High debt vs duty hikes
Setting 5-Year Pace
By Shivaji Sarkar
The Central Budget to be tabled on 1 February has many hearts beating, a lot of hopes rising and will...
Shocker & whiff of hope
Haryana, J&K Verdict
By Insaf
The verdict in Haryana and Jammu & Kashmir polls comes both as a shocker and a whiff of fresh air. While...
Darjeeling model offers a way out
By Inder Jit
(Released on 22 August 1989)
Thoughts in New Delhi are now turning towards a national agenda for the new Government after the next...
What purpose will it fulfil?
New Citizenship Law
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Aggressiveness and arrogance in decision-making whether in the political, economic or social spheres may backfire if the confidence of other...
Real or make believe?
Viksit Bharat@2047
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The recently released approach paper ‘Vision for ‘Viksit Bharat’@2047’ notes that India is at a turning point in its history and...
Fixing history or driving wedge?
Sambhal Shahi Masjid Row
By Poonam I Kaushish
It never ceases to surprise how our polity keeps sinking into the marshy cesspool of bloodied religious politicking....
India loses Rs 11 trillion!
Junk Cars, Plastic Policy
By Shivaji Sarkar
India needs pragmatic policies to strengthen the individual to revive the sagging economy and save its wealth. Policies such...
Keep politics at arm’s length
Rift in Judiciary
By Dr S.Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
Unstoppable politics has already entered the portals of the judiciary with the CPM General Secretary, indicating...
Emotions to surpass economy
Gujarat & Goal 2024
By Shivaji Sarkar
Prime Minister Narendra Modi magic spells witha record victory of 156 Gujarat seats for the BJP as he toils...
Slip hurts economy, sovereignty
SC Must Protect Rashtra
By Shivaji Sarkar
The Supreme Court ruling on the Eknath Shinde case has given rise to a discussion on a serious threat...
Boli, no. Goli, yes
Indo-Pak Hit New Low
By Poonam I Kaushish
You reap what you sow. Last week Pakistan learnt this the hard way when India struck at terror...
Court of defection justice
Vidhan Soudha
By Dr S. Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi
The architect of Vidhan Soudha, the iconic building that houses Karnataka legislature in Bengaluru, K. Hanumanthaiah...
Will finance panel bridge gap?
Regional Imbalance
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The BJP’s victory in three states appears to suggest the promise of development via ‘double engine’ sarkar has takers. And the...
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...
Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill 2022 Introduced
Parliament Spotlight
New Delhi, 28 Mar: The government was able to introduce ‘The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022,’ in the Lok Sabha despite stiff oppositionas...
Toothless Ec, netas merry
Code Of 'Misconduct'
By Poonam I Kaushish
In this theekha-masaledar electioneering season our netagan seem to have taken loads of tips from Bollywood and produced their...
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:...
Can opposition nail failure?
Govt Performance
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The latest Human Development Report (HDI) Index has given India a ranking of 130 among 188 countries in 2017, once again...
Entangled in politics?
Covid-19 Review
By Insaf
Is politics being played over Covid-19, is the question doing the rounds. While on the one hand Prime Minister Narendra Modi at...
Expanding Africa outreach
Modi In Nigeria
By Prof. (Dr.) D.K. Giri
(Secy Gen, Assn for Democratic Socialism)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a stopover in Nigeria enroute to Brazil to...