Opinion - Page 884

With Ranil Vickremesinghe as his Prime Minister, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has become much freer now to pursue his policy of...

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweetThus said the leading lady to the protagonist in William...

Recent events in the Chinese economy and its impact on the world markets merit attention. On August 24, a day also known as ‘Black Monday’, financial...

Climate change is real, a thing of the present, and extreme weather events have started to hurt the world around. India is in the grip of climate...

A meltdown in the Shanghai stock exchange sent shivers down the spine of global markets. But all those Cassandras, especially those in the West, who...

Maintaining his majoritarian assertiveness intact, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has retreated on land acquisition law, under political compulsions, to...

The wheel may well be coming full circle. It was another world when I first met Peter Mukerjea, CEO, Star TV in his Mumbai office. The year was 1997....

We hear sirens of 100 smart cities ringing aloud. Many have attempted to define them, but amidst the different visions emerging, from digital to <g...

Nothing shows more starkly the distortions that have vitiated the policy of reservations as the agitation by the financially and politically...

Jantar-Mantar of our national capital is now known more for protests and demonstrations than its 13 architectural astronomical instruments constructed...

Many techniques have been employed by people and governments to keep wild elephants out of human settlements, or at least to reduce their visitation...

It is very easy to fall in love with mountains, more so, when they are majestic like the ones in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir.Here, every...