Rise in modern day slavery

UN Foreboding By Shivaji Sarkar The United Nations has raised the red flag of growing modern slavery, suppression of information and hitting sustainable development goals...

Elevating the ties

Modi in Kuwait By Prof. (Dr.) D.K. Giri (Secy Gen, Assn for Democratic Socialism) Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on a two-day visit to Kuwait on the...

Industry-Agriculture clash

Fight for Space By Dr S.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) The Tamil Nadu Government has cancelled the notification issued on constituting a Petroleum, Chemical and Petro-Chemical...

Courts must restrain

Religious Places Row By Insaf Three cheers to Supreme Court! On Thursday last, it asked courts across the country to ‘stay off their hands’ from entertaining...

Path to rural rejuvenation

Strengthening Panchayats By Dr Oishee Mukherjee The recent decision of the Ministry of Cooperation and the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) to establish a primary dairy...

Poll reforms — basic issues not tackled

By Inder Jit (Released on 22 October 1988) Something is better than nothing. The electoral reforms now favoured by the Congress-I Working Committee, therefore, deserve to...

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...

Developed world ‘disappoints’

COP29 & After By Dhurjati Mukherjee The yearly climate talks and extensive discussions have not yielded much result. The UN Environment Programme assessment showed that several...

Is Modi vincible?

BJP Takes Big Hit By Poonam I Kaushish Circa 2014: India voted for change and a new power paradigm on the wings of hope and trust....

Infringing on federalism?

Draft UGC Rules By Dhurjati Mukherjee The recent draft guidelines of the University Grants Commission (UGC) have come in for criticism as it’s seen as a...

MP’s Gang Rapes

Governance under question By Proloy Bagchi The capital of Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal is seething with anger and outrage. Recent incidents of gang rape have put a...

Constraints need attention

Vision@2047 By Dhurjati Mukherjee It is understood that the Vision@2047 document, likely to be released by the government by year-end, will outline the structural changes and...

Afresh initiative

NITI Aayog & SDGs By Dr D. K. Giri (Prof. International Politics JIMMC) The NITI Aayog launched on 23 November, thefirst SDG Urban Index that ranks our...

India, UN Summit & Success

By Inder Jit (Released on 20 September, 1983) The Prime Minister has reason to be pleased with herself and her aides. Her idea of a summit...

Time for soul searching

SC Raps Governors By Poonam I Kaushish Whoever said different political strokes for different political folks was dead on. Specially when it comes to the high...

No jobs, social chaos likely

Rising Ultra Rich By Dhurjati Mukherjee India added one billionaire every 10 days in 2020 amid the pandemic. This was made possible by rising stock valuation,...

Aankhoon mein bhar lo paani

Rapes Bludgeon India By Poonam I Kaushish Kathua, Unnao, Surat, Etah, Chhattisgarh et al has exposed the Ugly Sexmanic Indian. Wherein young girls are brutally raped...

Decentralisation critical

Of States & Governance By Dhurjati Mukherjee The Centre is increasingly being accused of going against the federal structure of the country by Opposition States. The...

Aser report not encouraging

Primary Education By Dhurjati Mukherjee Primary education in the country is neglected as the States do not have the resources to invest in schools and upgrade...

Ecological balance vital

Understanding Biodiversity By Dhurjati Mukherjee The rapid decline in biodiversity, faster than any time in history, with 1 million species facing extinction, many within decades, has...