This Diwali I will not be there
Indian Cricket's Search for a Selector: Despite the Game's Glamour, Few Takers for the Thankless Job
For all the glamour surrounding Indian cricket, the selector remains one of its least celebrated figures. He must look beyond the next headline, the next controversy, and even the next defeat. His finest decisions may never make the headlines. His mistakes certainly will.
Rethinking Climate Security in South Asia - Through AI
South Asia’s climate risks are shared across countries. Rivers such as the Ganga, Brahmaputra and Indus do not respect national boundaries, and torrential rains in one country can lead to floods in another. Satellite data, flood forecasts and flood warnings could, therefore, be shared to enhance disaster preparedness across the region.
Transnational Education: Making International Skills Development Inclusive
The British Council's South Asia dialogue on TNE brought together policymakers, quality-assurance agencies, experts and higher education leaders from five South Asian countries and the United Kingdom. The discussions covered TNE policy, quality assurance, partnership management and mutual recognition of qualifications.
Better Opportunities for Youth can Transform Balochistan’s Future
The CMSPP can help Balochistan address one of the most pressing challenges it encounters today – youth unrest and militancy. The radical Islamic groups and terrorist organizations often utilize the discontent of the youth of Balochistan to further their own agendas.
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Let’s add COVID-19 in list of diseases, and move on
From historical times, human beings have been surviving, in spite of several types of diseases confronting them. In such situations, medical science has developed and come out with new inventions, drugs, and cure with a view to safeguarding human beings from diseases due to the compelling need for the survival of humanity
Political repression in India amidst coronavirus lockdown
The coronavirus pandemic and the resulting lockdowns in many countries have led to a resurgence of authoritarianism because of which the liberal democratic model again finds itself at peril from reactionary forces
World leaders should join hands to save humanity
For the first time the world finds itself caught in the sufferings unleashed by COVID-19. No one is safe from the virus which has impacted almost every nation on the planet
'India is your introduction': Recalling the legend of Don Bosco
The COVID 19 lockdown recall continues. In 1990 I was sitting pondering at my misfortune of having landed the job of looking after the material requirements of a large naval dockyard when in breezed the pint-sized ex gunnery officer of a missile corvette we had commissioned together in the (former) USSR in the late seventies
Nature's retribution
Not as pretty as a flower
We are in this for the long haul: WHO Regional Office
Amid rising cases of COVID-19 and as countries in WHO South-East Asia Region ease lockdowns in a graded manner, WHO today said careful assessment of local epidemiology should guide future actions to combat the virus
Reckoning or redemption: Travails of our planet caused by COVID-19
In a world when COVID-19 has brought humanity to its knees and exposed the haughty posturing of many nation-states the lesson of its interconnectedness in combating the pandemic is in stark contrast to the situation four months ago
First comprehensive estimates of district-level trends of child mortality and child growth failure in India: 2000 to 2017
This initiative was launched in 2015 as a collaborative effort between the Indian Council of Medical Research, Public Health Foundation of India, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, and a number of other key stakeholders in India, including academic experts and institutions, government agencies and other organizations, under the aegis of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
India-Gulf ties in need of repair and restoration
India’s ties with the Gulf countries that have been robust in the past have come under strain owing to a number of factors
Lockdown musings: Life simplified but is there gender equality at home?
I slept a lot, but I was doing that in any case before the lockdown. I read some but it is becoming increasingly difficult to focus for long with my failing eyesight
India needs to be realistic, should lift lockdown
Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared lockdown all over India around 40 days back, which caught the countrymen by surprise and led to a feeling of uncertainty
Ominous are the portents today
If I could swim the meadows and walk the rivers
COVID-19 will leave a temporary scar; world economy will bounce back
In living memory, the worst disaster and miseries took place during the World War II. A large number of manufacturing units, airports, and seaports were destroyed and buildings demolished. Japan suffered the worst when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing the death of millions of innocent people
India's response to coronavirus is based on fear, not planning
There are indications/allegations that COVID-19 or coronavirus was accidentally released from a Wuhan lab
