Fallouts for India!

US-China Trade Deal By Dr D.K. Giri (Prof. International Politics, JMI) After nearly two years of tariff war that held the world economy in awe and anxiety,...

Govt must reveal reality

Economy Data Suppression By Dhurjati Mukherjee Notwithstanding the claim of every ruling party politician that India is progressing, the facts including grass root data of the...

Will winds of change blow?

G 23-Sonia Meet By Poonam I Kaushish Political Delhi resembles a battle field as Parties trade charges and finger point on the ongoing farmers’ maelstrom. With...

World heads for panic recession

Beyond The Pandemic By Shivaji Sarkar Pandemic to panic stalls the world. Markets everywhere slump. Corona or not it has hit Asian corporate and State governments...

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...

People’s power asserts in Assam

By Inder Jit (Released on 24 December 1985) People’s power has again expressed itself decisively in Assam. The AASU, led ably and courageously by Mr Prafulla...

Needs to change course

Climate Change By Dhurjati Mukherjee Climate change leading to global warming and other attendant atmospheric problems has attracted headlines since a long time. Now, a recent...

Is the shift imminent?

Electric Vehicles By Dhurjati Mukherjee Electric vehicles are causing a buzz. Not only aren’t these being promoted to tackle the looming environmental crisis, but the consumer’s...

Not who, but what 

Kamandal = Mandal 2.0  By Poonam I Kaushish Circa 1901: “I don’t believe in caste in the modern sense as it connotes distinction in status and...

Good, bad & the misunderstood

Statistical Estimation By Rajiv Gupta What public event has the active participation of 640 million people, with even a larger number of spectators? If you guessed...

A welcome ghar wapsi

Inter-State Movement By Insaf Homecoming it shall eventually be. Through a notification on Wednesday last, the Union Home Ministry has allowed inter-State movement of stranded...

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,...

Deepening or widening!

BRICS Summit By Dr. D.K. Giri (Secretary General, Assn for Democratic Socialism) The BRICS countries in their 15thSummit at Johannesburg from 22 to 24 August are debating the...

Avoid tribal backlash

Forest Rights By Dhurjati Mukherjee The Supreme Court decision asking States to implement their own orders, rejecting 11.8 lakh claims over forest land by Scheduled Tribes...

Checking soil erosion vital

Combating Desertification By Dhurjati Mukherjee The recently concluded conference of UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP 15) at Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire found that desertification has been...

Regionalism raises ugly head

Madrasi-Bihari Phobia By Poonam I Kaushish There is no smoke without fire, so goes a lexicon. But what happens if the smoke has been smouldering, in...

North-East’s gdp share 2%

'India Grows 3.3% 2020-23' By Shivaji Sarkar The Reserve Bank of India monetary policy is only a small part of India’s economy. A tighter rate regime...

Political harlotry unbridled

By Inder Jit (Released on 16 June 1981) Prostitution is legally banned in India. But political harlotry continues to flourish brazenly. What is worse, it is...

Drawing New Delhi in

Greek PM in India By Prof. (Dr.) D.K. Giri (Secretary General, Assn for Democratic Socialism) Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis recent visit to New Delhi was significant...

Economic crisis looms

Policy Paralysis By Shivaji Sarkar Election time is show time. The minuses are swept under the carpet as rhetoric rules the roost. Manifestos are not necessarily...