Regain trust to get FDI

Restore MRTP-Type Safety By Shivaji Sarkar As the Gautam Adani episode unfolds, it underscores the urgency of balancing corporate ambitions with public accountability. Failure to act,...

Will key issues be tackled?

Poll & Young Generation By Dhurjati Mukherjee The ensuing General elections have generated much hype as is normally the case before every election. This time...

Abhorrent turns normal!

Political Violence By Sagarneel Sinha On December 19, the election day of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) the city of Kolkata saw incidents of violence with the...

Time to evoke esma

Diminshing Parliament By Poonam I Kaushish Yawn! We have been through this before. Of how India’s temple of democracy Parliament is increasingly being called a mockery,...

Repositioning India

Chinese Incursion By Dr. D.K. Giri (Prof. International Politics, JMI) After the recent Chinese incursion into Indian territories, Indians and India-observers abroad expected New Delhi to radically...

Post-poll statue vandalism

Political Symbolism Dr.S.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) After the decisive defeat of the CPM in recent Assembly election in Tripura, statues of Lenin became the target...

India loses Rs 53 Tr, 12% gdp

Covid-19 Kills 20 Mn By Shivaji Sarkar The deadly scourge Covid-19 is officially over killing about seven million people across the world and at least five...

Fm spur scarce, cash dole vital

Global Crisis Till 2030 By Shivaji Sarkar The devastation caused by pandemic ensued lockdown may take ten long years to recover and the world economy may...

Rewriting Direct Tax

Boost growth, savings? By Shivaji Sarkar The new direct tax (DT) law must be revolutionary and a model for world economy. The government’s decision to set...

Neta-police: Hum saath saath hain

Hair Trigger Nation By Poonam I Kaushish Last week was telling. Underscoring three testaments. One: Our polity suffers from Orwellian syndrome ‘I-am-more-equal-than-you.’ Union Cabinet Minister Rane...

Need to be more vigilant

Controlling Heat Intensity By Dhurjati Mukherjee The heat wave has started and, as per predictions of the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) this year would witness more...

New way out of Ram-Babri imbroglio

By Inder Jit (Released on 2 October 1990) India's secularism today faces its biggest ever challenge. Yet the problem is not receiving the cool, overdue attention...

A wake-up call

Pahalgam & Aftermath By Dr. D.K. Giri (Professor of Practice, NIIS Group of Institutions) A good deal of debate has been taking place since the launch of...

Time for booster

Politics of Vaccine By Poonam I Kaushish Covid-19 announced itself to the world as 2020 dawned blitzing globally, unnerving health systems, nose diving economies and the...

‘New India’ engulfs opposition

Modi-Shah Gathbandhan By Insaf The BJP juggernaut is simply unstoppable. It’s ‘Phir ek baar Modi sarkar’ and ‘Ab ki baar 300 paar’ campaign slogans slaughtered Congress’...

Rate thaw aids home buyers

Corp Pays More: RBI By Shivaji Sarkar The repo rate thaw by the Reserve Bank of India has surprised many in the industry, though they had...

Recoil on politics, economy

Farm Bills' Repeal By Shivaji Sarkar Finally, the three farm bills are to be withdrawn as the nation goes to polls in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and...

Time for repositioning

India in the World By Dr D.K. Giri (Prof. International Relations, JIMMC) On the war on Ukraine, New Delhi’s ambivalent and indifferent position, euphemistically called neutral or...

US wants India cut tariff

Modi-Trump on New Turf By Shivaji Sarkar The world is galvanised, shaken, in a trance with Donald Trump’s return to the US presidency. There is hope,...

Double Talk on Communalism

By Inder Jit (Released on 9 May 1989) Brave and splendid words were spoken again in Parliament last week to denounce communalism. The nation was alerted...