'We Aren't Security Conscious As A Nation'

'Government officials use Gmail and ordinary phones without basic security consciousness.''Interoperability, especially in joint exercises with countries like the US, worries me.''It often means we......

'Life Possesses No Value In Our System'

'A bus driver should possess a comprehensive road plan: Toll plazas, major hospitals, road conditions, repairs, diversions, and dangerous areas.''Only through such preparation can we save......

'Gen Zs Are Not Interested In Farming'

'They are totally disconnected with farm activities which their families have been involved in for years.' IMAGE: Labourers plant paddy saplings in a farm at a village on the outskirts of......

Hospital Fires Expose Alarming Safety Failures

'Faulty alarms, delays in shutting off oxygen, poor electrical maintenance and staff untrained for emergencies. These are not isolated incidents but reflect a larger pattern of weak oversight.'......

Did poverty and inequality spike during Covid?

Claims of a spike in poverty and inequality in India during the Covid-19 pandemic are patently false as such claims are based on uncomparable different surveys, according to a paper co-authored by......

Banks in India slow in passing on RBI rate changes: IMF Paper

Showing an anti-consumer bias in the Indian banks' approach on interest rates, a new International Monetary Fund study shows they are faster in effecting a hike in lending rates, but a rise in......

CAs, bankers in a rush to pass insolvency exam

Test on lines of IIT-JEE Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com With the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) asking banks to take defaulters through the insolvency process, the role of insolvency......

In Modi's Amritkal, Worrying Decline Of Economy

NITI Aayog has not said what the reasons were for having achieved or not having achieved what was sought to be achieved, or what lessons can be learned for the future, points out Aakar Patel.......

Gold Review: Confused Crime Caper

Once you are done paying your respect to God and Grasshoppers, you circle back to the human beings in Gold, and that's when things become progressively more and more muddled, observes Sreehari......

Risk of athletes losing motivation in lockdown

IOA seeks feedback from athletes, coaches on resumption of training IMAGE: Sjoerd Marijne, chief coach of the Indian women's hockey team, during a training session. Photograph: Hockey......

BCCI complies with national anti-doping agency

BCCI has given in writing that it would adhere to the anti-doping policy of NADA. Ending years of defiance, the BCCI on Friday agreed to come under the ambit of the National Anti-Doping Agency,......