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...

Infringing on federalism?

Draft UGC Rules By Dhurjati Mukherjee The recent draft guidelines of the University Grants Commission (UGC) have come in for criticism as it’s seen as a...

Political Funds

All hush-hush about slush By Poonam I Kaushish Money makes the clogged, polluted and corrupt political mare go around, and how! In the on-going Great Indian...

Are we following right strategy?

Development Trends By Dhurjati Mukherjee If one goes by the policies, programmes and statements of political leaders world over, it is discernible that tremendous development has...

National base vital

Minimum Wage By Dhurjati Mukherjee A recent study commissioned by the Economic Advisory Council (EAC) has backed universal basic income to reduce the income gaps as...

Fantasy or eventual reality?

One Farm Market By Shivaji Sarkar If wishes were horses “one India one farm market” would have flown under then Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee...

Of claims & reality

Modi's Governance By OisheeMukherjee A section of political analysts feel that Prime Minister Modi has succeeded in making banking effortless through new technology while corruption is...

Knee jerk reaction

RBI's Rupee Plan By Shivaji Sarkar The Reserve Bank of India engages in knee jerk reactions to arrest the decline of the rupee against the dollar....

Govt’s bona fides on test

By Inder Jit (Released on15 June 1982) The selection of the new Chief Election Commissioner is regrettably not receiving the attention it deserves from the public...

Bengal, tn raise demand

Recall of Governors By Insaf The Raj Bhavans in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu are embroiled in a battle with the elected governments. The open fracas...

Should j&k believe in hope?

Change of Guard By Insaf Will winds of change blow in Jammu & Kashmir? The sudden change of guard –removal of Lieutenant Governor GC Murmu and...

Cry on the wall

Arrest Me Too By Poonam I Kaushish It is the season of the political jihadis whereby the licence to allegedly question the Government becomes a ticket...

China’s model of stabilization or regional dominance?

Trilateral Dialogue in Beijing By Piotr Opalinski (Former Diplomat, Centre for International Relations, Poland) On May 21, 2025, an informal, tripartite meeting of the foreign ministers of China,...

Can India meet challenge?

Climate Goals By Dhurjati Mukherjee With the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) scheduled to begin on 30 November in the UAE, meeting climate goals would be in the forefront. Moreover,...

Ouch! Govt is touchy

Muzzling Dissent By Poonam I Kaushish As India is busy taking shots at recovery against Covid 19, lost in euphoria of taming the virus fiend is...

Big crisis, doctor missing

Economy In Poll Season By Shivaji Sarkar The ensuing Assembly elections in five States would be contested on critical issues -- jobs, wages, inflation, development...

Israel war may hurt: Imf

India GDP Rises, Arms Sale Up By Shivaji Sarkar Indian economic parameters are improving. But would thesebe able to retain the 14-month high Index of Industrial...

India’s guarded response

Coup in Myanmar By Dr. DK. Giri (Prof. International Relations, JIMMC) For the third time since gaining independence in 1948, Myanmar politics became a victim of a...

2G & Tamil Nadu

Dmk rejoices, back in demand By Insaf It’s finally time for the DMK in Tamil Nadu to celebrate and not just heave a big sigh of...

Strategic shift in 2021?

India's Foreign Policy By Dr D KGiri (Prof. International Politics, JIMMC) Quite a few India’sforeign policy analysts contend that New Delhi over the last year has taken...