Policy stimuli wished for

Gloomy 2019 By Shivaji Sarkar A year passes with some gloom and the New Year enters with hope and aspirations. 2019 has had both good as...

Creating supply chains!

Japanese PM In Delhi By Dr D.K Giri (Prof. of International Politics, JIMMC) Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was in Delhi to attend the 14th India-Japan summit....

A mixed reaction

'Mixopathy' Protests By Dr S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) Nationwide protests called by the Indian Medical Association against what it has labeled as “Mixopathy”,...

Judicious planning vital

Privatising Railways By Dhurjati Mukherjee The Indian Railways plan to allow privatisation has been announced and it is to become a reality from April 2023....

What’s next for Pax Americana?

By Ewa Fronczak (Centre For Internaltional Relations, Poland) The 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, once said that America was ready to “pay...

Resetting foreign policy!

Voicing Global South By Dr. D.K. Giri Prof. International Relations, JIMMC India hosted the virtual Global South meeting on 12 and 13 January as a part of...

Reopening debate

Death Penalty By Dr. S Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) Justice Kurien Joseph, on the eve of his retirement, delivered a judgement commuting the death sentence...

Stokes ‘outsider’ debate

Gujarat Exodus By Insaf Mahatma Gandhi would be turning in his grave. Gujarat hate attacks have forced thousands of Hindi-speaking migrants flee the State. The exodus...

Whose afraid of it?

Bulldozer Politics By Poonam I Kaushish As temperatures rise across the country the heat is searing through political Ulta Pulta UP and Madhya Pradesh over it...

Sc sends strong message

Utt'khand Eviction Drive By Insaf Three cheers to the Supreme Court. It may have killed two birds with one stone. One, it rightly stayed the Uttarakhand...

Why not lifelong ban?

Court Asks Jan Sevaks By Poonam I Kaushish Circa 1996: “Which MP doesn’t take money…people who have made money from coal and iron…money in thailis and...

Cracks in its vibrancy!

Indian Democracy By Dhurjati Mukherjee The highest court of the land, Supreme Court’s, recent observations on sedition law and throttling of dissent puts a big question...

Can she revive Congress?

Priyanka Debuts By Poonam I Kaushish It's finally official! Priyanka Vadra takes a bow as Congress General Secretary UP (East) and suddenly there is spring in...

Growth not easy path

ES Positive On Future By Shivaji Sarkar India is poised to grow despite the pandemic panic shock during a critical financial year when all budget projections...

Must be budget priority

Refocus On Jobs By Shivaji Sarkar It may be imperative on Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to refocus the Union Budget from possible populism, an election-time compulsion,...

Millennial brat pack bro!

Parties Invoke Dynastic Gods By Poonam I Kaushish In our continuing poll nautanki this week’s flavour is pedigree. No, I am not talking about the canine...

Ambitious plan for njic

Judiciary's Modernisation By DrS.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) “I am of the firm belief that unless infrastructure is strengthened, it is unfair to expect courts, particularly...

Boost to trade, business

Indo-ASEAN Summit By Shivaji Sarkar It is a leap forward. The Indo-ASEAN Commemorative Summit is projected to pave way for an Asian prominence and double the...

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...

Tujhe malum hai mera baap kaun hai?

Nepal's  Nepo Lesson By Poonam I Kaushish Circa January 2011: Jasmine Revolution. No, it has nothing to do with flower power, but people’s power uprising in...