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US president Donald Trump

Trade pact off, no clear agenda for Trump visit

With the US leader up for re-election in November, an agreement can only be visualised after that if he wins.

22 Feb 2020 3:02 AM IST

We find that people undergo anxiety, fear, depression and phobias. Offices of psychiatrists, psychologists and therapists are filled with normal, everyday people who cannot cope with lifes struggles. They are unable to deal with their problems.

Mystic Mantra: Stress-free living with the help of meditation

We find that people undergo anxiety, fear, depression and phobias.

21 Feb 2020 2:50 AM IST

One, it needs to ensure that the country also grants it permission to participate in the final 5G deployment, and not restrict the permission to mere trials. Recent research by Oxford Economics, commissioned by Huawei, suggests that barring Huawei from participating in 5G rollout could result in a $4.7 billion loss to Indias GDP by 2035. A few other countries would also suffer greater losses.

Huawei's 5G trouble: A bitter pill that the world must swallow

The year 2020 is not expected to be any different for the telecom goliath.

21 Feb 2020 2:47 AM IST

An ineffective outcome seems to be written into the project because it glosses over the ground realities and betrays short-sightedness and ignorance of the political canvas on which the CAA law in reaction to which Shaheen Bagh has sprung has been inscribed. (Photo: G.N. JHA)

Supreme Court needs to look at human aspect of Shaheen Bagh

Before the Supreme Court felt compelled to ask the protesters to choose another site if they wished to continue...

21 Feb 2020 2:43 AM IST

Japan is also the harbour for the Diamond Princess, one of those massive cruise ships that appear to be the ideal incubators for viruses. The rate at which the coronavirus named Covid-19 has been spreading aboard the vessel bears out that assumption.

China sneezes: How soon will the world catch a cold?

Economically, whatever happens in China reverberates across the world. It is the global manufacturing hub.

21 Feb 2020 2:40 AM IST

India is the fabled pharmacy of the world. Indias low-cost generic drug makers cater to domestic and international needs. But here is the catch. Most of the Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) or bulk drugs necessary to produce these medicines come from just one country China. APIs are what give a medicine its therapeutic effect.

Health security must be on the policy high table

What is of great concern to India is the impact of coronavirus (called Covid 19 by scientists) on the pharmaceutical...

21 Feb 2020 2:37 AM IST

There has been demand for transparency in the way the collegium system works. The government, which is answerable to the legislature and to the people, has opened itself through the RTI Act, and forced transparency on itself.

Collegium needs transparency

The sad part is that this has not delivered. The collegium's recommendations are more often questioned than not.

21 Feb 2020 2:34 AM IST

Supreme Court of India (ANI photo)

Bhagwat's sermon: Our girls don't deserve this

For long, the absurd has been seen as the ideal for the women of our country.

21 Feb 2020 2:31 AM IST

ut just by thinking about relaxing things, we are not going to feel relaxed. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mystic Mantra: Don't change channels, be a channel

Striving for justice is not political activism; rather, it's daridra Narayan seva: service to God in the poor.

20 Feb 2020 2:25 AM IST

Hamas, which rules the territory, held Ahmad Said Barhoum for several months without trial before handing him over to the family, several of whose members belong to the Islamist movement. (Photo: Representational | AP)

Hamas has now turned towards cyber warfare

According to the IDF spokesman, the hackers used pictures of young women to attract the attention and interest of male...

20 Feb 2020 2:18 AM IST

The results revealed that emotion words vary greatly in their meaning across languages, despite being equated in translation dictionaries. (Photo: ANI)

In a changing world, it's vital people continue to use their mother...

The beauty of academic education is that the majority of it comes from books that can be more easily produced in areas...

20 Feb 2020 2:12 AM IST

TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu was elected as the Legislative Party leader. (Photo: File)

Naidu options: To merge TDP with BJP, or perish

The upending of his clout as a leader has seeped to a sharp attack at a personal level too.

20 Feb 2020 1:58 AM IST