Yes I can and will

Modi's ‘new normal’ By Poonam I Kaushish The old order has yielded to the ‘new normal’. A power paradigm of baggage-free governance, growth and development. With...

Govt anxiety rising?

Stifling Dissent By Dhurjati Mukherjee The recent cases against rights activists and their 'house arrest' additionally point to the fact that the Government is bent on...

Social transformation critical

Religion-Based Crimes By Dhurjati Mukherjee Religion-based crimes are disturbingly on the rise in the country. Whether this is result of Government policies and/or the party in...

Are we heading for second wave?

Vaccination Push, YeT… By Poonam I Kaushish The Covid 19 pandemic is the most tumultuous, most catastrophic and the most defining epoch of our lifetime which...

Rural strategy critical

Towards Transformation By Dhurjati Mukherjee Discrimination in India has greatly affected our society and widened social and economic inequality. Besides, we witness another form of discrimination,...

Rate rise critical

Euro Type Crash By Shivaji Sarkar The latest Reserve Bank of India decision to stagnate rates shows that semblance of reality has finally dawned. As...

Misplaced priorities

Delhi on Tenterhooks By Insaf National capital, Delhi, has lot on its plate it can handle. The health department has projected the Covid count could cross...

“Not the centre’s chaprasi”

By Inder Jit (Released on 17 April 1984) The Governors and their role are in the news again. Late last month, Mrs Gandhi made most people...

No sign of revival

India-Bangladesh Ties Prof (Dr) DK Giri (Professor of Practice, NIIS Group of Institutions) The latest in India-Bangladesh ties is the ban on imports of yarn from India...

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...

Critical, Govts’ must ponder

Food Waste Index By Dhurjati Mukherjee Food wastage, at least in countries of South Asia, where a significant proportion of the population suffers from poverty as...

“Not the centre’s chaprasi”

By Inder Jit (Released on 17 April 1984) The Governors and their role are in the news again. Late last month, Mrs. Gandhi made most people...

Uniform civil code, anyone?

When Ram, Rahim Poll Cut Outs… By Poonam I Kaushish In this season of freebies galore interspersed with vitriolic hate speeches and venomous tu-tu-mein-mein, now Ram-Rahim...

Push growth in trade

US Agenda For India By Dr D. K Giri (Prof. International Politics, JIMMC) The White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki outlined the US agenda on India in...

Electoral Reform: A Beginning

By Inder Jit (Released on 4 March 1975) The Prime Minister’s invitation to the Opposition in Parliament for a dialogue on electoral reforms and other major...

Increase with its primacy

Election Commission Woes Dr.S.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) A six-member delegation of the Trinamool Congress submitted a memorandum to the Election Commission of India alleging “deep-rooted...

Gujarat’s error of remission?

Convicts Set Free By Insaf BJP government’s action in Gujarat is outrageous, to put it mildly. The remission of life imprisonment sentences for 11 men convicted...

Solidifying historical ties

PM Modi in Bhutan By Prof. (Dr.) D.K. Giri (Secretary General, Assn for Democratic Socialism) Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bhutan on 21-22 March was significant...

Huge, not considered

'New' Education Funding By Shivaji Sarkar The National Education Policy has a vision of the education standards in the country for the next many decades. It...

How the world reacts

Israel-Hamas War By Dr D.K. Giri (Secretary General, Assn for Democratic Socialism) The Israel-Hamas war is escalating every hour causing pathetic loss of lives, property and resources....