Sedition for up, Jammu!
Pak Cricket Cheering
By Insaf
It’s no hurray for right to freedom of speech and expression in Uttar Pradesh and Jammu. The administration of the largest...
Pf, employees at risk
Stock Market Crash
By Shivaji Sarkar
The Bombay stock market, like most others across the world, has crashed. It has lost about 4000 points in a...
J&k demotion for promotion
Statehood to UT Status
By Dr.S.Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
The new maps of the two newly formed Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh in the...
$5 trillion economy delayed
High Infra Cost, Job Losses
By Shivaji Sarkar
The government has an uphill task ahead to present an extra-ordinary budget that should be low cost, high...
Twin track approach vital
Impending Food Crisis
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Poverty, hunger and food insecurity along with inadequate funding in agriculture are among the key trends the United Nations’ Food...
India loses Rs 11 trillion!
Junk Cars, Plastic Policy
By Shivaji Sarkar
India needs pragmatic policies to strengthen the individual to revive the sagging economy and save its wealth. Policies such...
Can opposition nail failure?
Govt Performance
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The latest Human Development Report (HDI) Index has given India a ranking of 130 among 188 countries in 2017, once again...
An election gimmick?
India Reclaims PoK
By Prof. (Dr.) D.K. Giri
(Secretary General, Assn for Democratic Socialism)
In response to former J&K Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah’s reference to Pakistan having...
Percolates down to states
Ambedkar Insult, Assault
By Insaf
The ugly political slugfest in Parliament over disrespect to messiah of Dalits, Dr BR Ambekar by Home Minister Amit Shah in...
Ignites pvt vs public debate
AI Crash Jolts Global Aviation
By Shivaji Sarkar
In a single fiery instant over Ahmedabad, the confidence in civil aviation—India’s and the world’s—came crashing down with...
Have benefits percolated down?
Modern Indian State
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Every alternative day we hear talks of modern developments in social economic and scientific spheres without understanding or assessing its...
Absurd, govt must step in
90-Hour Work Week!
Two statements, one by Larsen & Toubro (L&T) Chairman SN Subramanyan saying there should be 90-hour weekly work, including on Sundays, for...
One test not for India
Shady Coaches, Huge Costs
By Shivaji Sarkar
The country needs to go back to the drawing board on centralising entrance tests as the big ones –...
India budget further hit
Afghan Conflict
By Shivaji Sarkar
The monsoon session of Parliament may have more to decide than the set agenda of 30 bills as the Afghan situation...
The Identity Trap
By Rajiv Gupta
Most people who have gone through a job interview will be familiar with the question, “Tell me about yourself” where the interviewee...
Pol, Eco challenges
Pakistan at a Crossroads
By Piotr Opaliñski
(Former Polish Ambassador to Pak)
(Mem, Centre for Intl Relations)
Located at the crossroads of South Asia, Central Asia and the...
Katil=neta, toh kya
Quality Of Leaders
By Poonam I Kaushish
Nothing costs a nation more than a cheap and venal politician. This lexicon was brutally underscored last week by...
A new order in contracts
Trump In Middle East
By Juliusz Gojto
(Centre for International Relations, Poland)
During his four-day visit to the Middle East in mid-May, US President Donald Trump concluded...
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...
Who will emerge Chanakya?
Bihar's Poll Chakravyu
By Poonam I Kaushish
Countdown for Bihar Assembly elections has begun. With 7.4 cr voters sealing the fate of who among 243 MLAs...