Food prices hit economy

Farm Exports At $35 b By Shivaji Sarkar The paradox within India’s food scenario, where higher agricultural yields year after year coincide with sharp spikes in...

Tackle rural-urban divide

India's Job Crisis By Dhurjati Mukherjee The debate on 'jobless growth' has greatly embarrassed the government. That there is an employment crisis cannot be doubted and...

I am a Dalit, who are you?

Caste Cauldron By Poonam I Kaushish “The naïve notion that we can preserve freedom by exuding goodwill is not only silly, but dangerous,” wrote former US...

Alteration has mixed impact

Women's Economic Empowerment By Dr S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) UNDP Report released on the Women’s Day 2020 has come out with a startling finding...

Global policy change soon

Poor Sustain On Rs 180: WB By Shivaji Sarkar India has 129 million (13 crore) citizens living in extreme poverty in 2024, says the World Bank...

Pakistan’s hand in Punjab

Defence Modernisation By Inder Jit (Released on 6 May 1986) India has effectively met yet another challenge to its unity and integrity by the grossly misled protagonists...

India’s distorted vision

Poor & Atmanirbharata By Shivaji Sarkar The long march of crores of migrant workers might have become a political issue, but in the Indian context...

Cpm’s gen next gamble

Kerala Cabinet By Insaf Gen Next, is CPM’s strategy to stay alive. At least in God’s own country, Kerala. The Pinarayi Vijayan-led LDF government’s decision, to...

Critical, Govts’ must ponder

Food Waste Index By Dhurjati Mukherjee Food wastage, at least in countries of South Asia, where a significant proportion of the population suffers from poverty as...

May raise fund flow

Modi's US Visit By Shivaji Sarkar The stock market is surging ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the US. However, would it be able...

Changing, more freelance

Trending Work By Dhurjati Mukherjee Generating and providing employment is a big challenge for a country like India. The nature and type of work has...

India on world stage?

Intl Solar Alliance By Dr. D. K. Giri (Prof. International Politics, JMI) India's leadership of International Solar Alliance and the maiden Summit on solar energy held last...

Mega scam singes economy

Toll Tax Extortion By Shivaji Sarkar It is time, rather most opportune time, to do away with road toll and review the levy of infrastructure cess...

Will new policy meet target?

Right to Water By Dhurjati Mukherjee Yet another National Water Policy is on the anvil. The Union Water Resources Ministry has finalised a 10-member committee under chairmanship...

Strategic defence pact

Saudi Arabia & Pakistan By Piotr Opalinski (Expert, Centre for International Relations, Poland) The Defence Agreement, signed last month by Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, is another sign...

How safe are we?

India's Exports Slide Rajiv Gupta It has not been even a month since the horrific bomb blast at the Red Fort, but already it seems like...

Where is society heading?

Growing Majoritarianism By Dhurjati Mukherjee Political analysts have rightly warned that that the majoritarian State that we are presently heading towards has virtually pushed minorities to...

Warned yet unprepared

Monsoon Mahyem By Poonam I Kaushish When it rains, it pours. And how! As annual rains shower a catastrophic effect across many States, they resemble disaster...

A veritable pause

Executing Operation Sindoor By Prof (Dr) DK Giri (Professor of Practice, NIIS Group of Institutions) In a powerful speech Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered some hard messages...

Depoliticise speaker’s office

Of The House, For The House By Poonam I Kaushish It’s the season of Aya Ram Gaya Ram and prize catches. Specially in Maharashtra and Bihar...