BY Yashwant Dhwaj ShahOn 26th.August 2026, at 8.37 am an earthquake of 4.4 magnitude on the Richter scale stuck the Nepal – China border. By 8.44 am a glacial deposit at 5200 metres broke comin ...
Read moreThe expiry of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 17 August has pushed the United States–Iran confrontation into an uncertain and potentially more dangerous phase. Signed on 17 June, ...
Read moreLet me rephrase? Will an Indian mother prefer a Chinese robot wife for her son today? What does having a robot wife entail and how good will a robot wife be? Will some Indian university for example in ...
Read moreThe author is a retired Indian Forest Service officer and former Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Haryana. The views expressed are personal.Every Independence Day, as the Prime Minister address ...
Read morePunjab represents one of the most interesting paradoxes in modern India. While few regions have been so obvious in their contribution to the process of nation-building, few have also been so consisten ...
Read moreMore than half-a-century ago, Nixon, a Republican, lifted the trade embargo against China. Three decades later, Clinton, a Democrat, facilitated the entry of China into the World Trade Order (WTO). Bo ...
Read moreThe Freedom of Allowing Life to UnfoldHuman beings naturally seek control. We plan, organise, anticipate, protect, and prepare. At one level, this is necessary. Responsibility requires structure, effo ...
Read moreLook at the next policeman you pass. Cap on the dashboard, shirt loose at the back, belt slack, boots grey. He may be a brave man with twenty years of good service. The citizen approaching him cannot ...
Read moreIt is not always that a city loses the very thing that gives it a name and an identity when it embraces a new future. Sandila was a sleepy town near Lucknow only three decades ago. Its image and its c ...
Read moreThree incidents in the last four months have brought the humans-versus-machines debate to the fore once again. During April to July, Anthropic’s Claude found that a network misconfiguration had left ...
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