PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Words and deedsFor the third consecutive year in a row, and his fourth such speech since he was elected in 2014, Prime Minister...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Births and rightsA Bill that the government of the land intends to make law cannot be exclusivist at the very outset; and at...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Sensing heatThis year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine — awarded to the researchers, David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian from the University of California,...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – A robust friendshipRussian President Vladimir Putin has concluded a short summit meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, highlighting the “all-weather”...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Transient easingThe latest retail inflation data suggest, at first flush, that price pressures have begun to moderate in the economy, with the August...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – The numbers gameThe 26th United Nations Conference of Parties (COP) in Glasgow, Scotland may not have a significant outcome as yet in sight....
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – The lag between jabsThe Kerala High Court’s intervention regarding the time lag between the two doses of Covishield vaccine is both interesting and unusual. It...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Cutting the captainAmarinder Singh’s ouster and the selection of his baiter Charanjit Singh Channi as Chief Minister of Punjab was scripted in Delhi by the Congress High...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – The other QuadThe virtual meet of the Foreign Ministers of India, the U.S., Israel and the UAE is a strong manifestation of the changes in...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Trust deficitThe decision of India’s competition watchdog to order investigations into Google, following allegations by the country’s digital news publishers that it has...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Big on hopes, short on ideasFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman fourth successive budget, while common sensical in its approach, is not exactly bubbling with...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Bugle for restraintThe schedule for Assembly elections in five States announced by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on January 8 was along...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – A serious lapseThe lapse in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s security arrangements, which left his convoy stranded on a flyover for around 20 minutes, near Ferozepur in...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Wrong routeThe Kerala government’s proposal to amend its Lok Ayukta Act through an ordinance appears questionable and hasty. Even though the Left Democratic Front...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – False dichotomyThe Supreme Court has once again addressed the ‘merit versus reservation’ debate, a misleading binary that has engaged public and judicial discourse...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Unconquered
Sport throws up surprises and cricket is not immune to it. The latest twist transpired at Cape Town’s Newlands where South Africa registered...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Cutting the captainAmarinder Singh’s ouster and the selection of his baiter Charanjit Singh Channi as Chief Minister of Punjab was scripted in Delhi by the Congress High...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Boosting confidenceThe downward trend in fresh coronavirus infections in India continues to inspire confidence that the pandemic is on the wane. The daily new...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Bugle for restraintThe schedule for Assembly elections in five States announced by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on January 8 was along...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – False dichotomyThe Supreme Court has once again addressed the ‘merit versus reservation’ debate, a misleading binary that has engaged public and judicial discourse...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – The other QuadThe virtual meet of the Foreign Ministers of India, the U.S., Israel and the UAE is a strong manifestation of the changes in...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Catching upThe Cabinet’s approval of a Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for the textile sector that is expressly targeted at the manmade fiber...