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...

Draconian, needs retink

New MV Act By Shivaji Sarkar The Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill 2019 is draconian. Worse, it is passed at a time when the automobile industry is...

An aptitude test

Unity in Crisis By DrS.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) The Supreme Court on 22nd April, on its own, took cognizance of the grave COVID-19 situation in...

Yet govt cautious

IMF's Good Chit By Shivaji Sarkar The International Monetary Fund has lauded India for recovering from disruptions caused by teething troubles of GST and some other activities....

Big fillip by new policy

Green Hydrogen Fuel By Dhurjati Mukherjee With the first part of the National Hydrogen Policy notified, the government is targeting production of 5 million tonnes of...

The misguided students?

Of Streets & Classrooms By Proloy Bagchi It appears from what the newspapers say or what the media shows that the entire country has become secular...

Diplomacy & war

India On Ukraine By Prof. (Dr.) D.K. Giri (Secy Gen, Assn for Democratic Socialism) The Ukrainian war has completed one thousand days with horrible deaths and devastation...

New strategic paradigm

India-Pak Conflict By Piotr Opalinski (Former Diplomat, Centre for International Relations, Poland) The May crisis between India and Pakistan revealed the fragility of the security architecture in...

Integrated policy must

Fares Fly As Rail Collapse By Shivaji Sarkar Air fares are shooting up again as the holiday season arrives. Some weeks back these shot beyond the...

Nation’s prerogative

Citizenship Expansion By Dr. S.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) The Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 is another bold initiative of the NDA government to tackle the problem...

Effects on Indo-us trade

Tariff Wars By Dhurjati Mukherjee The US has announced 26 percent across-the-board reciprocal tariffs on India but these are substantially lower than most countries. It was...

Doles no longer lure

Parties Clueless Of PMP By Shivaji Sarkar This election is about PMP —- poverty management programme —- an economic agenda that is unclear and all political...

Delhi, Dacca and friendship

By Inder Jit (Released on 7 April 1981) Bangladesh and its capital Dacca are a far cry from Delhi and most other parts, of India, barring...

ISRO spends less than nasa!

Frugal India & Giant Leap By Shivaji Sarkar The Chandrayaan-3 has made India proud and a noteworthy insight, rather a testimony,that most government departments can effectively...

Dangerous future ahead

Politics on Roads By Dr S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) New Year season is celebrated this year in Mumbai with violent street level politics virtually...

Deadly nudge by Corona

Health & Economics By Dr. Oishee Mukherjee The economy seems to be at a virtual standstill due to the coronavirus pandemic, even though the death toll...

‘Bjp hand in glove’: Cong

Godhra School NEET Scam By Insaf Gujarat’s Godhra is in the news again. This time it’s NEET paper leak scam, hitting headlines and disrupting Parliament session....

Sermons to the satan

EAM's Eight Principles By Dr. D.K. Giri (Prof, International Relations, JIMMC) The External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, delivering the keynote address at the 13th All India Conference...

Muslim women unshackled

Game Changing Act By Poonam I Kaushish Circa 1985: A five-member Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court overruled the Muslim Personal Law in the famous Shah...

Two states renew hope, peace

AFSPA Withdrawn By Insaf Holding peace is rewarding. The Centre has rightly acknowledged it in two north eastern States. Early this week, Union Home Ministry revoked...