Editorials

The Public Accounts Committee of the Lok Sabha has recommended greater recourse to private printers as one of the measures to reduce wasteful expenditure on Government publications. In its report laid on the table of the House to-day [November 11, New Delhi], the committee has also urged that the expenditure …

A forthcoming paper on the detectionof gravitational waves will be illuminating On September 14, 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) made the Nobel prize winning detection of gravitational waves. These waves are ripples in the fabric of space-time, arising from the merger of a pair of black holes in …

Dissolution of Sri Lanka’s Parliament negates the letter and spirit of constitutional reforms Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has dissolved Parliament after it became evident that Mahinda Rajapaksa, who he had appointed Prime Minister two weeks ago, did not enjoy a legislative majority. It is an act of desperation to …

Data on the various themes dealt with in this column Since the release of Akira Kurosawa’s iconic film, Rashomon , in 1950, the term Rashomon effect has come to denote a range of ideas in politics, economics, psychology and the arts. The broad consensus about the meaning of this term …

Long-lost interviews reveal the true feelings of India’s veterans of the First World War A total of 1.5 million Indian troops served in the Indian Army during the First World War. Sailing away from the great seaports of India from 1914 under the British, for four years they fought for …

It’s highly unlikely that Iran will give up its forward defence doctrine in the wake of U.S. sanctions On November 5, nearly six months after the U.S. pulled out of the multilateral Iran nuclear deal, all the American sanctions that had been in place before the 2015 agreement were reimposed …

The December election will decide whether Bangladesh can protect its socio-economic advance, democratically From the outside, Bangladesh appears a country where democratic stability has ushered economic progress and shed the ‘basket case’ tag carried since its birth in 1971. Bangladesh no longer makes news for mass deaths from famines, cyclones …

Scores attend protest march in Mumbai Hundreds of people on Sunday held a march against the killing of Avni and converged at Shivaji Park here to demand the sacking of Maharashtra’s Forest Minister as well as finding the big cat’s missing cubs. P.V. Subramaniam of Earth Brigade Foundation, the petitioner …

Northcote Parkinson said, ‘Work expands to fill time.’ I modify this to include the afternoon nap too. So that day I got up from my nap, which had stretched longer than usual. I prepared my own cup of coffee and sat in my armchair in the driveway. Enjoying the coffee, …

Diabetes has become a public health problem, and this is particularly so in India where almost 20% of all people with diabetes in the world live. More worrying than the absolute numbers of people with diabetes, are the complications related to diabetes. Diabetes is a leading cause of blindness, kidney …