Opinion

The futures we can anticipate include significant impacts not only from accelerating climate change, but also from pollution, wars, pandemics, AI, current demographic trends and social conflict.

A stronger approach might be one that uses the frameworks to curate data that ameliorates specific problems of communities, and ensures data is used in line with the needs of the community in question.

Even in countries with massive numbers of undernourished people, such as in India, harvests are moving away from crops for direct food consumption.

Post-World War II, Europe invested in regional cooperation, but now with Russian invasion of Ukraine, even pacifist countries like Germany have decided to increase their defence budget.

Seaweed has now been certified by ICRISAT, Hyderabad, as an active biofertilizer and with organic farming catching on, seaweed sap as fertilizer is bound to break new ground

While the people of Telangana have forgotten the animosities of 1948 and have imbibed a secular way of life, the BJP wants to revive the old animus to polarise the communities

The Russian authorities see their war in Ukraine as an existential war, while the west sees it as a war of choice

Rahul Gandhi has visited Gujarat only twice in recent months, whereas Modi has used several occasions to address the people of Gujarat and Kejriwal has toured the State a dozen times

It is extremely difficult to return to a diplomatic agreement in which one side has to make additional concessions and return to a previous status quo

Xi Jinping’s trip to Kazakhstan the day before he met Putin in Samarkand sent a strong signal of support to a country that has been increasingly at odds with Russia over the war

President Biden will host Pacific leaders for the first US-Pacific Island Country Summit in Sept end that will be in the style of ASEAN meeting held in May

This month an event of planetary importance will take place. NASA’s DART mission will test the feasibility of redirecting an asteroid.

Along with Nehru, Netaji was the formulator of the concept of national planning, which resulted in the Planning Commission but the Modi government abolished the Planning Commission

Political leaders seek to sharpen differences to consolidate people with particular identities behind them for electoral benefit and the best way to sharpen identities is through the use of sectarian violence

The proposed Electricity Bill is one of many such whips with which the Modi government wants to control the democratically elected State governments.

Regional parties that are in power in different States need to work on building their own distinctive model of governance by putting forth the work that was done in States such as Telangana.

It is clear Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has brought together members states around it like never before in the last two decades.

With Assembly elections approaching in Himachal Pradesh, many new factors and issues have found their way into State politics.

In South Asia, Bangladesh and India had the largest share of total premature deaths attributed to fossil-fuel combustion: 36.5% in Bangladesh and 30.7% in India.

By Ajay Gokul Britain will now have a new Prime Minister. Six gruelling weeks of the Conservative party’s leadership race ended Monday afternoon with Liz Truss declared the winner. She beats her opponent, Rishi Sunak, by securing 57.4% of the vote, compared to his 42.6%. Let’s face it, that’s not quite the landslide she would […]

By Seela Subba Rao India’s achievement in the agriculture sector, though impressive in some areas and States, has remained below potential. There is a large gap between the income of agriculture and non-agriculture workers. Even after over seven decades of planning, most farmers still face the problem of poor production and inadequate return for their […]

By Arun Sinha Nitish Kumar’s exit from the NDA (National Democratic Alliance) and his reunion with the Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance) has rekindled the hopes of the anti-BJP voters across the country who were wrestling with pessimism bred by the slow disintegration of the Congress and no signs of opposition unity. Alongside, it has also given […]

Honorifics institutionalise power and social relations, and stereotype them

By Nir Kshetri Even though it’s unclear what exactly the metaverse is and whether it even exists, colleges and universities have jumped onto the metaverse bandwagon. They have augmented in-person and remote video learning with features such as gamified interactive virtual worlds, virtual reality and mixed reality. In one of the largest efforts thus far, […]