By Bhaswati Mukherjee On November 9 the unthinkable happened after the most polarised election in US history. With the so-called swing states – Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania -choosing Donald Trump, the so-called Clinton Firewall was…
By Vikas Datta Spy fiction we have been used to for years had Soviet/Russian agents as the bad, ruthless guys. Though there were exceptions – the KGB chief in Frederick Forsyth’s “The Negotiator”, in some…
By Vinod Behl The landmark move by the Modi government to demonetise high-value currency notes to stamp out black money will have a far-reaching impact on the capital-intensive real estate sector where almost one-third of…
By Amulya Ganguli After several half-hearted and unsuccessful attempts by various governments over the years to untangle the Gordian’s knot of black money, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has used the celebrated method of cutting it…
By Saeed Naqvi The certainty of a Hillary Clinton victory had given way to anxiety as soon as the TV anchors began to concede that Donald Trump had taken Florida. A dozen or so friends,…
By Sarita Santoshini Imphal: Boinu was about 21 when she fell in love and decided to get married. It seemed a better option than living with indifferent relatives who gave her shelter after the death…
By Devanik Saha An underlying issue of the controversial killing of eight Muslim undertrials after they killed a police officer and broke out of a jail in Madhya Pradesh is the staff shortage in Indian…
By Amulya Ganguli The American voter has turned President Barack Obama’s expectation of a preference for wisdom and decency in the presidential poll upside down. Instead, the electorate’s choice has been for a person whose…
By Abhishek Waghmare Rs 14 lakh crore — or $217 billion, 86 per cent of the value of Indian currency currently in circulation — became useless from midnight of November 8, 2016, part of the…
By Rajendra Shende In December 2015, undeterred by the miserable failure of the Kyoto Protocol, world negotiators had come together once again to innovate in crafting a global start-up called the Paris Climate Agreement to…
By Dr. Anurag Tripathi On October 29, 2016, at least five Shia persons were killed and many injured in a gun-and-bomb attack outside a Majlis in the Nazimabad area of Karachi, the provincial capital of…
By Amit Kapoor That the environment in cities in India and the broader South Asian region in general is in shambles is not a secret — and Delhi recently has been in a near emergency…
By IndiaSpend Team It could pay for a micro-irrigation programme to bring water to thousands of farmers over two years; pay for new rural roads seven times over; electricity projects five times over; restore 300…
By Devanik Saha An average Indian consumes 10.98 grams of salt per day — 119 per cent more than the recommended limit of five grams per day by the World Health Organization (WHO) –according to…
By Rekha Bhattacharjee The Indian community in Australia is growing rapidly. The increase in numbers is complemented by an increase in the average income of the Indian diaspora settled down under. The presence of Indian…
By Ashok Easwaran Chicago, Nov 7 (IANS) In a 2008 interview with Barack Obama, two weeks before he was elected Americas President, I had asked him why a democracy over 200 years old was fixated…
By Vikas Datta All religions are based on fate, or some divine design and control over humans, and so are some philosophies (the universe conspiring to help you attain something you want, as Paulo Coelho…
By Lina Ashar Every moment can be a learning and mind expansion moment if parents and educators put their minds to it. The childs direct and indirect environment can be used as a learning platform….
By Amulya Ganguli With no sign of the unrest in Kashmir subsiding, the state is passing through one of the worst phases of its history. The scene has been made gloomier by the fact that…
By Shreya Shah Only 73 per cent of one kind of tuberculosis (TB) cases registered for treatment were successfully treated, much lower than the government-reported 84 per cent success rate, according to a new study…