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...