Category: Opinion

Crackdown not enough: Bangladesh needs to neutralise sources of militant support

By S. Binodkumar Singh On October 8, 2016, in a series of anti-militancy crackdowns, 12 Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militants…

8 years ago

Taming the Afghans, plugging the invasion route: A forgotten contribution to Indian security

By Vikas Datta It is a rare country that remembers all its heroes, let alone recognises their contribution -- even…

8 years ago

Cricket board plays hide and seek with Lodha Panel

By Veturi Srivatsa Soon, the Indian cricket board might cry before the Supreme Court in a filmi style that "tareekh…

8 years ago

How Syrian boy with burnt face became propaganda icon

By Saeed Naqvi The four-year-old Syrian boy with a burnt face found his way to the final debate at Las…

8 years ago

UP first family’s bruising feud suicidal

By Amulya Ganguli Till a few weeks ago, Akhilesh Yadav appeared uncertain about how far he should go in challenging…

8 years ago

New model of tracking TB patients holds promise for India

By Shreya Shah Mehsana (Gujarat): "Is Khema Bhai there?" B D Sagar shouted out in Gujarati to a small group…

8 years ago

Disruptive innovation at Kigali to save the environment

By Rajendra Shende Clayton Christensen, a professor at the Harvard Business School, wrote in the Harvard Business Review in 1995…

8 years ago

Why Cisco’s bet on IoT, Cloud is crucial to building Smart Cities

By Nishant Arora New Delhi, Oct 19 (IANS) When it comes to building Smart Cities, Internet of Things (IoT) and…

8 years ago

India’s new HFC-reduction target = eliminating 1/6th of coal-powered CO2 emissions

By Shreya Shah Indias participation in a global agreement on climate change will reduce the countrys greenhouse gases equal to…

8 years ago

The twin challenges of poverty and hunger

By Amit Kapoor Goals 1 and 2 of the UNs Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) envision eradicating poverty and ending hunger…

8 years ago

Hopes and expectations from a new UN Secretary General

By Bhaswati Mukherjee In the end, it was a unanimous election by acclamation of the new United Nations Secretary General…

8 years ago

The reluctant, misunderstand creator of ‘Superman’

By Vikas Datta Humankind's capacity to comprehend pales before its ability to misinterpret or misappropriate -- and neither prophet nor…

8 years ago

Biofortified pearl millet varieties to reduce iron, zinc deficiency

By Kedar Rai Hyderabad, Oct 15 (IANS) Micronutrient malnutrition because of iron and zinc deficiencies is a serious public health…

8 years ago

War build-up in Syria: To influence US elections or is it real?

By Saeed Naqvi Americans and the Russians are leaping over the threshold in Aleppo -- almost. Note the rhetoric: US…

8 years ago

Amma’s illness: Woes of a one-person party

By Amulya Ganguli Like nature, politics abhors a vacuum. It is not surprising, therefore, that after several days of uncertainty,…

8 years ago

India, broader South Asian region remain steady amidst global slowdown

By Amit Kapoor The Indian economy and that of the broader South Asian Region (SAR) is a source of considerable…

8 years ago

With deadline 1 month away, UP’s homes for urban poor 73% incomplete

By Sumit Chaturvedi Although 60 per cent of the money has been released, no more than 27 per cent of…

8 years ago

A massacre on a dusty Iraqi plain and its poetic remembrance

By Vikas Datta A small band of prominent people, including women and children, refusing allegiance to the ruler, were forcibly…

8 years ago

Lumpen communalism can be shamed, but will media help?

By Saeed Naqvi Kash Hindustan mein hota janam Abbas ka Barh ke hum Hindu utha lete alam Abbas ka (If…

8 years ago

New questions over India’s $165 bn gamble of linking rivers

By Charu Bahri The dry reservoirs -- despite an average monsoon -- of south Karnatakas Cauvery basin illustrate Indias rainfall…

8 years ago



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