The Union government withdrew the recently revised Seismic Zoning Map of India, which provides earthquake design codes for buildings and other infrastructure projects across the country’s seismic zones. This map was prepared based on seismic data accrued from state-of-the-art digital instruments over the last three decades. The 1993 Latur earthquake, which claimed more than 10,000…
While watching the T20 World Cup semifinal cricket match between India and England with friends, on Thursday, it just struck us that while people in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait are stuck indoors fearing for their lives from missile and drone attacks by neighbouring Iran, we in India are discussing,…
A false claim by a Galgotias University professor stirred an unpleasant incident at the historic and very successful India-AI Impact Summit that concluded yesterday on 21 February 2026, in New Delhi. It was a week-long gathering of representatives from over 100 countries, including more than 20 Heads of State and Governments, along with over 500…
For a moment, let us assume democracy as a free-market politics where there is monopoly on every consumer product. What happens, then? The monopoly sets its own prices, determines its own rules and people are trapped with no options. They are left at the mercy of the monopolistic forces for their daily survival. Instead, if…
With a rich cultural heritage, intellectual achievements, and a deep spiritual tradition, India has consistently produced stalwarts in various fields of science and technology. The contributions of ancient India in the field of mathematics, astronomy, medicine, philosophy, religion, and literature have a lasting impact on the world and continue to be studied and revered today….
Dr R K Chadha Discussions these days invariably converge on the free fall of the Indian rupee (INR) that breached 90 marks against 1 USD in 2025. While India’s real GDP grew by a strong 8.2% in the second quarter (Q2) of the fiscal year 2025-26 (July-September 2025), the INR depreciated against the USD from 85+ to…
Jawaharlal Nehru and Narendra Modi, two Prime Ministers of different era, are as different as chalk and cheese, the former being naïve and docile and the latter bold, pragmatic, and practical. While Nehru’s contributions in modernizing Indian agriculture, dairy, core industries, and education cannot be denied, his non-alignment and foreign policy proved a damp squib…
In the last seven decades, Indian Railways has been synonymous with slowness, ticketless travel, poor value for money, dirty environment, security problems, and corruption. Introduction of the first indigenous state-of-the-art Vande Bharat train in 2019 marked the completion of Modi’s mantra cycle of Reform, Perform, and Transform in land transportation. In the last half-decade,164 Vande…
Come September, people in Delhi dread the worsening of the air quality they breathe. Media gets hyperactive at prime time with experts debating and spokespersons of political parties pointing fingers at each other on the high values of AQI (Air Quality Index) and the people of Delhi and NCR are left to the mercy of…
The Indigo fiasco that unfolded on 2 December 2025 was inevitable as it became an aviation whale enjoying a monopoly on Indian airspace with 64% of the market share in terms of passenger traffic. Lakhs of passengers were left stranded due to the cancellation of thousands of flights. Tempers flared, the media went berserk, asking…
