With its clubs, swimming pools, jogging tracks and more, condo gives substance to the idea of a good life. That it also breeds a sense of entitlement among affluent Indians is part of the package...
More verification, more trust, better democracy
Explainer on the SC judgment in the EVM case: Court rejected the demand for counting 100% of VVPAT slips but ordered additional safeguards Yesterday, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court, comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna...
They need the elders: Can student protests bring change? Depends
Students are agitating across Americas best known campuses, against Israels attacks in Gaza. US conservatives have called them anti-Semitic, and some college administrations, caught in a power struggle, have come down heavy. More than a...
Pani, puri & polls: Whats a meeting without the eating?
Brunch-lunch-munch is the pivot on which elections spin. Serve thirsting crowds water alone, and they may just write you off. Nimbu pani, soft drinks hit the vote-for-me spot better, as does chilledlassi and buttermilk. Every...
Our minds have turned against us: Brains age-old shortcuts are running amok in the digital age
Were all on a mass headtrip, says The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell. Our minds have turned against us. True, magical thinking is an age-old trait and our minds...
Express View: Message from Supreme Court EVMs are safe
Post-esophagectomy anastomotic strictures can be challenging to treat. Doctors often perform endoscopic dilation to expand the narrowed area, but its unclear if adding steroid injections to this procedure helps. Researchers conducted a systematic review and...
On EVMs, Supreme Court has punctured opposition
Booker Prize name change: Not a simple racism story
April 27, Forty Years Ago: Why Charan Singh distanced himself from BJP
Express View on Weinstein verdict: MeToos disproportionate cost for women
Q+A with Chetan Bhagat | Living by the rules
Q+A with Chetan Bhagat | Living by the rules
Ram Madhav writes: India should steer the global conservative movement
Weinsteins conviction overturned MeToo or no MeToo, society needs to change
Celebrating 50 years of foot print in Houston, Aramcos U.S. headquarters, Amin H. Nasser, Aramco President and CEO delivered a powerful cera-week keynote speech on 18 March 2024. It is time to abandon the...
Once, the King summoned Birbal and asked him to explain the cause and reason behind happiness of people. The King said to Birbal, Can you explain in a very easy manner the reason why people...
Jiva presents trees as hymns for humanity
Jivaat Bikaner House by Sanya MaliksBlack Cubehave a surreal set of trees painted over 15 years by the reclusive solitary walker Ompal Sansanwal. Beginning on the walls of the corridor are quaint works on paper...
Business buzzwords: Do executives need to outgrow them?
A fixation with trending topics like AI is discernible among CXOs. Boys with toys spring to mind. For India Incs leadership, its crucial not to let the prevailing buzz detract attention from substantive issues.
We must ensure ethical use of carbon credits
Indian corporates have led the way in ensuring transparent emission disclosures, but we need to also put in place guardrails that prevent misuse of carbon credits.
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Why crackdowns in American universities are a moment of reckoning
Why India loves to hate inheritance tax and estate dutywrongly
Opposition to the inheritance tax defies political and economic logic. It can only be justified on grounds of difficulty of collection and administration.
PM Modi slams Congress and TMC for opposing CAA to maintain appeasement policy for vote bank
Malda: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday accused the Congress and Trinamool Congress of indulging in appeasement policy to satisfy their vote banks and opposing implementation of CAA. CAA is meant for granting Indian citizenship to the refugees, who arrived India after facing persecution in foreign countries on religion ground, Modi iterated. []
Indias present place in the world: How Gen Z can keep the flag flying
Case lodged after desecration of south Kashmir mosque and shrine
Srinagar: J&K Police has registered a case after a shrine and a mosque in South Kashmirs Tral area of Pulwama district was allegedly desecrated by unknown miscreants. Police suspect that this was done by miscreants to foment trouble and disturb peace and order. Police said last night, some miscreants attempted to disrespect the local shrine []
Choose a govt that makes powerful decision in national interest: Shah
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday appealed to the people voting for the second phase of Lok Sabha election, to choose a government that gives priority to development, security and makes powerful decision in national interest. Taking to social media platform X Shah said, Today is the voting day for the second []
SC rejects all paper ballot pleas, total EVM-VVPAT verification & physical slip deposit
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday rejected pleas for paper ballot voting, complete EVM-VVPAT verification, and physical deposit of VVPAT slips while suggesting measures for effective functioning of the polling system as the second phase of Lok Sabha election got underway. A bench comprising Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Dipankar Datta passed their order in []
Cong wants to snatch rights of SC, SC, OBC & give them to Muslims: JP Nadda
New Delhi: BJP president JP Nadda on Friday slammed Congress for doing appeasement politics and alleged that they wanted to snatch the rights of SC, ST and OBC people and give them to Muslims. In a video message, the partys President Nadda said, This is their hidden agenda. Appeasement is clearly visible in the manifesto []
Chinese FM holds talks with U.S. secretary of state
Beijing: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held talks with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday in Beijing. Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said that Chinas attitude has always been consistent. China views and develops China-U.S. relations with the world vision of building []
Maha poll question no ones asking
By Jaideep Hardikar As the arduous 5-phase Maharashtra elections gain momentum, with a fractured polity and defections the new normal, the states rural populations are angry and restless over the question: Whats in this for...
Nine-judge benches in the Supreme Court are infrequent. But when they are formed and reach a decision, it should settle substantive questions of law. According to the National Judicial Data Grid, there are 136 pending...
Theres a halfway house in politics between a party and its rival. No, not resorts. Its the House of Rebels. While politicians cannot be accused of party loyalty, parties cannot be accused of internal democracy...
SEXUAL HEALTH IN WOMEN: LOSS OF SEXUAL DESIRE
Q- I am 35 year old lady. After my first child birth 2 years back ,I have lost desire for sexual activity .My husband often complaints about this issue that I dont show any interest...
There are two foreign visitors staying with me ever since I can remember. They moved with me from my grandmothers home in Kutch Mandvi, to Calcutta where I grew up, then to Gurgaon where Bunny...
Serve people to earn the right to lead them
Many of us focus on the routines of life: waking up, getting dressed, eating breakfast, driving to work or class, working to earn a living, coming home, and repeating the cycle the following day. Some...
Best of both sides | Divisive and defective: Five flaws in Rahul Gandhis roadmap
How SC verdict on childcare leave opens up possibilities for women
Risk alert: Ensure masala safety for the sake of Make in India
Our food safety regulator must extricate us from a dust-up over packaged masala mixes after Hong Kong and Singapore banned some exported from here. For India to be the worlds next big factory, we cant afford to let a reputation for lax quality standards set in
This study looked at the connection between the use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and the risk of dementia, a condition affecting memory and thinking. Researchers gathered information from various studies focusing on whether PPI...
Express View on Asia Climate Report: Why a hotter world is more dangerous for India
Beer with him: Lessons from a human brewery
Call centres will be outmoded by AI : What next?
TCSs CEO reckons that call centres will be rendered redundant by customer call-taking chatbots within a year. Lots of Indian jobs will be hit. Will firms like TCS create new ones?
April 26, 1984, Forty Years Ago: Akalis Deep Crisis
The challenges of reporting on climate change
Climate change is a complex collection of phenomena with many moving parts
Scotland must learn from Indias Section 295A experience
By enforcing the Hate Crime & Public Order Act on April 1, the Scottish government has set into motion a process that, if not checked, will lead to the demise of free speech there. It...
In an election overshadowed by the Modi image, Oppositions situation isnt hopeless
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global health crisis caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It affects not only the lungs but also the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, leading to symptoms like...
Indias T20 World Cup squad- my picks
Indian Premier League has crossed the half way mark as I write this and till match no.40 in this years IPL we have witnessed 12 scores of more than 200 with 3 scores of more...
The 600,000 IT job shortage in India and how to solve it
The job market has never been a straightforward path. Ask anyone who has ever looked for a job, certainly within the last decade, and they can tell you as much. But with the rapid development...
10 Lessons from the book The Day I Die by Anita Hannig is a thought-provoking book that delves into the cultural, social, and personal dimensions of death. 1. Death as a universal experience: Regardless of...
Jack Welchs CEO factory has stopped production: Good riddance.
Yes, GE offloaded its fabled Crotonville CEO incubator. The idea of assembly-line CEOs doesn't work anymore.
Old Video Of BJP Worker Thrashed In Chennai Peddled As Recent
BOOM found that the video dates back to July 2023 and shows a conflict between two BJP functionaries.
Real costs: Why solar and wind energy are not market winners yet
Claims that wind and solar energy are now cheaper than fossil fuel-based energy are misleading as these refer to costs only when the sun is out or wind blowing but dont account for intermittency.
Patanjalis credibility crisis: A knock-on effect on the booming Ayush market?
Patanjali has hurt the industrys credibility by linking Ramdev's reputation with the company's drugs rather than offering sound therapeutic reasons for promoting those. This was not necessary
ECoR offers economy meals for passengers at nine stations in summer
Bhubaneswar: The East Coast Railway (ECoR) will provide economy meals at nine important stations across its jurisdiction in the summer. ECoR sources here on Thursday said economy meals are being provided to passengers at Khurda Road, Sambalpur, Titilagarh, Balangir,Kantabanji, Palasa, Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram, and Srikakulam Railway Stations. To ensure easy access, these meals will be available []
J&K: Woman drug smuggler booked under Narco Act, 2 held in Baramulla
Srinagar: Police booked a woman drug smuggler under the Narco Act while two other peddlers were arrested with contraband substances in Jammu and Kashmirs Baramulla district on Thursday. Police said a woman identified as Nargis Akhter, wife of Showkat Ahmad Sheikh and a resident of Shahwalayat Colony Umerabad Srinagar, has been booked under the Prevention []
11 IS militants executed in Iraq
Baghdad: The Iraqi authorities executed 11 convicts accused of being members of the Islamic State (IS) group, a security source said on Wednesday. The 11 convicts were hanged on Tuesday in the Nasiriyah Central Prison in the city of Nasiriyah, some 350 km south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, an officer in the prison told []
Zimbabwean president reshuffles cabinet
Harare: Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday reshuffled his cabinet, eight months after he appointed a new cabinet following his re-election in August last year. Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Martin Rushwaya announced the cabinet reshuffle in a statement Wednesday and said the re-assignments and appointments took effect immediately. Mnangagwa reassigned Winston Chitando []
ISL: Mumbai City FC beat FC Goa in semi-final clash
Margao: Mumbai City FC inspired a sensational late resurgence to come back from 2-0 down to win the first leg of their semi-final fixture against FC Goa by 3-2 at the Fatorda Stadium here in the Indian Super League (ISL) match on Wednesday night. The Gaurs, powered by strikes by Boris Singh and Brandon Fernandes, []
Deciding the nations destiny: One vote at a time
Sadhguru: There is a beautiful story that Mark Twain loved to tell: There was a time, before the Apollo missions, when people believed that there were people on the moon. So, they got a bright...
Indias employment paradox of the 21st century: A crackable puzzle
We saw a post-covid reversal of both positive and negative labour-market trends. How and why so? An ILO-IHD report offers clues. Hint: We had a covid backslide and surge in broadly defined self-employment.
Tesla faces an identity crisis: carmaker or tech firm?
Elon Musks fiendish conundrum
Prayer for the son didnt work for the party
Powerful state parties dominate politics in Tamil Nadu, Andhra and Telangana. Even in Kerala, the two coalitions CPM-led LDF and Congressled UDF have crafted their unique regional identities. Among southern states, Karnataka stands out with...
Markets are embracing India's PM Modi for what he wont do
Unlike 10 years ago, the Indian prime minister isnt promising major economic reforms. And that suits investors just fine.
Soak the rich? Wont help the poor
As tumbrels trundled their way to the guillotine over the cobbled streets of Paris, carrying their load of the former lords of the land, the crones who sat watching and knitting debated many things, but...
Inheritance tax was the hot button topic yesterday in Indias dynamic election campaign landscape. Sam Pitroda, chairman of Indian Overseas Congress, suggested it though the idea doesnt feature in the Congress manifesto. But it attracted...
Madhya Pradesh high court has directed a Bhopal hospital to go ahead on a case where a woman was to donate a kidney to her brother, but the hospital sought an NOC (no objection certificate)...
Every polling day, every media carries the photograph of a beaming first-timer holding up her marked finger. Mandate 2024s too-hot days and too-cool dudes may make finding one as challenging as, erm, finding an alternative...
What phase 1 voter turnout says about BJPs chances at the polls
How not thinking enough has cost humans a good society
UKs Rwanda Bill: Why its a solution that doesnt work
Redistribution: A Universal Basic Income policy cant turn poverty into history
The politics of redistribution has brought various versions of a UBI into focus. While people in deprivation clearly need relief, a UBI alone cant be relied upon to make poverty a problem of the past.
Express View on UKs Rwanda Bill: Cruelty as policy
Kotak must act fast to escape RBIs cyber-risk clamps
RBI has barred Kotak Mahindra Bank from issuing new credit cards and enlisting new customers through its website and app because of tech compliance failures. The private lender should get its house in order quickly.
Express View on redistribution debate: Retrograde rhetoric
In Karnataka, BJP thrives on the politics of fear
The BJPs ads show the partys contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law
Will Israel-Gaza war affect Joe Bidens chances of re-election to US Presidency?
Emma Shortis, RMIT University When big questions about American foreign policy collide with an election, its rarely good news for a sitting president. Like many leaders before him, US President Joe Biden has had some of these questions thrust on him, such as Russias invasion of Ukraine. Some have their origins in past administrations, such [] The post Will Israel-Gaza war affect Joe Bidens chances of re-election to US Presidency? appeared first on NORTHEAST NOW .
Letters to the Editor dated April 24, 2024
PM Modis statements about nations resources combat brazen appeasement of Congress
No, Congress has no intention of snatching your wealth
Electioneering & political rhetoric in the 2024 national elections
The national elections are underway. Election rhetoric is at its shrillest while the quality, at most times, leaves a lot to be desired. BJP, as expected, is the most visible party nationwide while some regional...
Firming up the urban vote: What the next government can do for Indias city-dwellers
Has India recovered from covid? Look at the data.
While most economic indicators looked quite vibrant in the last two-three years, much of it can be attributed to base effects. A more comprehensive view of Indias economic performance before and after covid shows that there is still some distance to be covered.
India and China: Parity within sight
A left-behind India could plausibly catch up with China as both seek an economic rebalance in the decades ahead. An Asian Century looks close.
Why all parties in West Bengal need Matuas on their side
Globalization vs democracy: The voiceless need a say
Big decisions taken by big powers like the US that impact the whole world might well be different if the millions impacted overseas also had a vote.
The Indian summer is too hot for elections
A drop in voter turnout should put soaring temperatures under scrutiny as a factor. With global warming afoot and long waits in line a given for voting, India should consider sparing its voters such discomfort.
