Opinion

THERE MUST BE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE DELHI FIRE INCIDENT

17 May 2022 06:16 AM IST

The fire that broke out in an illegal factory in the Mundka Village close to the Delhi-Haryana border and claimed at least 27 lives has once again underlined the need for greater accountability. What has to be probed and ascertained is that how was this factory running in the native

Can India afford the scrapping of Article 124A?

17 May 2022 06:13 AM IST

Nobody would doubt the intention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to review the Sedition Law (Section 124A), but creating a narrative to say that the law would be scrapped is juvenile. Sections of intelligentsia including judges have argued for review to check its misuse. And the review should not be

The sedition law: Congress versus BJP

16 May 2022 05:45 AM IST

PM Modi’s historic decision to seek a re-examination of the archaic sedition law qualifies as a transformative moment in the quest for the fine balance between free speech and national security.

RENAMING OF STREETS AND PLACES CANNOT ALTER HISTORY

14 May 2022 03:13 AM IST

Earlier this week, certain right-wing activists demonstrated in the Mehrauli area of South Delhi demanding that the historic Qutab Minar should be renamed Vishnu Sthambh. Simultaneously another group of people wanted that the names of Shah Jahan Road and Tughlak Road in the Lutyens zone to be changed. Everyone is

Understanding misappropriation of assets at workplaces

14 May 2022 03:10 AM IST

Asset misappropriation is the most common type of occupational fraud. It occurs when an employee steals or misuses the organisation’s resources such as cash, fraudulent billing, inventory, or inflated expenditure reports.

Civil Services’ recruitment process, training need reform

13 May 2022 06:55 AM IST

Civil Services’ recruitment process, training need reform

TOKYO MEETING MUST ISSUE A QUAD CHARTER

12 May 2022 07:44 AM IST

The prospect of Ukraine joining Nato apparently made Vladimir Putin so nervous that he tried to stop that from happening by invading it. This is possibly the most simplistic way of looking at what is happening in Ukraine, because there are enough voices from inside Nato that suggest that the

WHO’s ‘excess Covid-19 deaths’ report is slanted

12 May 2022 07:41 AM IST

World Health Organisation has been toeing China’s line of defence since the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.

SHOULD POLITICIANS PUBLICISE THEIR TIME OFF?

11 May 2022 05:47 AM IST

After a video showing Congress MP Rahul Gandhi partying at a nightclub in Nepal went viral, this sparked off a debate as to whether politicians should be seen frequenting nightclubs and taking time off. Of course, the bots and the trolls went after Rahul Gandhi since the timing of this

Ukraine war: Re-reading geopolitical contours of Russian foreign policy

11 May 2022 05:45 AM IST

The geopolitical narratives underlined by the Russian geopolitical thinkers provide a framework to examine the Russia-Ukraine war in a broader geopolitical context. Though the war is in full swing, what needs to be underlined here is that the geoculture rooted in distrust between Russia and Ukraine is the moot point

INTERNATIONAL RANKINGS AND INDIA: A CASE OF WRAP-UP SMEAR AT WORK

10 May 2022 05:08 AM IST

There is something terribly off about the international rankings when it comes to India, with this country performing poorly in almost all the following spheres—be it democracy, press freedom, or human/religious rights. And now even in terms of Covid deaths, apparently India has the highest death count, with 4.7 million