Standardising medical procedure costs: A herculean challenge

It’s exciting times for Indian Healthcare but...

EKÁ PRESENTS ITS EASY-BREEZY SPRING-SUMMER COLLECTION, KOHIMA

Last Saturday, the chic market of Lodhi...

Eye on China: Agni-5 MIRV crucial for flexing N-deterrence

MIRV gives India an important capability in...

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Lok Sabha elections from 19 April, results on 4 June

Voting will take place in seven phases in three states, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Bihar. Delhi will vote on 25 May, while PM Modi’s Varanasi constituency will vote on 1 June. The general elections for India’s 543 Lok Sabha seats will be held in seven phases between 19 April...

Pak deploys China-built spy ship, focuses on India’s west coast

Is Pak diverting bailout money to pay Chinese defence manufacturers? Pakistan has started operating a spy ship, which was built by Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding Limited—a Chinese shipbuilding facility that was started in 1866 by the then rulers of China. The 87-meter-long, 19-meter-broad ship carries a crew of 48 sailors and can sail at a maximum speed of 14.30 knots per hour. As per details accessed by The Sunday Guardian, the ship has three domes that are being used to house tracking systems and radars, assembled and suggested by the Chinese technicians. The said ship, named PNS Rizwan, was handed over to the...

Eye on China: Agni-5 MIRV crucial for flexing N-deterrence

MIRV gives India an important capability in its growing nuclear competition with China and the prowess to multiply its N-arsenal faster. The Narendra Modi government’s decision to test the Agni-5 MIRV...

Tough test for Adhir Chowdhury as Mamata bowls a googly

Congress’ LoP in Lok Sabha is facing the prospect of a division in his minority vote bank. Veteran Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury faces the toughest electoral test of his career...

Mental trauma mounts for Indian veteran stuck in Qatar

Purnendu Tiwari is showing signs of mental distress. The senior-most Indian Navy veteran among the eight Indian veterans who were detained in Qatar, Commander Purnendu Tiwari, has not come back to India even as more than one month has passed of the rest seven being released on 12 February. The 64-year-old...

Opinion

Henry Higgins was wrong about women

All 365 days in the year ought to be International Women’s Days. “My Fair Lady” was a film that continues to pique viewer interest through the decades, not least because of the excellence of the script and the quality of acting of each of the principal stars. Even those with...

Protection of minorities is no crime

It was decades ago when this columnist came across Mamata Banerjee. He was impressed by her forthright demeanour and simple attire, by the fact that despite being a Parliamentarian, she wore rubber sandals unselfconsciously. Although by then a well-known figure in the country, Mamata...

A photo that reveals Xi Jinping’s inner world

What is Xi Jinping really afraid of? On the occasion of the Chinese New Year of the Dragon, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the State...

CAA implementation has many facets

By announcing the rules for the Citizenship Amendment Act earlier last week, the Centre has indicated its determination in implementing the law, which many opposition parties have described as discriminatory...

Canada’s interference in India’s internal affairs violates Vienna Convention

It should not be surprising if the illegitimate activities that Canada plans to fund in the name of furthering governance, democracy, human rights are efforts to cause civil strife within India and other countries. According to Article 41(2) of the...

You really think democracy is safer in Canada than in India?

So remarkable is the fine print in Canada’s new law that Stalin and Mao would have been proud sponsors...

V-Dem Report 2024: A political hatchet job in the name of research

India is placed behind countries with questionable and rocky histories of democracy, including Nepal and Kosovo. Another year, another report,...

All that has gone wrong with European countries

The police is sometimes reluctant to pursue ethnic minority criminals for fear of being called racist. European nations are facing an existential crisis. They are engulfed by self-doubt, inertia, apathy and indifference. The malaise has...

India and the US should be allies in waging peace with China

The US-India relationship entails a common concern about Xi Jinping’s expansionist China. The US and Indian goal in dealing with China should be to build lasting peace and stability. This requires the waging of peace just as vigorously as the...

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9 Years of Transformation: A Supplement

NEP-2020 is just what India’s education system needs

In the third decade of the 21st century, humanity faces unprecedented pace of change in practically every sector of human activity and endeavour. There are great advances in ICT and AI, there are also daunting and threatening concerns that threaten the very existence of life on the planet earth. ...

Indigenisation of Indian defence industry is the way to thrive

  istory bears testimony to the fact that all nations with strong military industrial set up had developed a strong military force, resulting in a strong and vibrant foreign policy. It was the military industrial set of Germany which enabled it to launch its offensive practically...

A silent revolution in the water sector

As we mark the ninth anniversary of the Narendra Modi government, one of the biggest achievements which has not hogged the limelight has been its work in the water sector...

9 Years of the Modi Economy: Stellar on most counts

MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE India’s economy (as measured by real GDP) has been the fastest-growing among the world’s 20 largest economies for 7 of the past 9 years. And those were the only...

India’s FDI rush: Past tense, present perfect

India’s much envied tag of a “hot destination” in the context of its appeal as a country to do business with and invest in, has preferably less to do now with the lure of quick money parked in India...

Prospects for agriculture bright with higher govt spending, farm exports

Indian agriculture may have been weathering a series of storms over the past one year, including a heatwave in...

UNDER MODI GOVT, India beats the world in medical infrastructure

With the term of Prime Minister Narendra Modi entering its 9th year, the effect of his government’s healthcare policies...

Modi government’s foreign policy has been transformative

As a result of the Narendra Modi government’s transformative foreign policy India today is no longer a supplicant in...

Accomplishing the ‘impossible’, the Modi way

Among contemporary politicians, few have the longevity in office that Narendra Modi does. Before nine years as Prime Minister,...

2019: The year that India regained its morality

Historical atrocities coupled with the passage of time allow moral inequities to creep into the fabric of society where...

Modi’s Kartavya Path eclipses Lutyens’ Delhi

On 28 May, the ninth anniversary of Narendra Modi’s regime Delhi is slated to begin on an auspicious note—the...

Nine years of committed development, innovation

The Narendra Modi government has proved that nothing is impossible if the intention is pure and determination is firm,...

The Fourth Battle of Panipat beckons Prime Minister Modi

Haryana is the site of some of the most consequential battles in the long history of India, including that...

Features

The problem is Bollywood: Vivek Agnihotri

‘People think Bollywood is the father of all filmmaking but this is a myth. The big box office numbers...

EKÁ PRESENTS ITS EASY-BREEZY SPRING-SUMMER COLLECTION, KOHIMA

Last Saturday, the chic market of Lodhi Colony in Delhi was transformed into a traditional home from Kohima, Nagaland,...

Festival of Literature preserves, propagates the languages: K. Sreenivasarao

The Sahitya Akademi annual literary extravaganza ‘Festival of Letters,’ world’s largest literature festival is currently being held at Rabindra...

Sisters sing in harmony to smooth the march of...

I did nothing at all on March 8. After several hectic years of organising poetry and essay contests, art...

Pre and Post Holi Tips: Nourishing Skin and Hair

One of the biggest Hindu Festivals Holi is around the corner and everyone is waiting eagerly for it. The...