US, UK moves can hit India
Harshad To Adani, Scams On
By Shivaji Sarkar
The year 1992, Finance Minister Manmohan Singh liberalised economy, stocks zoomed, small salaried class crowded the equity market...
The 39 are alive, no dead!
Mistakes in Mosul
By Dr D.K. Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JMI)
The tragic death of Indian workers in Mosul, Iraq was shrouded in confusion and miscommunication. The...
Katil=Neta, Toh Kya?
Stigma=Women
By Poonam I Kaushish
Plato believed that democratic “life has neither law nor order.” And he was dead right. In today’s India where jiske lathi...
Will sc order make a dent?
Private Universities
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
At the fag end of the year, a landmark judgment of the Supreme Court has brought into sharp focus the functioning...
Delhi woefully wronged!
Leaders Vs Bureaucrats
By Insaf
The nation’s capital, Delhi, rather any other State in the country, wouldn’t have seen anything like this before. Actions of government...
Causes & remedies
Voter Apathy
By Dr. S. Saraswathi
(Former Director ICSSR, New Delhi)
Voter turnout in the four phases, where 2019 Lok Sabha elections were completed last week, is...
Can turn to unusual aspects
Budget Hits Opposition
By Shivaji Sarkar
Indian political economy is at test. The Interim Budget has caused discomfort in the Opposition. It has taken away the...
Fresh complications
Dual Citizenship
By Dr S.Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
Less mentioned but more complicated is an idea mooted in the course of protests over the Citizenship...
A jinxed peace road
Battle-ing Indo-Pak Ties
By Poonam I Kaushish
Neighbour or enemy? Both. India-Pakistan relations are like a roller coaster ride. All depends on which way the political...
Not at whims of govts
SC/ST New Quotas
By Insaf
Three cheers to the Supreme Court. Political parties and state governments across the country will need to think twice before playing...
Confident, wary of 3 states
BJP's 2024 Battle
By Sagarneel Sinha
Replying to the No-confidence motion in Lok Sabha Prime Minister Modi said: “Opposition has
betrayed the people of India. They have...
Holy conversions!
Mitti, Kajal & Darshan
By Poonam I Kaushish
A 16-year-old Faridabad girl is lured by Hussain in 2023. He takes her to Delhi’s Nizamuddin Dargah and...
Rajiv’s China visit and Nehru
US Tariff War
By Inder Jit
(Released on 20 December 1988)
The Prime Minister, Mr. Rajiv Gandhi, now in Beijing, deserves a hand for his bold initiative...
Govt puts up its hands!
Badgered Economy
By Shivaji Sarkar
2020 is a year every individual would wish had not been on the calendar. The devastation is immeasurable. Corrections are difficult....
Is India ready ?
Uniform Civil Code
By Poonam I Kaushish
In the ongoing poll battle in five States with our polity upping the ante of identity politics to suit...
It’s only life, stupid!
My Heartless India
“What’s the use of coming now? He is already dead. All are dead. The Administration is hopeless, useless,” angrily shouted an anguished...
Punjab wriggles out of it
Office of Profit
By Insaf
The idiom 'better safe than sorry' makes good sense to the Punjab Government. Aware of growing frustration amongst his flock of...
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...
Setting strategic footholds
Modi's Gulf, East Africa Visit
By Dr. D.K. Giri
(Prof of Practice, NIIS Group of Institutions)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-day state visit to Jordan on 15-16...
Greater than China
2+2 In Delhi
By Dr D.K. Giri
(Prof, Intl Relations, JMI)
Much-publicised 2+2 meeting between India and the US concluded on 27th October triggering a good deal...