Most harassed organ
Supreme Court
By Dr S. Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
The Supreme Court on 17 December 2020 observed in the case relating to farmers’ protest that...
National govt the remedy
Economic Letdown
By Shivaji Sarkar
It is an ominous year now. Panic decisions and maniac actions of keeping people off work has done wonders of squeezing...
Rising Asian Power
India to outdo China!
By Dr DK Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JMI)
India’s rise as a formidable Asian Power was confirmed around ASEAN and East Asian Summits...
Worst in India’s history
Water Crisis
By Moin Qazi
India has long undervalued one of its most precious resources -- water. The country's chronic mismanagement of water is staring at...
Restating strategic autonomy!
EAM in Russia
By Dr D.K. Giri
(Prof. International Relations, JIMMC)
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is in Moscow visiting his counterparts– the Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov...
Wake up call to govt?
Bankers, Farmers' Protests
By Shivaji Sarkar
Indian farmers and bankers have put up a strong challenge to the move of privatisation, corporatisation of the economy and...
Reform centres for inmates?
‘Open Jails’
By Dr. Oishee Mukherjee
The Supreme Court has favoured setting up of ‘open jails’, where inmates will not be confined within prison walls and...
Rule-based rbi for a start
Big GDP Slump
By Shivaji Sarkar
It’s a fall or new beginning. The nation is pondering over the minus 23.9 per cent GDP crash. The...
India’s guarded response
Coup in Myanmar
By Dr. DK. Giri
(Prof. International Relations, JIMMC)
For the third time since gaining independence in 1948, Myanmar politics became a victim of a...
Redefine black money
Note-ban Fiasco
By Shivaji Sarkar
The 'operation clean money' has had a huge cost on India despite gains in some sectors such as boosting bank coffers...
Reform or find alternative
Representative Democracy
By Dr S. Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
The Budget session of Parliament has commenced and 20 Opposition parties joined together to boycott the...
To lower demand, growth
Diesel Price Hike
Economic Highlights
By Shivaji Sarkar
The nation needs wisdom to help stir it out of a difficult situation. An economy sinking for...
Hacking Blows at the System
By Inder Jit
(Released on 17 January 1984)
Words. Words. And still more words. Hardly a day has passed during the past fortnight and more when...
No talk, act on global warming
Glacial Burst
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Global warming needs a lot more attention in the country following the recent glacial burst in Uttarakhand and . While experts...
Don’t solve problems
'Landmark' Farm Bills
By Shivaji Sarkar
The bulldozing of the two bills -- Agricultural Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Simplification) Bill and Farmers (Empowerment and...
No substitute for classroom
Online Education
By Dr S. Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
Closure of schools has led to a thoughtless rush to switch over to online education as...
Tech & govt support vital
Raising Farm Output
Open Forum
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged States to step up domestic production by accelerating the process for modernisation of...
Campus Politics Unlawful
Repeat court verdict
By Dr S Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court decisively banned student politics in college campuses...
The role of education
Preparing For An AI World
By Rajiv Gupta
Scientific discoveries, technology, and innovation have tended to disrupt the way in which humans think and act. This...
Pseudo unity in diversity!
Culture of Protests
By Poonam I Kaushish
How hypocritical is Mera Bharat Mahan. In a week when India celebrated its 68th Republic Day drumbeating Unity in...