Let’s tread slowly with biofuel ambitions
India's fuel policy is increasingly being shaped by blending targets. First came ethanol blending mandates.
India's fuel policy is increasingly being shaped by blending targets. First came ethanol blending mandates.
West Bengal is not merely a state. It is, in the telling of those who sought to win it back from the Trinamool Congress, a civilisational citadel - the cradle of the Bengal Renaissance, the land of Ramakrishna and Vivekananda, Bankimchandra and Tagore , Shyamaprasad Mookerjee and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
India's temporary restriction on Telegram ahead of the NEET-UG re-examination has dominated headlines.
There is something profoundly ironic about a civilisation becoming embarrassed by one of its oldest mirrors.
Special emphasis has been laid on the development of infrastructure in the difficult terrains in Arunachal Pradesh, Ladakh, and parts of Uttarakhand bordering China.
A cartoon showing Donald Trump and Xi Jinping arguing into the twenty-second century, and progressively levying tariffs of a billion percent on each other, captures the essence of present developments. Probably, world leaders have to be reminded that levies beyond a point are meaningless ~ guaranteed only to bring international trade to a standstill.
The Reserve Bank of India has recently flagged a troubling trend ~ rising asymmetries in the shortterm money market rates that threaten the effectiveness of monetary policy transmission.
The renewed talks between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions mark a cautious but notable shift in a long-fraught relationship.
Rabindranath Tagore owes his conscience, consciousness and disillusionment to none but mother earth in the poem ‘Prithibi’, written on 16 October 1935. Around 1910, Tagore is writing the Santiniketan series of essays, and there, too, he underlines how he sees no distinction between his own self and the larger nonhuman around.
Growing up in a small Christian-majority village in Kerala's Kannur district, my world was defined by the church bells, catechism classes,and the vibrant festivals that marked our community’s cultural calendar.
