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The shortage of working-age people and its unwillingness to alter its immigration policies to attract a more skilled workforce and to draw highly educated technology professionals due to age-old prejudices will cost Europe dearly. (Represenatational Image/ AFP)

Mohan Guruswamy | As world is transforming, Europe getting irrelevant

Within two decades, global GDP and power rankings will see substantial changes

29 March 2022 12:52 AM IST

The Indian Army deployed over 50,000 soldiers in Ladakh to counter any threat from the Chinese Army. (Representational Photo: AFP)

Aakar Patel | Of democracies, dictatorships & transparency

We should consider that India is not a dictatorship and should be using its natural strength as a democracy

29 March 2022 12:34 AM IST

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AP)

Fake history', but slip' in Bridgerton may land on cancel culture...

And in other bad news: there is severe inflation. Households face energy bills four times what they were last year

27 March 2022 11:37 PM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping. (via AP)

K.C. Singh | Amid Beijing's overtures, Delhi needs to stand firm

Chinese President Xi Jinping has just six months left for the Communist Party's quinquennial national conference

27 March 2022 11:21 PM IST

Our knowledge of the Cosmos does tell us that colours of the flowers we love look the way they do because our star emits light mainly in the visible range. (Representational Image/ AFP)

Ranjona Banerji | When the tears comfort rather than the flowers

Dealing with grief is hard enough by itself, but often it is others who find your grief harder to deal with

26 March 2022 11:37 PM IST

Defence Research and Development Organisation successfully conduct maiden flight test of indigenously developed surface-to-surface missile Pralay from Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha. (PTI)

Manish Tewari | Unguided missile: A case for Indo-Pak N-dialogue

The object in all probability a supersonic missile was in Pakistani airspace for three minutes and forty four seconds...

26 March 2022 11:37 PM IST

Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi. (PTI Photo)

Anand K. Sahay | What Congress needs to do for life after Gandhis

Here is a recall from history which might be useful for the Congress to consider

26 March 2022 12:24 AM IST

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Bureaucracy in UK, EU & India: Putin's war to BoJo's...

Putin's criminal war has caused the largest refugee crisis Europe has known since the Second World War

26 March 2022 12:15 AM IST

A man carries shopping bags as heavy smoke from a warehouse destroyed by Russian bombardment casts shadows on the road outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP)

Syed Ata Hasnain | Putin's Ukraine war goes beyond just war-fighting

It's not classically conventional and is veering towards combinations: hybrid, conventional and grey zone, all rolled in...

25 March 2022 2:57 AM IST

Children attend a class after schools reopened for nursery to Class VIII standard students, as COVID-induced restrictions ease, at a School in New Delhi, Monday, Feb. 14, 2022. (PTI Photo/Vijay Verma)

Lakshita Joshi | Enrolment jump in govt schools a chance to boost...

The priority during a crisis like this should be to ensure that children do not drop out of the education system

25 March 2022 2:29 AM IST

Defence secretary Ajay Kumar. (Twitter)

Dilip Cherian | The wait continues for a new defence production secy

The delay in the appointment did raise eyebrows in babu circles, but the speculation will surely end now

24 March 2022 1:46 AM IST

In the process of economic growth, this country cant afford to ride roughshod over ecological balance. (Representational Image/ PTI)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Managing future shocks: Way to self-reliant...

No one really knows what the world will look like in a year or two but at this moment it seems very likely that the war...

24 March 2022 12:32 AM IST