Electrifying claim?

Power For All By Dhurjati Mukherjee The Modi government's resolve to light up every home by December 2018 is no doubt commendable. At the time the...

Doing good in bad times

Enhanced CSR By Moin Qazi In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder, but is in fact the very purpose of its...

India’s guarded response

Coup in Myanmar By Dr. DK. Giri (Prof. International Relations, JIMMC) For the third time since gaining independence in 1948, Myanmar politics became a victim of a...

National hall of fame or shame

74 'Independent' Years By Poonam I Kaushish “The naïve notion that we can preserve freedom by exuding goodwill is not only silly, but dangerous,” wrote former...

Thrust on Nuclear power vital?

Reducing Emission Intensity By Dhurjati Mukherjee The year 2024 was the warmest year in the history of the Earth, the first to exceed 1.50 C pre-industrial...

The Dragon Blinks

Pragmatic engagement By Dr. D.K. Giri (Prof. International Politics, JMI) The Chinese President Xi Jinping, expectedly, emerged stronger after the quinquennial Communist Party Congress last week. The...

Theme significance

Independence 75thYear By Dr S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) India is starting its 75th year of independencewith a mixture of great expectations and disheartening disappointments...

Time to wake up on defence

Modi's tsunami-2 By PK Vasudeva Certainly, the election results are a Tsunami-2 for Modi, bettering his 2014 performance. Riding on a massive saffron surge sweeping through...

Third front in Kashmir?

Apni Party By Sagarneel Sinha In static mode for the past eight months, finally there is a stir in Kashmir politics. Recently, Altaf Bukhari, a former...

Rajasthan out, straight fight?

Cong Presidential Poll By Insaf Rajasthan Congress’ high drama nearly turned the grand old party’s presidential poll into a tamasha. Fortunately, for the Congress, Chief Minister...

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....

Ending abuse of quota system?

EWS Verdict By Sagarneel Sinha It has been quite common to hear from the upper castes that the reservation system hampers growth. They often argue that...

Folly, accident or conspiracy?

Oil, PSUs Death & Jobs By Shivaji Sarkar Air, petro, telephony and job crises are putting the country at risk. America’s nonchalance is adding to...

Cracks in its vibrancy!

Indian Democracy By Dhurjati Mukherjee The highest court of the land, Supreme Court’s, recent observations on sedition law and throttling of dissent puts a big question...

Enlarging partnership

Danish PM Visit By Dr D.K. Giri (Prof. International Relations, JIMMC) Prime Minister of Denmark Ms. Mette Frederiksen was in Delhi October 9 to 11. In fact,...

States clamour grows

Caste-Based Census Round The States By Insaf The ensuing Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections have stirred a hornet’s nest. Regional parties are digging in their heels to pushfor...

Govt needs self control

Dissent Vital For Democracy By Poonam I Kaushish Democracy is a conflict of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. An adage which nails our leaders’...

FM’s data, reality varies

Glitter is Not Gold By Shivaji Sarkar Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has projected a promising economy that could take the country to a path of...

A pattern in confusion

Welfare Corps For Sub-Castes By Dr S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) The Andhra Pradesh Government has recently decided to set up 56 separate corporations for...

Dialogue on economy vital

Corona Panic By Shivaji Sarkar The last quarter figures of 2019-20 fiscal may have reasons to cause worry. An uninteresting Central budget, corona virus, plummeting stock...