Reorient model, farmers key
Economic Debate
By Shivaji Sarkar
The economic situation is complex. So is its understanding. India feels happy as macro data indicates an economic turnaround but...
Pursuing big business
Cut Interest Rates?
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Government functionaries, specifically ministers are known to give lectures on various subjects from Hindu Rashtra to welfarism to economic growth...
Mega scam singes economy
Toll Tax Extortion
By Shivaji Sarkar
It is time, rather most opportune time, to do away with road toll and review the levy of infrastructure cess...
Kerala sounds bugle
CAA Dissent Note
By Insaf
Kerala sounding the bugle has sharpened notes of Centre-State relations on the brink yet again. While the Citizenship Amendment Act has...
Defection new normal
Gaddi Aur Gaddari
By Poonam I Kaushish
A sense of de ja vu overwhelms. Reinforced by the revolving door politics in five States going to polls...
45 collateral exits
Lateral Entry Politics
By Poonam I Kaushish
The reservation ration tamasha is back on the political platter as our netagan continue to conjure populist hullabaloo to...
Police & state answerable
Encounter Killings
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The practice of encounter killings continues in India and according to available data of the government, a total of 655 such...
Cut i-t rates, stop psu sale
Budget Wish List
By Shivaji Sarkar
Yet another year of uncertainty begins with difficult finances, not so certain growth and perhaps some experimentation by the Union...
To aid balanced growth?
Wooing Pvt Investment
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Prime Minister Modi has been urging India to plug into the booming opportunities for ‘Made in India’ products, even as...
$5 trillion economy delayed
High Infra Cost, Job Losses
By Shivaji Sarkar
The government has an uphill task ahead to present an extra-ordinary budget that should be low cost, high...
Aiimsinfo breach is risky
Indian Health Data Worth $7 b
By Shivaji Sarkar
Health data is critical. Had one secret been known, the Indian subcontinent may have had different political...
Lacks focus on micro units, jobs
Growth-Oriented Budget
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Finance Minister Sitharaman has done a reasonably good job in presenting a Budget with a sharp focus on healthcare and infrastructure,...
The road ahead
Kashmir Unhinged
By Poonam I Kaushish
The air in J&K is thick with a sense of jamais vu. By abrogating Article 370 and bifurcation of Jammu...
Aim optics, but blurred
MEPs Valley Visit
By Sagarneel Sinha
It has been almost close to three months that normalcy has disappeared from the Kashmir Valley — since the...
CEA stokes hope
Asian Gloom
By Shivaji Sarkar
After a long time Chief Economic Advisor Surbramanian Krishnamurthy has given a boost to the confidence of the nation with his...
A new order in contracts
Trump In Middle East
By Juliusz Gojto
(Centre for International Relations, Poland)
During his four-day visit to the Middle East in mid-May, US President Donald Trump concluded...
To go or not to go!
Ukraine Peace Conference
By Prof. (Dr.) D.K. Giri
(Secretary General, Assn for Democratic Socialism)
The Foreign Minister of Switzerland, Alexndre Fasel was in Delhi to persuade South...
A new chapter
India-UK FTA
By Dr. D.K. Giri
(Prof of Practice, NIIS Group of Institutions)
The signing of FTA between India and the United Kingdom marks a new chapter...
Paradigm shift in thinking vital
Digital Finance Inclusion
By Moin Qazi
The financial industry’s efforts to serve lower-income customers have gone through four distinct phases: from social banking to micro-finance to...
Nepal, Bhutan part of India!
Trump's Gaffe
By Dr. D.K. Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JMI)
The US President Donald Trump's apparently preposterous perspective that Nepal and Bhutan are parts of India is...