With the release of the Social Progress Index 2018, it is evident that the global performance varies from the status of progress in Norway, which tops the charts at 90.26 to the Central African Republic, ranking last at 26.01. A difference of 65 points is enough to show that even though the world's social progress outcomes have im...
Two intriguing exercises in U-turns are on at the moment. While Congress president Rahul Gandhi is trying to rid the Congress of its pro-Muslim image, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief, Mohan Bhagwat, is claiming that a Hindu "rashtra" (nation) will include Muslims as well....
American interest in South Asian countries (particularly India) -- which deepened after the British decolonisation in 1947, in search of capitalist opportunities -- has come a long way since such interest was first evinced in the early 18th century....
On September 23, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will celebrate its 88th National Day. It marks the day the Kingdom was unified under the founding King Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman Al Saud in 1932. On this occasion, we also celebrate the progress our great nation has made over the last nine decades to become a modern state and a ma...
When it comes to Cloud adoption, state governments in India are quickly shifting their workloads to the platform -- even faster than the US state governments, a top executive from Amazon Web Services (AWS), online retail giant Amazon's Cloud business arm, has stressed. ...
Life has turned a full circle for art critic and writer Uma Nair, whose parents were immigrants from Kerala but found livelihood in the bustling city of New Delhi. Several decades on, as Gods Own Country navigates its return to normalcy, Nair has donated artworks from her personal collection to Nat...
Dedicated to the beating heart, Dr. Sandeep Jauhar's latest book 'Heart - A history' provides a thumping tribute to the protagonists -- some legendary some unsung -- of medicine, who over the years have innovated and persevered to find cures for cardiac ailments through landmark breakthroughs in their field....
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah's boast at the national executive meeting about the party ruling for 50 years may have been in keeping with his usual aggressive, bombastic style, but it has been interpreted in two contradictory ways....
The devastating floods in Kerala and Karnataka will not just cause one-fifth of the coffee production to be wiped out this year but its aftershocks are expected to have a long-term negative impact on farmers. ...
Recent events in India have damaged the country's image as a vibrant, plural and successful democracy." That is the opening line of former Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran's recent article in which he expresses his "growing concern over the rising polarisation and communalism of our social and political discourse". Saran pointed out: "We pride...
