Don’t be power hungry

Congressisation of BJP By Sagarneel Sinha The year 2019 is a historic year for the BJP as it is the first time that the Party returned...

Centre caught on wrong foot?

Recent EC Appointment By Insaf Amid elections to State Assemblies, petitions in the Supreme Court have stirred a hornet’s nest with the recent appointment process of...

Aiimsinfo breach is risky

Indian Health Data Worth $7 b By Shivaji Sarkar Health data is critical. Had one secret been known, the Indian subcontinent may have had different political...

Time for booster

Politics of Vaccine By Poonam I Kaushish Covid-19 announced itself to the world as 2020 dawned blitzing globally, unnerving health systems, nose diving economies and the...

Exploring economic opportunities

German FM in India D.K.Giri Prof. International Politics JIMMC The Foreign Minister of Germany Annalena Baerbock was in India this week on a two-day visit. The purpose...

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...

Techniques need change

Dryland Farming By Dhurjati Mukherjee Notwithstanding that COP26 was largely seen as disappointing, the UN in one of its statement said ‘significant progress’ was made in...

Need to revisit ethos

Rising Violence By Dhurjati Mukherjee The decisive role violence played in the ordering of the Third World, including India, cannot be ignored or consigned to the...

Folly, accident or conspiracy?

Oil, PSUs Death & Jobs By Shivaji Sarkar Air, petro, telephony and job crises are putting the country at risk. America’s nonchalance is adding to...

Iip, forex contract

Prices Rise 6 Per Cent By Shivaji Sarkar A smart Reserve Bank of India anticipating prices shooting up has decided not to tinker with the interest...

Nepal’s broken model

Exporting People, Importing Turmoil By Shivaji Sarkar Nepal has become the latest flashpoint of instability in the Indian subcontinent, echoing Bangladesh’s violent turn last year. The...

Make or break year

Republic At 61 By Poonam I Kaushish How does one feel on Republic day week? Rather how is one supposed to feel? Patriotic? Puffed up in...

Abstract, price cuts vital

FM's Stimulus By Shivaji Sarkar A booster dose of about Rs 6.28 lakh crore stimulus to push credit is supposedly an official phenomenon to rev up...

Eye not gdp but ews

Ailing Economy By Dhurjati Mukherjee In the midst of the economy being hit severely and government suffering a financial crunch, Prime Minister Modi’s announcement of giving...

Sjm treads Gandhian path

Job Creation Sans Govt By Shivaji Sarkar Acute unemployment, the biggest political challenge for the country, is sought to be resolved the Gandhian way by the...

Pandemic exposes faultlines

Economic Plugging By Moin Qazi A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say:...

Maintaining the balance

Religion & Public Life By Dusmanta Kumar After the remarks made by former BJP Spokesperson and the controversy it kicked off within the country and internationally,...

Fast track caste politics

Pre-Election Mood By Dr.S.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) In recent days, one cannot help noticing that some of the long pending demands of caste groups are...

Messy, image sullied

Cairn Affair By Shivaji Sarkar No sooner the new-look Union Cabinet with 43 fresh inductions, many bureaucrats starts the Modi-II second innings, the country gets a...

An analytical perspective

Pakistan's Story By Dr. D. K. Giri (Secretary General, Assn. For Democratic Socialism) The dramatic arrest of 70-year-old Imran Khan, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan has...