Surge in Digital Payments Leads to Less Cash Economy

Surge in digital payments is leading India to the cusp of a digital revolution as more than one billion Indians have a unique identity number with a biometric identifier which…

India Born Vision Scientist Push Frontiers of Neuroscience to Better Understand Vision

Kolkata- India -born vision scientists Raunak Sinha and Mrinalini Hoon, who call themselves as a ‘scientist couple’, recently made comparisons of the physiological properties of  fovea and peripheral retina and pushed the…

Non-Compliance of Financial Action Task Force Advisory will be Serious for Pakistan

Pakistan had launched a crackdown on the terror outfit Jama’at-ud-Da’wah (JuD) and affiliates and put Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and his four accomplices Abdullah Ubaid, Zafar Iqbal, Abdur Rehman Abid and…

Is there any Insurance Cover on Damages due to LPG?

Indeed, there is Public Liability Insurance Coverage available for incidents related to LPG, and any customer of LPG cylinders from an authorized dealer is covered under the Public Liability Policy…

The Menace of Climate Change

“The Earth has enough for everyone’s needs, but not for everyone’s greed.”—Mahatma Gandhi “Climate Change is happening, humans are causing it and I think this is perhaps the most serious…

Hazards of Climate Change

Students wondered what the weird looking green-brown pillars were. ‘Trees’, the museum guide explained. Though an extreme predicament, its possibilities cannot be denied. “On climate change, we often don’t fully…

Role of Intellectuals in the Turbulent World

The role of intellectuals in society is a complicated subject. Their roles vary with the time in which those intellectuals are born. Their contribution can be defined in different contexts.…

Duties of Citizens in a Welfare State

Introduction “There are two principles of justice : not to harm anybody and serve the society’s welfare.” —Marcus Tullius Cicero          The notion of welfare state should be clearly…

India as a Maritime Nation : Its Role and Responsibilities

Introduction “It is the right time to come and better through the Sea Routes.” —PM Narendra Modi        Indian Maritime History—Indian maritime history begins during the 3rd millennium BCE when…

The Concept of Cooperative Federalism

­Cooperative Federalism (1930s–1970s) is a concept of federalism in which national, State and local governments interact cooperatively and collectively to solve common problems, rather than making policies separately but more…

The Nation Must Take Precedence Over All Other Considerations

When we think of a ‘nation’, we realise it is not a random collection of people. We may never know all our fellow nationals but still there is something that…