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...

Bjp juggernaut braked

Heartland Gives Heartache By Poonam I Kaushish Beware the Ides of March. This adage has come to sting the BJP post its electoral defeat in UP...

Bank funding hit: RBI

State Polls Bare Infra Risks By Shivaji Sarkar Amid the critical Haryana elections, the Reserve Bank of India’s concerns over infrastructure funding and new guidelines have...

Where does the buck stop?

Naxals: Wake Up Call By Poonam I Kaushish Remember Alfred Lord Tennyson’s famous poem, The charge of the light brigade. One stanza’s read: ‘Forward, the Light...

Uk goods may swamp

FTA: 'India To Be Import Led' By Shivaji Sarkar The recently-concluded Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between India and the United Kingdom marks a critical shift in...

A lesson in coalition

Karnataka Pattern By Dr.S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) "Is this the way to run a coalition government, where every day you have to request your...

A new significance

Ram Janmabhoomi By Dr S. Saraswathi Construction of a modern temple for Lord Ram at Ayodhya, for which bhoomi pujan was conducted on 5 August...

Neighbours key to dream

Rupee For Global Leap By Shivaji Sarkar The Rupee is on at least an 11-year-journey in its quest for quasi international status, even as it slides...

Playing with communal fire

By Inder Jit (Released on 31 May 1983) Communalism continues to grow and grow fast. Mr. Charan Singh’s timely alert against disaster has made thinking people...

Better higher education?

HECI Bill By Dhurjati Mukherjee There is much debate regarding improving higher education in the country. Academic scholars and educationists have expressed concern about standards and...

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...

Combating China’s coercion

India-Australia Ties By Dr D K Giri (Prof. International Politics, JIMMC) The Former Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbot, visiting India last week as the special envoy...

Will mo-ra make ‘her’ story?

Rahul's Jaddu Ke Jhappi! By Poonam I Kaushish It was a jaddu ke jhappi which stumped Prime Minister Modi. In one bear hug Congress President Rahul...

Lacking emphasis, funds

India's R&D By Oishee Mukherjee Notwithstanding the launch of Chandrayan-22 to make a soft landing on Moon putting India in the 4-nation Club, and getting global...

Behead hatred

Season of Poison By Poonam I Kaushish The power of rhetorical public abuse by our leaders’ underscores political discourse is only rabble rousing, devoid of substance,...

Need for quality control

Political Discourse By Dr.S.Saraswathi (Former, Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) Indian air today is filled with politics of elections. Political discourse dominating all forms of private and public...

Need to reinvent

Governor Tattle By Poonam I Kaushish The more things change the more they remain the same. A lexicon which resonates in the corridors of power when...

Time to evoke esma

Diminshing Parliament By Poonam I Kaushish Yawn! We have been through this before. Of how India’s temple of democracy Parliament is increasingly being called a mockery,...

ISRO spends less than nasa!

Frugal India & Giant Leap By Shivaji Sarkar The Chandrayaan-3 has made India proud and a noteworthy insight, rather a testimony,that most government departments can effectively...

New political order

Dawn In Kashmir By Poonam I Kaushish Eighty six days after the Modi Sarkar in a ‘shock and awe’ move revoked Jammu & Kashmir’s special status...