We might take an ethical stand, but unfortunately global politics does not move that way. India is acknowledged as the biggest manufacturer of vaccines in the world. We appreciate the stand which the Pune based manufacturer took to produce vaccines formulated by UK researchers, much before the...
The understanding of the stock market by the Indian common man has evolved quite remarkably. The latest reports reveal that the Indian investors are preferring Tesla, Nio and Riot blockchain among the US stocks over the ‘FAANG’ stocks which include Facebook,Amazon,Apple, Netflix and Alphab...
Somehow in these charged political environment, we seem to be losing our human qualities. Our political leaders seem to ‘brainwash’ us and force us to take ‘sides’. It is not at all a healthy trend. Let us explain.A chief minister of a state gets injured while in her campaign. There ma...
We knew it was coming. In India, 53 crore people now use Whatsapp, YouTube 44.8 crore and Facebook 41 crore, Instagram 21 crore and Twitter 1.75 crore. The amount of misinformation that was being circulated through this huge network needed some regulation. The government tried several means ea...
Noted author and environment enthusiast, Amitav Ghosh, calls the latest Nandadevi glacial burst as a ‘predictable disaster’. Officially, it has killed 20 people; but many hundreds are missing. The Kedarnath disaster in 2013 had killed over 5000 people. The only difference in death figures ...
World’s equations, both political and economic, are changing fast. Covid 19 may have created a pause in the growth story, but it could not stop the change. In fact, it hastened the change. The exit of President Trump was an important milestone in the global political history, though the atta...
The outgoing US President Donald Trump had a love-hate relationship with the media. He loved the media glare and was a regular on Twitter. The attack on the Capitol by Trump followers was unprecedented as was the decision of Twitter, Facebook, and Google to block his accounts. He misbehaved with mos...
Narendra Modi’s recent statement at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) that he does not discriminate against the minorities and Amit Shah’s claim in West Bengal that his party would not like to push with the Citizenship Act in Covid times are significant strategic commitments.It is important that w...
The year 2020 has been a terrible year. The pandemic has kept most people house-bound for over nine months. The virus attack in India has reached a million this December and killed almost 1.50 lakh people. India has gone through many disasters like floods, famines, droughts, super cyclones, terroris...
With the possibility of Joe Biden becoming the next President of the USA, America’s return to the Paris Accord is expected. It’s not that the US has boycotted global climate agreements for the first time. Before Donald Trump’s withdrawal from Paris Accord, George Bush Jr. had boycotted K...
