Opinion

By Dr Oruganty Prasada Rao In the recently concluded climate change summit COP26, India and China called for phase-down instead of phase-out of coal in the final text of the conference declaration. The reasons for it are: Energy Resources: India is endowed with large reserves of coal, which can last for over 200 years at […]

By Seela Subba Rao Recently, former chairman of SBI, Rajnish Kumar, opined that in a country like India, allowing corporate houses to own banks is fraught with great risks. He advocated that the banks should be rightly owned and professionally managed. Similar views were echoed by former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan as well as former […]

By Vijay Kumar Did you ever ponder why there are so many data breaches these days? Did you also notice why such incidents are significantly more on cloud than otherwise? Did you wonder why despite best talents, intents and efforts, businesses get bulldozed besides being publicly embarrassed by a few unknown enemies? Ask any leader […]

By Dr Vakulabharanam Krishna Mohan Rao In the contemporary world, there is increased interest in having scientific, rigorous and accurate data for a good understanding of any social, economic or political phenomenon. More so, in applied social sciences, especially in policymaking, which eventually leads to an effective policy. Data has two sides according to the […]

Addressing climate change is about acknowledging interdependence and commonality and accepting responsibility

By B Yerram Raju Not a day passes without a report on cybercrime. A recent news item reported that Punjab National Bank has compromised customer data for over seven months. Every organisation using a digital platform asks for personal details like Aadhaar number (this number is auto connected to Permanent Account Number of Income Tax). […]

By Pramod K Nayar The much-criticised Nazis developed a test for ascertaining the degree of Aryanness or Jewishness. With the eugenics movement and its associate, Social Darwinism, as ideological foundations, this quantification of ancestry, belonging and kinship enabled the Nazis to target, deny and exterminate those whose blood was not pure enough. The concern with […]

By Dr K Srinivasa Rao Innovations in financial intermediation led by fintechs and virtual banks have changed the landscape of lending to retailers and small and medium entrepreneurs. Hyperactive digital lending by new-age tech entities has begun to pose a challenge to banks and regulators. Falling in line with the competitors, banks have also partially […]

By Mahitha Lingala Telangana has moved ahead a significant distance from growing at 2.7% in the undivided State to 13.3% in mere six years after bifurcation, a rate which is higher than the national average. Its Industrial Policy introduced in 2015 contributed immensely to this surge bringing in over Rs 1.4 lakh crore. IT exports […]

By Dr GB Reddy, T Vijay Kumar Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on November 19, 2021, that his government would repeal the three controversial farm laws. Though the PM maintained that the government failed to make farmers understand the benefits of the laws, one important factor could be the States’ dissent and opposition to such […]

Countries could do more to encourage trade in environmental goods to unlock the economies of scale

By Tony Walker American-Chinese summit diplomacy comes and goes, but there will not be a much more consequential meeting between two leaders than the latest of Joe Biden and Xi Jinping’s consultations. If a measure was needed of how transformational the relationship between the US and China has become, one only needs to go back […]

By Krishank Manne It is evident that the BJP has chosen paddy production and procurement for its politics. This is something unprecedented and a very strategic ploy of the party to misguide poor farmers. The BJP state president’s call to farmers contradicts his own party’s policy at the Centre on procurement cap. The whole argument […]

Memories of unnatural destruction must make one not resilient to destruction but resist attempts to evoke more destruction

By Prakash Kumar Sahoo & Yashobanta Parida India’s geo-climatic and socioeconomic factors are contributing to an increase in the frequency and damage from cyclones. Among the natural disasters, cyclones constituted the second most frequent phenomena accounting for 15% of India’s total natural disasters over 1999-2020. Around 12,388 persons were killed and the total damage stood […]

No other country in South Central Asia has sent as many young people to study in the US as India

Xi does not have the independent political authority enjoyed by Mao & Deng, though his positions may be respected

By Renaud Foucart Google is being fined €2.4 billion (£2.1 billion) for hindering competition in the EU after a 2017 decision has been upheld on appeal by the general court of the European Union. This is a saga dating back over 15 years, in which the European Commission has been accusing the tech giant of […]

By Uma S Kambhampati, Subham Kailthya One of the keys to China’s economic renaissance over the past couple of decades is often overlooked. Namely, it has built a lot of roads. China’s highways have more or less tripled from around 50,000km in 2000 to around 160,000km by the end of 2020. This means that in […]

By Samudrala VK The recent furore over a few ads or TV commercials is a testimony to the orthodox atmosphere that is prevailing in the country. Does ultra-conservatism kill creativity? Does it hamper the innate or creative potential of an individual? Will it become a regressive element in the longer run? Will it lead to […]

By Pramod K Nayar Every year when the academic and institutional rankings season comes around, academic managers experience bouts of uncertainty — and this is not (only) because their institution did not score high on various performance parameters, but because select individuals in their institutions did. These individuals aced all sorts of performance metrics. So why the […]

By JR Janumpalli Since the division, residual Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have presented seven Budgets. The Budgets are also audited by the CAG up to 2019-20. The final figures of the CAG report indicate the actuals of the income and expenditure and other economic parameters of the States. In a State Budget, the major financial […]

It can provide a link between growing and sustainable electricity generation

By Richard Blakemore A dispute between Britain and France about fishing territories has escalated rapidly. French authorities detained a British trawler on October 28, and Britain promptly summoned the French ambassador for talks. The wider issue here is the licences now required under the new Brexit arrangements. French fishermen complain that many of their applications […]