India’s challenge now is not just to engage with the Taliban but to ensure that such engagement does not compromise its principles or global reputation. Dr Noour Ali Zehgeer India’s recent engagement with the Taliban’s Foreign Minister — a UN-sanctioned individual — has stirred both curiosity and controversy in equal measures. For New Delhi, this…
Every city has its culture, but in Jammu, it often lives on street corners — around tea stalls, office corridors, and of course, near the golgappa vendor. The crispy delight is just an excuse — the real menu is endless conversation. Anil Sharma There are two things that define the everyday rhythm of a true…
The classrooms of tomorrow will not be defined by machines, but by the harmony between human insight and artificial intelligence. Mohammad Hanief Artificial Intelligence is transforming education at an extraordinary pace, redefining both how students learn and how teachers teach. Once confined to futuristic imagination, AI is now a reality within classrooms, capable of diagnosing…
Expansion must therefore be guided not by prestige or pressure, but by epidemiological data and professional prudence rooted in public-health ethics. Dr.Fiaz Maqbool Fazili It always puzzles me when multiple PET-CT scanners are proposed for the same region. By global norms, one PET-CT unit adequately serves a population of about 10–15 lakh, depending on cancer…
If we keep waiting to tell our kids the truth about their own bodies, we might as well wait till courtrooms do it for us. Peerzada Masarat Shah In a country where talking about menstruation still sends parents into a panic and words like “sex education” are whispered as if they’re nuclear codes, the Supreme…
