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IMPRI Team Children’s eye care issues, their causes and treatment represent a speciality and niche area within the broader sector of ophthalmology. Nonetheless, it is an essential process to reduce the prevalence of avoidable blindness. The factors primarily responsible for…
Amita Singh Social media technologies like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs have rapidly emerged as one of the strongest weapons of contemporary governance in the last 16 years since the origin of Facebook in 2004. According to statistics provided by Global…
IMPRI Team It is estimated that 2.2 billion people around the world have some form of vision impairment, out of which 1 billion could have prevented it or have eye issues that are yet to be addressed In India alone,…
On monetising infrastructure, government is on the right track Dhiraj Nayyar It will be unfortunate if the only prism through which the National Monetisation Pipeline is viewed is the revenue which it will earn the government—approximately Rs 6 lakh crore…
T K Arun In a week dominated by the terror strike on Afghanistan that killed at least 170 people, including 13 US soldiers, the news in India would have looked humdrum, but for the sheer scale of a National Asset…
There are times when an image can become a defining moment in a leader’s life. US President Joe Biden bowing down his head at a press conference in response to a reporter’s question perhaps sums up Biden’s Afghanistan policy so far. There is chaos, there is confusion and then there is sheer incompetence. Biden is losing his grip on the narrative and his team looks clueless in even managing a patina of order. Washington’s inability to withdraw with even a semblance of dignity intact will have a great bearing on America’s future conduct in global politics and it is not readily evident that the Biden administration is up to the task of moving ahead purposefully.
Anil Trigunayat Afghanistan is mired in uncertainty and remains in a flux as the Taliban-led government asserts its rule over most parts of the country. Some pockets of resistance remain especially in Panjshir where former Vice President Saleh calls himself…