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From banking to global strategy: A storied career

India, Nov. 10 -- Neelkanth Mishra is a well-known economist who currently represents Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Sri Lanka as an executive director at the World Bank Group in Washington DC. Before ... Read More


SC turns focus to vehicular pollution, seeks action plan

New Delhi, Nov. 10 -- The Supreme Court has called for "urgent and immediate intervention" to check vehicular pollution in Delhi-NCR, directing Delhi and three neighbouring states to explain how they ... Read More


Cop beaten to death in TN after confronting men bursting crackers

Chennai, Nov. 10 -- Three individuals were arrested for beating a senior police officer to death in Tamil Nadu's Theni district, police said on Monday. "We have arrested three of them right now. I can... Read More


Rajnath's Sikkim visit highlights legend of Baba Harbhajan Singh

NEW DELHI, Nov. 10 -- Defence minister Rajnath Singh's Diwali visit to the forward areas of Sikkim has revived the legend of a soldier believed to be standing guard long after death, officials said on... Read More


India has a fine line to tread amid global chaos and new realpolitik

India, Nov. 10 -- Most international relations students will be hunting around to find a theory to understand and predict the present course of events. All accepted rules of the post-Cold War order ha... Read More


Navigating global crises and multilateral reform

India, Nov. 10 -- S Jaishankar has been the foreign policy face of the Indian government since his appointment as the external affairs minister in May 2019, articulating the country's approach towards... Read More


Medical students in Mumbai grapple with space crunch

MUMBAI, Nov. 10 -- Last month, Gajanan Jamge, a 21-year-old nursing student, died after he contracted malaria at his college hostel. Two other nursing students were also hospitalised for malaria. The ... Read More


Lessons from Kuno on conservation planning

India, Nov. 10 -- India's wildlife conservation/species-reintroduction efforts often focus on the rise in animal numbers. While numbers matter, making them the centrepiece of the narrative glosses ove... Read More


Lighter appellate load at the top can ease judicial backlog

India, Nov. 10 -- India's judicial backlog has long beennarrated through numbers - more thanfive crore pending cases, including nearly 95,000 before the Supreme Court alone. Even as the top court reco... Read More


Design cities keeping in mind children's needs

India, Nov. 10 -- Children and their needs rarely feature in urban planning concerns or policy discourse in India. Talk to any parent in urban India, and they will tell you how difficult it is to rais... Read More