A sorry state of affairs!
Municipal Financing
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The Reserve Bank of India’s recent release of the annual ‘Report on Municipal Finance’ is undoubtedly a good yardstick to assess...
Large funds can’t save globe
Climate Resilience
By Shivaji Sarkar
Amid the rising disaster risk threats to infrastructure, the world plans massive investments of $94 trillion for disaster resilience in the...
Raising global competitiveness
India Out of RCEP
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Amidst farmers’ protests and resentment, India has taken a judicious decision to opt out of the Regional Comprehensive Economic...
Tshering reinforces ties
India-Bhutan Talks
By Dr DK Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JMI)
Bhutan's newly-elected Prime Minister Lyonchhen Lotay Tshering made his maiden foreign visit to India to reinforce a...
Citizens’ common cause
By Inder Jit
(Released on September 4, 1979)
Revulsion against the current state of politics in the country continues to snowball. Never before has greater contempt...
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...
It’s hope vs hurdles
Naga Peace Talks
By Sagarneel Sinha
Anxiety is refusing to die down among the people of Nagaland, as the peace deal to the Naga problem still...
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...
Not just Bihar’s concern
Bodies In Ganges
By Insaf
No dignity in death, an expression that too shall illustrate India’s second wave of the pandemic. This week, the depressing pictures...
Alarm, not penalty
Garbage Tax
By Dr.S.Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
Greater Chennai Corporation announced Garbage Tax a few days back to the surprise of all residents and gave...
Promoting tre-sector partnership
India's G-20 Presidency
By Dr. D.K. Giri
(Prof. International Relations, JIMMC)
In the current series of articles on India’s G-20 presidency, in the run up to the...
Riots reminder of past
Delhi Burns
By Insaf
Delhi puts a big question mark on ‘New India’. The riots should make both its people and the government hang their head...
Pvt invest less, deficit up
India Finds New High
By Shivaji Sarkar
The Indian economy is passing through an interesting phase. Its growth touched 7.8 per cent for the first quarter,...
Leftist Legacy & Influence:
Aam aadmi should be priority
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The recent elections to Delhi University, JNU and Hyderabad University bear testimony to the fact that Left philosophy...
Better higher education?
HECI Bill
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
There is much debate regarding improving higher education in the country. Academic scholars and educationists have expressed concern about standards and...
2022:New hopes & promises
Covid Spoils Party Again
By Poonam I Kaushish
How does one begin an epitaph of the year gone by? Uncork the champagne and roll out the...
Balatkar akhir kab tak?
Society At War
By Poonam I Kaushish
A 15-year-old girl leaves home for her tuition classes on 9 January in Haryana. Four days later her body...
Psbs better on thin spread
More Pvt Banks Fail
By Shivaji Sarkar
Public sector banks (PSB) are critically needed today as these were in 1969, is virtually the message that the...
Under ‘fear or favour’
Karnataka Polls
By Insaf
Karnataka makes a mockery of the cardinal rule that voters must exercise their right to vote ‘without fear or favour.’ The run-up...
Are we girls or play things?
Woman = Stigma
By Poonam I Kaushish
What is moral? And what constitutes morality? Do one’s morals end where another’s nose begins? Sizzling questions which strips...