Who will emerge chanakya?

Political Diary By Poonam I Kaushish Lonely lies the head that wears the crown. And nobody knows this better than Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who...

Bandh karo ye natak!

Growing Chauvinism By Poonam I Kaushish Your freedom ends where my nose begins and one man’s food is another man’s poison. Two adages, a succinct testimony...

Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill 2022 Introduced

Parliament Spotlight New Delhi, 28 Mar: The government was able to introduce ‘The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022,’ in the Lok Sabha despite stiff oppositionas...

Wake up call, afspa must go

Nagaland Tragedy By Insaf The tragedy in Nagaland couldn’t have been summed up better. Rajya Sabha member KG Kenye of Naga People’s Front said on Thursday...

Exaggerated, yet an issue

Women Most Unsafe In India By Dr. Oishee Mukherjee The recent survey by Thomson Reuters Foundation showing India as the 'most dangerous country for women' in...

One nation, one poll, anyone?

India's Perpetual Election Circus By Poonam I Kaushish Barely have the victory bugles in the recent five Assembly polls ended that Parties are gearing up for...

Time for soul searching

SC Raps Governors By Poonam I Kaushish Whoever said different political strokes for different political folks was dead on. Specially when it comes to the high...

Buzz in global economics

Critical Raw Materials By Dr. Bruno Surdel (Expert, Center for Intl Relations, Poland) Critical raw materials are a hot topic in global economics and geopolitics. They are...

One more vow of govt jobs!

MP's Children By Insaf Madhya Pradesh’s Children! That’s the new mantra of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. On Tuesday last, akin to the ‘sons of the...

Rate thaw aids home buyers

Corp Pays More: RBI By Shivaji Sarkar The repo rate thaw by the Reserve Bank of India has surprised many in the industry, though they had...

Solution for socialproblem?

Wages for Housework Dr.S.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) General Election is the time for worst hate speeches against opponents and lavish promises for voters. Among the...

India and its image abroad

By Inder Jit India’s image in the West shines brighter than ever before. Goodwill for the country is clearly on the upswing. This is the...

Plans may lead to revival

Banking Sector It is heartening to note that the Government is likely to push through some key decisions ahead of the General elections. On the...

Limited to law & justice

SC's Supremacy By Dr S.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) There is no institution in the country which is using and wielding its authority without restrictions like...

Relook into law needed

Contempt of Court By Dr S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) Controversies over the contempt of court law will go on irrespective of the final scene...

Rise in domestic violence

Covid-19 Family Gift By Dr S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) Gendered impact of infectious diseases noticed in some recent epidemics like ZIKA, SARS, and EBOLA...

UN warns of severe crisis

Poor’s money at risk By Shivaji Sarkar Even as Finance Minister Jaitley looks for new ways and methods to rejuvenate the Indian economy, the world economic...

Has govt will to remove poverty?

Widening Inequality By Dhurjati Mukherjee It is a widely known fact that inequality has been widening in most Third World countries, including India. This runs contrary...

US, UK moves can hit India

Harshad To Adani, Scams On  By Shivaji Sarkar The year 1992, Finance Minister Manmohan Singh liberalised economy, stocks zoomed, small salaried class crowded the equity market...

Priortising policy principles

India & Ongoing Wars By Dr. D.K. Giri (Prof of Practice, NIIS Group of Institutions) Since Independence in 1947, India sought to conduct its foreign policy on...