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As HEIs are pushed into industry-academic linkage to ensure accountability and measurable contributions to society, a host of questions flutter out from the shady groves of academia.

We are witnessing a repeat of the 2000 Dotcom Bubble, with one crucial difference — given that tech is at the centre of everything we do today, any correction will be less severe and bounce back quicker.

Simon Sundararaj scored a goal against Peru in the 1960 Rome Olympics – India’s last goal scorer. Six decades, 15 Olympics and 15 World Cups later, India awaits to replicate his momentous feat

In 2022, the 125th year of its maleficently explainable existence in dozens of adaptations, the quote from Bram Stoker’s Dracula stays, like its central character, finely preserved, and like Shelley’s Prometheus, unbound.

The Gen Z-led new wave of protests in Iran is raging against the heart of the cleric-led country’s identity – the compulsory veil – and is unlikely to fade away.

By Amit Mishra Last week brought the closure of one of the much-awaited acquisitions in tech history, touted as one of the largest buy-outs of all time in the technological arena. Elon Musk’s $44-billion takeover of the social media platform Twitter buzzed the global mindspace with notes of excitement and agony. The week’s upheaval saw […]

Telangana has planned 600 charging stations in one-two years which will translate into a charging point below every 2 km.

By Amit Banerjee ‘Kick Off The Dream’, the official slogan for the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup is befitting as it encapsulates the aspirational and empowering urge for the growth of women’s football in the country. In spite of India’s ignominious exit from the ongoing FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup at the group stage, there […]

The buzzword of the day is ‘CBDC’ or Central Bank Digital Currency (e-rupee) as indicated by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in a recent concept paper.

Xi Jinping is widely tipped to be given an extended term as CCP’s General Secretary. For the rest of the world, this means Xi will stay on as Chinese President for another five years, even possibly longer.

During the last four decades (1980-2020), the average profit of industries grew nearly 50 times, number of factories too doubled during the last decade compared with the rest of the decades. And yet, manufacturing reaching its potential fifth position in the world as predicted by BCG in 2013 remains distant

By Pramod K Nayar As the world, in different ways, expresses its feelings on the passing away of Queen Elizabeth II, several commentators have also referenced the imperial connections of this monarch. On her first visit to India in 1961, Elizabeth had been accorded a warm welcome, starting with Dr S Radhakrishnan, Jawaharlal Nehru and […]

By Dr Ramesh Chennamaneni A most powerful Marxist quote and a very relevant one for many struggles says: “social conditions determine social consciousness”. It tells us that if you put a population under conditions of extreme inequality and injustice for sufficient time, then they will eventually rise up. Social consciousness may also stimulate working towards […]

By B Yerram Raju  It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the […]

By B Sambamurthy Let it be said at the outset, loud and clear. India can be proud of its achievements in the past 75 years. India shall be grateful to all the freedom fighters and Prime Ministers, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Narendra Modi, for their service to the nation and the progress under their careful […]

Exclusivist and conformist Hindutva stands in opposition to the basic essence of inclusivist and diverse Hinduism

By Dr Rehnamol P R  Inder Meghwal, a 9-year-old Dalit boy from Jalore, Rajasthan, was allegedly beaten to death by his upper-caste teacher for drinking water from a pot that was exclusively kept for the upper castes on the school premises. The culprit belongs to the Rajput community. The Dalit child was denied his constitutional […]

By Amit Banerjee During the last 75 years as an independent democratic country, our nation has had a chequered growth trajectory. Belying the views of sceptics, India has emerged as the world’s fifth largest economy and the third largest contributor to global economic growth. But with the failure of the ‘trickledown effect’ of our much-vaunted […]

By Mallepalli Laxmaiah Should I hoist the national flag on my residence? This question has been haunting me ever since Prime Minister Narendra Modi exhorted the countrymen to celebrate the national flag in connection with the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav. Independence from colonial rule is a reason for grand celebration in all countries that were […]

When US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi flew into Taiwan on an Air Force  jet, she became the highest-ranking American official in 25 years to visit the self-ruled island. China instantly announced military maneuvers in retaliation, even as Taiwanese officials welcomed her. China said over 100 warplanes and 10 warships have taken part in the live-fire […]

By Pramod K Nayar On July 24, Pope Francis apologised for the forced schooling of indigenous children by European missionaries from the late 1800s, terming the events ‘catastrophic abuse’. His strong language, however, did not reference the origins of these heinous acts, which also began in words: the Papal Bulls from the 15th century. The […]

                                                                    FACT Vs FICTION By B Sambamurthy All hell broke loose when the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), a private think […]

By Rituparna Kaushik Bhattacharyya The morning of June 22, 2022, saw a crowd of journalists and reporters huddled outside a luxury hotel in Guwahati to ensure that not a single nitty-gritty of the horse-trading was missed. While #MaharastraCrisis trended, the entire Assam grappled to breathe out of overflowing rivers, landslides, and disconnected life and livelihood. […]

By Satyajit Banerjee Like almost everyone else in India, I thought I had a sense of China.  Like almost everyone, I believed that apart from the glitzy large cities much of the hinterland was backward and shared the standard Indian clichés of a nation of largely unhappy, repressed people. So when I got an offer […]