Opinion

Liz Truss has a long way to go as she inherits a mess

10 Sep 2022 22:50 PM IST

Britain now has a new prime minister. Six gruelling weeks of the Conservative Party’s leadership race ended on 5 September with Liz Truss being declared the winner. She beat her opponent, Rishi Sunak, by securing 57.4% of the vote, compared to his 42.6%. That is not quite the landslide Truss

CYRUS MISTRY’S TRAGIC DEATH RAISES MULTIPLE ISSUES THAT SHOULD BE PROBED

10 Sep 2022 11:19 AM IST

The tragic death of top Industrialist and former Chairman of Tata Sons, Cyrus Mistry in a car crash on the Ahmedabad-Mumbai Highway raises multiple issues. It indicates that even the best designed high ended vehicles, in this instance a top model of the Mercedes, can be involved in mishaps where

India’s joyous economy

10 Sep 2022 11:14 AM IST

For understanding economic behaviour, one has to go beyond economics and explore whether economic behaviour is an economic activity alone or a sum of two activities: economic and psychological. A seminal work in this area is Tibor Scitovsky’s The Joyless Economy: The Psychology of Human Satisfaction, written in the context

WHO’S RESPONSIBLE FOR RAIN-BATTERED BENGALURU?

09 Sep 2022 05:22 AM IST

Did you know that Bengaluru’s main transit hub Majestic which houses the central railway station and Kempe Gowda Main Stand, was once a sprawling Kempamuddi lake? Were you aware that the posh Koramanagala, known as the living room of IT city, was a marshy land dotted with water bodies, and

The role of teachers in nation building

09 Sep 2022 05:20 AM IST

The NEP-2020 has laid a strong emphasis on the role of our gurus in nation-building.

Decades-old SYL dispute triggers new storm

09 Sep 2022 05:19 AM IST

Despite all the political antics and despite the project costing the public exchequer a whopping Rs 700 crore, the fate of SYL canal hangs in balance.

China, India and their soft power play

08 Sep 2022 02:22 AM IST

China and India are the rising powers of the twenty-first century, economic powerhouses with an increasing flurry of diplomatic activity and influence around the world. Though China is way ahead of India economically, they are juxtaposed as natural rivals competing for influence not only in neighbourhood but across the developing

Identity politics of our times: Dynamics of ideological transition

08 Sep 2022 02:19 AM IST

Ideologies are born out of an enlightened leader or a group of leaders thriving to scuttle the notions of identity by either turning back to trace them up in history or driving the posterity with a vision for social harmony and cohesion. It is true to witness the political discourses

HASINA’S VISIT BOOSTS PM MODI’S PLAN FOR STRONGER INDO-BANGLA TIES

07 Sep 2022 05:05 AM IST

After bilateral talks with his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “Today, Bangladesh is India’s biggest development partner and our biggest trade partner in the region. There is a continuous improvement in the people-to-people cooperation”. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina also in return lauded PM Modi’s vision for

How healthy are the headline placements?

07 Sep 2022 05:04 AM IST

IIT Madras students get the highest offer of $250,000. IIT Kharagpur gets 2 students placed at Rs. 2 crores while 21 offers are of Rs. 1 crore. IIT Kanpur receives 21 offers above Rs. 1 crore. Attractive as they are, the media gets abuzz with such headline placements as placement

Deep strategic relations with Bangladesh the need of hour

07 Sep 2022 04:58 AM IST

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s on-going four-day visit to India is significant for both the countries. Sheikh Hasina is visiting India after almost three years. Along with Hasina, various ministers, secretaries and business delegates are also accompanying her on this trip. During the trip, she paid a visit to Ajmer

REDEVELOPED CENTRAL VISTA IS A BREAK FROM COLONIAL PAST

06 Sep 2022 06:47 AM IST

The power centre of the Indian capital has got a major and much needed makeover and is all set to open its doors to the world this week with the inauguration of the Central Vista by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. At the heart of this gigantic project is the new