Right skills critical

Tough Job Market By Moin Qazi In an age of skyrocketing unemployment, made worse by the pandemic, it is integral to incorporate marketable and real-world skills...

New year challenging

Economic Trends By Dhurjati Mukherjee The vast majority of Indians basic livelihood issues of roti, kapada and makan would score any day over trumped up...

Show the way, house

Parliament Session By Poonam I Kaushish Monsoon embraced the country in its squelchy soaking tentacles even as the first day of Parliament’s 19-day monsoon session got...

Tall, can India deliver?

COP26 Promises By Dhurjati Mukherjee The just-concluded COP26 summit was full of commitments as is usually the case with most major international events, but how much...

Mockery of people’s verdict

Goa Cong Joins BJP By Insaf People’s will be damned, is a dispiriting message now coming from Goa. With eight of 11 Congress MLAs joining the...

Double standards: Opposition

Centre's 'Witch-Hunt' By Insaf Not done! A message from nine Opposition leaders from eight national parties to Prime Minister Modi. Standing behind AAP’s Manish Sisodia, who’s...

Unplanned urban growth!

Himalayan Catastrophe By Dhurjati Mukherjee The Himalayan states of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir have been ravished by floods and landslides this year. It’s...

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...

Valuing the significance

The New Emblem By Dusmanta Kumar In his 9th address to the nation on the 76 Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an innovative as...

‘North penalising south!’

TN Delimitation Row By Insaf Tamil Nadu sees itself not only taking on the ‘north’ but leading the ‘south’. Chief Minister M K Stalin has now...

Democracy or Oligarchy?

Poll Campaigning By Proloy Bagchi We are in the midst of election season, with as many as five States results to start pouring out early next...

Farmers’ raise the ante

UP, Haryana Stir By Insaf The nine-month long farmers’ agitation gets a shot in the arm in Karnal district of Haryana and Muzaffarnagar in western Uttar...

Hitting self-destruct button

Disunity In Unity? By Poonam I Kaushish Unity in disunity or disunity in unity? Flummoxed? Certainly, as INDIA bloc seems to have developed cracks. In the...

Upgrading higher education?

Professors of Practice By Dr OisheeMukherjee The recent decision of the University Grants Commission (UGC) for engaging experts and professionals from various fields as professors of...

Banks, nbfc cause jitters

Questions On Shaky Stocks By Shivaji Sarkar The stock market is continuously crashing for a week.  This is a complex phenomenon as it is just...

Cuts deficit, boom likely

RBI $ Trade Magic Bonanza By Shivaji Sarkar A staggering windfall has hit the Indian treasury as the Reserve Bank of India delivers its largest-ever dividend...

A remedy for the new malady

By Inder Jit (Released on 28 August 1984) Outrageous developments in Andhra Pradesh and earlier in Jammu and Kashmir and Sikkim have posed yet another threat...

Russian demand challenging

India's Energy Security By Shivaji Sarkar The unstable world energy market, volatile prices, uneven supplies may have repercussions on India’s energy security. The first hit is...

Poll body, pressures & independence

REWIND By Inder Jit (Released on 13 February 1990) India has once again proved its claim to being the world’s biggest democracy. Nearly 300 million people exercised...

Will ncap clean the air?

India's Polluted Cities By Dhurjati Mukherjee Air pollution levels remain dangerously high in many parts of the world. New data from WHO shows that 9 out...