Uniform civil code, anyone?

When Ram, Rahim Poll Cut Outs… By Poonam I Kaushish In this season of freebies galore interspersed with vitriolic hate speeches and venomous tu-tu-mein-mein, now Ram-Rahim...

Disciplining law makers

Code of Conduct By Dr S.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu has been urging political parties to adopt a Code of Conduct for MPs...

Total failure of regulators

  IL&FS Crisis By Shivaji Sarkar The IL&FS is a national crisis. It may or may not be a Lehman moment in Indian economy-- as is being...

How do we spell merit?

Quotas Circus By Poonam I Kaushish The quota circus is back on the political platter as our netagan continue with populist bravado and mindlessness. Doling out...

One more vow of govt jobs!

MP's Children By Insaf Madhya Pradesh’s Children! That’s the new mantra of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. On Tuesday last, akin to the ‘sons of the...

Electrifying claim?

Power For All By Dhurjati Mukherjee The Modi government's resolve to light up every home by December 2018 is no doubt commendable. At the time the...

National capital’s turn

'Bulldozer'Politics By Insaf The rule of law be damned, rather simply bulldoze it. It’s the “New India” that the national capital too gets a taste of....

Reorienting policies vital

Next Poll Planning By Dhurjati Mukherjee The NDA has about five months to go before the Lok Sabha elections and apart from improving governance, the vote...

A wake up call

Tawang Clashes By Dr. D.K. Giri (Prof. International Relations, JIMMC) On 9 December, the Indian and Chinese troops clashed at Yangtse in Tawang sector in Arunachal Pradesh....

India’s “Boat People”

Gets Tough On Rohingya Migrants By Poonam I Kaushish In the summer of 1975, hundreds of thousands of people fled South Vietnam after the fall of...

Similar lessons

Two State Polls By Dr S.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) Haryana and Maharashtra Assembly elections followed barely five months after the amazing victory of the BJP...

Policy overhaul critical

Induced Inflation By Shivaji Sarkar India needs to look at its falling demand, rising bank, power and fuel charges, high tax and toll rates. This is...

Need sharper swadeshi

US Out To Punish India By Shivaji Sarkar The weaponizing of tariff runs deeper than it appears. When US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent described India–US ties...

Adverse impact for India

Melting Glaciers By Dhurjati Mukherjee The United Nations has declared 2025 as the ‘International Year of Glacier Preservation’, given the critical problem of glacier melting. To...

Remove confusion

Covid Ex Gratia By Dr S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) The Supreme Court directed the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to quantify within six weeks...

Rise to power & strategy

Japan's New PM By Dr. Hab. Beata Bochorodycz (Political scientist, expert, Centre for Intl Relations, Poland) Sanae Takaichi became Japan’s first female Prime Minister. Known for her...

Reaping political benefits?

Holy Cow! By Poonam I Kaushish “Gau mata” is once again being relished by our Hindutva brigade whereby protection of the holy cow has become de...

Quotas And Queues

How do we spell merit? By Poonam I Kaushish Quotas and queues are back on the political platter wherein our netagan are busy indulging in one-upmanship,...

Ease financial milieu

Rising Food Prices By Shivaji Sarkar Rising food prices are adding to the woes of postcorona lockdown recovery. States such as West Bengal, Assam or Uttar...

Dress rehersal for 2019

Karnataka Election By Dr S.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) The entire nation's political attention is concentrated on the election in Karnataka as if it will decide...