A dangerous game!

Politics of Labelling By Dr. S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) A primary lesson for all political speakers is to avoid controversial terms particularly to malign...

Worshipping false gods

Communal Violence, Yawn By Poonam I Kaushish It never ceases to surprise how our polity is swiftly sinking into the marshy cesspool of bloodied religious intolerance....

Need of the hour

India-NATO Tie Up By Dr. D.K. Giri (Prof. International Relations, JIMMC) Within a week of the high summit of Quad, US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin was...

QUO vadis?

Gulf Wars By Dr. D.K. Giri (Prof of Practice, NIIS Group of Institutions) The war in Gaza is reaching in an alarming stage. Israel’s Defence Minister, Israel...

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...

Central banks spike prices

Global Gold Rush By Shivaji Sarkar In a striking move to safeguard national wealth, India has repatriated 214 tonnes of gold from the vaults of England,...

Imf foresees great depression

India Grows, World Slumps By Shivaji Sarkar The US tariff war resetting the world order of 80 years slows down global growth to 2.8 per cent...

People’s money, apna money, yaar!

Polls Freebies Nautanki By Poonam I Kaushish In the ongoing five States ‘Vote Me’ no-holds-barred-free-for-all electoral nautanki Parties are raining promises topped by luscious lip-smacking freebies...

Independent ec, really?

Election Omission By Poonam I Kaushish What is it about Election Commission and cleansing the political cesspool that scares our polity away? Specially when they love...

Worse by climate change

Food Insecurity By Dhurjati Mukherjee Food security has emerged a subject of much discussion due to an impending global crisis, more so due to the Russia-Ukraine...

Boli, no. Goli, yes

  Indo-Pak Hit New Low By Poonam I Kaushish You reap what you sow. Last week Pakistan learnt this the hard way when India struck at terror...

Why did he come?

Wang Yi's Visit By Dr. D. K. Giri (Prof. International Politics, JIMMC) If weblinked,we would have missed the visit of the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. He...

Towards Indo-u.s. friendship

By Inder Jit (Released on 5 November 1976) Both New Delhi and Washington will need to keep their fingers crossed.  By all accounts, Dr Kissinger’s visit...

“Give & take” missing

Water Disputes By Dr S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) For those obstinately wanting to stop using the term “Central government” even casually and replace it...

Fallouts for India!

US-China Trade Deal By Dr D.K. Giri (Prof. International Politics, JMI) After nearly two years of tariff war that held the world economy in awe and anxiety,...

Apathy sinking himalayan towns

Tehri, Mussoorie Too Crumbling By Shivaji Sarkar Heaven is literally falling to greed. It is just not Joshimath, but even Tehri Garhwal, Karnaprayag, and Mussoorie too...

Dependence on pvt sector!

Economic Survey By Dhurjati Mukherjee Most Economic Surveys and the recent one too presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has lot of optimism, but questions remain...

Voters have role beyond poll

By Inder Jit Millions of our voters exercised their franchise yesterday in a majority of the States and Union Territories. Millions more will hopefully cast...

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...

Ambedkar’s advice not followed

Common Civil Code By Inder Jit (Released on 7 May 1985) Three cheers for the Supreme Court and its five-man Constitution Bench presided over by the Chief...