'Safeguarding borders is a 24x7 exercise'

'Breaking down silos and ensuring a more integrated governance process is just as important to performance.''It has been a major priority in the last six years, especially in national security,'......

Delhi's Burari deaths put spotlight on occult practices

The whodunit might be solved but the mystery of how and why 11 members of a family died in their home in north Delhi’s Burari locality will endure, with its suggestion of occult practices......

Why students unions at universities must not be curbed

IMAGE: JNU students protest against the police crackdown on the campus in February. Photograph: PTI The State is trying to curb the students movements, therefore, there are suspicions against some......

Beating up an ambassador: This is how Communists are

'Why would the Communists do this?I have three possible answers: One, they are specifically opposed to the Global Education Meet that the ambassador organised.Two, they are beginning to realise......

Explaining the why of algorithmic conclusions

Ajit Balakrishnan on the emerging crisis in the tech world.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com There was a deathly silence in that vast hall of a thousand-plus data mining and artificial......

'Steep' decline in H-1B visas applications this year: USCIS

The United States has seen a steep decline in the number of applications for the H-1B visas, the most sought-after by Indian IT firms and professionals, with the country's immigration agency......

'India's dominance in IT will continue'

'India is the number one IT destination in the world as we have the largest number of IT professionals in the world.' IMAGE: A scene from an Indian start-up company. Photograph: Reuters  ......

Why we need to avoid falling into the soft skills trap

  A more rigorous training in core skills is required to boost the engineering talent in the country, instead of a varnish of ‘soft skills’, says Ajit Balakrishnan. Whenever......