British sociologist Anthony Giddens defines modernity as a shorthand term for modern society or industrial civilisation, characterised by a set of attitudes that view the world as open to ...

Due to interconnectedness of global energy markets, even a disruption not actually a blockade of the delivery of goods into ...

And then there are those geniuses who jump straight into the “in my day we had no piped or cylinder gas” stories ...

Illustrated with woodcuts created by Nalinakshya Talukdar, the stories have been contributed by a variety of authors — from Namita Gokhale to Pramod Kapoor, to the Queen Mother of Bhutan, Gyalyum Ashi ...

The Mahabharata is often described as the book of war. The author argues that it is as much a book of war as it is a book that reinforces the importance of maintaining peace, especially given the ...

So I turned the cover open, and a few pages down, found to my great relief, that nearly every assumption I had made about the book had been wrong. For one thing, the author defines his concept of ...

I have a confession to make… I am really getting a secret thrill watching the distress and discomfort of the entitled Dubai ...

I have been three times to Dubai -- not to dodge taxes or even to dodge Iranian bombs. Now those who’ve gone for the former have to concern themselves with the latter. The home office in Britain ...

US President Donald Trump, who began the war against Iran in collaboration with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, must end it at once. What he risks otherwise is not only the global economy ...

Reports from Dhaka claim Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin complained of the former interim leader, Muhammad Yunus, ...

Now and then, public policy produces a decision so baffling that you instinctively read the news twice. The rollback of India’s revised earthquake zoning framework, within just three months, is one ...

Nineteen people were killed in two fire accidents in Delhi and Indore — both attributed to a short circuit. The fire became an inferno at both places due to the mixed nature of the buildings, making ...