Opinion

Educators need to unlearn many things to learn to cope with job market expectations

28 Feb 2023 00:42 AM IST

The pandemic has been an unprecedented situation leaving us to rethink everything in an unpredictable world. The virus, medicines, technologies, human behaviour, food habits, living styles, as well as consumer behaviour are fast changing. The science and technology are the transformers of their own fundamentals. Indian languages, including tribal languages,

Time to build quake resistant structures

28 Feb 2023 00:40 AM IST

The after-shocks of the Kahramanmaras earthquake in Turkey and closer-to-home disasters such as the Joshimath crisis have made a global impact, compelling us to look closer into available engineering solutions for natural disasters and how to enforce them. Considering the current national and global events, safety concerns have driven architects

Akal Takht steps in to seek clarity on the Holy Book controversy

27 Feb 2023 00:28 AM IST

Anticipating that the controversy over the use of Holy book at protest sites could escalate further, the Akal Takht, the Supreme Body for Sikh religious matters, has set up a panel to examine whether the Holy Book should be taken to protest sites as had happened during the recent siege

‘Fat cat’ West must slim down to save the South, India included

27 Feb 2023 00:27 AM IST

“Fat cat” is defined in the Oxford Learner’s Dictionary as a “person who earns, or who has a lot of money (especially when compared to people who do not earn so much)”. There are growing questions in the South, be it in India or elsewhere, including flooded Pakistan or drought-stricken

Punjab’s Litmus Test

27 Feb 2023 00:24 AM IST

In scenes reminiscent of the dark days of terrorism in Punjab, hundreds of supporters of radical separatist leader Amritpal Singh, armed with lathis, swords and guns, clashed with police and stormed the Ajnala police station near Amritsar on Thursday. Amritpal and his supporters using the Palki of Shri Guru Granth

Punjab Police buckles under pressure to discharge radical suspect

25 Feb 2023 01:35 AM IST

The decision of the Punjab police on Friday to discharge Lovepreet Singh Toofan, an accused in a kidnapping and assault case, has raised multiple questions. If indeed Lovepreet is innocent why was he arrested in the first place and if there is evidence against him, why have the police and

It isn’t just about ‘Kirkit’

25 Feb 2023 01:34 AM IST

It has been argued many a time that sport is a great unifier. Perhaps so. But does it pass the litmus test in a country with a melting-pot of cultures, especially with some communities who felt traditionally marginalised in the greater scheme of things? The fact that Indians (as a

ChatGPT: Implications for Higher Education

25 Feb 2023 01:31 AM IST

ChatGPT describes itself as “a state-of-the-art, open-source language model developed by OpenAI. It’s based on transformer architecture and was trained on a diverse range of internet text, including websites, books, and social media platforms. The model has been fine-tuned to perform well in a variety of natural language processing tasks,

Detaining Authority Has Exclusive Responsibility To Formulate Grounds Of Detention, Investigating Agency Can Only Give Inputs: JKL High Court

24 Feb 2023 00:51 AM IST

While quashing a preventive detention order, the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court in a most learned, laudable, landmark, logical and latest judgment titled Tawqeer Ahmad Wani Vs UT of J&K in WP(Crl) No.456/2022 and cited in 2023 LiveLaw (JKL) 30 that was reserved on February 2, 2023 and

Vicarious Liability of Directors in Dishonour of Cheques: A Conspectus of Contemporary Judicial Rulings

24 Feb 2023 00:51 AM IST

Cheques are issued and handled when they bounce and have undergone significant changes throughout the years. The usage of cheques increased along with the brisk expansion of trade and commerce, and so did the number of conflicts involving cheque bouncing. Sections 138-142 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, of 1881 (“NI Act”) are

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EAM JAISHANKAR GIVES BEFITTING MESSAGE TO
CRISIS-HIT PAKISTAN

24 Feb 2023 00:16 AM IST

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar was right when during an interview recently he indicated that India is unlikely to come to aid of Pakistan which is struggling with its worst economic crisis in decades with its foreign exchange reserves at their lowest in ten years. Jaishankar made it clear that

Fostering inclusion in the startup world

24 Feb 2023 00:15 AM IST

Women tend to have better communication skills, allowing better employee and stakeholder alignment with the business vision.A growing body of research suggests that women-led organisations perform better. A study by the Peterson Institute for International Economics found that firms with at least 30% of women in leadership positions had net