Opinion

In recent years, the alarming rise in suicide rates among India’s youth has underscored the urgent need for efficient and effective suicide helplines. Yesterday, a 25-year-old postgraduate medical student from Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC) in Delhi was found dead in his rented accommodation, suspected to have died by suicide. His friends discovered the body […]

Today, we’re not facing a technology or resource problem; instead, we find ourselves in a serious leadership crisis. For the past decade given my work as a curator of the future, I have witnessed firsthand how AI along with other disruptive technologies have begun to reframe the future of being human, which requires better leadership […]

During his visit to the United States (US), Congress leader Rahul Gandhi met with US lawmakers, including Ilhan Omar, known for her strong anti-India stance. This meeting has raised eyebrows even among Congress supporters, who argue that Gandhi, as the leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha, should have distanced himself from a US politician […]

In a country where democracy has been reduced to the level of a vote bank, it is no surprise if the national or regional elections have become an anathema to the Kashmiri Pandit community. In the first place, they are numerically almost immaterial in a State where, after suffering unceasing persecution for more than six […]

The unsaid and unacknowledged aspect of the 2024 assembly elections in the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir is that, after 35 years, New Delhi has granted a general amnesty to the entire political class of Kashmir. From Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti to Jamat-e-Islami and Hurriyat, all soft-separatists and hardliners have now been pardoned […]