A former US military member suspected of shooting five dead at Florida’s Fort Lauderdale airport had been evaluated for mental health issues, US media reports. Estaban Santiago, 26, is suspected of opening fire near the baggage carousel about noon Friday after arriving on a flight from Canada and loading his ... Read More »
The Iraq war veteran who allegedly shot and killed five people at Fort Lauderdale airport in Florida on Friday had been having mental health issues after returning from a year-long tour in the Middle East, his aunt has said. Esteban Santiago, 26, was hospitalised over mental health concerns after serving ... Read More »
Moral degradation has spread its tentacles far and wide, including in our education system (“Teaching peace to humanity”, Jan.6). The future generation is left to mechanically absorb factual knowledge, not wisdom. This rat race is a dangerous predicament. The ultimate goal of education — that of emancipating oneself — is ... Read More »
The most important matters in school education, about the nature of education itself and its place in a just and humane society, are not waiting to be discovered. We forget them at our peril. And if we do, we risk repeating the egregious mistakes of the past. We can also ... Read More »
Schools are in access of students, but what about education? The question that arises here is whether the enrolment ratio is enough to say that our students are getting education. Can we say that if there are a large number of schools then the literacy rate will increase in next ... Read More »
Last year, 2016, is in our rearview mirror, so it’s time to look to the trends in 2017 that will change how we do business: For instance, in my travels around the country to conventions and keynote speech engagements, I’ve noticed that the faces of the audiences keep getting younger, ... Read More »
A US intelligence report on Russian hacking concluded that Russian military intelligence relayed material to WikiLeaks and other websites that published emails hacked from Democratic Party organizations. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange insisted earlier this week that the hacked material his site published was not provided by the Russian government or ... Read More »
The government leeway to contain the fiscal deficit at 3.5 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) might be marginal, though the nominal economic growth is projected to be higher than estimated. India’s nominal GDP growth, according to the Advance Estimates released on Friday, was projected at 11.9 per ... Read More »
NEW DELHI: A business class passenger travelling from Mumbai to Newark on an Air India flight shifted to a vacant seat in the economy class to be next to a female passenger and then allegedly groped her when she fell asleep. The man’s inappropriate touch woke up the woman and ... Read More »
