MARKS in exams don’t always equal brilliance or intelligence. Yet, to grow and develop in life, for cognitive thinking, one has to have at least some basic level of education. And what exactly one has learned during one’s school and college going years can only be determined if there are some testing agencies that can examine the knowledge and wisdom, the analytical, logical and rational reasoning skills that one has developed through one’s educational phase. Everything was normal till 2019. A few ..

   By Kartik LokhandeThere is a wonderful story in ‘Panchtantra’. A white lice named ‘Mandavisarpini’ lives in the soft mattress on the bed of a king. She used to suck his blood gently when the king fell fast asleep...

The conspiracy is clear -- to create social divide, foment communal trouble -- by promoting utter falsehood about incidents that never happened. What kind of politics is this? What kind of social discourse do these people want to introduce? It is time we found answers to these disturbing questions and find effective response to demolish the falsehood that is being heaped on the larger society. There are multiple points of reference here: One is about what was reported to have happened in Tripura a ..

THE amazing bull run the BSE Sensex had last week to soar past the 60,000+ mark was a clear indication of India’s resolve to go for the risks despite conflicting global cues. Amid lurking fears of another slowdown triggered by the debt default by Chinese real estate giant Evergrande, investors shrugged all the cues aside and decided to bet on India. Defiant on emerging out of the COVID-19 shadow India is simply not ready to get bogged down. The prime factor behind the continuing resurgence of markets ..

Such energy! Absolutely beyond the common reach -- and common comprehension. In sixty-five hours in the United States and the United Nations, Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi had the energy and enthusiasm to have as many as twenty high-power meetings -- upon whose outcome depended the well being of a big chunk of global humanity. And within moments after his return to New Delhi on Sunday afternoon, the Prime Minister had all the time and energy and sense of purpose to hold a two-and-a-half hour meeting ..

The nation has a father-figure -- provider, care-taker, soothsayer, motivator, dreamer, protector, comrade, practical wake-up-caller, eternal emotional cohort of everybody -- in Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi. He is there at all times -- good and bad and indifferent. He is by your side whenever you, the person, and you the society, need him. At most moments, his face is stern, with only a suggestion of a smile on his lips, and a looking-into-nothingness stare in the eyes. But when you need him, ..

The expose` of how foreign money was being routed into the country through the portal Newsclick endorses once again an already nationally-known fact that a lot of overseas elements have been colluding with their Indian accomplices to destabilise India and malign the country’s fair image. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has done very well to keep its campaign focused on all such anti-national activities -- aided and funded by international vested interests. The ED will certainly probe deeper into ..

TODAY, one stands at a terrible cross-roads of shattered beliefs about what symbolises excellence in world journalism. And this bewilderment, this discomfiture is growing every passing day as information pours in about how some of the so-called iconic, globally-acclaimed journals are engaging themselves in a deliberate, totally lop-sided, anti-India and anti-Narendra Modi journalism -- obviously fuelled by some commercial considerations and conspiratorial politics. What once formed an important philosophic..

The decades-old conflict between Arabs and Jews is dangerously spiraling into another possible full-scale war even as Israel valiantly defends its cities and people from the barrage of rockets fired by Hamas militants. The skies over the Gaza Strip and front-line towns in Israel are full of fire and the ground full of metal and debris. There are still no signs of de-escalation despite truce moves initiated by the international community. As the world opinion remains divided over the brutal fight between ..

Come February 5 every year and some motivated elements start toeing the Pakistani line on Kashmir issue, on social media platforms. They reflect what Pakistan has been actively encouraging through rallies, seminars, and symposiums within Pakistan -- ‘observe Kashmir ..