View Articles

With Earth’s Orbits getting crowded, the risks of Kessler syndrome – a catastrophic and irreversible chain reaction of on-orbit collisions between debris and operational satellites –is becoming high, even though according to the most recent projection by Merrill Lynch/Bank of America the space economy would grow to $2.7 by 2040, while the global commercial revenues reached an estimated $271 billion in 2020. The monetary losses in case of Kessler Syndrome have been estimated to $191.3 billion.

The Biden administration is mulling whether to grant Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sovereign immunity in a case related to the 2018 killing of Jamal Khashoggi. The journalist's fiancé and a non-profit organization he helped found filed the lawsuit in a Washington district court.

Europe’s centre-right political parties were until a decade ago seen as ‘both dependably dull and dependably stable’. But that is now a thing of the past. Now the continent’s Christian democratic, conservative and market liberal parties together constitute the mainstream right. They are now undergoing significant and fascinating transformations, not least as they confront an ever more serious challenge from the populist far right. The worrisome aspect is the presence of neo-Nazis in some form or the other.

Prime minister Narendra Modi’s televised interview with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin at the SCO summit on September116 at Samarkand is reverberating in the Western international media even five days after the event. All major media houses in USA and Canada are repeating the conversation between the two and showing the recorded clip over and over again.

Indian government is gung ho about Indian economy’s GDP numbers, which recorded a double digit growth in the first quarter this financial year and overtook Britain to become the world’s fifth largest economy. These numbers do give us a sense of pride as they are not insignificant achievements after the economy went for a toss during the last two years.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It is gubernatorial grouchiness at its worst. Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan must be replaced immediately. The Governor is guilty of going against all accepted norms of gubernatorial conduct, in the process of violating the Constitution he is supposed to uphold.

Arvind Kejriwal seems to have come of age as a politician. The Delhi chief minister is apparently taking a page out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi book to speak the same language, same content and wear the same demeanor. He needs to be given credit for his assessment that Modi’s language strikes a chord with the masses. He has only put himself in the same shoes.

Seventy-three per cent of the workforce in India are reeling under poverty in spite of theirs being working for long hours much more than the eight hours a day. Employers do not give them enough wages, which has resulted in 8 per cent of the workforce living in extremely poor condition, 30 per cent in moderately poor and 35 per cent in near poor conditions. Moreover, millions of them do not get their wages in time, but are compelled to work, which the Supreme Court of India has called a modern-day slavery while hearing the Union Government flagship scheme MGNREGA that intended to guarantee employment for rural workers but were being paid even less than minimum wages with payments delayed for months.

Surat: Top seeds Maharashtra and West Bengal breezed through their opening two rounds in women’s table tennis in the 36th National Games here on Tuesday.

Surat: "It is a golden era for Indian Table Tennis,” asserted the World No. 37 G Sathiyan.