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]RBI needs to remain vigilant on inflation
Inflation in India is on a downward trajectory, yet RBI must be cautious. Low and stable inflation creates a favourable environment for growth. High, sustained inflation hurts the poorer sections the most

Updated on Feb 06, 2023 03:49 PM IST
Improving the quality of higher education
While India’s target remains 6% of its Gross Domestic Product, the budgetary allocation hovers around 3.1%, within which the spending on higher education has been particularly low

Updated on Feb 06, 2023 10:11 AM IST
Water we save now will matter in times to come
According to the NITI Aayog’s Composite Water Management Index, 600 million people are affected by the water problem. In the next eight years, our needs will more than double. How will this demand be met?

Updated on Feb 06, 2023 10:16 AM IST
Science must drive policy
The government may want to consider undertaking a comprehensive study of vulnerable ecosystems and earthquake-sensitive zones in the Himalayan region so as to create robust baseline geological knowledge about these areas

Updated on Feb 06, 2023 10:06 AM IST
Lessons for Pak from the Musharraf era
At a time when Pakistan faces a fresh round of political uncertainty, the Musharraf era could serve as a lesson on the perils of military intervention in politics, and the futility of myopic actions to shore up domestic popularity

Updated on Feb 06, 2023 10:08 AM IST
R Ashwin and Nathan Lyon, ready to spin it up
The off-spinners, friends and rivals, are ready to dish out their craft and have a big say in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series starting in Nagpur on Thursday

Published on Feb 05, 2023 07:38 PM IST
Vivek Krishnan, New Delhi
Girls have not realised what they have done: India U19 coach
Took three days for me and the support staff to soak in the feeing of winning the World Cup, says Nooshin Al Khadeer

Updated on Feb 04, 2023 10:50 PM IST
Kolhapur: The city with an atmosphere for sports
The city in southwestern Maharashtra has a heady blend of potential, popularity and passion for sports but where does it all come from?

Published on Feb 04, 2023 09:08 PM IST
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Rutvick MehtaDeath sentencing law in India needs a rethink
Developments on the death penalty expose the inconsistent and judge-centric approaches to capital sentencing that the current state of the fuzzy law allows. This matter of life and death requires urgent prioritisation by the apex court

Updated on Feb 06, 2023 10:58 AM IST
Test Cricket Anyone?
By common consensus, the rivalry between India and Australia is the most intense and riveting in contemporary Test cricket.

Published on Feb 04, 2023 08:16 PM IST
Just Like That | Notes on capturing India's layers, in written word and pictures
On studying India in all its, sometimes paradoxical, glory in my books; and French ambassador Emmanuel Lenain's photo exhibition. And a side-bar on the middle class on Budget Day

Updated on Feb 06, 2023 10:19 AM IST
Apply a gendered lens to disaster management
Serious thought must also be given to imparting skills to women on how best they can deal with disasters to minimise trauma and risk.

Updated on Feb 06, 2023 10:57 AM IST
Why R-Day’s Beating Retreat saddened me
What is fixed in my memory are the retreating bands, climbing Raisina Hill. As they reached the crest, the sun would start to set. It made everyone gasp with delight. Alas, much of that is history.

Updated on Feb 06, 2023 10:45 AM IST
When life gets in the way of love, don’t give up, says Simran Mangharam
It can be hard starting one’s search later in life. Hard, but not impossible. There are simple early steps to take. A new client of mine is 51, never dated, and is finding her feet already.

Updated on Feb 04, 2023 05:30 PM IST
Clock, stock and a Guinness Record: What makes Robert Kennedy tick?
The Chennai-based timepiece collector just earned a Guinness world record for person with the most mechanical clocks. Take a peek at how it all began, and some of the stories behind his favourite pieces.

Published on Feb 04, 2023 05:24 PM IST
Strike a pose: What is voguing, and why is it catching on in India?
Chances are you’ve heard of voguing, perhaps through the Madonna song. But what is this dance form from the drag subculture? Why do the moves look like Egyptian hieroglyphs or magazine shoots? Who are the young Indians promoting it here at home? Take a look.

Updated on Feb 04, 2023 05:18 PM IST
On his 90th birthday, Apollo Hospitals founder Dr Prathap C Reddy looks back
Dr Reddy introduced private corporate health care to India. Apollo is now a national chain with a growing presence overseas, and its founder is dreaming new dreams for the future of the country’s doctors and patients.

Updated on Feb 04, 2023 05:07 PM IST
Book Box: Create Your Home Library
Decide your library vibe, measure bookshelves to match, and create your reading sanctuary.

Updated on Feb 06, 2023 10:21 AM IST
Policies and People | Solar Decathlon India: Pushing real estate to go green
The decarbonisation of the real estate sector is key for India to attain its net-zero goals. But India doesn’t have enough workers to design and build climate-resilient buildings. Solar Decathlon India trying to bridge this gap.

Updated on Feb 06, 2023 10:37 AM IST
Are warm-up games becoming history?
With the trend of curated net sessions becoming common, the romance of tour matches, which were an event before the big event, is fading away

Published on Feb 03, 2023 08:43 PM IST
Rasesh Mandani, Mumbai
Find decisive fixes to free undertrials
Steps by the Union government and Supreme Court may help, but a mindset change is needed first. Let us not make the process the punishment

Updated on Feb 06, 2023 10:03 AM IST
Controlling gun crimes needs social reset in US
Compared to democracies such as Australia, Britain, New Zealand and South Africa?, which had gun massacre incidents of their own but managed to legislate and reduce the supply of weapons, the US is more extreme in terms of corporate power, social fragmentation and ideological schisms

Updated on Feb 06, 2023 09:52 AM IST
When libraries become a safe place for children
Karnataka had a head-start as one of the earliest states, along with Tamil Nadu and Kerala, to have a public libraries act. In 2019, it decentralised 5,623 rural libraries and handed them over to the panchayats

Updated on Feb 06, 2023 09:59 AM IST
Meet the grandpa creating a tiny library of stories in 3D
Pradip Sengupta, a retired geologist, has hand-made pop-up versions of a nursery rhyme collection, an alphabet primer, a nonsense novella, for his granddaughter Myra Sarkar, now 7.

Updated on Feb 03, 2023 08:14 PM IST
First Principles | How to disconnect from work (but read the caveat)
With work-from-home blurring the boundaries of office hours, countries are stepping in to help workers disconnect from work. But veterans have one piece of advice: Do this only if you can afford it.

Updated on Feb 06, 2023 10:42 AM IST
Report: Jaipur Literature Festival 2023
The 16th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival saw everyone from the Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah and Booker prize winners in attendance and featured interesting sessions that included marginalized voices

Updated on Feb 06, 2023 10:40 AM IST
The Sporting Life by Rudraneil Sengupta: Finally, here comes the sun...
The immense delay in setting up a Women’s Premier League in India borders on neglect. But now it’s finally here, and lives will never be the same.

Published on Feb 03, 2023 05:55 PM IST
Deep tech: Where India stands, and what’s at stake
The Cold Wars of the future will be fought over science and technology. Already, borders are quietly closing on intellectual property. As resources become scarcer and new challenges emerge, the world's major powers are preparing. Take a peek inside India’s race to catch up, and maybe speed ahead.

Updated on Feb 03, 2023 05:51 PM IST
Pathaan’s very own ‘Bharat Jodo’ moment
You may love the film or hate it but you cannot ignore the box office collection for Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Pathaan which stood at ?332 crore for India on Wednesday, as per trade website Box Office India

Updated on Feb 06, 2023 10:56 AM IST
HT interview: Perception about UP changing... focus on development, says Yogi
The buzzwords in Uttar Pradesh (UP) today are investment and industrialisation

Updated on Feb 06, 2023 11:25 AM IST