OPINION

The marketplace is crowded with brands grappling with digital marketing strategies to attract consumers. It’s all a gamble that can make or break a brand

Today, the Pentagon controls around 750 bases in some 80 foreign countries and territories. Military action goes on against terrorism in 76 countries or 40 % of the world. It’s a global empire that spans the entire planet and also aerospace today.

Both Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh came into being around the same time. Jharkhand has thrice the population of Chhattisgarh but one-third Revenue of Chhattisgarh

Why should students study the history of Muslim rule as well as their conquests in the Indian subcontinent — as if we had been living in Dark Age before that

On the battlefield, everyone respects a machine gun. When machine guns open up, enemy soldiers with rifles hide. There is nothing which imbues you with that exhilarating feeling of power than firing a machine gun.

The damage political crossfire does to governance is phenomenal, especially if honest officers get caught. The officers feel betrayed and frustrated.

The IAS is not as bad as it is made out to be. The country is proud of institutions like the Election Commission and the UPSC. However, all is not well with the civil services. There is a scope for improvement. The critical question however is can tinkering with measures like lateral recruitment bring about improvement in the quality of governance?

Communal harmony is not a one-way street. Promoting communal harmony is not the responsibility of a single community. The other side too has to play a part

The US intelligence leak revealing memos between Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif, and Hina Rabbani, expose the murky state of affairs of Pakistan’s foreign policy.

How can the nation, government and society at large be responsible for Muslims not attending college? The government has thrown open the doors of higher education to everybody. If Muslim boys and girls do not evince interest in higher education, what can anybody do?

Civil Servants are confronted with huge dilemmas during their careers and will continue to do so. The inspiration for a change will have to come from within.

Kerala has been in the news because of a wide range of activities ranging from the promotion of terrorist ideology to flying overseas to join the Islamic State