Parachute loyalties rule roost
General Election 2019
By Poonam I Kaushish
As India’s greatest nautanki enters its last three phases of polling we will have stood witness to 900 million...
Upgradation vital for revival
R&D Technology
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
India’s manufacturing expertise is not very efficient and cost competitive, even compared with the emerging economies. As such, there have been...
Govt startup schemes aren’t personal properties of officers and MLAs
Editor,
Days ago, the honourable chief minister, while appreciating and applauding, shared on his social media handle about an Adi youth who has taken up...
Not just cong wanting
Intra-Party Democracy
By Sagarneel Sinha
The recent All India Congress Committee elections for the post President, where Mallikarjun Kharge defeated Shashi Tharoor, has yet again brought...
What constitutional norms?
'State' Of Head
By Poonam I Kaushish
It’s a killer world and everything topsy turvy! First there’s the Parliament logjam, a tussle between BJP and Congress...
In name of ‘development’?
Environmental Destruction
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
As the hot summer pounces on the country with heat waves predicted in most parts, there is need to put sharp...
Dialogue on economy vital
Corona Panic
By Shivaji Sarkar
The last quarter figures of 2019-20 fiscal may have reasons to cause worry. An uninteresting Central budget, corona virus, plummeting stock...
Defiance of Supreme Court
Political Shenanigans
By Proloy Bagchi
What is currently being witnessed is total defiance of the decisions/orders given by the Supreme Court. While the apex court takes...
Low-fare vande new ‘shinkansen’
JICA Bumps To Bullet Train
By Shivaji Sarkar
The ambitious Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train project, once a symbol of India’s leap into advanced infrastructure, is now mired...
Budget for cow & core voters
End-Poverty Vision
By Shivaji Sarkar
It's a Budget for the kisan (farmer), mazdoor (labourer), cow and lower middle class -- BJP's core voters. Bonanza is...
India heads for epochal ruin
Stop Building Roads
By Shivaji Sarkar
If we want to save the country from Himalayan disaster, prevent desertification of the Ganga valley and progress, then the...
Poor lose, powerful gain
Pro-crony Policies
By Shivaji Sarkar
India’s aspiration to become a $5 trillion economy depends critically on promoting “pro-business” policy that enhances market competition negating the...
Consensus eludes
G-20 Meeting
By Dr D.K. Giri
(Secretary General, Assn for Democratic Socialism)
Not unexpectedly, consensus eluded the meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) of...
Govt puts up its hands!
Badgered Economy
By Shivaji Sarkar
2020 is a year every individual would wish had not been on the calendar. The devastation is immeasurable. Corrections are difficult....
Are poor better off?
Politics of Poverty
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Lok Sabha elections announced, all political parties are gearing up to woo the electoral vote bank, specially the poor and...
India braces ocean defence
US Extends Garcia To Lanka!
By Shivaji Sarkar
Amid global turmoil of the Ukraine and Israel wars, a new strategic front opens up in Sri Lanka...
India must rethink
US' Foreign Policy
By Dr D. K. Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JIMMC)
The American debacle in Afghanistan has made countries reassess its foreign policy in terms of...
India and the world
A Peace Manifesto
By Dr. D.K. Giri
(Prof. NIIS Group of Institutions, Odisha)
The crying need of the world currently is peace and security, without which life...
BJP faces discontent?
Battle For States
By Sagarneel Sinha
After being in power at the Centre for over seven years, the Bharatiya Janata Party appears to be showing signs...
Health care delivery vital
Modular Hospitals
By Dr Oishee Mukherjee
In India, out of pocket (OOP) expenditure makes up 63 per cent or almost two-thirds of total health expenditure as...