Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Bangladesh has witnessed one of the worst outbreaks of violence in years, as student protests against the government’s controversial job quota system spiralled into a nationwide crisis, claiming more than 160 lives, something Prime Minister Sheikh ...
24 Jul 2024
India will likely face an unprecedented water crisis by 2050 as the demand for water in the country is predicted to become twice the supply capacity. According to a report by NITI Aayog, 256 districts out of a total of 734 in the country are water st...
22 Jul 2024
With the increase in tax collection and a record dividend payout by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the government may likely indulge in welfare reforms in the forthcoming budget to be presented on July 23. The renewed thrust on welfare should not o...
21 Jul 2024
It’s been three years and nine months since 14 innocent civilians were killed by the 21 Para Special Forces at Oting village in December 2021, triggering outrage from across the country, but justice has been denied to the victims till date. Followi...
19 Jul 2024
Despite the success in administering vaccines to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic from spreading, progress of India’s national immunisation programme is not at all satisfactory. The country has failed to meet the target of providing DTP (Diphtheria, T...
18 Jul 2024
The Nagaland Power department has announced that electricity bills will be made available to consumers electronically (e-billing) only via SMS, email, and through the department’s web portal, in line with energy conservation, the Digital India init...
16 Jul 2024
In an effort to produce more skilled labour in the country, the government has allowed manufacturing units to establish in-house training centres to meet their specific requirements. This decision was revealed by Union Minister Nitin Gadkari at the r...
15 Jul 2024
India’s vulnerabilities in disaster management have yet again been exposed, as within weeks of the arrival of the monsoon season, floods across the country have claimed 85 lives and affected over 30.83 lakh people, along with submerging 3,154 villa...
14 Jul 2024
The Supreme Court’s ruling on Wednesday that allows a divorced Muslim woman to seek maintenance under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), 1973, from her former husband is a significant move towards upholding their rights and finan...
11 Jul 2024
The forthcoming union budget should put emphasis on the rural sector to ensure inclusive growth in the country. At present, due to issues such as global warming and lack of profitability in the agricultural sector, the rural economy is going through ...
10 Jul 2024
A rockslide injured four occupants of a vehicle on Pagala Pahar stretch of National Highway-29 last week, exactly a year after a similar incident killed two persons and injured three others in the same vicinity. It was a stark reminder of negligence,...
09 Jul 2024
The country urgently needs to frame stricter laws for organising public gatherings to prevent loss of life due to human negligence. Reports of deaths due to stampede or fire at social or religious gatherings have become commonplace in India. Incident...
09 Jul 2024
From temperatures touching as high as 50 degrees Celsius to 228.1 mm of rainfall in just 24 hours, marking a 266% departure from normal, the national capital, Delhi, experienced extreme weather conditions in June. According to NASA, Delhi has gone th...
08 Jul 2024
After having successfully elected 278 councillors to three municipal councils and 22 town councils of Nagaland (excluding 14 town councils of six districts in the eastern region) following an enthusiastic contest, we can expect these civic bodies to ...
05 Jul 2024
Despite an impressive growth rate, India is unable to effectively tackle the large economic disparity prevailing between the haves and have-nots. Several economists argue that inequality will continue to haunt India as the country has failed to creat...
03 Jul 2024
Water disputes are not uncommon in India as states vie for greater share of river water amid growing populations, rapid urbanisation and agricultural activities. The long-standing dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu over Cauvery water is a class...
02 Jul 2024
Kudos to Team India for winning the coveted T20 World Cup by defeating South Africa in the final! In the process, they ended the 11 year wait for a major ICC Trophy. The victory is special as it came after eight successive defeats in the knockout sta...
02 Jul 2024
In June 2024, the country witnessed a series of mishaps, from train accidents to the collapse of roofs at important installations. It appears that we have forgotten the need to ensure building safety and sustainable infrastructural facilities in the ...
30 Jun 2024
India has gained notoriety for online scams, as fingers are being pointed at numerous fake call centres reportedly operating in various parts of the country, duping thousands of people, especially vulnerable elderly people from across the world. Acco...
27 Jun 2024
The forthcoming union budget, to be soon presented in Lok Sabha, should focus on removing rural distress rather than on urban-centric policies. As per recent studies, rural consumption has been on the decline for an extended period of time, and the d...
26 Jun 2024
After scripting history by enacting a law with provision for 33 per cent quota for women in urban local bodies, following years of resistance from various organisations, Nagaland is all set to implement it on Wednesday as it goes to polls to elect 21...
26 Jun 2024
An ailing informal sector is of great concern for the Indian economy as the sector provides employment to a very substantial segment of people in the country. As per a recent estimate, 90 per cent of India’s workforce is engaged in the unorganised ...
24 Jun 2024
Amid raging controversy surrounding the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET-UG) over alleged irregularities in mark allotment, the Ministry of Education left lakhs of students across the country disappointed by announcing the c...
23 Jun 2024
With no peace in sight, even after more than a year since the ethnic conflict between the Kuki-Zo and Meitei communities erupted in Manipur, as fresh violence keeps surfacing, the government of India seems to have finally realised the complexity of t...
20 Jun 2024
Train journeys are fast becoming a nightmare as yet another train accident that occured near New Jalpaiguri in West Bengal has so far claimed 10 lives, and injured hundreds. With the alarming increase in the number of train accidents in recent times,...
19 Jun 2024
Last week, Nagaland woke up to disturbing visuals of the famed Doyang dam being reduced to a location akin to a dumping site. As photos of the trash-ridden reservoir flooded social media platforms, triggering outrage from the people, the state govern...
18 Jun 2024
Instead of indulging in blame games, it is pertinent that Delhi finds an amicable solution to its ongoing water crisis. There is no point in creating another Cauvery-like water dispute in northern India. Instead, all northern and north-western states...
17 Jun 2024
India needs to take effective measures to check the unprecedented rise in temperatures as human-induced climate change threatens both lives and livelihoods across the country. The prevailing heatwave in some parts of the country has already claimed d...
17 Jun 2024
They say all good things must come to an end. The retirement of Indian football captain Sunil Chhetri marked the end of an era but not before leaving an indelible mark on the struggling sport in India. He hung his boots after playing the FIFA World C...
13 Jun 2024
India’s aspiration to excel in Olympic sports has received a tremendous fillip on the sponsorship front. Several brands have come forward with lucrative proposals to sponsor Indian athletes for the forthcoming Paris Olympics scheduled to be held fr...
12 Jun 2024
