Reopen schools for younger children soon
By cutting off or limiting access to education, the pandemic has worsened existing inequalities and hampered the economic growth of poor families Nearly 10 months after the nationwide lockdown began, India is now in the process of reopening its schools, albeit, in a phased manner, with all COVID protocols in place....
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Unite for the sake of the nation
20 January 2021 | Kalyani Shankar -
A tricky situation
20 January 2021 | Biswajeet Banerjee/ Lubna Naqvi -
Remove Chinese hamlet
20 January 2021 | Pioneer -
Gabba forever!
20 January 2021 | Pioneer -
Indefensibility of amorality
20 January 2021 | Bhopinder Singh -
Lady Luck has been very kind to Biden
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Leading from the front
19 January 2021 | Ram Acharya
India must stand its ground
All objections raised by the USTR on the DST levied by India on foreign tech firms are baseless. The Govt must not yield to the pressure tactics of the US administration by withdrawing the tax In its findings on the Section 301 probe conducted under the US Trade Act, 1974, the...
OTT Tandav
Though the saffron brigade might be trying to derive mileage, but OTT content does need to be cleaned up The ongoing controversy over Amazon Prime’s new web series ‘Tandav’ is not something new to the country and similar contentious debates took place at the time of the release of movies like...
Diaspora power
First the United Kingdom, now in the United States. Members of the Indian diaspora are rising to power It is said about the Indian diaspora in the Western world, whether they are first-generation immigrants or third or even fourth-generation immigrants, that they have a humongous amount of influence compared to the...
Good to focus on skill
The NEP is more in tune with national priorities and contemporary realities. It pays attention to areas that had been neglected for long After decades of intransigence, the Union Government and policymakers in the education sector have come up with a National Education Policy (NEP) which is more in tune with...
To boycott, or not to boycott polls, that is the question
Radicals feel that shunning elections is vital to delegitimise a regime and claim the polls to be bogus. But evidence indicates that the cons outweigh the benefits On January 1, the multiparty Opposition alliance, the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) announced that it would participate in the forthcoming by-elections and did not...
A new medium of expression
When the pandemic struck the world, it took several months to realise how dramatically the nature of communication would change The most common topics on which training programmes are held are leadership, communication, management of self and so on. In a programme on communication one of the essential topics is to...
Mobile money is new cash
The Coronavirus pandemic has shown that the trend towards greater digitalisation of financial services in the country is here to stay Mobile finance finds itself at an inflection point as the world continues to tackle the socio-economic fallout of the COVID-19 crisis. In these critical times, mobile money has helped governments...
