Opinion - Page 860

On December 1, houses on the ground floor in Jafferkhanpet, a neighbourhood in southern Chennai, started to inundate because of torrential rains. By...

Jallikattu’, a rural sport popular in Tamil Nadu, is in the news again. Only this time, the reasons are political. The flood-ravaged state, even as it...

It is shocking how bus transport that carries double the number of passengers than the Delhi Metro is degenerating.In the course of the odd-even...

The year 2015 has come to an end. This year has been full of events that are interconnected and foretell our future in a way that should enormously...

The year 2015 has been challenging for crisis managers across the world trying to tackle terror attacks and disasters – natural as well as man-made –...

It is always good to look back on developments in the past year, for such an exercise brings out trends or lessons that we usually don’t get to see...

Saudi Arabia has just placed its budget for next year. News reports have indicated that it is showing a gaping hole in the Saudi government’s...

The Delhi government has been forced to roll out impromptu, panicky, and quick-fix measures to contain air pollution in the Capital that has reached a...

It is odd how our air quality regulators track air pollution without linking the purpose of this exercise with health impacts. Wind-blown dust from...

As world leaders congregated at Paris on November 30 to look for ways to mitigate the effects of climate change, an unusually strong northeast monsoon...

Till the 1960s, the Himalayas would witness rain for seven days in a row every July. The Saat Jaad season was a highly revered geographical...

The RBI recently released two reports on the condition of Banking and Allied Sectors in India. The first is on Trends and Progress of the banking...