Professionalisation vital

Railways In Dire Straits By Dhurjati Mukherjee There are talks of reorganizing the railways to gear up efficiency and ensure its effective functioning. This is all...

India rides growth bug

Global Hyper Debt By Shivaji Sarkar India joins the world aiming for a super growth on a high debt and infra push for an economic panacea....

India on razor’s edge

Queer Global Moves By Shivaji Sarkar It is a queer world. Politics and economics are contesting each other almost globally. In the country, Parliament remains paralysed...

No answer for progress

Privatisation Spree By Dhurjati Mukherjee It’s one thing to announce plans and targets and another to have a roadmap to ensure these are achieved. Every year...

Pentagon report on Chinese armed forces

By Dr. Ewa Fronczak (Center for International Relations, Poland) The numbers don't lie - the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) is currently the largest armed force...

Will it last till next polls?

Modi Magic in Bihar By Dhurjati Mukherjee In the wake of authoritarian tendencies and wrong policies at the national level, the mahagatbandhan under the leadership of...

Nation of the rich: Oxfam

Govt Promises & Reality By Dhurjati Mukherjee Speeches of Union ministers, specially at the top, the Prime Minister, are prepared by highly qualified people and many...

End to bitter campiagning

Rajasthan Polling By Insaf Rajasthan goes to the polls today. The campaigning has been rough and tough and while pollsters would give thumbs up to ruling...

$4 billion at stake!

Temple Economy By Shivaji Sarkar The temple economy is as large as the Indian budget sustaining the country. Its contours across the religious denominations of Hindu,...

Govt must reveal reality

Economy Data Suppression By Dhurjati Mukherjee Notwithstanding the claim of every ruling party politician that India is progressing, the facts including grass root data of the...

Injustice within law

Matrimonial Violence By Dr S.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) On 14th September, the Supreme Court, dealing with a PIL stated that Parliament that enacted a law...

Centre, states wake up late

Lockdown & Migrant Workers By Insaf Too little and maybe too late! An assessment of the Centre’s lockdown and Rs 1,70,000-crore relief package for the urban...

More acerbic the better!

Hate Is Now Virtue By Poonam I Kaushish The more things change the more they remain the same. Whereby our netagan are reveling in neech under-the-belt...

Defence deals and security

By Inder Jit (Released on 2 September 1980) Three weeks ago, I expressed horror over the doings of the Union Energy Minister, Mr Ghani Khan Choudhury,...

Bitter War On Sweet Rosogolla

India needs to be watchful By Shivaji Sarkar It is great news for West Bengal. It has won the paternity of India’s savoured sweet dish rosogolla’s...

India as mediator?   

Ukraine Peace Efforts By Prof. (Dr.) D.K. Giri (Secy Gen, Assn for Democratic Socialism) The statement by David Cameroon, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom lends...

Credibility more than unity

By Inder Jit (Released on 22 December 1981) Opposition unity is in the air again. Everyone is talking about the Janata Party’s recent decision to “bring...

Folly, accident or conspiracy?

Oil, PSUs Death & Jobs By Shivaji Sarkar Air, petro, telephony and job crises are putting the country at risk. America’s nonchalance is adding to...

Neglected, lacks direction

Key Factors & Budget By Dhurjati Mukherjee Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had a challenging task as the Budget was presented in a situation of faltering GDP...

Political Funds

All hush-hush about slush By Poonam I Kaushish Money makes the clogged, polluted and corrupt political mare go around, and how! In the on-going Great Indian...