Rohingya Influx

Border states ‘be vigilant’ By Insaf The Centre’s anxiety over the influx of Rohingyas is growing. Its focus on five eastern States has become sharper, and...

Economic costs be damned!

My Subsidy, Your Revadi By Poonam I Kaushish It is raining freebies wherein sound economic sense has been surrendered to political gamesmanship. Reckless subsidies are being...

Pseudo secularism must end

By Inder Jit (Released on 5 June, 1979) How Delhi has acted not a day too soon in calling a series of conferences with the States...

Democracy dented

Snooping Row By Dhurjati Mukherjee Parliament’s monsoon session turned out to be disappointing, with the Modi government refusing to yield to the Opposition demand for a...

Kiski laathi aur kiski bhains?

ED's Questionable Credibility By Poonam I Kaushish What is it about yesterday’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and today’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) that it is always...

Challenges amid celebrations

Delhi Gets Woman CM By Insaf Women voters in Delhi have reason to cheer. Winner BJP, after 27 long years of vanvas (exile) in the national...

Eye not gdp but ews

Ailing Economy By Dhurjati Mukherjee In the midst of the economy being hit severely and government suffering a financial crunch, Prime Minister Modi’s announcement of giving...

India’s albatross

The Nowhere People By Poonam I Kaushish Circa 1975: Hundreds of thousands fled South Vietnam after Saigon’s fall for fear of political persecution, the largest mass...

A global necessity

Vaccine IPRWaiver By DrS.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) It is reported that the chief of World Trade Organisation (WTO) is persuading member-nations to reach an agreement...

A welcome ghar wapsi

Inter-State Movement By Insaf Homecoming it shall eventually be. Through a notification on Wednesday last, the Union Home Ministry has allowed inter-State movement of stranded...

Time for continuity

Kashmir: Road Ahead By Poonam I Kaushish Insanity, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, said Einstein. Apply this to...

Continuing lessons to learn

Receding Pandemic By Moin Qazi The great relief we are now experiencing from the receding ravage of the pandemic has several lessons to offer.The development of...

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...

Change in outlook vital

Ingrained Inefficiency By Dhurjati Mukherjee Prospects of foreign companies changing locations from China to other countries such as India, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand etc are said to...

Playing with people’s money

RBI-Govt Spat By Shivaji Sarkar There is both good and bad news. India rises to 77th in ease of doing business, jumping 23 paces in World...

Making a mountain of a molehill

Jinnah Controversy By Poonam I Kaushish Question: Name the latest con word that can divide a nation on communal lines? Answer: Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's founder and...

Hi debt funds rs 47tr budget

FM Promises Golden Era By Shivaji Sarkar It is a sparkling poll budget right from the President’s address of Draupadi Murmu harping on the economy, to...

Are the poor becoming poorer?

Inadequate Health Facilities By Dr. Oishee Mukherjee India's health sector needs to be more focussed notwithstanding improvement of the developing social infrastructure is an imperative need....

Health care delivery vital

Modular Hospitals By Dr Oishee Mukherjee In India, out of pocket (OOP) expenditure makes up 63 per cent or almost two-thirds of total health expenditure as...

Trump’s Flip-Flops

India should engage Pak By Dr DK Giri (Prof. International Politics, JMI) The US President Donald Trump’s tweet on 14 October had the South Block (India’s external...