Brazen vote bank politics

Assam NRC Row Till yesterday not many had heard of the National Register of Citizens (NRC). Today it has raised a huge controversy with the...

Fast-tracking partnership

India & US By Dr D. K. Giri (Prof, International Politics, JMI) The first-ever 2+2 meeting between India and the United States held recently in New Delhi...

Bleeding Pak with 1000 cuts

Pahalgam Terror Tango  By Poonam I Kaushish Circa April 16, 2025: Twenty four year-old Himanshi is exhilarated and dreams of a married life with 26 year...

Battle of belief & rights

Kerala On Edge By Insaf They did it, throwing Kerala into a tizzy. With two women in menstruating age making an entry into the Lord Ayyappa...

Boli, no. Goli, yes

  Indo-Pak Hit New Low By Poonam I Kaushish You reap what you sow. Last week Pakistan learnt this the hard way when India struck at terror...

Pol parties claims vs ec

Faulty EVMS By Insaf Other than the voters, it is the EVMs that the political parties keep a close watch on. With the third phase of...

‘Developed’ is problematic!

Trump's Big Punch By Shivaji Sarkar India is being continuously hit by the US President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of Generalised system of preferences (GSP) on 5,111...

Sins of defection

Gaddi And Gaddari By Poonam I Kaushish In the monsoon season it is raining Party splitting. One doesn’t know who is sleeping with whom and who...

Effective police state?

New I-T Rules By Shivaji Sarkar The economy is in shackles. Expecting it to thrive is a miracle. Somehow a supposedly rightist, nationalist government is using...

Needs to reorient stategy

BJP's Aspirations Belied By Dhurjati Mukherjee The recent elections results in Haryana and Maharashtra are a clear pointer that BJP’s popularity has been on the wane....

Is it justified?

Encounter Killing By Dr. Oishee Mukherjee The killings of four persons in Hyderabad allegedly accused of rape once again point to organized violence of the State....

Tribunal permanent remedy

Chronic Defections By Dr.S.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) The Supreme Court is indeed forced to make a rather drastic recommendation that Parliament should by an amendment...

Dialogue on economy vital

Corona Panic By Shivaji Sarkar The last quarter figures of 2019-20 fiscal may have reasons to cause worry. An uninteresting Central budget, corona virus, plummeting stock...

Parliament abdicates control again

By Inder Jit (Released on 12 June 1990) Parliament’s recently-concluded budget session has not received the critical attention it deserves. Not many of our people have...

Ease financial milieu

Rising Food Prices By Shivaji Sarkar Rising food prices are adding to the woes of postcorona lockdown recovery. States such as West Bengal, Assam or Uttar...

Relook into law needed

Contempt of Court By Dr S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) Controversies over the contempt of court law will go on irrespective of the final scene...

Hot issue in Bihar, US

COVID-19 & Elections By Dr. S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) BJP manifesto for Bihar Assembly election promises free distribution of COVID-19 vaccine in the State...

Will sc tame Yogi’s up?

Kanwar Yatra By Insaf In election mode, Uttar Pradesh is going all out to reach to its Hindu vote bank. Be it the Kanwar yatra or...

Worsened by cyber loot

By Shivaji Sarkar The projection for India’s growth is not a surprise. It is on a continuous roll and the loss of Rs 11.3...

Of rising jobs & quality

Holistic Growth By Shivaji Sarkar At last the jobs are growing, says the labour bureau employment latest survey. This by 29 per cent in April-June quarter....