New Zealand sits on top of a previously unknown continent. The continent is mostly submerged beneath the South Pacific and scientists are in favour of naming it Zealandia.Scientists from GNS Science, a New Zealand-based scientific research body, has informed recently that Zealandia was once a part o...
“The Government of India predicted that in 2016-17 India’s economic growth will reduce to 7·1% due to demonetisation. … The rate of growth in our state also may be restricted to 9.27% due to this demonetisation” - was how the West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra had begun his macro econo...
In India, as in other democratic countries, immigration and citizenship are quite contentious issues. When our Home Minister Rajnath Singh introduced the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016, in the Lok Sabha, it was a conscious and well-planned political decision to grant citizenship to Bangladeshi Hi...
Vikash Sharma has assumed office as the newly appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Vedanta Group controlled Bharat Aluminum Company Ltd. He is expected to steer the company and focus on future growth and ensure continuous development.Sharma was well-received and warmly welcomed by senior BALCO...
The snow-capped mountains have always attracted tourists to Kashmir. Although the last six months of the year 2016 remained mostly dry, the new year saw a spate of snowfall across Kashmir. This has boosted winter tourism in the valley. Enthusiastic over the snowfall in tourist destinations like Gulm...
Trump’s immigration policy raises the red flagUS President Donald Trump signed an executive order on January 27, 2017, temporarily banning individuals from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the US. Countries like Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen have been barred...
The New Korba Super Speciality Hospital, Korba, Chhattisgarh has achieved the distinction of being the first cashless hospital in Chhattisgarh. In a programme organised by the hospital, the director of the hospital Dr. S Chandani informed about the hospital’s policy to go cashless and enumerated t...
Dr. Vijay Prashad is the George and Martha Kellner Chair of South Asian History and Professor of International Relations at Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut. In 2013-14, he was the Edward Said Chair at the American University of Beirut. He has authored over seventeen books including The Darke...
The Orlando night club shooting in America shocked humanity. It was the deadliest attack on American soil since 9/11 and the worst mass shooting by a single gunman in the US history. Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old American, armed with a SIG Sauer MCX semi- automatic rifle and a 9mm Glock 17 semi-automat...
Britain voted to leave the European Union (EU), a decision which leaves the world’s fifth-biggest economy facing deep uncertainty about its growth prospects and its attractiveness to investors, and which could hurt other economies in Europe and beyond. Given the economic heft of Britain and the EU...