'Safeguarding borders is a 24x7 exercise'

'Breaking down silos and ensuring a more integrated governance process is just as important to performance.''It has been a major priority in the last six years, especially in national security,'......

Rest in peace, Mushir sahib!

Mohammad Sajjad salutes the memory of Mushirul Hasan -- historian, thinker, academic, institution builder, -- who passed into the ages this week. IMAGE: Professor Mushirul Hasan. Photograph:......

Aadhaar is based on unscientific thinking, fallible biometric data

Biometric authentication is based on the unscientific and questionable assumption that there are parts of human body that do not age, wither and decay with the passage of time, says Gopal Krishna.......

Where are the leaders who can inspire our youth?

'Are moving towards a political culture that provides more space for violence and a paranoid political rhetoric,' asks Nitin Desai. Fifty years ago the American historian Richard Hofstadter wrote a......

Britain has a cure for India's ailing banks, Mr Rajan are you listening?

In 2009, Lord Turner's main message was that Britain and the world had been following the wrong policy model and the time had come to look for a better way of doing things. Image: RBI governor......

Promotions on Twitter catching on in India; still lag other markets

Twitter currently has five advertising products in India, which include promoted tweets, accounts, trends, video and mobile applications. Sectors such as technology, telecom, automobiles, consumer......

'Climate change is a big area of business'

Roopa Kudva took over as Region Head, Standard and Poor's (South Asia) last August, and continues to be MD and CEO of Crisil, India's first credit rating agency. After last year's financial crisis,......

Why Apple's iPhone is not the next iPod

It would take a pretty technologically insular personality to be oblivious of the fact that Apple's long awaited iPhone is being released next month. Ever since the release of the iPod six years......

Article 15 Review: Entertaining social drama

'Article 15 is not the work of a hack, or of someone merely scooping a plot out of newspaper headlines.''It is a well-researched, clear-headed movie; but its findings have a purpose,' says Sreehari......

What it's like to have the second-most important job in India?

'Of the 32 captains who have led India in Test cricket, only four have been pure bowlers -- Ghulam Ahmed, Venkatraghavan, Bishan Bedi and myself.' 'The captain must lead with only one idea in mind......