Rohingya Influx
Border states ‘be vigilant’
By Insaf
The Centre’s anxiety over the influx of Rohingyas is growing. Its focus on five eastern States has become sharper, and...
Economic costs be damned!
My Subsidy, Your Revadi
By Poonam I Kaushish
It is raining freebies wherein sound economic sense has been surrendered to political gamesmanship. Reckless subsidies are being...
Pseudo secularism must end
By Inder Jit
(Released on 5 June, 1979)
How Delhi has acted not a day too soon in calling a series of conferences with the States...
Democracy dented
Snooping Row
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Parliament’s monsoon session turned out to be disappointing, with the Modi government refusing to yield to the Opposition demand for a...
Kiski laathi aur kiski bhains?
ED's Questionable Credibility
By Poonam I Kaushish
What is it about yesterday’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and today’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) that it is always...
Challenges amid celebrations
Delhi Gets Woman CM
By Insaf
Women voters in Delhi have reason to cheer. Winner BJP, after 27 long years of vanvas (exile) in the national...
Eye not gdp but ews
Ailing Economy
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
In the midst of the economy being hit severely and government suffering a financial crunch, Prime Minister Modi’s announcement of giving...
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...
A global necessity
Vaccine IPRWaiver
By DrS.Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
It is reported that the chief of World Trade Organisation (WTO) is persuading member-nations to reach an agreement...
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 for continuity
Kashmir: Road Ahead
By Poonam I Kaushish
Insanity, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, said Einstein. Apply this to...
Continuing lessons to learn
Receding Pandemic
By Moin Qazi
The great relief we are now experiencing from the receding ravage of the pandemic has several lessons to offer.The development of...
Valuing the significance
The New Emblem
By Dusmanta Kumar
In his 9th address to the nation on the 76 Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an innovative as...
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...
Playing with people’s money
RBI-Govt Spat
By Shivaji Sarkar
There is both good and bad news. India rises to 77th in ease of doing business, jumping 23 paces in World...
Making a mountain of a molehill
Jinnah Controversy
By Poonam I Kaushish
Question: Name the latest con word that can divide a nation on communal lines?
Answer: Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's founder and...
Hi debt funds rs 47tr budget
FM Promises Golden Era
By Shivaji Sarkar
It is a sparkling poll budget right from the President’s address of Draupadi Murmu harping on the economy, to...
Are the poor becoming poorer?
Inadequate Health Facilities
By Dr. Oishee Mukherjee
India's health sector needs to be more focussed notwithstanding improvement of the developing social infrastructure is an imperative need....
Health care delivery vital
Modular Hospitals
By Dr Oishee Mukherjee
In India, out of pocket (OOP) expenditure makes up 63 per cent or almost two-thirds of total health expenditure as...
Trump’s Flip-Flops
India should engage Pak
By Dr DK Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JMI)
The US President Donald Trump’s tweet on 14 October had the South Block (India’s external...