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Forlorn hopes
Wholesale dispatches for the auto industry are climbing back to 2019 levels. Is this a good sign or a false dawn? When reports from the automotive industry came early in August, they were reassuringly positive. The country’s largest carmaker, Maruti-Suzuki, said that wholesale dispatches to dealers were up by one per...
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After Ayodhya
05 August 2020 | Pioneer -
All wasn’t lost
04 August 2020 | Pioneer -
A long haul
04 August 2020 | Pioneer -
Hate crime, again
03 August 2020 | Pioneer -
AAP, L-G collide
03 August 2020 | Pioneer -
Payment problems
01 August 2020 | Pioneer -
Rajasthan mess
01 August 2020 | Pioneer
Data theft
Google faces an anti-trust probe in the US on charges of stealing content from honest but smaller entities A much-anticipated congressional hearing via videoconference put four of the US’ most prominent Big Tech CEOs, whose companies have a combined market value of about $5 trillion, on the mat. Google owner Alphabet...
New curriculum
NEP 2020 seeks to make India a knowledge hub but has a perfunctory approach to implementation and logistics This is bound to be controversial, the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, coming as it does in the middle of a pandemic, without being formally debated in Parliament or a thorough consultative process conducted...
Pollution kills
The average citizen of Delhi loses a decade of his/her life to pollution. How can we turn this around? The results of a recent study by the University of Chicago, titled Air Quality Life, estimated that on an average, Indians lose almost 5.2 years of their life expectancy to pollution, second...
Between the lines
Tiger numbers are up but with one in three big cats living outside reserves, the man-animal conflict is a bigger threat Such was the crisis of tigers in 2006, when their numbers fell to a paltry 1,411, that any increase since then has been a cause for celebration. So when we...
New caseload
As young people around the globe get restless about lockdowns, they are contracting the virus Undoubtedly, in the world’s battle against the novel virus, the risk takers, or those who have little respect for preventive protocols as needless excesses, have run down the risk-averse, or those who follow social distancing norms...
Omar’s message
Without traditional politicians, the Govt is finding it extremely difficult to re-engage with people and reintegrate Kashmir If the Government’s charges for booking him after the abrogation of Article 370 — that his messages are divisive, could incite people and youngsters, that he was as much a separatist — were meant...
The big freeze
The new Cold War between the US and China will not be anything like the old one During the Korean War in the early 1950s, the US came extremely close to dropping a nuclear weapon on China. In fact, had the then American President, Harry Truman, not fired General Douglas MacArthur,...
