Opinion

Making Things Happen: Covid and Mumbai Municipal Corporation

22 Sep 2020 07:57 AM IST

Greater emphasis was laid on testing. Arrangements were made to ensure that results of the tests were made available within twenty- four hours. Mumbai became the only city in the country where all test reports would come within this period without exception. Mumbai has been in the news for all

Footpath vendors, unemployed youth, small and medium entrepreneurs in deep crisis

22 Sep 2020 07:52 AM IST

Around 12 crore people have lost their jobs and means of livelihood. Waive loan, support the unemployed.

Regional universities and challenges before new education policy

21 Sep 2020 09:43 AM IST

The current system of higher education in India has become dysfunctional especially in the regional universities. The new National Education Policy 2020 (NEP) has outlined a new roadmap for complete revamping and restructuring of the higher education system in India. Two basic institutional changes recommended for the universities are complete

Vigilance is the price of democracy

21 Sep 2020 09:32 AM IST

The arrest of Rajeev Sharma, a strategic affairs analyst, and two others under the Officials Secrets Act by the Delhi Police for allegedly passing classified information on Indian troop movement to the Chinese, has raised several questions. An accredited journalist, Sharma worked for a premier news agency as well as

Modi govt’s farm bills aim at empowering farmers

21 Sep 2020 09:26 AM IST

The new legislations seek to put money into the hands of the farmers, something which no political party or leader has ever dared to attempt.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Sentinel of Justice

21 Sep 2020 09:03 AM IST

“If you want to be a true professional you will do something outside yourself. Something to repair tears in your community. Something to make life a little better for people less fortunate than you. That’s what I think a meaningful life is—living not for oneself, but for one’s community.” –Justice

Afspa: The way forward

21 Sep 2020 08:44 AM IST

J&K perhaps has a new normal. A rollback of the changes, with the restoration of Article 370, though being demanded by certain political parties, is quite unlikely. There is no political space for it at the national level. It was only a temporary provision, which rightfully stands nullified. Sooner than

Democracy Day and its significance

21 Sep 2020 08:08 AM IST

As Indians, we have much to reflect on this Democracy Day. Numerically the largest, and ethnically the most diverse. Translating literally into ‘peoples’ rule,’ the connotations and what it means to be living in a democracy has evolved tremendously. It is always a bleak reminder, that in Plato’s understanding of

Ambiguity over the position of decree holders under IBC: Need to address judicial imbalance

21 Sep 2020 07:52 AM IST

Where the adjudicating authority is to be satisfied that a default has occurred, that the corporate debtor is entitled to point out that a default has not occurred in the sense that the ‘debt’, which may also include a disputed claim, is not due. A debt may not be due

Pesticides Management Bill 2020 will hurt farmers and agriculture

19 Sep 2020 08:20 AM IST

The Prime Minister has set an ambitious goal of doubling the farmer’s income by 2022. But the bureaucracy seems to be working otherwise as it is evident from the Pesticides Management Bill 2020 that was tabled in the Rajya Sabha during the Budget session earlier this year, and is likely

Bollywood gets political

19 Sep 2020 08:13 AM IST

The battle between Kangana Ranaut and Rhea Chakraborty camps was never just a Bollywood turf war. It was always much more, aided and abetted by a shrill media and other vested interests. In fact as you must have noticed, it’s become a fight between the Right-wing and the liberals. Not

A battle to save democracy?

19 Sep 2020 08:09 AM IST

The famous Inchon landing by US marines 70 years ago this week marked the United States joining the ‘battle for democracy’ in Korean peninsula. Even as North Korea remains firmly Communist, democracy had no easy victory in the South, where the US’s role was at best ambivalent.