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Formal education, access to growth opportunities help people to upgrade their talent, while standard of living allows the country to hold back the talent (Photo: Representational)

Must improve quality of life

While a business-friendly climate is a must, we also need hubs that offer good standard of living.

1 May 2018 2:42 AM IST

India, as a regional powerhouse, should be able to attract regional talent that cant aspire to immigrate to the West.

Skill of retaining nation's talent: Brain drain scene may only worsen

There is a direct relation between per capita GDP and talent retention which is why we haven't attracted the best lot...

1 May 2018 2:39 AM IST

A team of ASI experts were involved in the excavation work at Keezhadi Pallai Sandhaipudur village. (Representational photo)

Debate on Aryan migration vs Out-of-India theory unsettled

This led to the academic quest for the

22 April 2018 5:49 AM IST

The findings put Indus Valley Civilisation much ahead of other ancient civilisations such as the ancient Egyptians (7,000 BC to 3,000 BC) and the Mesopotamian civilisation (6,500 BC to 3,100 BC). Photo: DC file

Decoding ancient genome to trace ancestry

But traditionalists argue, citing mainly the Rig Veda, that the Valley culture spawned east-to-west migration.

22 April 2018 5:46 AM IST

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Space study fashionable, waste management isn't

A huge economic opportunity arises from incorporating good waste management.

17 April 2018 12:45 AM IST

Half of all plastic enters oceans from just 5 rapidly growing economies in South-East Asia.

What nations are doing to stem flow

Concerted action in the form of a $5 billion annual spending on waste-management could trigger revamp packaging systems,...

17 April 2018 12:42 AM IST

No one knows how much debris makes up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre is too large for scientists to trawl.

Magnitude of the planetary crisis

Plastic not only takes years to decompose in our environment but rarely does it fully disappear.

17 April 2018 12:40 AM IST

China plans more Forest Cities which will have rooftop gardens.

Green cities to mitigate heat

Agriculture outside the city increases the Urban Heat Island effect due to increased moisture supplied by irrigation.

9 April 2018 2:25 AM IST

China plans more Forest Cities which will have rooftop gardens.

Leafy towns can firefight urban heat: Urban farming boosts nutritional...

It is time we graduated from food security to nutritional security.

9 April 2018 2:21 AM IST

A bust of B.R. Ambedkar desecrated at Tiruvottiyur in Chennai.

Vandalism, a mob sport

People who take down a statue, saying they no longer have any use for that icon, are filled with an intense hatred for...

1 April 2018 1:57 AM IST

A statue of Soviet state founder Valdimir Lenin was toppled by protesters in Kiev during a rally organised by supporters of EU interation.

Erase memories, perpetuate hate

Social justice movements seek the removal of racist Civil War era symbols from public spaces amid the rise of far-right...

1 April 2018 1:55 AM IST

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A clear and present danger

Chinese have carefully protected their data flows and have domestic equivalents to Western giants is known.

28 March 2018 1:39 AM IST