Lacks clarity & dialogue

Agnipath Scheme By Dusmanta Kumar As anti-Agnipath fury rises in the country, army veterans, observers and spokespersons on both sides, government as well as Opposition, are...

Constraints need attention

Vision@2047 By Dhurjati Mukherjee It is understood that the Vision@2047 document, likely to be released by the government by year-end, will outline the structural changes and...

IS SC/ST immortal?

Quota In Perpetuity By Poonam I Kaushish Indians are succors for tamasha and trust our politicians to convert reservation into a big circus. Last week the...

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...

‘Day zero’ looms large

Water Crisis By Dr.S.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) A Division Bench of the Madras High Court directed all district collectors across Tamil Nadu to constitute committees...

Katil =neta, toh kya

Greed For Power By Poonam I Kaushish We hang petty thieves and elect criminals to public office. Three stories, one in Delhi which smacks of vindictive...

Weak may sink strong

Bank Mergers By Dhurjati Mukherjee It has been reported that the GDP has grown by only 5 per cent in the quarter ended June, which was...

Sjm treads Gandhian path

Job Creation Sans Govt By Shivaji Sarkar Acute unemployment, the biggest political challenge for the country, is sought to be resolved the Gandhian way by the...

Discourtesy to parliament

By Inder Jit (Released on 28 Feb 1984) Parliament is still not getting from Mrs Gandhi and the ruling Congress-I the respect and courtesy that is...

Powerless Ec, netas merry!

Code Of 'Misconduct' By Poonam I Kaushish Democracy is a conflict of interests masquerading as a contest of principles in this chatpata-dhoondhar election circus. An adage...

Raising the right questions?

Pulwama Tragedy By Dr. D.K. Giri (Prof. International Politics, JMI) The Pulwama terrorist attack and the subsequent counter-operations by the army are the hot topics for debate...

Show the way, house

Parliament Session By Poonam I Kaushish Monsoon embraced the country in its squelchy soaking tentacles even as the first day of Parliament’s 19-day monsoon session got...

Why this diplomatic rush?

All Roads Lead To Delhi By Dr. D. K. Giri (Prof. International Politics, JIMMC) In the last few weeks New Delhi has witnessed footfalls of a bevy...

Of slogans & genuine work

2019 Election Flurry By Dhurjati Mukherjee There is hectic activity among political parties and their leaders regarding the impending Lok Sabha elections 2019. On the one...

Are elections a farce?

2019 Alarming Trends By Dhurjati Mukherjee Elections are almost nearing completion in the world's largest democracy. But the developments leading to these elections point to...

No ticket for ‘criminals’?

4 Assembly Elections By Insaf Criminalisation of politics has come into sharp focus at an opportune time. With Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Telangana to go...

India and the world

A Peace Manifesto By Dr. D.K. Giri (Prof. NIIS Group of Institutions, Odisha) The crying need of the world currently is peace and security, without which life...

Tackle terifying black hole

Naxals: Wake Up Call By Poonam I Kaushish It’s the season of banalities in politics. An outsider would be excused for thinking that India’s biggest crisis...

Low-fare vande new ‘shinkansen’

JICA Bumps To Bullet Train By Shivaji Sarkar The ambitious Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train project, once a symbol of India’s leap into advanced infrastructure, is now mired...

Connecting the dots

Pahalgam & Pakistan By Prof (Dr) D.K. Giri (Professor of Practice, NIIS Group of Institutions) In a conference in Hyderabad on 24 and 25 April, I was...