Building the welfare state!
G-20 In India
Dr. D.K. Giri
(Secretary General, Assn for Democratic Socialism)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting Japan, Papua New Guinea and Australia from May...
Huge job cuts, slump in India
Musk Leads Global IT Mayhem
By Shivaji Sarkar
The dismissal of Meta-Twitter workers, now mass resignationsand closure of its offices for a week signify deeper economic...
Imminent risk of fascism?
Hindu Rashtra
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The majoritarian rule in India has possibly tended to be autocratic. Absolute power in the hands of a political party, as...
Not at whims of govts
SC/ST New Quotas
By Insaf
Three cheers to the Supreme Court. Political parties and state governments across the country will need to think twice before playing...
Fresh entrant, new hope
UP Politics
By Insaf
Uttar Pradesh politics has a new star on the horizon. The entry of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as Congress General Secretary in-charge of...
Mixing domestic, foreign policy!
Trudeau Visit
By Dr D.K. Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JMI)
Many political observers, media persons and diplomats in both India and Canada dubbed Justin Trudeau's week-long visit...
Seranading control
Business Of Power
By Poonam I Kaushish
It’s been a week of mea culpa, home truth and tutorials. Of ghisi-piti real politik where public morality and...
An unnecessary addition?
Anti-Lynching Law
By Dr S. Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
The Government of West Bengal has passed the Prevention of Lynching Bill in the Legislative Assembly...
Nda budget for allies
500 Firms To Be Job Givers
By Shivaji Sarkar
It is a coalition budget with a promise of job creation through the corporate. A tall task...
Govt should act now
Don't Kill PSUs
By Shivaji Sarkar
The economy is in turmoil. Our administrative system is groping in the dark. The tax system, including toll, fee,...
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...
‘Lawless’ UP
Yogi’s edict face changer?
By Insaf
Changing the face of “lawless” Uttar Pradesh is asking for the moon, but for Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath perhaps not....
Time for soul searching
SC Raps Governors
By Poonam I Kaushish
Whoever said different political strokes for different political folks was dead on. Specially when it comes to the high...
Firming strategic ties
Fiji PM In India
By Dr. D.K. Giri
(Prof of Practice, NIIS Group of Institutions)
The Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Liga Mamada Rabuka was in India to...
Gujarat holds Modi magic
Contrasting Poll Results
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The recent Assembly elections’ results are a bit puzzling. The BJP’s landslide victory in Gujarat but losing Himachal Pradesh to...
Alarming Hunger Situation
Govt unconcerned about poor
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Eleven year old Santoshi died of starvation because there was no foodgrain in her house for six weeks in...
Big fillip by new policy
Green Hydrogen Fuel
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
With the first part of the National Hydrogen Policy notified, the government is targeting production of 5 million tonnes of...
Will it improve efficiency?
Railway Corporatization
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
There has been much talk of bringing necessary reforms in railways so as to gear up efficiency. As is well known,...
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...
The road ahead
By Poonam I Kaushish
Circa 5 August 2019: In one fell stroke Article 370 was wiped out from India’s Constitution and Jammu & Kashmir State...