Do not despair that you do not despair: How a Franz Kafka diary entry might resonate with the US after election resultsKamala Harris urged her supporters not to despair after her defeat, prompting reflection on the nature of resilience. Franz Kafka, in his t...
08 Nov, 2024, 12.21 AM IST
Reading is a first world activityIn an age of quick information uptake through social media and television, traditional long-form reading is seen as a privilege and luxury ...
29 Aug, 2024, 11.38 PM IST
Getting viksit needs a proper 360° planEnsuring that plans for 2025-35 leave no one behind will require getting the best and widest possible inputs. As ministries factor these in...
02 Apr, 2024, 10.52 PM IST
Emerging economies to play significant role in rule making in the global trade: Dammu RaviIn the 21st century it would be the Multipolar world which will dominate. A large number of emerging economies especially the Asian Countri...
07 Dec, 2023, 05.01 PM IST
End of worlds, an ongoing apocalypseThere have been five mass extinctions on Earth in the past. The sixth extinction refers to the accelerated, widespread extinctions (plural ...
01 Dec, 2023, 11.09 PM IST
Europe's lurch to the right not ideologicalThe Dutch far-right Freedom Party, led by Geert Wilders, has become the largest party in the Netherlands' elections. Wilders' potential as ...
24 Nov, 2023, 11.18 PM IST
Can the Indian economy hold firm against the backdrop of a polycrisis?What will be the impact of a polycrisis on the Indian stock market and economy? There is a fear of a growing risk that other countries will...
20 Oct, 2023, 11.19 PM IST
World facing polycrisis, G20 must show the way: Korean President Yoon Suk YeolYoon described as meaningful India's focus on the Global South and spoke about enhancing defence and technology ties between the 2 countrie...
08 Sep, 2023, 10.58 AM IST
ITC to enrich biodiversity across 1 million acres by 2030ITC's biodiversity conservation program has restored 290,000 acres of land across 12 states. Additionally, ITC's Integrated Watershed Devel...
14 Jul, 2023, 12.34 PM IST
Not a meltdown Pakistan can affordWith elections due later this year, short-term benefits of this anarchic show of support may be big for Khan and his Pakistan Tehreek- e-In...
11 May, 2023, 12.18 AM IST
After sushi terror, what sashimi peace?But after this sushi horror spree in Japan, what happens in countries/places where hygiene, never mind customer etiquette, is not given a s...
08 Mar, 2023, 10.39 PM IST
Sensex navigates geopolitical gyrations, Fed fusillades to outshine global peers in 'year of polycrisis'None of the major global indices have managed to muster gains in this brutal year, including the Dow Jones (down 9.24 per cent in 2022 so f...
25 Dec, 2022, 05.49 PM IST
Industry body CII urges RBI to moderate pace of monetary tighteningAccording to CII, domestic demand is recovering well as mirrored by the performance of a host of high-frequency indicators. However, the pr...
28 Nov, 2022, 10.39 AM IST
CII urges RBI to moderate pace of interest rates hikesCII's analysis of results of 2,000-odd companies in the second quarter (July-September 2022) shows that both the top-line and bottom-line h...
27 Nov, 2022, 03.59 PM IST
Lead indicators of economic activity point to sustained resilience of the Indian economy, says RBIRecent data from the far side of the Atlantic and in India suggest a grudging let-up in inflationary pressures. Inflation has somewhat ease...
18 Nov, 2022, 08.46 PM IST
Permacrisis: what it means and why it's word of the year for 2022As accolades go, the managing director of Collins Learning, Alex Beecroft, has said that this one "sums up quite succinctly how truly awful...
13 Nov, 2022, 12.06 PM IST
Facing "polycrisis", WTO chief warns of rocky road to dealsWorld Trade Organization chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala urged trade ministers to go the extra mile over the coming days to achieve agreements su...
12 Jun, 2022, 05.22 PM IST