‘Developed’ is problematic!

Trump's Big Punch By Shivaji Sarkar India is being continuously hit by the US President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of Generalised system of preferences (GSP) on 5,111...

Pvt hires mere 2.5% 

Job Quota A Poll Myth! By Shivaji Sarkar In this dance of democracy, scarce resources are seemingly rambling up the election tempo. Religious slant on employment...

Bonhomie road called distrust

India-China Poker By Poonam I Kaushish Neighbour or enemy? Both. Indeed, India-China relations are like playing a game of poker. Show no emotions even as one...

Focus on small business vital

'Signs of Recovery' By Dhurjati Mukherjee There are signs of recovery on the industrial front, according to a section of experts. If demand from new segments...

Modi’s outreach to la

Chile's President in India By Dr. D.K. Giri (Prof. NIIS Group of Institutions, Odisha) The practice in the media and political circles is creating a buzz and...

Tech transfer to cut import bill

Indigenisation of Products By Dhurjati Mukherjee In recent months, the Centre has given a greater thrust to indigenisation of products to boost up manufacturing. Though rather...

High debt vs duty hikes

Setting 5-Year Pace By Shivaji Sarkar The Central Budget to be tabled on 1 February has many hearts beating, a lot of hopes rising and will...

Watch out, it spares no one

Caste Is King By Poonam I Kaushish Caste is king! Not who, but what you are. Its manifestations are complex — sometimes visceral, at other times...

Whither Indian Parliamentary Democracy?

By Inder Jit (Released on 13 September 1966) Parliament’s monsoon session has made all right-thinking people sit up and ask: whither our young democracy? Undoubtedly, the...

Mustn’t rush for infra

Crisis-Hit India By Shivaji Sarkar The Ukraine war is upending India’s dream budget and now gets further bruised with high rise in crude prices and retail...

Rakshak or Bhakshak?

Police Atyachari By Poonam I Kaushish Last week tore to tatters the slogan: With you, for you, always, as those tasked with ensuring the aam aadmi’s...

Jobs scarce since 1947

Caste Back With Rigour By Shivaji Sarkar Caste is back with rigour in a supposed casteless society envisaged at Independence. Even Babasaheb Bhim Rao Ambedkar was...

Astute conservation vital

Water Crisis By Dhurjati Mukherjee Prime Minister Modi’s radio broadcast on the last day of June exhorted people to start a mass movement to conserve water....

Will public health system improve?

Women Security By Dr. Oishee Mukherjee Over the years non-violent forms of protest have become quite popular, not just in India but in many other countries....

North vs South

Delimitation Puzzle By Poonam I Kaushish In this salubrious spring, political temperatures are flaring on delimitation of Lok Sabha seats scheduled 2026. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister...

Less than 2 on Ukraine

India-US 2+2 Dialogue By D.K.Giri (Prof. International Politics JIMMC) India-US 2+2 ministerial dialogue between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin and External...

Impels international initiatives

New Delhi Ups The Game By Dr D.K. Giri (Prof. International Politics, JMI) India experiences a week of hectic diplomacy and international activism. New Delhi ups its...

One more vow of govt jobs!

MP's Children By Insaf Madhya Pradesh’s Children! That’s the new mantra of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. On Tuesday last, akin to the ‘sons of the...

Will banks revive Economy?

Growth Imperatives By Dhurjati Mukherjee The health of the banking sector may be difficult to comprehend. Faced with a severe recession, months before the onset of...

DMK throws a challenge

Tamils & CAA By Insaf The ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu has given a fresh twist to Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019. In an affidavit in Supreme...