Commentary
Gaza’s peace deal problem
Repeated agreements have set out ambitious steps towards peace without creating a trusted mechanism to verify compliance, resolve disputes and enforce commitments Donald Trump’s Board of Peace published a 15-point…
GMC to transform into five-star campus: CM
Underground cabling, improved lighting, landscaping planned Panaji: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Monday said the…
Pitch for sustainable growth in Goa
It has been a case of rampant degradation and destruction of the state’s environment which…
Give hope a chance Â
As New Year kicks in, government and people must resolve to improve happiness index There…
EDM death: Report points to mix of drugs, alcohol
Panaji: The preliminary report into the death of Delhi youth, who died in a hospital…
Lasted Commentary
No future for Mapusa without river
The river flowing past the town is encroached, polluted, silted, eutrophicated with poor tidal flushing, and appears almost dead, and…
Remembering Ahilyabai Holkar
Strategic relations of the Maratha queen of Indore with the neighbouring rulers and the flexible religious policies led to the…
Decades of Rohingya persecution
A turning point in their marginalisation was the 1982 Citizenship Law in Myanmar, which excluded them from the definition of…
Rabindranath Tagore on Nation
His views on the nation reflected upon the political, social and metaphysical life of India. Hence, his idea of India…
China in catch-22 situation
The communist country’s policymakers and analysts do not see any problem with Pakistan, nor is much stock placed on democracy,…
Ten take aways from Baisaran Valley
“We don’t want to be defined by conflict..We want to be defined by our capabilities..We don’t want to be disconnected…
Ray of hope in agriculture sector
The Finance Ministry cannot be faulted for its unbounded optimism when it contends in the latest Monthly Economic Review that…
Pahalgam: Bid to derail J&K’s peace
Kashmir is in a climate of crisis, and for the past so many decades at that. By stating so, one…