Parliament boycott serves a purpose
By Inder Jit
(Released on 7 March 1989)
Every dark and threatening cloud has a silver lining. The unprecedented boycott of Parliament by the Opposition last...
21st century challenge
World Youth Skills Day
By Dr. S Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
Celebrating the World Youth Skills Day, we cannot but feel ashamed that on the...
Draconian, needs retink
New MV Act
By Shivaji Sarkar
The Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill 2019 is draconian. Worse, it is passed at a time when the automobile industry is...
India heads for slowdown?
Sensex Records Worst Fall
By Shivaji Sarkar
The economy is slowing down! Indications include creeping severe sourness at the stock market, Rs 26 lakh crore loss...
Flogging a dead horse!
The Katchatheevu Island
By Prof. (Dr.) D.K. Giri
(Secretary General, Assn for Democratic Socialism)
A tweet by the Prime Minister has stirred up a hornets’ nest in...
Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill 2022 Introduced
Parliament Spotlight
New Delhi, 28 Mar: The government was able to introduce ‘The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022,’ in the Lok Sabha despite stiff oppositionas...
Review policy formulation
Reforms & Growth
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Reform is a much talked about word, borrowed from the West, which means that such initiatives would boost up growth....
Imaginary distinction
Outsider-Insider
By Dr. S. Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
Hundreds of workers who had gone to Kashmir in search of employment are reported to be fleeing...
Economic crisis looms
Policy Paralysis
By Shivaji Sarkar
Election time is show time. The minuses are swept under the carpet as rhetoric rules the roost. Manifestos are not necessarily...
Competetive spirit vital
Budget Review
By Shivaji Sarkar
The Central budget needs to relook at taxes and other provisions for attracting investments and steps to fight global trade tensions....
Relook into law needed
Contempt of Court
By Dr S. Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
Controversies over the contempt of court law will go on irrespective of the final scene...
A crisis of trust & values
Medical Negligence
By Dr S Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
Transfusion of HIV-affected blood to a pregnant woman causing her to contract the disease is shocking...
India set to face challenges
Resilient Economy
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
With the onset of the new year, it must be admitted that the trends appear quite encouraging. The pacts with Oman...
All about Modi magic?
Electoral Calculations
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The battle for Lok Sabha elections 2024 is turning out both intriguing and exciting on the political landscape of the country....
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...
Creating supply chains!
Japanese PM In Delhi
By Dr D.K Giri
(Prof. of International Politics, JIMMC)
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was in Delhi to attend the 14th India-Japan summit....
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...
Expedite power reforms
'One Nation, One Grid'
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The various lockdowns in several States due to the Covid-19 pandemic, fortunately did not impact the manufacturing and services...
Good for India indeed
Macron Re-Elected
By Dr D.K. Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JIMMC)
On the day of counting of votes for the presidential elections in France, a concerned academic asked...
Time for hard decisions
By Inder Jit
(Released on 15 January 1980)
Good government, we were once taught, was no substitute for self-government. Following independence, we learnt to our cost...