Maharashtra’s decision to not allow the central agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation TO (CBI), to investigate in the state is not unprecedented. It has happened before in Andhra Pradesh in Chandrababu Naidu’s time, in West Bengal, in Karnataka and recently, in Rajasthan. But such moves in...
Media which usually ‘reports’ news, unfortunately, is now ‘making’ news - and that too, for all the wrong reasons. The Commissioner of Police, Mumbai is now investigating under ‘criminal breach of trust’ (409 IPC) and ‘cheating’ (420 IPC) charges against television channe...
Within a very short span of the monsoon session , the parliament has passed over 15 bills, mostly in absence of any opposition. They have boycotted the session claiming there has been no opportunities given to the opposition to discuss the bills in detail before being placed in the parliament.True, ...
The release of the official figures of the GDP – a decline of 23.9 % for India in the first quarter – has inspired several analysts to conjure up different graphical figures to visually explain the economy and its future course of recovery. Some say the economy will have a “hockey stick” kin...
We Indians usually love to follow models, and there is nothing wrong about it. Oxbridge or the Ivy League? We have done it before and we do it even now. The new National Education Policy has just put an official stamp on it and let us accept it gracefully, if not uncritically. That’s how the world...
National Education Policy, 2020, is set to change the country’s education radically. At least that’s the vision. After prolonged discussions through different segments of the society for three to four years, the committee, led by the eminent scientist Kasturirangan, finalised the policy and got ...
Researchers say that the more we destroy animal habitat the more we become vulnerable to viruses. Viruses and bacteria usually come from animals, as is the case with Covid-19, which originated in the ‘wet markets’ of Wuhan in China in late 2019. From a ‘zoonotic’ origin, the virus has spread...
A lot of patriotism is generated in banning the Chinese apps in India. The provocation will naturally lead to loss of trade with China; one of India’s largest trading partners. When the Prime Minister at the India Global Week announces that India is rolling out ‘the red carpet’ for all g...
Blocking China economically, some say, could be India’s ‘Kalidasa moment’. China has entered too deep into India’s business and life. Even cricket, which we, as a country, are so proud of, is primarily sponsored by China- and its products - today.Let us admit that China is cleverer tha...
Within days of imposing the lockdown, we saw very strange things happening in nature. Delhiites saw clear water flowing in Yamuna, something they could not recall seeing before. People in Jalandhar, woke up one morning to behold a clear view of the Dhauladhar range after years. Air and water polluti...
