One of the biggest development issues not only in India but globally is that of strengthening sustainable livelihoods of small farmers.
The miraculous survival of a lone passenger in the recent Ahmedabad air disaster has revived India’s distant but significant memory of another rare aviation escape ~ the 1977 Jorhat air crash.
India’s economy, society, and environment remain deeply intertwined with the rhythm of the monsoon.
The entire security in Jammu and Kashmir has been divided into various grids, and responsibility has been assigned to the security forces accordingly. This arrangement is reviewed, monitored, and coordinated by the Ministry of Home Affairs, and the Lieutenant-Governor of J&K on a regular basis.
In the quiet fishing village of Thumba, Kerala, where India’s space journey began with sounding rockets launched from a churchyard, few could have imagined the cosmic heights the nation would one day reach.
Einstein wondered about the meaning of our existence and purpose of human life our ‘brief sojourn‘ on earth and was convinced that we exist not for ourselves but for others. He wrote: ‘But from the point of view of daily life, without going deeper, we exist for our fellow-men in the first place for those on whose smiles and welfare all our happiness depends, and next for all those unknown to us personally with whose destinies we are bound up by the tie of sympathy‘
The present government under Shehbaz Sharif has defrosted the IMF programme (frozen in March 2022) and is in the throes of negotiations for its speedy resuscitation
Only about 100 years ago, Silicon Valley or the region around Santa Clara county, San Mateo county and Alameda was known as the Valley of the Heart’s Delight; a bucolic paradise famous for its orchards and fruit canning industry. There were as many as 39 fruit canning plants at its height and canned fruit brands like Del Monte were exported to the rest of the world
The best example of unethical practices of the corporate world was the 2007-2008 meltdown leading to the world’s worst economic crisis - the greatest depression in history. Starting with NYSE, the stock exchanges tumbled all over the world - London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Sydney, Toronto et al. An estimated $10 trillion was lost in market capitalisation
China’s growing presence in the international arenas of strategic interest to the US has induced the latter to ramp up its defence alliance with the nations that share historical animosity with the former. Positioning Taiwan, the South China Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the “semiconductor” at the centre of the war strategy, the Biden administration is spreading its wing towards the eastern frontier to contain China
