Parliament abdicates control again
By Inder Jit
(Released on 12 June 1990)
Parliament’s recently-concluded budget session has not received the critical attention it deserves. Not many of our people have...
Ecology neglect hits economy
Sheer Cosmetic Data
By Shivaji Sarkar
India is afflicted with some serious issues. The Kerala floods, overflowing of 32 of 35 dams and flooding of all...
Will it ensure better performance?
Lateral Entry In Bureaucracy
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The bureaucracy rules supreme in Government and legacy has been inherited since British days. The oft-stated 'bureaucratic attitude' is...
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...
Making strategic moves
Modi In Cyprus & Canada
By Dr. D.K. Giri
(Prof of Practice, NIIS Group of Institutions)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Cyprus and Canada assumes considerable...
Courts must restrain
Religious Places Row
By Insaf
Three cheers to Supreme Court! On Thursday last, it asked courts across the country to ‘stay off their hands’ from entertaining...
Congress in crisis: Inept handling
By Inder Jit
(Published on 14 February 1989)
The Congress-I today faces its worst ever crisis. Indeed, a bigger question mark than ever before has gone...
Delhi, Dacca and friendship
By Inder Jit
(Released on 7 April 1981)
Bangladesh and its capital Dacca are a far cry from Delhi and most other parts, of India, barring...
‘North penalising south!’
TN Delimitation Row
By Insaf
Tamil Nadu sees itself not only taking on the ‘north’ but leading the ‘south’. Chief Minister M K Stalin has now...
With or without bridge courses
Rural Medical Care
By Dr S Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
A short-term Bridge Course for practitioners of Ayurveda and other traditional medicine proposed in the...
India must rethink strategy
Sino-US Trade War
By Shivaji Sarkar
The trade war between the US and China has a neutral victim in India. The escalation is likely to hurt...
Reboot psus for jobs
New Govt Must Cut I-T
By Shivai Sarkar
Despite it being too early to discuss the Union budget to be presented in July, it is certain...
A new way to combat corruption
By Inder Jit
(Released on 10 October 1989)
Corruption continues to grow — and the corrupt continue to flourish and prosper. Each succeeding day spotlights some...
Dialogue offer is absurd
India-Pak Airstrikes
By Dr. D.K.Giri
Prof. International Politics, JMI
India and Pakistan are at war. Pakistan started it by a proxy terrorist organisation JeM with a suicide...
Crime is now politics
Bahubali-Khadi Nexus
By Poonam I Kaushish
The sordid saga of dreaded gangster Vikas Dubey of Kanpur with over 60 cases to his name came to a...
Somaliland in new middle east balance of power
By Janusz Bylinski
(Expert, Centre for International Relations, Poland)
Since December last, Somaliland has been at the centre of a cyclone that has gripped the Middle...
A government must govern
By Inder Jit
(Released on 14 July 1987)
Top level exercises are on once again at New Delhi and Chandigarh to cope with terrorism, which continues...
Testament for a new movement
By Inder Jit
(Released on 7 January 1986)
One era has ended and another has begun. The Congress Centenary Celebrations rung down the curtain on the...
Better or worsen conservation?
Forest Amendments
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The controversial Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill 2023 passed recently in the monsoon session of Parliament, has generated a huge debate and opposition...
Indian crisis beyond shores?
‘Digital Berlin Wall’
By Shivaji Sarkar
India is complex. So is its economy. It is stated to be in crisis, its merchandise sales, core sector and...