Raising global competitiveness
India Out of RCEP
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Amidst farmers’ protests and resentment, India has taken a judicious decision to opt out of the Regional Comprehensive Economic...
Bjp juggernaut braked
Heartland Gives Heartache
By Poonam I Kaushish
Beware the Ides of March. This adage has come to sting the BJP post its electoral defeat in UP...
Bank funding hit: RBI
State Polls Bare Infra Risks
By Shivaji Sarkar
Amid the critical Haryana elections, the Reserve Bank of India’s concerns over infrastructure funding and new guidelines have...
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...
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...
A lesson in coalition
Karnataka Pattern
By Dr.S. Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
"Is this the way to run a coalition government, where every day you have to request your...
A new significance
Ram Janmabhoomi
By Dr S. Saraswathi
Construction of a modern temple for Lord Ram at Ayodhya, for which bhoomi pujan was conducted on 5 August...
Neighbours key to dream
Rupee For Global Leap
By Shivaji Sarkar
The Rupee is on at least an 11-year-journey in its quest for quasi international status, even as it slides...
Playing with communal fire
By Inder Jit
(Released on 31 May 1983)
Communalism continues to grow and grow fast. Mr. Charan Singh’s timely alert against disaster has made thinking people...
Better higher education?
HECI Bill
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
There is much debate regarding improving higher education in the country. Academic scholars and educationists have expressed concern about standards and...
Change in outlook vital
Ingrained Inefficiency
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Prospects of foreign companies changing locations from China to other countries such as India, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand etc are said to...
Combating China’s coercion
India-Australia Ties
By Dr D K Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JIMMC)
The Former Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbot, visiting India last week as the special envoy...
Will mo-ra make ‘her’ story?
Rahul's Jaddu Ke Jhappi!
By Poonam I Kaushish
It was a jaddu ke jhappi which stumped Prime Minister Modi. In one bear hug Congress President Rahul...
Lacking emphasis, funds
India's R&D
By Oishee Mukherjee
Notwithstanding the launch of Chandrayan-22 to make a soft landing on Moon putting India in the 4-nation Club, and getting global...
Behead hatred
Season of Poison
By Poonam I Kaushish
The power of rhetorical public abuse by our leaders’ underscores political discourse is only rabble rousing, devoid of substance,...
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...
Need to reinvent
Governor Tattle
By Poonam I Kaushish
The more things change the more they remain the same. A lexicon which resonates in the corridors of power when...
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,...
ISRO spends less than nasa!
Frugal India & Giant Leap
By Shivaji Sarkar
The Chandrayaan-3 has made India proud and a noteworthy insight, rather a testimony,that most government departments can effectively...
New political order
Dawn In Kashmir
By Poonam I Kaushish
Eighty six days after the Modi Sarkar in a ‘shock and awe’ move revoked Jammu & Kashmir’s special status...