Information being collected for the unique identification project will be sold back to the government through specially created, privatised, for profit utilities Technology has created the potential to record, collate, converge, retrieve, mine, share, p
There is much to learn from his exposition of realism, his lasting legacy to international relations theory, and its limitations I spent nearly a year as a student at a pre-eminent school of international relations before I realised I had come across lit
A memorial to Bhindranwale exposes the politics of radical Sikh organisations and the strain it is putting on the BJP-Akali Dal alliance Last year, there was widespread concern when the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), at the instance of t
Indians are anxious about Chinese policies and capabilities, but a new survey finds as many prefer partnering Beijing as those who favour joining hands with other countries to contain it The Government of India may have rolled out the red carpet for Chi
Bankers’ accusations of trader price-rigging are fuelled by revenge — the real fixers are in OPEC The bankers have finally got their revenge. Oil traders claim that influential bankers, furious that that their sector has been squeezed by regulators sinc
One of my earlier columns, the gender lens, was about insensitive reporting (October 22, 2012). It was a report in the Bangalore edition of this paper on sexual assault on a law student. Though the report refrained from naming the victim, a good practice
Syed Masoom Ali stood in a clearing on the outskirts of Bamako, the capital of Mali, gestured towards the low-slung hills around him, and thought of home.“It is a good deposit, the ore is close to the surface,” he said, but of course, it was not like home
Previous: Karuturi’s defence The Ethiopian government’s unstinting support for Karuturi has both helped and hindered the project. Rights groups like Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Oakland Institute have attacked Karuturi as the most visible symbol of
In recent years, the Ethiopian government has announced its intention to lease millions of hectares of land for export-oriented commercial plantations. Indian companies like Karuturi and Shapoorji Pallonji responded by committing to invest $4.4 billion in
