Opinion - Page 1301

Saudi Arabia and Qatar fell out because they supported conflicting interests primarily in Egypt. Elsewhere too – Turkey, Jordan, Syria, Gaza (Hamas)....

What had changed of eminent economist turned administrator Kaushik Basu between April 2012 and August 2013? A lot, actually. Basu was then the chief...

Is it possible for a magician to disappear any protected monument from its base? The magician may astonish his spectators by disappearing flowers,...

It is the children of any nation that are the biggest resource of the future and India is no exception. The population of India is around 1.22 billion...

The Lok Sabha elections are still far off but a disclosure by AICC General Secretary, Digvijaya Singh, that he was prepared to contest against Leader...

Fifty years ago on 28 August at Lincoln Memorial Martin Luther King Junior told the huge crowd seeking jobs and freedom of his dream: ‘that one day...

Let’s begin with the India story. The last few years have been depressing for the economy. As a rating agency that looks at individual companies – I...

While we mourn the death of our jawans in the recent Indo-Pak border incident, the question that disturbs me, having been part of the paramilitary...

It was a family holiday, with my parents, to visit relatives settled in the commercial capital of the country. Despite the presence of my cousin and...

Saputara is a land of surprises. Indeed so. As one crosses the dense cover of deciduous forests in different hues of green through serpentine roadway...

For a few years now, full-time faculty at government colleges and universities have been drawing salaries based on the recommendations of the sixth...

Natural resources have always been the moot point for many conflicts and have tempted kings and kingdoms into wars since ages. Even in modern history,...