Opinion

Saturday 02/April/2016 18:10 PM

The Putins of the EU

One of the saddest ironies of this year’s commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union is that Hungary and Poland, always the...

Saturday 02/April/2016 16:40 PM

A basic income is smarter than a minimum wage

Just as the UK raises its minimum wage and as Bernie Sanders's demands for a 50 per cent increase in minimum pay keep winning him votes in the US, some...

Saturday 02/April/2016 16:29 PM

Brazil’s political impasse

It was the kind of politics Brazilians thought they had left behind: One day the sitting president appoints a popular former president to her cabinet in...

Saturday 02/April/2016 16:25 PM

Back to disease-fighting basics

Combating antimicrobial resistance will require groundbreaking technological solutions. To prevent superbugs from claiming an estimated ten million lives a...

Saturday 02/April/2016 16:21 PM

Curing cancer is within reach

One of the most frightening words a patient can hear from a doctor is “cancer.” We know it from the experience of our families and friends, and the...

Friday 01/April/2016 22:50 PM

Kolkata flyover crash toll rises to 24

Times of Oman designers depict a world around them through illustrations everyday, either to enhance the visual elements of a story or as a standalone...

Thursday 31/March/2016 12:17 PM

So to speak: The strong tide of my conscience

It does not often happen but this week it did, to me. The overworked sales girl literally shoved the change in my hand so she could serve another customer....