Economy, politics fluid
High Bank Prices, GST
Economic Highlights
By Shivaji Sarkar
Both economics and politics are becoming difficult. If the change of government in Maharashtra is said to be...
Bank funding hit: RBI
State Polls Bare Infra Risks
By Shivaji Sarkar
Amid the critical Haryana elections, the Reserve Bank of India’s concerns over infrastructure funding and new guidelines have...
Shaky market, rupee hit
FPI Pull Out
By Shivaji Sarkar
Developments such as the US’ deep recession, Federal Bank rate hikes, European Union uncertainties and Russia-Ukraine war are bleeding the...
Dangerous change
Religious Conversions
By Poonam I Kaushish
India is caught up in a battle royale between the Gods after a 17-year-old girl committed suicide as she was...
Varanasi pushes bjp agenda
Gyanvapi Mosque Row
By Insaf
Inflation be dammed, long live mandir-masjid hullabaloo! Uttar Pradesh keeps the flag flying for the BJP and its Hindutva agenda. The...
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...
Don’t be power hungry
Congressisation of BJP
By Sagarneel Sinha
The year 2019 is a historic year for the BJP as it is the first time that the Party returned...
Economic costs be damned!
My Subsidy, Your Revadi
By Poonam I Kaushish
It is raining freebies wherein sound economic sense has been surrendered to political gamesmanship. Reckless subsidies are being...
New initiative on black money
By Inder Jit
(Released on 4 August 1981)
Mrs Gandhi has spoken not a day too soon on black money during her recent visit to Srinagar...
Offsetting the bully
West Bengal & EC
By Insaf
2019 elections must be the biggest challenge Nirvachan Sadan has had to face, what with West Bengal unrelenting. The polls...
BJP agenda muddies waters
Lakshadweep Turmoil
By Insaf
Tiny Lakshadweep has hit national headlines, for all the wrong reasons. Misplaced ‘reforms’, as proposed by Administrator P K Patel in the...
Mountain out of molehill
Wakf Act
By Poonam I Kaushish
Phew! As Delhi simmers in rising heat wave, it is better than political stewing on the contentious Mussalman Wakf (Repeal)...
Expunctions in house a scandal
By Inder Jit
(Released on 30 March 1982)
Giani Zail Singh’s gaffe over Hitler in the Lok Sabha has proved to be a blessing in disguise....
India’s new normal
Modi 3.0
By Poonam I Kaushish
How does one begin an epitaph of one year of Modi 3.0? Uncork champagne on the wings of new hopes...
Deep political undercurrent
Ram Temple Edifice
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The temple town of Ayodhya is all decked up. The Prime Minister performing the bhoomi pujan ceremony for construction of...
Who cares for farmers, poor?
Stubborn Govt
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
At a time when farmers are agitating for their rights and the entire Opposition supporting them, the Government’s stance of unwilling...
What is in a word?
Unparliamentary Or Gag?
By Poonam I Kaushish
What’s in word? Everything when it comes to our polity. We were treated to one such last week. Our...
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....
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...
Counting the benefits
India's G-20 Presidency
By Dr. D.K. Giri
(Prof. International Relations, JIMMC)
In the G-20 Summit at Bali, India will be handed over the presidency of the most...