Connecting dots vital

Job Creation & Incentive By Dhurjati Mukherjee The Cabinet’s decision to roll out the Employment Linked Incentive (ELI) scheme with an outlay of over Rs 99,000...

Tshering reinforces ties

India-Bhutan Talks By Dr DK Giri (Prof. International Politics, JMI) Bhutan's newly-elected Prime Minister Lyonchhen Lotay Tshering made his maiden foreign visit to India to reinforce a...

Real time checks must 

Air Pollution By Dhurjati Mukherjee Air pollution in the country has emerged as a public health catastrophe, costing India over a million lives and 1.6 to...

From ‘us’ to ‘them’

Hijab Controversy By Poonam I Kaushish What’s in a dress? Nothing, it’s a form of clothing, but the maelstrom over the innocuous Muslim hijab (headscarf) banned...

Inept, not good governance

Flawed Economic Plan By Dhurjati Mukherjee Shortage of millions of jobs, staggering real incomes of farmers, virtual collapse of the manufacturing sector, destruction of small businesses...

$4 billion at stake!

Temple Economy By Shivaji Sarkar The temple economy is as large as the Indian budget sustaining the country. Its contours across the religious denominations of Hindu,...

Looking for giants

Our Pygmy Leaders By Poonam I Kaushish A fundamental principle of a civilised nation is that in times of war, the polity displays cohesiveness and rallies...

Where is society heading?

Violent Sense Vs Moral Sensibility By Poonam I Kaushish Violence is the rhetoric of the times. Pick any newspaper. Any day. Splashes of social schism gore...

Whose right is to punish?

Death Row Convicts By Dr.S.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) The Supreme Court has admitted the government’s plea to issue “victim and society centric” guidelines to prevent...

Are we a civilised society?

Pulwama Aftermath By Insaf A big question mark hangs over India's civilised society. The ongoing shocking persecution of Kashmiris, be it students, workers, tenants, professionals etc...

India braces ocean defence

US Extends Garcia To Lanka! By Shivaji Sarkar Amid global turmoil of the Ukraine and Israel wars, a new strategic front opens up in Sri Lanka...

Arms bazaar lures us

2+2 Dialogue By Shivaji Sarkar The recent virtual meet with the US exemplifies that India does a great balancing act magically prioritising billions of business sops...

Conference sans results

Speakers' Speak By Dr S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) As the winter session of Parliament is fast approaching, a dominant thinking in our mind is...

Rape of secular nation!

Kathua & Unnao Cases By Insaf Shame! That is what Kathua and Unnao rape cases should make people of this country feel. Not just J&K and...

Less impact than China-us stir

Pak Suspends Trade By Shivaji Sarkar Suspension of trade by Pakistan in the wake of J&K being stripped of its special status by scrapping Article 370...

Seize state, raise prices: WB

Corp Hit Peak Profits By Shivaji Sarkar The high inflationary trend that has gripped India is stated to be a global phenomenon of corporate adventure...

Democracy in peril?

Rising Hate Crimes By Dr. Oishee Mukherjee Not just dissent but healthy discussion and dialogue are key features of a democracy. Every citizen is entitled to...

Are their demands justfied?

Farmers' Fresh Stir By Dhurjati Mukherjee The conferment of Bharat Ratna to the late M.S. Swaminathan brings to the forefront the subject of farmers and their...

Govt’s ostrich like approach

Water Crisis By Dhurjati Mukherjee Water scarcity is fast becoming, or if not already emerged, as urban India's number one problem with government data having revealed...

Assam gives hope to cong

Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra By Insaf BJP-ruled Assam has pleasantly surprised the Congress, rather given a fillip to Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra,’ kicked off...