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Goodbye Maoists By Poonam I Kaushish Goodbye Maoists. After over six decades of relentless Maoist insurrection which cast a long shadow across North, South, East and...

Budget of hope

Towards New India By Dr.S.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) “The Budget will play a great role in building a New “India” , assured the Prime Minister...

State satraps seek to lead

BJP vs Rest By Insaf State satraps are vying with each other to lead battle 2019. Most of them are Delhi-bound, to ensure they are the...

GSDP doubles, health shines

J&K Economy Paces Up By Shivaji Sarkar Jammu and Kashmir is advancing at a pace that may surprise many across the nation, boasting of strong health...

Abstract, price cuts vital

FM's Stimulus By Shivaji Sarkar A booster dose of about Rs 6.28 lakh crore stimulus to push credit is supposedly an official phenomenon to rev up...

Industry-Agriculture clash

Fight for Space By Dr S.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) The Tamil Nadu Government has cancelled the notification issued on constituting a Petroleum, Chemical and Petro-Chemical...

Oppositin unity makes headway

By Inder Jit (Released on 19 July 1988) Opposition efforts at forging unity and offering the country a credible national alternative to the Congress-I have made...

Need to safeguard rights

Threat to Institutions By Dhurjati Mukherjee Recently former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court Justice AP Shah regretted the fact that every institution designed to hold...

More harm than good for Modi

Chinese Job Offer By Dr D.K.Giri (Prof. International Politics, JMI) China offering to help Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make up for his image-deficit just before the...

For better or worse?

Speaker's Crown Of Thorns By Poonam I Kaushish Fatigued and bored of the volatile cacophony of accusations flying thick and fast over American billionaire George Soros’s...

Time to transition away from fossil fuel

The just-concluded United Nations Climate summit - Conference of the Parties 28 (COP28) - in Dubai has finally addressed the elephant in the room:...

Strategic shift in 2021?

India's Foreign Policy By Dr D KGiri (Prof. International Politics, JIMMC) Quite a few India’sforeign policy analysts contend that New Delhi over the last year has taken...

‘The end’ of mva Govt?

Shiv Sena Thriller By Insaf The political churning in Maharashtra offers a readymade script for Bollywood. The twist and turns in the Shiv Sena drama ensure...

It’s time has come 

Selling Change By Poonam I Kaushish Change is the only constant in life. This adage encapsulates the path breaking and ambitious Agnipath scheme in armed forces...

Sshhh……about poll slush!

Election Bonds By Poonam I Kaushish P aisa phenko tamasha dekho! The song hummed by every Party as five States are amidst polls with all opening...

All in name of faith

Religious Gush By Poonam I Kaushish As the last vote is in ballot box in Bihar wherein beside caste, it was a battle royale between the...

Funds availibity critical

Budgeting Welfare By Dhurjati Mukherjee The interim Budget presented by stand-in Finance Minister Piyush Goel putting thrust on rural industrialisation possibly fulfils the dream of Mahatma...

Constraints need attention

Vision@2047 By Dhurjati Mukherjee It is understood that the Vision@2047 document, likely to be released by the government by year-end, will outline the structural changes and...

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...

Stagflation looms large

RBI Rate Hike By Shivaji Sarkar The Monetary Policy of the Reserve Bank of India raising key policy interest rates by 0.5 per cent to 4.9,...