Creation & quality vital
Unemployment Challenges
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Providing jobs is indeed a big change for a populous country like India with a huge number entering the labour force...
Dent economy, equal chance
Freebies In Elections
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Freebies have for quite some years been playing a prominent role in electoral politics in India. Despite knowing the fact...
The Identity Trap
By Rajiv Gupta
Most people who have gone through a job interview will be familiar with the question, “Tell me about yourself” where the interviewee...
New year challenging
Economic Trends
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The vast majority of Indians basic livelihood issues of roti, kapada and makan would score any day over trumped up...
GNCTD bill: Delhi govt undermined
By Insaf
The AAP government in Delhi is seething with anger and rightly so. Its powers have been curtailed with a lieutenant governor (LG) being...
Dramatic outcome!
Pakistan Elections
By Dr D.K. Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JMI)
Pakistan politics, volatile and dramatic as it continues to surprise the world. Results of the 2018 General...
Fiscal turmoil, uneven growth
UN Predictions
By Shivaji Sarkar
The global economy is stagnating and income inequality is increasing concerns over growth, as India enters a vibrant political phase and...
Will new govt focus on poor?
Post-2019 Elections
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The campaigning and polling for 2019 General elections is over. Those who cast their vote would have done so in the...
Economic re-statregy must
Arithmetic Vs Welfare
By Shivaji Sarkar
The byelections results are a clear signal for the ruling combine for changing its economic policies. The results are not...
Repositioning India
Chinese Incursion
By Dr. D.K. Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JMI)
After the recent Chinese incursion into Indian territories, Indians and India-observers abroad expected New Delhi to radically...
Un warns of upheaval
India's HDI Rank Loss
By Shivaji Sarkar
A rank loss on the UN Human Development Index is a grave indicator of India’s overall social and economic...
Wise pricing policy vital
Weird Sensex Rise
By Shivaji Sarkar
The sudden record movement of Sensex to 36,548 points once again proves that the stock market need
not follow other economic...
Fantasy or eventual reality?
One Farm Market
By Shivaji Sarkar
If wishes were horses “one India one farm market” would have flown under then Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee...
Test for split factions
Maharashtra Crucial Polls
By Insaf
The bugle for Maharashtra Assembly elections having been sounded, seat-sharing arrangement has been troublesome for both the warring sides. Interestingly, the...
Salami slicing tactics fail?
Chinese Checkers in Ladakh
Political Diary
By Poonam I Kaushish
Dr Jekyll or Mr Hyde? Both. Indeed, India-China relations are like a kaleidoscope of good and...
Don’t be power hungry
Congressisation of BJP
By Sagarneel Sinha
The year 2019 is a historic year for the BJP as it is the first time that the Party returned...
Quota for well-off irrational?
Creamy Layer
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The Government's decision, of implementing the concept of 'creamy layer' by disallowing a section of OBCs reservation benefits in the UPSC...
Another pandora’s box
National Language
By Dr. S. Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
In the series of efforts launched by the BJP government to promote unity and integrity of...
Exaggerated, yet an issue
Women Most Unsafe In India
By Dr. Oishee Mukherjee
The recent survey by Thomson Reuters Foundation showing India as the 'most dangerous country for women' in...
‘Vendetta politics’ echos
Karnataka Catch
By Insaf
Karnataka Congress, till recently in power, is seething with anger. ‘Political vendetta’ by brute BJP simply doesn’t seem to abate. The latest...