Strategy to counter warming

Synthesis Report By Dhurjati Mukherjee It is encouraging to hear the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) come out with periodic reports warning of the consequences...

7 lakh unsold cars pile-up

Savings Dip, Prices Spur By Shivaji Sarkar The country’s banking sector deposit crisis symbolises grave ailments afflicting the economy hitting many sectors, including manufacturing, the automobile...

Population main constraint

Environmental Balance & Growth By Dr S.S Chhina (Senior Fellow, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi) India surpassed China in the race of population on March 3,...

Post-Lockdown Vigilance

Living With Pandemic By Dr S. Saraswathi (Former Director ICSSR, New Delhi) More than five months have elapsed since we started the lockdown and are now 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...

Shg meeting challenges

Women Empowerment By Moin Qazi The Covid-19 pandemic is a human tragedy of potentially biblical proportion and has convulsed societies like never before. Whether the vaccination...

Skewed & contradictory

Budgetary Projections By Shivaji Sarkar A high-expectation ambitious Union Budget can have many contradictions. On the one hand it aims too high, and on the other...

Transparency, astuteness vital

Defence Modernisation By Dhurjati Mukherjee Restructuring of the Indian Army is being planned in phases and it is understood that its strength (including that of support...

Fuels a national review

Price Roller Coaster By Shivaji Sarkar India is on a galloping price roller coaster. It has turned into a silent killer of the economy, forcing the...

Competing with China?

India's Africa Outreach By Dr D.K. Giri (Prof. International Politics, JMI) In an international conference, warming up to an African delegate, I said India has committed $6...

Judiciary “Bonded” or “Free”

By Madhu Dandavate (As released on 24 May 1985) Recently, Mr. Justice V.D. Tulzapurkar observed in the Supreme Court that due to favouritism by the Government...

North East upbeat

Removal of AFPSA By Insaf Well begun is half done!Chief Ministers of North East, particularly Assam, Nagaland and Manipur are upbeat as the Centre’s announcement of...

Honey, we are touchy!

Growing Intolerance By Poonam I Kaushish “Placing individual ideologies before national good is wrong,” asserted Prime Minister Modi last week. He is dead one. “National interest...

Appalling travesty of Justice!

Babri Verdict & Hathras Case By Insaf Outrage! That sums up the Babri Masjid demolition verdict and Hathras incident should evoke, if it hasn’t already, among...

For the better or worse?

J&K's 2nd Anniversary By Insaf Are the winds of change blowing in Kashmir? Far from it, says the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD). Observing the...

Rural sector thrust missing

Budget priorities By Dhurjati Mukherjee The Budget, as usual, showed a distinct favour for the middle and rich sections as it’s the last one before the...

Watch out, it spares no one

Caste Is King By Poonam I Kaushish Caste is king! Not who, but what you are. Its manifestations are complex — sometimes visceral, at other times...

Bjp’s machiavellian intrigues

President Rule In Puducherry By Insaf The BJP does it again, another Congress-led government bites the dust. This time in tiny Puducherry, due for Assembly elections...

Crime is politics

Katil=Neta, Toh Kya By Poonam I Kaushish In this placid political season India’s Capital is in the throes of a novelle grammar of protests with thousands...

Whose concern?

Lakshadweep Row By DrS.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) Kerala Legislative Assembly unanimously passed a resolution expressing solidarity with the people of Lakshadweep against the Union Territory...