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...

Neighbours key to dream

Rupee For Global Leap By Shivaji Sarkar The Rupee is on at least an 11-year-journey in its quest for quasi international status, even as it slides...

Towards golden jubilee!

India-France Ties By Dr D.K Giri (Secretary General, Assn for Democratic Socialism) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been on a two-day visit to Paris. On his arrival, in...

India presses for rupee trade

New Saudi Petro-$ Regime Begins By Shivaji Sarkar Indians are hopeful of a new petroleum pricing regime with Saudi Arabia refusing to renew the 50-year-old US-Saudi...

An election gimmick?

India Reclaims PoK By Prof. (Dr.) D.K. Giri (Secretary General, Assn for Democratic Socialism) In response to former J&K Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah’s reference to Pakistan having...

Riots reminder of past

Delhi Burns By Insaf Delhi puts a big question mark on ‘New India’. The riots should make both its people and the government hang their head...

India’s strategic dichotomy?

Quad & BRICS By Dr. D.K. Giri (Prof. International Relations, JIMMC) The Quad summit last week deepened the alliance of four members as it rattled China, the...

Needs soul searching

Microfinance & Poor By Moin Qazi The microfinance sector is again facing troubles, this time in Assam with stress in rural households and a spate of...

45 collateral exits

Lateral Entry Politics By Poonam I Kaushish The reservation ration tamasha is back on the political platter as our netagan continue to conjure populist hullabaloo to...

What’s the big deal?

Political Morality By Poonam I Kaushish “Idealism is good in politics, but if you are kicked out, who cares!” asserted Maharashtra Dy Chief Minister Fadnavis, adding,...

Growth potential untapped

Struggling MSMEs By Dhurjati Mukherjee The MSMEs sector, regarded as the growth engine of the Indian economy, is contributing 5 per cent of the GDP. But...

Time critical for reform

Medical Education By Dr Oishee Mukherjee All eyes will be on the ensuing Budget session to see whether the National Medical Commission Bill, sent to a...

This needs to be ablished

High IT A Myth By Shivaji Sarkar Almost 81,000 Indians earned over Rs 1 crore a year, screams Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT). Is there...

Impose severe cost on nation

NGT, RBI Decisions By Shivaji Sarkar The regulators are failing the people. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) and the Reserve Bank (RBI) in their wisdom are...

BJP battles for allies

2019: War of Positions By Poonam I Kaushish Italian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci's 'War of Positions' and 'War of Manoeuvres' indicate two different phases in a power...

Poor’s Tardy Consumption

Is gdp growth the answer? By Dhurjati Mukherjee India’s consumption growth has experienced nothing short of an explosion over the last two-three decades according to reports....

To be or not to be!

India-US Ties By Dr D. K. Giri (Secretary General, Assn for Democratic Socialism) The current India-America relations reflect Hamlet’s dilemma as expressed in his soliloquy in Act...

Has it outlived life?

Changing WTO By Shivaji Sarkar World trade is changing fast and in a unilateral direction. The US President Donald Trump is deciding the course. He raises...

India must watch us-eu dynamic

Security & Transatlantic Ties By Piotr Opalinski (Expert, Centre for Intl Relations, Poland) The global order is undergoing its deepest transformation since the end of the Cold...

Perform or perish

Administering Change By Poonam I Kaushish A Government of India car drives into Delhi’s Lodi garden at 7.30am, ‘saab’ instructs his driver to stay ‘right here’....