India makes strides

Financial Inclusion By Moin Qazi India has recently witnessed profound changes in its financial inclusion ecosystem. While financial inclusion is a point of entry to lift people out...

Delay cost huge, rework: Cag

Clean Ganga Project By Shivaji Sarkar "The Ganga cleaning project has cost the nation Rs 7304 crore", notes the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in its observations...

Nation first or party?

My List Vs Your List By Poonam I Kaushish It was a short-lived hum-sath-sath-hain show of outrage, grief and retribution. Barely, has the ink dried on...

Jpc on policy correction?

Wasteful Litigation By Shivaji Sarkar Even as 2018 dawns, the shadow of a scam, which a judge now says never was, will continue to be cast...

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...

Entangled in politics?

Covid-19 Review By Insaf Is politics being played over Covid-19, is the question doing the rounds. While on the one hand Prime Minister Narendra Modi at...

New avatarpost k’taka poll?

High GST Fills Coffers By Shivaji Sarkar Would the economic fundamentals change with the Karnataka elections? They just might. The Assembly polls have drawn a serious debate...

Twin track approach vital

Impending Food Crisis By Dhurjati Mukherjee Poverty, hunger and food insecurity along with inadequate funding in agriculture are among the key trends the United Nations’ Food...

Punjab, wb, Kerala add doubt

India bloc unity By Insaf Developments in Punjab are putting a big question mark on the bonhomie projected by INDIA bloc for 2024. The Congress particularly...

Bilateralism vs multilateralism

India-Greece Relations By Prof. (Dr.) D.K. Giri (Secretary General, Assn for Democratic Socialism) India-Greece bilateralism received a new impetus in an international seminar, organised at Jawaharlal Nehru...

Fantasy or eventual reality?

One Farm Market By Shivaji Sarkar If wishes were horses “one India one farm market” would have flown under then Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee...

Poll has thrown up basic issues

By Inder Jit (Released on 5 March 1985) Several issues of basic importance to the future of our polity have come up in the course of...

Bjp must see writing on the wall

Anti-Incumbency Factor By Sagarneel Sinha The 2024 Lok Sabha election is inching closer to its end with two phases remaining and initial trends are changing. At...

It’s only life, stupid!

My Heartless India “What’s the use of coming now? He is already dead. All are dead. The Administration is hopeless, useless,” angrily shouted an anguished...

The speaker keeps his word

By Inder Jit (Released on 20 March 1984) The Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Mr. Bal Ram Jakhar deserves a hand. Seven weeks ago, he told...

Opposition chances brighten

By Inder Jit (Released on 27 April 1982) Opposition prospects in the mini-general poll are looking up. At long last, good sense appears to be prevailing...

New Delhi reclibrates strategy

Sri Lanka Elections By Dr. D.K. Giri (Prof. International Politics, JMI) The island state Sri Lanka elected its 7th President last Saturday. The clear and decisive winner...

No place for girls

Rape Country By Poonam I Kaushish India is at war with its girls and women. As tales of savagery and nightmarish drugging, beating and rape of...

‘Gas Chamber’ Delhi

Govts pass the buck By Insaf National capital Delhi should make both the AAP and Central government hang their heads in shame. It is choked, engulfed...

Uniform civil code, anyone?

When Ram, Rahim Poll Cut Outs… By Poonam I Kaushish In this season of freebies galore interspersed with vitriolic hate speeches and venomous tu-tu-mein-mein, now Ram-Rahim...