Vital office, not sinecure
By Inder Jit
(Released on 19 April 1983)
Thinking people anxious to see Centre-State relations function smoothly and develop along healthy lines will need to devote...
Are climate funds adequate?
COP27 & After
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Umpteen numbers of reports and research studies have come out in recent years regarding the extent of global warming and...
Dangerous change
Religious Conversions
By Poonam I Kaushish
India is caught up in a battle royale between the Gods after a 17-year-old girl committed suicide as she was...
Huge job cuts, slump in India
Musk Leads Global IT Mayhem
By Shivaji Sarkar
The dismissal of Meta-Twitter workers, now mass resignationsand closure of its offices for a week signify deeper economic...
Counting the benefits
India's G-20 Presidency
By Dr. D.K. Giri
(Prof. International Relations, JIMMC)
In the G-20 Summit at Bali, India will be handed over the presidency of the most...
Poll body, pressures & independence
REWIND
By Inder Jit
(Released on 13 February 1990)
India has once again proved its claim to being the world’s biggest democracy. Nearly 300 million people exercised...
Ending abuse of quota system?
EWS Verdict
By Sagarneel Sinha
It has been quite common to hear from the upper castes that the reservation system hampers growth. They often argue that...
State govts challenge post
Role of Governors
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Recently Vice-Chancellors of seven Kerala universities have moved the High Court seeking direction to cancel the Chancellor’s show cause notice...
India fails its women
Stree Shakti Anyone?
By Poonam I Kaushish
Women are the buzz words in this silly electoral season with ballot boxes in Himachal sealed and Gujarat and...
Restating strategic autonomy!
EAM in Russia
By Dr D.K. Giri
(Prof. International Relations, JIMMC)
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is in Moscow visiting his counterparts– the Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov...
Poll has thrown up basic issues
By Inder Jit
(Released on 5 March 1985)
Several issues of basic importance to the future of our polity have come up in the course of...
Himalayan region in focus?
COP27 & Glacier Melt
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The COP27 has just begun in the Egyptian coastal city of Sharm el-Sheikh and the planet is sending a...
What’s in a song?
Vande Mataram Parity
By Poonam I Kaushish
Much ado about nothing! That is the sum total of another petition in Delhi High Court last week to...
Pollution biz at graveyard!
Climate Change Cyclical
By Shivaji Sarkar
The greenhouse global warming and climate change are parallelly being used by pollution lobbies that have turned it into big...
Not just cong wanting
Intra-Party Democracy
By Sagarneel Sinha
The recent All India Congress Committee elections for the post President, where Mallikarjun Kharge defeated Shashi Tharoor, has yet again brought...
Will plans help growth?
Manufacturing Sector
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Three decades of reforms notwithstanding, manufacturing in the country as a proportion of GDP has not really picked up. Today...
Tiptoeing stealthily
Uniform Civil Code
By Poonam I Kaushish
It’s the silly season of Ram-Rahim political poll cut outs with election to two States Gujarat and Himachal soon...
New initiative on black money
By Inder Jit
(Released on 4 August 1981)
Mrs Gandhi has spoken not a day too soon on black money during her recent visit to Srinagar...
Review, strict action vital
Mitigating Air Pollution
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The Centre recently revised the target of reducing air pollution (PM concentrations) in cities from 20-30 percent by 2024 to...
From ‘us’ to ‘them’
Hijab Controversy
By Poonam I Kaushish
What’s in a dress? Nothing, it’s a form of clothing, but the maelstrom over the innocuous Muslim hijab (headscarf) banned...