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...
Reform or find alternative
Representative Democracy
By Dr S. Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
The Budget session of Parliament has commenced and 20 Opposition parties joined together to boycott the...
Valuing the significance
The New Emblem
By Dusmanta Kumar
In his 9th address to the nation on the 76 Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an innovative as...
Huge, not considered
'New' Education Funding
By Shivaji Sarkar
The National Education Policy has a vision of the education standards in the country for the next many decades. It...
Pvt invest less, deficit up
India Finds New High
By Shivaji Sarkar
The Indian economy is passing through an interesting phase. Its growth touched 7.8 per cent for the first quarter,...
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...
SC peeved over wb panel
Pegasus Scandal
By Insaf
West Bengal stretches it too far or is it an oversight? Going by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s style of functioning in all...
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...
Time for new anti-defection law
Political Harlotry
By Inder Jit
(Released on 19 November 1996)
Prostitution was legally banned in India some four decades ago. But political harlotry continues to grow and...
New law to check rot
Illicit Deposit Schemes
By Moin Qazi
The Union Cabinet has approved the Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes Bill, 2018 with the objective of effectively tackling the...
New India’s youth say big no
Shah's CAA
India’s educated youth is standing up! The country is in turmoil to put it mildly and New Delhi in a conundrum, as the...
India’s concerns
US Elections
By Dr. D.K. Giri
(Prof, Intl Relations, JMI)
The Presidential elections in United States held on 3 November has not yet produced concrete results. The...
Rehabilitation, rural focus vital
Maoists' Surrender
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The surrender of hundreds of Maoists in Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra in recent weeks has no doubt been the government’s achievement. It...
Denting dissent & democracy
Activists' Arrest
By Insaf
The nation is in dire straits. The high profile arrests of rights' activists and lawyers in three cities on Wednesday last puts...
‘Godmen’ exploitation unchecked
Hathras Tragedy
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The fanaticism manifested in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras which touched around 121 people killed in the stampede is indeed distressing. According to...
Upgradation vital for revival
R&D Technology
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
India’s manufacturing expertise is not very efficient and cost competitive, even compared with the emerging economies. As such, there have been...
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...
Tech transfer to cut import bill
Indigenisation of Products
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
In recent months, the Centre has given a greater thrust to indigenisation of products to boost up manufacturing. Though rather...
The people’s right to information
By Inder Jit
(Released on 7 August 1984)
Ignorance continues to abound in regard to Parliament, its constitution, practices, procedures and privileges. Thirty-four years as a...
Need to reinvent
Governor Who?
By Poonam I Kaushish
The more things change the more they remain the same. An adage which resonates in the corridors of power when...