August 19, 2024, 12:43 PM IST
The UN designates August 19 as World Humanitarian Day. As we pay tribute to the innumerable selfless humanitarians who save people in times of need and conflict, let us also examine whether the emotions that…
August 19, 2024, 12:43 PM IST
August 18, 2024, 12:57 PM IST
Nearly two out of three people in the U.S. don’t get sufficient sleep, significantly impacting their health. One-third of people sleep six hours or less, double the rate from 50 years ago. The CDC recognizes…
August 18, 2024, 12:57 PM IST
August 18, 2024, 7:50 AM IST
The monkeypox outbreak in the Non-endemic countries unveiled that the global society is still very vulnerable to infectious diseases, as the whole world is healing from the effects of Covid-19. Alas, the world – or,…
August 18, 2024, 7:50 AM IST
August 17, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
The World Health Organization (WHO) has sent out a warning about a disease called Mpox. They’re saying it’s a big deal and countries should pay attention. What’s Mpox? Mpox is a virus that can make…
August 17, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
August 17, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
GOI should be proactive in its response to Mpox WHO’s move to declare Mpox as a global health emergency should be taken seriously by GOI. Though this is the second time since 2022 that WHO…
August 17, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
August 15, 2024, 10:04 PM IST
Narendra Modi is the only Hindu leader and the first Prime Minister of India who had the courage to feel the pain of the mass murders of the Hindus and Sikhs during partition and declared…
August 15, 2024, 10:04 PM IST
August 15, 2024, 7:21 AM IST
Turmoil in Bangladesh has seen its minorities come under attack, raising global concern. The head of interim government, Muhammad Yunus, has assured Bangladeshi Hindus equal protection. Surendra Kumar Sinha, former chief justice of Bangladesh and…
August 15, 2024, 7:21 AM IST
August 15, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
Success of diaspora in US and other countries is reason for Centre to make emigration a standalone ministry Regardless of which way US presidential elections go, there will be an Indian-origin woman in the citadel…
August 15, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
August 15, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
Did you know that there are over 5 million people of Indian origin living in the United States? That’s a lot of people! Even though they make up only 1.5% of the US population, they’re…
August 15, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
August 14, 2024, 4:05 PM IST
Jean-Paul Sartre once said: “Freedom is what we do with what’s been done to us.” One never quite understood what it meant but since a man who rejected the Nobel Prize in Literature said it,…
August 14, 2024, 4:05 PM IST
August 14, 2024, 6:58 AM IST
What Trump ranting about immigrants being “dangerous” people to Musk, an immigrant, tells us. We thought we knew Trump. We did. In a two-hour long “conversation-not interview” with Elon Musk, the former, and aspiring, president…
August 14, 2024, 6:58 AM IST
August 10, 2024, 3:20 PM IST
Violent unrest has gripped many parts of Britain. It all started on July 29, when three children aged 6, 8 and 9 were fatally stabbed and eight others were injured in a knife attack while…
August 10, 2024, 3:20 PM IST
August 10, 2024, 3:15 PM IST
The 248th US National Day celebration in Chennai on July 18 had the theme ‘US-India partnership in space exploration and science. On the dais were US ambassador Eric Garcetti, Tamil Nadu school education minister Anbil Mahesh…
August 10, 2024, 3:15 PM IST
August 9, 2024, 1:41 PM IST
I was stuck in a traffic jam in Delhi the other day. Nothing new, that. But the waiting time did lead me to recall a statement I had heard about our city from a student…
August 9, 2024, 1:41 PM IST
August 8, 2024, 3:35 PM IST
The recent statements of Mohammad Younis, blaming India for creating an atmosphere of hostility and animosity comes out as lopsided and myopic. Holding India responsible for giving refuge to former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after…
August 8, 2024, 3:35 PM IST
August 8, 2024, 3:30 PM IST
While we must condemn the attack on Hindu temples in Bangladesh, we should also appreciate the efforts of individuals and organisations protecting Hindu places of worship, life and property in the country which is facing…
August 8, 2024, 3:30 PM IST
August 8, 2024, 3:11 PM IST
Physicists consider the 1927 Solvay Conference to be the greatest collection of minds ever assembled when Messrs Einstein, Bohr, Born, de Broglie, Dirac, Heisenberg, Pauli, and Schrodinger and Missus Curie got together to discuss the…
August 8, 2024, 3:11 PM IST
August 8, 2024, 12:05 PM IST
Sheikh Hasina’s escape from Bangladesh is the latest illustration of political unrest in India’s neighbourhood. Anarchism is not confined to Bangladesh; over the past three years, India’s neighbouring states have experienced seismic upheavals in their…
August 8, 2024, 12:05 PM IST
August 7, 2024, 7:15 PM IST
Hello and welcome to the fifth edition of The Weekly Vine. We don’t know if any of you are feeling smarter, but the world is certainly going to hell in a handbasket since this newsletter…
August 7, 2024, 7:15 PM IST
August 7, 2024, 9:13 AM IST
Bangladesh remains in ferment after Sheikh Hasina’s abrupt departure. In this analysis, we focus on three key aspects. First, the good that Hasina did. Second, the ways Bangladesh politics may evolve in the coming days….
August 7, 2024, 9:13 AM IST
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