Economy, politics fluid

High Bank Prices, GST Economic Highlights By Shivaji Sarkar Both economics and politics are becoming difficult. If the change of government in Maharashtra is said to be...

Bank funding hit: RBI

State Polls Bare Infra Risks By Shivaji Sarkar Amid the critical Haryana elections, the Reserve Bank of India’s concerns over infrastructure funding and new guidelines have...

Shaky market, rupee hit

FPI Pull Out By Shivaji Sarkar Developments such as the US’ deep recession, Federal Bank rate hikes, European Union uncertainties and Russia-Ukraine war are bleeding the...

Dangerous change

Religious Conversions By Poonam I Kaushish India is caught up in a battle royale between the Gods after a 17-year-old girl committed suicide as she was...

Varanasi pushes bjp agenda

Gyanvapi Mosque Row By Insaf Inflation be dammed, long live mandir-masjid hullabaloo! Uttar Pradesh keeps the flag flying for the BJP and its Hindutva agenda. The...

Showing a new ‘disha’

Justice Executed By Poonam I Kaushish India is at war with its betis. If Nirbhaya, Kathua, Unnao, Muzzafarnagar etc weren’t gut wrenching, the latest tale of...

Don’t be power hungry

Congressisation of BJP By Sagarneel Sinha The year 2019 is a historic year for the BJP as it is the first time that the Party returned...

Economic costs be damned!

My Subsidy, Your Revadi By Poonam I Kaushish It is raining freebies wherein sound economic sense has been surrendered to political gamesmanship. Reckless subsidies are being...

New initiative on black money

By Inder Jit (Released on 4 August 1981) Mrs Gandhi has spoken not a day too soon on black money during her recent visit to Srinagar...

Offsetting the bully

West Bengal & EC By Insaf 2019 elections must be the biggest challenge Nirvachan Sadan has had to face, what with West Bengal unrelenting. The polls...

BJP agenda muddies waters

Lakshadweep Turmoil By Insaf Tiny Lakshadweep has hit national headlines, for all the wrong reasons. Misplaced ‘reforms’, as proposed by Administrator P K Patel in the...

Mountain out of molehill

Wakf Act By Poonam I Kaushish Phew! As Delhi simmers in rising heat wave, it is better than political stewing on the contentious  Mussalman Wakf (Repeal)...

Expunctions in house a scandal

By Inder Jit (Released on 30 March 1982) Giani Zail Singh’s gaffe over Hitler in the Lok Sabha has proved to be a blessing in disguise....

India’s new normal

Modi 3.0 By Poonam I Kaushish How does one begin an epitaph of one year of Modi 3.0? Uncork champagne on the wings of new hopes...

Deep political undercurrent

Ram Temple Edifice By Dhurjati Mukherjee The temple town of Ayodhya is all decked up. The Prime Minister performing the bhoomi pujan ceremony for construction of...

Who cares for farmers, poor?

Stubborn Govt By Dhurjati Mukherjee At a time when farmers are agitating for their rights and the entire Opposition supporting them, the Government’s stance of unwilling...

What is in a word?

Unparliamentary Or Gag? By Poonam I Kaushish What’s in word? Everything when it comes to our polity. We were treated to one such last week. Our...

Worshipping false gods

Communal Violence, Yawn By Poonam I Kaushish It never ceases to surprise how our polity is swiftly sinking into the marshy cesspool of bloodied religious intolerance....

Servant of the house, not master

By Inder Jit (Released on 25 August 1981) Parliament’s eagerly-awaited monsoon session got off expectedly to a stormy start, Visitors who crowded the public galleries in...

Counting the benefits

India's G-20 Presidency By Dr. D.K. Giri (Prof. International Relations, JIMMC) In the G-20 Summit at Bali, India will be handed over the presidency of the most...