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View of a man looking out of an Indian train. (Representational Image)

Shashi Warrier | Capitalism and the future of train travel

No one remembers cassettes, I said. Youngsters these days don't even know about CDs!

6 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

Today there are 5.03 billion Internet users around the world and 4.9 billion of these use social media. (Photo: AFP)

Manish Tewari | Behind all social media ills: Not privacy, but...

Unchecked proliferation of anonymous accounts has weaponised Internet, turning it into a veritable orgy of hate violence...

6 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

Rishi Sunak, front-runner to the British PM post (Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Are days already numbered for Hedgie Sunak? Third...

Already the unions, railway workers and medical staff, including 80,000 nurses, have declared that they will go on...

5 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Gujarat Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi takes stock of the situationa at the site of the bridge collapse over the Machchhu river easlier in the week.

Shikha Mukerjee | Morbi shows anatomy of political immunity

The Gujarat election in December 2022 will be a test of Mr Modi's winnability rather than that of the chief minister

5 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

The peak point of growth and prosperity is quite far off, so the short and medium-term prospects of growth and prosperity are nothing but bright. (Representational Image)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Towards a more affluent India: Future not...

Economic growth is not an automated elevator. There will be periodic glitches and we need policy repairmen to keep it...

4 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Another panel set up to sort Central secretariat...

The panel will examine the current and future career progression of the CSS officers and suggest remedial measures to...

3 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

Rescue personnel conduct search operations after a bridge across the river Machchhu collapsed at Morbi in Gujarat on October 31 (Photo by Sam PANTHAKY / AFP)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Safety, maintenance key in infra, other...

What are the lessons in the wake of one of the worst public safety tragedies in India?

3 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

Elon Musk (AP file image)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Musk storms tweeter nest: Twitter to retain its...

Musk's stance in favour of free speech seems as doomed as Custer's last stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876

2 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

The Osmania University was the first Indian higher education institution to teach all subjects from philosophy to medicine in Urdu when it was founded in 1917. (Representational Image)

Dinesh C. Sharma | MBBS in Hindi: What Bhopal can learn from Hyderabad

The logic is that students can better comprehend technical subjects in their mother tongue rather than in English

2 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

Pakistan is looking ahead to a general election next year. (Representational Image)

Aakar Patel | Pak's journey in 7 decades: Military juntas to democracy

Though once again the Army is in the news, it appears that Pakistan is now out of the cycles of periodic military rule

1 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

K.C. Singh | As world is realigning, India sits on the fence

The world has entered a phase of partial or floating alignments, popularly described as a multi-polar world

1 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

Apple had started manufacturing iPhones in India in 2017 with iPhone SE. (Photo: AFP)

Sanjaya Baru | Building brands: Tata & Satya top of India's list

The Tatas entered the top 100 list for the first time in 2020 and in 2022 are placed at 78th place

30 Oct 2022 11:01 PM IST