Critical need for women’s community bathrooms
While construction of toilets has received a lot of attention in India’s sanitation campaigns in recent times, another important sanitation need, that of bathrooms, has not received the same attention.
While construction of toilets has received a lot of attention in India’s sanitation campaigns in recent times, another important sanitation need, that of bathrooms, has not received the same attention.
Bangladesh’s request for the extradition of its former prime minister, Sheikh Hasina from India marks a pivotal moment in South Asian diplomacy.
China’s decision to issue a record $411 billion in special treasury bonds in 2025 marks a significant shift in its fiscal strategy, underscoring the urgency of addressing a challenging economic landscape.
Agreeing and disagreeing with each other’s political position is essential in a healthy democracy.
The Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown,” starring Timothée Chalamet, focuses on Dylan’s early 1960s transition from idiosyncratic singer of folk songs to internationally renowned singer-songwriter. As a music historian, I’ve always respected one decision of Dylan’s in particular – one that kicked off the young artist’s most turbulent and significant period of creative activity.
Time, circumstances and even the post-pandemic desperation have led to an unprecedented portent of 'normalcy' with a flood of tourists stampeding the Kashmiri tourist sites.
More than 215,000 people in Bangladesh succumbed to pollution in 2019. The ever lurking, at times invisible, killer ~ air pollution ~ alone claimed about 175,000 lives.
Narinder Batra, of hockey, and Praful Patel, until recently Indian football's administrative supremo, have been given their marching orders legally, neither having presumably been deemed central to India's requirements in a year when we must take an Asian Games and a Commonwealth Games in our stride.
There ought to be no grouse against Thursday’s decision of the West Bengal cabinet to reserve the rarefied chair of Chancellor of state universities for the Chief Minister.
The first is obviously the Russian invasion of Ukraine starting on 24 February. The second is the USA-Russia war of about three decades starting after the disintegration of the USSR. The third is the war between broadly Western Ukraine and Eastern Ukraine, particularly since 2014.
