An important Covid fallout: Communication skills put to test (Column: Spy's Eye)
By D.C. Pathak
'Work from home', zoom meetings and a drastic cut down on physical interactions across the table have compelled business organisations to search for a 'hybrid model' of running the enterprise, resetting the paradigms for performance evaluation and maintaining the efficacy of human resource development.
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General Opinion/Comment 09:10 PMMuslim leaders should focus on social issues
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Bollywood Cinema/Showbiz 11:56 AMThe film industry's captains of doom (IANS Column: B-Town)
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Astro Zindagi (Weekly Horoscope)
By Neeraj Dhankher
Here is a guide to the week ahead for you. This is your forecast for August 22-28.
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National Security Strategy: Its formulation is not an academic exercise (Column: Spy's Eye)
By D.C. Pathak
There is a spate of writings from former diplomats, bureaucrats and think-tank analysts insisting that India must announce its National Security Policy and the strategy of implementing it.
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The importance of rights of the nation (Opinion)
By Seema Singh
As we celebrate 75 years of Independence, it is a high time to introspect and contemplate about the gains and losses we made in past this much of years.
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After smart rally, play for correction and consolidation
By Arun Kejriwal
Markets were on a roll in the week gone by and continued to gain strongly. BSESENSEX gained 1,074.85 points or 1.84 per cent to close at 59,462.78 points while NIFTY gained 300.65 points or 1.73 per cent to close at 17,698.15 points.
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Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav
By Asad Mirza
India is celebrating 75 years of its independence. An apt time to reconcile the republic's gains and losses and also access where the critics of the current government have gone wrong.
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Astro Zindagi (Weekly Horoscope)
By Neeraj Dhankher
Here is a guide to the week ahead for you. This is your forecast for August 15 to 21.
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India's security and foreign policies pay rich dividends (Column: Spy's Eye)
By D C Pathak
The ongoing Ukraine-Russia military conflict, the emerging pattern of developments in West Asia and the inscrutable economic 'Cold War' between the US-led West and the residual Communist empire now led by China, continue to shape the current geo-politics. It has to be acknowledged that India under Prime Minister Modi has handled international relations in this global setting in a manner that has best served the security and economic interests of the nation.
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When careers are sacrificed for advertisement billboards and statistics (Opinion)
By Vineet Goenka
Back in 1859, Macaulay's education system came into effect intending to colonise education and create a class of anglicised Indians. Post-Independence, India tried to bounce back in major sectors and education was one of them.
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Despite sabotage, PoJK protest movement gains momentum
By Amjad Ayub Mirza
On August 7 a so-called All Parties Conference was held in the capital city of Muzaffarabad in Pakistan occupied Jammu Kashmir (PoJK). It was initiated by the former puppet Prime Minister of PoJK Raja Farooq Haider, allegedly on the behest of the Pakistani deep state.
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Trolls must watch films before letting conclusions jump on them (IANS Opinion)
By Sourish Bhattacharyya
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) It is a sad commentary on the divisive times we live in that films get trolled, and the patriotism of their makers questioned, even before they are released.
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India's march towards 'Aatmanirbharta' (Opinion)
By Mohan Kumar
It was in May 2020 that Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave the clarion call for a Bharat that was 'Aatmanirbhar'. It is important to clarify what this meant and what it did not.
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Volatility to continue in truncated week
By Arun Kejriwal
Markets have a mind of their own and the best-off predictions do go wrong. In the week gone by, markets chose to climb a wall of worries and also ignored global cues. They gained on four of the five trading days and lost on just one. BSESENSEX gained 817.68 points or 1.42 per cent to close at 58,387.93 points, while NIFTY gained 239.25 points or 1.39 per cent to close at 17,397.50 points. The broader markets saw BSE100, BSE200 and BSE500 gain 1.40 per cent, 1.57 per cent and 1.59 per cent, respectively. BSEMIDCAP gained 1.78 per cent, while BSESMALLCAP gained 2.03 per cent.
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The Ugly Side Of Stars (IANS Column: B-Town)
By Vinod Mirani
On Friday, August 11, two big films will hit the cinemas simultaneously: Akshay Kumar's 'Raksha Bandhan' and Aamir Khan's 'Laal Singh Chaddha'. This of course won't be the first time that two such films will compete with each other or, to put it otherwise, vie for the major share of the box office.
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Civil services have to improve for better governance (Column: Spy's Eye)
By DC Pathak
There is a widely shared view that the All India Services, which provided the 'steel frame' of governance in a democratic India, granting Constitutional autonomy to the state administration, particularly on the police front, are failing to deliver because of a declining decision-making ability of its officers, their smugness arising from notions of total employment security and inadequacy of parameters used for evaluating their performance.
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The Most Common-sensical of All: RBI Policy Aug 22 (Opinion)
By Suyash Choudhary
The MPC hiked policy rates by 50 bps, thereby taking the repo rate to 5.40 per cent, while retaining stance as 'focussed on withdrawal of accommodation'. While the action was unanimous, Dr. Varma dissented on stance, presumably consistent with his long expressed view that the MPC should retain flexibility with itself.
