By Nishant Arora New Delhi, Dec 1 (IANS) As the news of Congress Party and its Vice President Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter accounts being hacked spread like wildfire on Thursday, cyber experts were not surprised as…
By Prabhpreet Singh Sood & Prince Singhal States with higher literacy levels report more protests, and nearly half of these protests were led by political parties, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of police data over…
By Brig Anil Gupta (Retd) A new chapter was heralded in Pakistan’s history on November 29 when, for the first time in two decades, the incumbent Chief of Army Staff relinquished office on the appointed…
By Amit Kapoor With the government decision to withdraw Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes as legal tender, an ongoing debate on cash, no-cash or less-cash society has gathered steam. Before moving into a debate…
By Vikas Datta Exuberant Americans, reserved Englishmen, orderly Germans, fatalistic Russians, unorganised Italians, charming and chic French, impenetrable Japanese, laidback Australians, gregarious and feckless Irish… are these descriptions a valid guide to these nationalities, and…
By Veturi Srivatsa A senior Indian cricket board member has compared the Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha Committee recommendations to overhaul the governance model of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) with the…
By Vikas Datta As a teenager, he once wrote to a US President congratulating him on his re-election and requesting a $10 bill because he “had never seen one and would like to have one…
By Saeed Naqvi After a convivial evening at King’s College on the Strand, when he boarded the Victoria Line to Earl’s Court, Professor Ron Geaves experienced the first public reaction to a Donald Trump victory….
By Amulya Ganguli Donald Trump’s victory has been ascribed to the anger of the white working class in the US over the discontent caused by globalisation because of the curtailment of job opportunities. The same…
By Mukta Patil, Shreya Shah & Swagata Yadavar Dressed in a white dhoti, with a bright pink tilak on his forehead, Chandu Kokre herded sheep along national highway 60, 30 km southeast of Mumbai, India’s…
By Devanik Saha Is India doing enough to detect fake notes, cited by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a significant reason for withdrawing 86 per cent of India’s currency, a process popularly known as…
By Indu Kannan ‘Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much’ – Helen Keller Ideally, a robust and functional collaboration should exist between industry and academia. That would augur well for…
By Amit Kapoor The Prime Minister’s move on demonetising Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes is now slowly playing out. Apart from inconvenience which the move is causing, it is still early days to say…
By Vikas Datta The very name of Lucknow, its ‘nazakat’ and ‘nafasat’ still evokes a sense of elegant refinement and culture that no other city in India, or even around the world, can aspire to…
By Amulya Ganguli There is an element of spasmodic jerkiness about some of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s policies. In foreign affairs, this unevenness was seen in his interactions with Pakistan, which swung from warm friendliness…
By Deepak Goel New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) Post-demonetisation of high-value currency notes in India, Nepal Premier Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ rang up Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking an arrangement whereby Nepal residents holding a…
By Ashok Easwaran In 2008, an immigrant voter recalled at a community meeting this week, tears streamed down her face when she heard that America had elected its first African-American President. It meant that her…
By C Uday Bhaskar Two significant developments have taken place over the last week in the nuclear domain that will have a long-term bearing on India’s overall nuclear profile over the next decade. It will…
By Nishant Arora San Francisco, Nov 16 (IANS) At a time when governments and enterprises the world over are brainstorming over ways to secure their data on the Cloud platform, a right mix of security…
By Amit Kapoor The past week has been momentous with two important events: the election of Donald Trump as the 45th US President and the Indian governments decision to demonetise the Rs 500 and Rs…