Finance Minister O. Panneerselvam assumed charge of the ministries which were handled by…
By Amit Kapoor The Indian economy and that of the broader South Asian Region (SAR) is a source of considerable interest in policy circles these days. This is because their growth performance has considerably outperformed…
By Sumit Chaturvedi Although 60 per cent of the money has been released, no more than 27 per cent of 24,310 free homes intended for the urban poor had been built till August 2016 across…