A war is basically destructive; but it also throws up many harsh realities which we tend to avoid in hours of peace. When Russia attacked Ukraine, it clearly said it was fighting the Americans not the Ukrainians. Ukraine’s ambition was to join the European Union which Russia would not allow. Russi...
Nobody can underestimate the contribution of the NationalStock Exchange (NSE) to the Indian financial market. Ata time when stock trading was turning online, and many ofthe traditional stock markets - including the Bombay StockExchange (BSE) - were reluctant to give up the traditionalways of trading...
One of the most positive changes in the 75 years of Indian independence has been its food security. Old timers can recall the days of PL480 of 1960s when India had to beg and borrow food from the outside world. Today things are very different. There were many who at the beginning of the pandemic had...
With Zee TV and Sony India coming together, the inevitable is happening: Indian media is also going the global way. In the 1980s, the global media was owned by at least 50 companies; but from 2010s onwards, the global media is being owned by just six major conglomerations. Media is losin...
It’s a pleasure to note two political rivals meet each other and wish themselves well. Mamata Banerjee went to the extent of inviting the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to come to the state and inaugurate the next business summit in West Bengal early 2022. The state really needs a push in industrial...
At a time when the media was getting submerged with so much controversy regarding fake news, paid news, private treaties, hegemony, consumerism there came the announcement of two journalists – one from Philippines and another from Russia – getting the Nobel Peace prize this year. When everyone w...
Narendra Modi’s first meeting with the new US president, Joe Biden, opens great opportunities for India in south Asian politics. Both talk Afghanistan, which indicates new alignments, new power equations and new thought processes in international diplomacy. The threat of China now seems to precede...
The 13 America soldiers killed in the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport were all aged between 20 and 30. President Biden warned that none of those who did this will be spared. True to his word, two of the terrorists who planned this suicide attack were killed by a US drone attack, almost immediat...
Kumaramangalam Birla has resigned from the chairmanship of Vodaphone-Idea combine. He has even offered the government to buy Idea’s share in the company. Now what has gone wrong with the telecom sector? Sam Pitroda, during the Congress regime, had gifted this new sector as a game-chang...
The use (and abuse) of the social media has, over the years, become a powerful weapon of political propaganda. The all-powerful IT cell of the BJP has left the opposition far behind in its strategy to promote the party’s ideology and action. Earlier, the traditional media – the print, tele...