Opinion - Page 1293

The QS World University Rankings are out. We as a nation have drawn a blank again when it comes to the top 200 – as in previous years. That is no...

Every year in Maharashtra, an estimated 150 million Ganesh idols are immersed in lakes, rivers and the sea during the 10-day Ganesh Chaturthi...

The devaluation of our currency Vs-i-Vs its Yankee counterpart, coupled with, what seems difficult to cure, inflation is justifiably said to have been...

Indian economy is like an elephant. It is robust, but wobbles. It moves, but slowly. Even if it gets sick, it is strong in fundamentals. The Economist...

India’s dwindling agriculture sector, which employs around 50 per cent of India’s workforce, is decreasing in its contribution to the GDP year after...

Aam Aadmi Partly leader Arvind Kejriwal keeps a punishing daily schedule these days, swinging from one assembly constituency to another in the...

Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan is all set to make his debut monetary policy statement on Friday. With the US Federal Reserve’s welcome...

The All India Students Association (AISA) won all four central panel seats in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students union elections again this...

In the mid 1980s, the British Antarctic Survey team discovered a hole in the ozone layer. The depletion had started in the 1970s. There were reports...

Global financial markets rallied to new highs on September 18, with investors surprised by the Federal Reserve’s decision to defer a widely expected...

As world rankings of universities are being discussed, we are back to that sad truth. No university in the subcontinent figures in the top 200...

The recent Global Competitiveness Report 2013-14, ranking India at No. 60, leaves no doubt that these are exceptionally dire times for the Indian...