Centre-states action vital
Food & Fuel Inflation
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The rising prices of food, fertilizer and fuels have reached centre stage with growth expectations becoming lower and monetary...
Will it improve efficiency?
Railway Corporatization
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
There has been much talk of bringing necessary reforms in railways so as to gear up efficiency. As is well known,...
Disunity in unity
Baby Steps?
By Poonam I Kaushish
Unity in disunity or disunity in unity? Flummoxed? Certainly, as Opposition fault lines vexed unity efforts as 15-odd disparate Opposition...
Tu kaun main khamkha
Law & Order Clash
By Poonam I Kaushish
It all started over who had rights to a particular parking spot which escalated into a free-for-all epidemic...
Fortify justice delivery system
Judicial Challenges
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The second edition of India Justice Report (IJR), 2020, that judges States on the delivery of justice to people, has found...
Moscow and Delhi closer than ever
By Inder Jit
(Released on 29 November 1988)
Indo-Soviet relations have been greatly strengthened by the three-day visit of Mr.Mikhail Gorbachev to New Delhi — his...
Covid-19 changes nothing
Bihar Elections
Round The States
By Insaf
Elections will be elections, COVID-19 or not. Crowded campaign rallies for Bihar’s first phase of polling on Wednesday...
Can we rise above petty politics?
Governance of Capital City
By Dr. S.Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
The recent judgment of the Supreme Court's Constitution Bench clarifying the relative powers of the...
New Speaker, new chapter?
Declining Parliament
By Poonam I Kaushish
The 17th Lok Sabha scripted a “unanimous” new beginning on Wednesday last when a relative newcomer Sangh Parivar’s grassroot leader...
At the receiving end!
Small Farmers
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Small farmers are the pride of India and need to be given attention. This was stated by Prime Minister Modi during...
India’s albatross
The Nowhere People
By Poonam I Kaushish
Circa 1975: Hundreds of thousands fled South Vietnam after Saigon’s fall for fear of political persecution, the largest mass...
Will centre be sympathetic?
Bengal Cyclone Amphan
By Insaf
It’s a double whammy for West Bengal. Struggling to meet the challenge of coronovirus and under the Centre’s radar, the State...
Delhi woefully wronged!
Leaders Vs Bureaucrats
By Insaf
The nation’s capital, Delhi, rather any other State in the country, wouldn’t have seen anything like this before. Actions of government...
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...
Issues not individual crucial
Modi Vs Opposition
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
A journalist and BJP MP, in a recent article, mentioned that the party has to overcome Opposition unity with “an...
How will India quench thirst?
Water Wars
By Poonam I Kaushish
Our first major climate catastrophe is at the doorstep: The search for water and its management has become the most...
Leaders fail parliament
By Inder Jit
(Released on 20 December 1983)
Parliament and its proceedings have seldom caused greater anguish all round than during the current session, now drawing...
‘New India’ engulfs opposition
Modi-Shah Gathbandhan
By Insaf
The BJP juggernaut is simply unstoppable. It’s ‘Phir ek baar Modi sarkar’ and ‘Ab ki baar 300 paar’ campaign slogans slaughtered Congress’...
States say no to centre
AIS Rules Change
By Insaf
As India celebrates its 73rd Republic Day, Centre States relations take anotherhit. The federal structure is being subverted again, is the...
Power crisis new jolt
Govt. Offloads Air India
By Shivaji Sarkar
The sale of national carrier Air India, eight-year tax reprieve to Tatas, a severe power crisis that may give...