Can Govt mitigate them?

Economic Challenges Ahead By Dhurjati Mukherjee The economy is in a bad shape and experts believe it is in a worse shape than five years ago....

Defection law revamp?

Real Vs Fake Shiv Sena By Poonam I Kaushish As Parties get ready to slug it out in the forthcoming Gujarat and Himachal elections the first...

Psu strengthening vital

Food, Fuel Inflation By Shivaji Sarkar The Indian economy may have started recovering with the unlock but galloping inflation, increasing healthcare expenses and rising unemployment are...

Gandhian approach needed

Cleansing Public Life By Inder Jit (Released on 4 October 1996) Mahatma Gandhi was remembered once again on October 2, his birth anniversary. Top leaders and many...

India’s image at stake

Modern Forms of Slavery By Dr. S.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) Modern slavery in various forms like forced labour, child labour, and human trafficking are among...

Neither a trumpet, nor rubber stamp

By Inder Jit (Released on 28 February 1989) The President, Mr. R. Venkataraman, has let down the Constitution,the two Houses of Parliament and the country in...

Baraat without bridegroom?

Kashmir Local Polls By Insaf Kashmir has a different narrative, no matter what Raj Bhavan in Srinagar or North Block in Delhi says. Imagine campaigning for...

Risk to life & prosperity

River Crisis By Dr Oishee Mukherjee Atmospheric pollution is a major concern, as is the contamination of rivers and lakes. Studies reveal that rivers are dying...

No more immunity

Court Tells Jan Sewak By Poonam I Kaushish Jan sewaks or swayam sewaks? Public servants we are assert our Right Honourables. But that is only for...

Industry wary of protests

CAA Non-issue By Shivaji Sarkar The economy is in a tizzy. Figures apart, certain avoidable developments are adding to the woes. The slowdown or falling GDP...

Shaming Parliament

Laws Sans Debate By Poonam I Kaushish Ouch, the truth hurts! This dear readers, was the sum total of the cruel joke perpetrated on us by...

India says times up

#Me Too Singes By Poonam I Kaushish Last week India was agog to Her Story. Two diametrically opposite tales which showcased the dichotomous position of women...

Kerala sounds bugle

CAA Dissent Note By Insaf Kerala sounding the bugle has sharpened notes of Centre-State relations on the brink yet again. While the Citizenship Amendment Act has...

Paradigm shift in thinking vital

Digital Finance Inclusion By Moin Qazi The financial industry’s efforts to serve lower-income customers have gone through four distinct phases: from social banking to micro-finance to...

Ammo for opposition states

CAA, Simultaneous Polls By Insaf The timing of the CAA notification and Ram Nath Kovind panel’s report recommending ‘one nation, one election’, other than details of...

‘Lawless’ UP

Yogi’s edict face changer? By Insaf Changing the face of “lawless” Uttar Pradesh is asking for the moon, but for Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath perhaps not....

Vital for just social order

Independence of Judiciary By Dhurjati Mukherjee Justice Ranjan Gogoi, who is expected to be the next Chief Justice of India, recently analysed the problems of the...

Where is society heading?

Dark Carnival Of Violence By Poonam I Kaushish Violence is the rhetoric of the times. Pick any newspaper any day. Splashes of social schism gore into...

Impose severe cost on nation

NGT, RBI Decisions By Shivaji Sarkar The regulators are failing the people. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) and the Reserve Bank (RBI) in their wisdom are...

Raw materials deal?

US & Saudi Arabia By Ewa Fronczak (Expert, Centre Foe International Relations) Will the escalating tensions involving Iran disrupt the implementation of the landmark US–Saudi agreement on...