Opinion

By Martand Jha Of late, news from the arena of outer space has caught the attention of many space enthusiasts. India’s first dedicated space think-tank ‘Spaceport Sarabhai’ was launched by a bunch of entrepreneurs and lawyers who want to create a space for themselves in a system that is still largely governed by ISRO. Across […]

DNA profiling generates genetically imagined communities, as the search moves from individual to family, community and race 

By Amb Ashok Sajjanhar The last few days have witnessed unprecedented violence, bloodshed and frenzy on the streets of many cities of Kazakhstan, including the capital Nur-Sultan and the largest city and former capital Almaty. As per initial accounts, the peaceful protests against the increase in the price of car fuel were quickly hijacked by […]

By Olatz Ukar Arrien Recently, in addition to the threats of the global pandemic and the shortage crisis, there have been added threats of possible fuel shortages, the increase in the price of electricity and a possible large-scale blackout. Just imagining a possible generalised electrical blackout makes us tremble, since practically everything we use requires […]

With almost no contribution, the party is trying to create an impression that it is the next big thing in Telangana

Modi’s partiality to Hinduism is changing the character and image of Indian state from multi-religious to mono-religious

By Lena Surzhko Harned Add Kazakhstan to the list of former Soviet republics whose independence is now being threatened by Russia. Russian leader Vladimir Putin is using a similar playbook in Kazakhstan to one that he has used over almost a decade to threaten the sovereignty of Ukraine. What began as protests over rising fuel […]

By Prof Devi Prasad Juvvadi The challenges of agriculture in Telangana are different compared with other States. The measures taken after the bifurcation of the State towards agricultural development started giving desired results, but this has landed the sector into different problems. Expansion of irrigated areas has helped increase paddy production by about three times […]

By Arun Sinha Mamata Banerjee’s Goa campaign is built less on real strength and more on bravado. She has travelled from the east to the west to prove that if she can defeat the BJP in Bengal, she can defeat it anywhere. But every State is not Bengal. And on top of it, she has […]

By Muhammad Ali Nasir Will 2022 be the year where the world economy recovers from the pandemic? That’s the big question on everyone’s lips as the festive break comes to an end. One complicating factor is that most of the latest major forecasts were published in the weeks before the Omicron variant swept the world. […]

By Seela Subba Rao India is the second most populous country after China with about 1.38 billion people and is the seventh largest country in the world with an area of 3,28,700 km sq. The highly contrasted country has enjoyed a growth rate of up to 10% over many years in the pre-Covid 19 era […]

By Amitava Mukherjee The last visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his defence and foreign ministers to India has outlined the Russian presence vis-à-vis Indo-US relations. Three areas have been identified where the US and Russia might clash with each other over their respective bilateral relations with India — the Indo-Pacific, Afghanistan and the […]

By Patricia Álvarez Sánchez Languages are constellations of words shared by all those speakers who are immersed in a specific linguistic environment. Despite their surprising variety — there are about 7,000 — linguistics tries to analyse them and determine their structure. This relatively recent discipline, which has many schools and approaches, has also investigated the […]

By Jayashri Kulkarni At the beginning of each year, many people make vows to either do or not do something to improve their life in some way. The fresh start of a new year is magically equated with a fresh start to life and often imbued with renewed hope that this year things will be […]

For some time, the Earth’s natural resources have been depleted faster than they can be replaced. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has set a 2030 deadline to reduce heat-trapping emissions by half to avoid climate change that is both irreversible and destructive. With colleagues, we coauthored a climate emergency warning paper in 2019. It […]

By Hugh Breakey Over the past two years, our lives have changed in unprecedented ways. In the face of the pandemic, we have been required to obey demanding new rules and accept new risks, making enormous changes to our daily lives. These disruptions can challenge us to think differently about ethics – about what we […]

By Dina Matar Hundreds of journalists killed or arrested, rising numbers of female media workers targeted, floods of misinformation and hate speech and ineffectual or hostile governments unable or unwilling to protect the public’s right to know. The 2021 press freedom index released recently by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) makes for grim reading. The report […]

By KSS Seshan As the 72nd anniversary of our Republic Day is fast approaching, let us recount how our Constitution came to be written before it was adopted in 1950. The evolution and framing of our Constitution is irrevocably linked to our freedom struggle and it makes interesting reading. The present generation needs to be […]

By Atul K Shah It may be the season for peace on Earth and goodwill to all men, but you don’t have to look very far in the financial pages to find stories about businesses doing exactly the opposite. NatWest, for example, has just agreed to pay US$35 million to the US authorities after pleading […]

Legitimising centralised control over agriculture may mean farmers’ freedom remains just a promise

For more than 70 years, Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, has been the key yardstick by which nations have measured economic progress. But GDP is designed to exclusively account for the monetary benefits accrued from economic activity. It is blind to the degradation of the natural environment, finite resources and human well-being. It’s time we […]

By James Dawes Autonomous weapon systems – commonly known as killer robots – may have killed human beings for the first time ever last year, according to a recent United Nations Security Council report on the Libyan civil war. History could well identify this as the starting point of the next major arms race, one […]

Rebuild trust in cooperatives through an appropriate policy that operates at State level

The economic turmoil that India is witnessing for some time now is said to have been reversed by the present government. Claims of breaking chains to implement new reforms float on the surface of Indian trust. Ironically, despite the promised claims and talks for reforms, India slipped to the 108th position in the Economic Freedom […]