A holistic approach towards digital inequality issues is imperative in both academic and scholarly circles. The framework for access issues should be revised to incorporate the new technological developments including AI.

Labour sweeps the UK polls as voters vent fury on Tories. For India, it's an opportunity to continue building a key relationship

The state’s continuing vulnerability to floods stems from outmoded solutions. State government must do better than blaming geography

Sikh terrorists from the Jammu and Kashmir unit of the All-India Sikh Students Federation hijacked an Indian Airlines airbus to Lahore while it was on a Srinagar-Delhi-Bombay flight.

When a Pulitzer prize winner faces off against a chart-topper, you need to tune in

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on July 5, 1984, Forty Years Ago.

Things are faster, and that sometimes means better. But with speed, people also lose something they need — the ability to sit, and think

Periodic revisions of textbooks are essential. But such revisions must not lose sight of the goal: To expose them to a vibrant curriculum that encourages curiosity, enhances critical thinking

Considering that data, whether on household consumption expenditure, employment or tax, provides an understanding of various facets of the economy, the absence of data has critical implications for policy

Voters have deftly developed the idea of constitutionalism as a shield and sword for their own larger freedom. It is up to all, including elected leaders, citizens and judiciary, to ensure there is no overreach.

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on July 4, 1984, Forty Years Ago.

When a Question Bank providing a category-wise pool of questions is provided to the students at the beginning of an academic year, the element of secrecy vanishes. Professional wrongdoers out to leak a question paper also lose their ‘business’.

Legendary players seldom come without ego, but Dravid has a self-deprecating way. When the coach’s selflessness and vision is not in doubt and when players don’t feel their territory is being cramped or encroached, it’s not a surprise that seniors and juniors combine as well as they did in winning the World Cup.

There seems to be a lack of consensus on this fundamental point. If the economy is not doing very well, then we should not be surprised if the budget uses the surplus dividend to announce a further increase in infrastructure spending.

For Greece — as indeed for others — it might be useful to go back to what Aristotle once said, that ‘the end of labour is to gain leisure’. A six-day work week puts paid to any hope of the latter.

The tragedy should push policymakers to evolve safety-related protocols. The Adityanath government which uses Section 144 to restrict people's gatherings on occasions as different as the farmers' protest to religious festivals should reflect on its failings in Hathras.

The first face-off in the House is an opportunity missed by both sides, but the term has only just begun

His books gave shelter to a lost Balkan way of life — the only act of resistance that transcends regimes and offers a chance to ‘overcome the impossible’

J R Jayewardene, the Sri Lankan President said that he had recapitulated his views to Indira Gandhi, the Indian Prime Minister, that the political resolution to the Tamil problem was Sri Lanka’s “internal matter”. 

It must ensure a prey base for the animal. The sanctuary’s officials need to be equipped to monitor the big cat’s health

Delhi should stop underestimating the relative importance of Britain for India. India’s exports to Britain today, at nearly $30 billion, are nearly six times the exports to Russia.

It is a political signal. India must firm up its partnership with France for joint production of Rafales

Like many mothers today, the bones of the hominin Lucy have had to bear too much -- creationists objecting to their very existence, scientific siblings taking out their conceptual hang-ups on the long-dead maters. Then there's the fact that she is resurrected by sci-fi and pop culture at regular intervals.

However, there are some areas that require a closer look. Even as the asset quality of retail loans has improved -- bad loans have fallen from 2.1 per cent in June 2022 to 1.2 per cent in March 2024 -- in the case of private sector banks, slippages from retail loans accounted for 40 per cent of fresh addition to bad loans.