Separation of powers blurred

NTF For Covid-19 By DrS.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) The Supreme Court hasset up a 12-member National Task Force (NTF) to facilitate public health response to...

Govt must halt unholy nexus

Pvt Coaching Centres By Dhurjati Mukherjee The parliamentary standing committee on education has recently recommended to the government to curb the growing unholy nexus between colleges...

Concocted, fooling public?

Poverty Data By Dhurjati Mukherjee A very recent discussion paper released by Niti Aayog titled ‘Multidimensional Poverty in India since 2008-09’, authored by member Ramesh Chandra and...

Forgotten & blurred?

Gandhi's Vision By Dhurjati Mukherjee The ongoing farmers’ agitation should make policy makers take a relook at Mahatma Gandhi’s ‘gram swaraj’ (village self-rule), wherein the farmer...

Political harlotry unbridled

By Inder Jit (Released on 16 June 1981) Prostitution is legally banned in India. But political harlotry continues to flourish brazenly. What is worse, it is...

Cultural Vultures

Life in ‘official’ slim stip By Poonam I Kaushish Democracy is a conflict of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. A succinct saying which aptly...

Big budget path not easy

Farmer, Trader Welfare By Shivaji Sarkar The Narendra Modi government begins its second term by opening up its kitty for the newly- emerging rural farm sector...

On paper, intent missing

COP Pledges By Shivaji Sarkar The climate summit COP26 is galore of promises as desertification the world over increases. The meet is less on concrete...

Is it justified?

Encounter Killing By Dr. Oishee Mukherjee The killings of four persons in Hyderabad allegedly accused of rape once again point to organized violence of the State....

Increase with its primacy

Election Commission Woes Dr.S.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) A six-member delegation of the Trinamool Congress submitted a memorandum to the Election Commission of India alleging “deep-rooted...

Money does talk!

$7 Billion Election By Shivaji Sarkar Elections are becoming trickier, opaque and a game of money power. Rigging polls is no more a hush-hush matter. In...

Pragmatic Push For Peace

By Inder Jit (Released on 29 December 1977) Quiet has once again descended over the historic and imposing headquarters of the United Nations in New York....

Is Modi vincible?

BJP Takes Big Hit By Poonam I Kaushish Circa 2014: India voted for change and a new power paradigm on the wings of hope and trust....

Centre, states blame game

Rural Employment By Dhurjati Mukherjee There were recent protests in the Lok Sabha during the Budget session of Parliament regarding long delays in the release of...

Globalisation via local route

Atmanirbhar Bharat By Dr S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) Atmanirbhar Bharat, meaning self-reliant India, is the goal set before us as a panacea to recover...

Bjp’s Nirvana 2019?

Ayodhya Again By Poonam I Kaushish Politicians are an unholy lot! They take a "holier than thou attitude" on anything and everything be it religion or...

$236 b job profit racket

Illegal Indian Immigrants  By Shivaji Sarkar The multi-trillion-dollar illegal profit generating world immigration rackets thrive on freely available private telecom company sims, fake bank accounts, anonymity,...

Fresh look at India-US ties

By Inder Jit (Released on 11 December 1984) The poll battle is hotting up. Salvoes are being fired from both sides. Nevertheless, normal life and work...

Who controls babudom?

Centre-States Tussle By Poonam I Kaushish A Government of India car drives into Delhi’s Lodi garden at 6.30am, ‘saab’ instructs his driver to stay ‘right here’....

Independent ec, really?

Election Omission By Poonam I Kaushish What is it about Election Commission and cleansing the political cesspool that scares our polity away? Specially when they love...