By V. Jagdish, Five minutes. This thin, precious, slice of time is all the window one gets to escape a fire accident. For a firefighter, the countdown that begins with the distress call turns into agonising moments of helplessness as his fire truck navigates traffic...
By M S Shabbir Ramadhan is a holy month for 170 million Muslims who spend their wealth in charitable causes and consider this deed as not an expense item although it certainly reduces one’s available cash flow. This spending on the poor and needy is an investment in...
Respected Prime Minister Sri Narendra Modi Ji, Pranaam & Happy Ramzaan ! You would kindly recall my PowerPoint presentation made in Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad before you in the conclave ‘Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat’ on June 29, 2013. I followed this up through a...
(4th anniversay of Modi government) By Vinod Behl, The four years of the Narendra Modi government, marked by landmark reforms, have seen the complete transformation of the unorganised and opaque real estate sector into a regulated, transparent, affordable and...
By Saeed Naqvi, Two mutually reinforcing images from last week may well define the next phase in national affairs. It is too early to call them game changers but they have considerable potential. The most comprehensive array of opposition leaders, almost a record, who...
By Amulya Ganguli, If Narendra Modi expected Karnataka to be the icing on the cake on the eve of the completion of his four years in office, he must be disappointed. Yet, the setback in the southern state is only one of the several reverses which the Bharatiya Janata...
By Ramya Natarajan, For the past several winters, Delhi has drawn global attention for its life-threatening smog levels. This is attributed, in part, to the open burning of biomass residues like paddy straw and stubble in the neighbouring states of Punjab and Haryana....
By Taponeel Mukherjee, Higher oil prices, the consequent inflationary pressures and a weaker rupee have dominated recent news headlines. While short-term measures to deal with these macro-economic trends are essential, it is also necessary to look at the long-term...
By Amit Kapoor, The drama revolving around the Karnataka state elections refuses to fade away. The assembly election results were not able to provide a clear mandate to any party. The BJP emerged as the single largest party but popular rivals Congress and JD-S forged...
By Janita Gurung & Pradyumna J.B. Rana, This year marks a quarter century of the ratification of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) - an agreement among 196 countries to conserve the earth's biological diversity while ensuring it is used sustainably and...