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Quote of the Day by Mikhail Gorbachev: A society should never become like a pond with stagnant...—Inspiring quotes by one of the most influential political figures who sought to usher in an era of opennessQuote of the Day: Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader, warned that societies must keep moving forward. He believed stagnation was t...- March 14 in world history: From Pi Day celebrations to the birth of Albert EinsteinMarch 14th marks Albert Einstein's birthday and Pi Day, celebrating the mathematical constant. This date also commemorates Eli Whitney's co...
- March 11 in world history: From Japan’s tsunami, COVID-19 pandemic declaration to other global eventsMarch 11 marks a day of significant global events. In 2020, the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Japan faced a massive earthquake and tsun...
- Hindi making a comeback in Russia, no prizes for guessing Kise Ye Pasand Nahin HogaFor MAGAmbo, Hindi-Russi bhai-bhai 2.0 may well come across as a threat to Americanese, US culture and commerce-a BRICbat thrown to de-Holl...
- Unlikely parallels in a year of momentous deathsDeaths of luminaries like Queen Elizabeth II and Gorbachev did not necessarily surprise. Others, though, inscrutably departed seemingly in ...
- Why Mikhail Gorbachev's legacy still threatens Vladimir Putin?During his presidency, Vladimir Putin has systematically destroyed these historic achievements. On their ruins, his regime is mobilising mi...
- Mikhail Gorbachev: The man who tried to free countriesBy the Great Terror of 1937, the tone for life in the Soviet Union was set. When Mikhail Gorbachev died on Tuesday, a Stalinist in Russia s...
- ‘Because of him … we have Pizza Hut.’ Old Mikhail Gorbachev ad resurfaces, Internet mourns Cold War heroMikhail Gorbachev, 91, passed away on Tuesday due to prolonged illness.
- Gorbachev on Gorbachev: the last Soviet leader in his own wordsFirst public remarks on the Chernobyl nuclear power station disaster, delivered on Russian television, May 14, 1986, 18 days after the expl...
- Mikhail Gorbachev: His seven years that changed the worldIn nearly seven years, between March 1985 and December 1991, he changed the course of history by ending the Cold War and triggering the dem...
- In Russia's Pokrov, sanctions see residents stockpile sugar, tighten beltsFacing its gravest economic crisis for more than 20 years, Moscow has been telling citizens there is no lack of food and urging them not to...
- Makings of a modern vestiarian crisisAre judges a tad too hard on bureaucrats appearing in bundi jackets?
- Law Ministry quotes Justice J Chelameswar’s dissenting verdict on NJACJustice Chelameswar who had given a dissenting verdict in the NJAC case had said “proceedings of the collegium were absolutely opaque and i...
- Judges’ selection: Why everyone is interested and wants to have a sayThe present imbroglio over the Centre’s decision to seek reconsideration of the recommendation to appoint Justice K M Joseph as an SC judge...
- An honourable defiance that the Supreme Court should be allowed to fumigate itselfSharp as it might seem, the extraordinary public display of disquiet by four senior-most judges of the Supreme Court on Friday is no less a...
- Global hardselling by Rahul Gandhi before Congress takeoverNotwithstanding the BJP Congress sparring after his address, many feel Gandhi’s outing went off well, without his characteristic faux pas.
- Supreme Court won’t take up cases against Judges’ conductSC sidestepped a demand by a section of lawyers to find ways to deal with complaints about the conduct of superior court judges, and instea...
- Rahul Gandhi’s sudden disappearance may be a pre-coronation messy bid for an image makeover“If Rahul wants to reflect what went wrong why criticise him? Everyone wants some peace to reflect. Only timing could have been better,” Di...
- Why has Arvind Kejriwal launched a political party when his sole agenda is exposing scams?He is thoroughly confused about his role, for one. He needs to use his passion and drive to generate ideas that will make India the world’s...
- A revolutionary decade for the insurance industryNow, 23 life insurers and 24 non-life companies are allowing consumers to decide what they need and how much they will pay.
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