Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset

BY ABDULLAH CHOUDHARY How are human beings motivated to take up challenges. Any person with reason knows that success is sweet but at the same...

Taking care of the kitty

Accounting or accountancy is commonly known to represent record of business transactions in a systematic manner. People generally do not take it...

Floriculture: Prospects in JK

J&K has potential for various types of crop cultivation; growers are now trying alternatives to already proven agriculture and horticulture....

Digital Learning Resources and Initiatives

This age of education leveraged technology to be exposed, all-encompassing and reachable. The COVID-19 pandemic entailed a swing towards the...

Shortage of special educators

Having inadequate number of special educators for the specially-abled students in government schools is not an encouraging sign. As per reports,...

Chronic adhocism in SED

On November 30 this year, the former Chief Education Officer (CEO) Baramulla attained superannuation from his service. It was a routine matter for...

India, Bangladesh bolstering ties through Silchar-Sylhet Festival

BY: Mashrur Siddique Bhuiyan The three-day ‘Sylhet-Silchar festival’ started on Friday in the town of Silchar in the northeastern Indian state...

The US Fed and markets must give up talking past each other

Markets surged after Jerome Powell, the US Federal Reserve chair, indicated on 30 November that the world’s most powerful central bank would now...

Anand K. Sahay | Kashmir still plagued by undercurrents of crisis

Many Kashmiri Pandits who didn’t leave the Valley even in the high noon of terrorism in the early 1990s are now leaving, slowly. It’s as if the...

Injustice bulldozed

Justice Sandeep Kumar of Patna HC slams a bunch of Patna cops for “illegally” bulldozing a house Justice Sandeep Kumar of the Patna High Court...

Judiciary vs Executive

Kiran Rijiju’s remark on the Collegium  drives the wedge between the judiciary and the executive It was writing on the wall. The day justice DY...

Rajendra Prasad is inspiration for Biharis

Independent India’s first President stood for values and ideals which for our politicians have little regard The illiterate and casteist...

Xi Jinping is caught in a trap but he built it himself

There is a way out: Xi has to eat humble pie and import several billion doses of the highly effective mRNA vaccines Our COVID-19 policy is the most...

Layoffs at OYO

IPO-bound hotel aggregator OYO is letting go of 600 of its 3,700 employees, mostly involved in tech roles in product and engineering teams,...

The optics, and politics, of development

Lucknow is a city that has been ravaged by politics and decades of regime one-upmanship and is now in a state of perpetual, and carefully...

Will Imran Khan stoop to conquer?

A few months ago, sources say, at the Corps Commander conference of the Pakistan Army, the then Lt. General Asim Munir, who was one of the six...

Centre to finalise strategies for 2023 G-20 summit on Monday

India is expected to host over 200 meetings across the country, including Hyderabad, beginning in December this year.

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14 ദിവസം 48 കളി, ഖത്തര്‍ ലോകകപ്പില്‍ ഗ്രൂപ്പ്‌...

മായാത്ത മുദ്രകള്‍

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IPL 2023: 5 overseas players teams will definitely want to buy

A total of 991 players have registered for IPL 2023 auctions to be held on December 23, 2022 in Kochi. Out of these 991, 277 are overseas players....

Money Anxiety- a visual guide

Just Like That | Notes on hangovers of the past and an institution of the future

On our special relationship with the British as seen through the ‘superiority’ of the English language; and a recent trip to NIIT in Rajasthan,...

What unrest and anger in China’s cities reveal

A radically networked society has been created to protest the zero-Covid policy. But the path to peace appears complex, with a smooth exit from the...

Amazon’s India Problem

From layoffs to shutdowns in India, it has not been Amazon’s year — the first full one under the leadership…

Top 20 of 2022

From the boatman of Sleater Road to the bird man of Prescott Road—we pick the year’s favourite finds on these pages Abdeali Mithaiwala at...

Judicial overreach is not the answer to our democracy’s flaws

Our lower bureaucracy in general is not known for competent delivery or responsiveness and integrity. However, because of the systems and practices...

Pakistan must seize the opportunity to end Kashmir dispute

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh's recent statement that India will seize Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is mere rhetoric. A solution to the dispute...

OPINION: Will India’s G20 Presidency Emerge as a ‘Bright Spot on the Dark Horizon’ for a World in Crisis?

The year 2023 might emerge as a major watershed moment for the world. It might be a year when the resonance of the major events of last two years,...

Pak army loses its Teflon coating as popular discontent rises

3 Dec 2022 1:31 PM Pakistan Army. (Photo Credit: PTI File) Pakistan's army has been the arbiter of the country's fate over the 75 years of its...

Inside track by Coomi Kapoor

Last week’s disappointing zilla parishad results in Haryana suggest that Modi perhaps already had an inkling that all is not well with the BJP in...

To a gulaabi future

Social media is back to “slaying it” in the world’s oldest colour, bright pink, for fast sales — and likes. So, how will you stay on-trend...

Govt mulls exempting early-stage startups from data protection bill provisions

Currently, the draft DPDP has proposed exemption only for government notified data fiduciaries and data processing entities

Tantrik temples in faraway Java

We know they are tantric because an aerial view reveals that they are built on radially symmetrical square-shaped mandalas with four doorways...

Ramachandra Guha: 40 years after Attenborough’s ‘Gandhi’, revisiting Indira Gandhi’s views about it

This week marks the 40th anniversary of the release of Richard Attenborough’s epic film, Gandhi. Attenborough’s papers are located in an archive...

Gaslight at the end of the tunnel

To gaslight means psychologically manipulating someone into doubting their own validity and sanity Illustration/Uday Mohite Gaslighting is the...

Creepy film industry

The guilty old man eventually commits suicide, leaving a note asking Nirmala to remarry. Illustration/Uday Mohite In 1937, V Shantaram made Duniya...

District Judge knocks at the doors of HC

A district judge in Delhi Deepak Kumar had to knock at the doors of the High Court for justice when the state government turned down his request...

WayCool Co-founder Karthik Jayaraman on building a demand-led food supply chain

In this episode of Prime Venture Partners Podcast, Karthik Jayaraman, Co-Founder of WayCool Foods, an agritech startup, reveals what it takes to...

Art, appreciation, audiences–four exhibitions showcase artistic imagination and creativity tips

In our photo essay from Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath in Bengaluru, we feature a range of artistic highlights and insights into the journey of...

The AIIMS attack shows the importance of a robust cybersecurity framework

By virtue of its size and importance, AIIMS is sitting on a trove of sensitive and targeted health data, and any compromise can have major national...

Traffic rules exist for the benefit of everyone

To keep drivers in line, about 30 employees from the Regional Transport Offices of Mumbai, Panvel, Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad have been deployed and...

And we wait

And now that the day has turned into night, I ponder about film, and how different it is from theatre the space that I hail from. In film you tell...

FPIs turn net buyers in Nov; invest Rs 36,329 Cr in equities

According to data with the depositories, FPIs invested a net sum of Rs 36,329 crore in equities in November.

Fintechs replacing banks a misconception; CBDC experience so far comforting: RBI Deputy Governor

Exuding confidence that the banks will be able to embrace technology, he also enlisted a few missed opportunities of the past and also ones which...

Anand K. Sahay | Kashmir still plagued by undercurrents of crisis

Many Kashmiri Pandits who didn’t leave the Valley even in the high noon of terrorism in the early 1990s are now leaving, slowly. It’s as if the...

Saeed Naqvi | Will the protests compel Iranian regime to begin gradual reforms?

When Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei turns up in Isfahan, Iran’s city of culture and learning, and delivers an elaborate, hour-long statement...

AA Edit | Governors can't hold up bills; rules need relook

State ministers, sometimes even chief ministers, especially those belonging to political platforms opposed to that of the ruling party at the...

AA Edit | Football proves the great leveller

World Cup football assumed a greater aura in this edition as the preliminary league games among 32 nations produced upsets galore. Sporting tales...

Elusive target

The spirit of India’s licence raj continues to haunt businesses, most lamentably where rules are devised to achieve goals that are virtually...

A long way still for India to be the best democracy

Those who entered politics preaching alternative politics and eradicating corruption had to adopt populist measures, and, as a result, election...