Ease financial milieu

Rising Food Prices By Shivaji Sarkar Rising food prices are adding to the woes of postcorona lockdown recovery. States such as West Bengal, Assam or Uttar...

Delhi, warsaw concerns

Ukraine War Prolongs By Dr. D.K. Giri (Prof of Practice, NIIS Group of Institutions) It’s been three years, eight months and three weeks since Russia invaded the...

Plan, no more dithering

Rescue Package By Dhurjati Mukherjee The continuation of the lockdown for another two weeks with minor relaxation may well be understandable given that the government is...

Throttling democractic freedom?

Warning Signals By Dhurjati Mukherjee In recent days there have been voices of protest from a cross section of society against the policies of the present...

Debt stalks growth

Budget & Development By Shivaji Sarkar The Union Budget 2021-22 is being viewed as a document to consolidate, spend and revive on the one hand and...

The road ahead

By Poonam I Kaushish Circa 5 August 2019: In one fell stroke Article 370 was wiped out from India’s Constitution and Jammu & Kashmir State...

Tech & govt support vital

Raising Farm Output Open Forum By Dhurjati Mukherjee Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged States to step up domestic production by accelerating the process for modernisation of...

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...

Nda adds to upa Legacy

Kinks In Manmohanomics By Shivaji Sarkar An economist strangely goes political to criticise a government that follows his Manmohanomics of liberalisaion, globalisation, privatisation with the same...

March for salvation

Farmers Destitution By Shivaji Sarkar Elections and competitive promises for loan waivers for farmers are inseparable. Despite this, the farm distress doesn’t end. Even if not...

Worse by climate change

Food Insecurity By Dhurjati Mukherjee Food security has emerged a subject of much discussion due to an impending global crisis, more so due to the Russia-Ukraine...

Impels international initiatives

New Delhi Ups The Game By Dr D.K. Giri (Prof. International Politics, JMI) India experiences a week of hectic diplomacy and international activism. New Delhi ups its...

Humanising entertainment

Banning Animals In Circus By Dr S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) The Centre’s draft proposal to ban the use of all animals in any performance,...

Will stakeholders have a say?

Freebies, Voters & Economy By Insaf The tax payers and common man’s view should prevail over that of political parties. Well said, by the Supreme Court...

Prices, graft roil economy

Court Exposes Kinks By Shivaji Sarkar Innocuous developments are unfolding amidst the growing fervour of the impending elections. Despite concerns of the Reserve Bank of India...

Disasters add to woes

Rising Inequality By Dhurjati Mukherjee Globally disaster losses are estimated at $520 billion per annum, pushing more than 26 million people into poverty every year. As...

Sc balm for common man

Hospital Treatment Rates By Dhurjati Mukherjee That health is a neglected sector in India has been echoed by experts over the years, but the government has...

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...

Deepening relations!

Modi In Bangladesh By Dr DK Giri (Prof, International relations, JIMMC) Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Bangladesh on 26-27 March to be a part of...

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...