No substitute for classroom

Online Education By Dr S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) Closure of schools has led to a thoughtless rush to switch over to online education as...

Modi govt must rethink

Deficits & Debt By Shivaji Sarkar India is profligate. Its economic policies are away from realism, dependent on only one aspect of development – build, build...

Yes I can and will

Modi's ‘new normal’ By Poonam I Kaushish The old order has yielded to the ‘new normal’. A power paradigm of baggage-free governance, growth and development. With...

Lacks focus on micro units, jobs

Growth-Oriented Budget By Dhurjati Mukherjee Finance Minister Sitharaman has done a reasonably good job in presenting a Budget with a sharp focus on healthcare and infrastructure,...

Are firms being honest?

CSR Obligations By Dhurjati Mukherjee The Finance Ministry’s recent assurance to do away with criminal penalty on company officials for failing to meet their spending obligations...

Industry wary of protests

CAA Non-issue By Shivaji Sarkar The economy is in a tizzy. Figures apart, certain avoidable developments are adding to the woes. The slowdown or falling GDP...

Iip, forex contract

Prices Rise 6 Per Cent By Shivaji Sarkar A smart Reserve Bank of India anticipating prices shooting up has decided not to tinker with the interest...

18 lakh cr petrocess guffaws!

DND Toll Chinks By Shivaji Sarkar Indians tormented by high prices, high tolls and irrational so-called fastag got a minor relief on consideration of the concept...

The assault on federalism

By B.K. Nehru (Former Governor and Diplomat) (Released on 6 February, 1990) The Constitution of the Republic of India is federal; it is the union of the...

An unnecessary addition?

Anti-Lynching Law By Dr S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) The Government of West Bengal has passed the Prevention of Lynching Bill in the Legislative Assembly...

Is India truly developed?

Of Happiness & Hunger By Dhurjati Mukherjee It was more than surprising to hear Anurag Thakur, the dynamic Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting, stating a...

Besieged in Bihar, U’khand?

Democratic Rights By Insaf Two States have put a big question mark on the citizens’ democratic rights. In Bihar and Uttarakhand these appear to have come...

Call to opposition states

CAA, NPR Scrap By Insaf The war between Opposition States Versus Centre gets hotter. The call by 20 Opposition parties asking all Chief Ministers to oppose...

Plan, no more dithering

Rescue Package By Dhurjati Mukherjee The continuation of the lockdown for another two weeks with minor relaxation may well be understandable given that the government is...

Exaggerated, yet an issue

Women Most Unsafe In India By Dr. Oishee Mukherjee The recent survey by Thomson Reuters Foundation showing India as the 'most dangerous country for women' in...

Nda adds to upa Legacy

Kinks In Manmohanomics By Shivaji Sarkar An economist strangely goes political to criticise a government that follows his Manmohanomics of liberalisaion, globalisation, privatisation with the same...

Will Modi & nda deliver?

Harmony & Poverty By Dhurjati Mukherjee It is indeed very difficult the understand election dynamics and what impact the issues would have on the end results....

Ambition versus unity

West Bengal Shenanigans By Insaf West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee is on a roll. Having tasted a spectacular victory in the Assembly...

Blend of realism & restraint

  Vajpayee's Foreign Policy By Dr. D. K. Giri (Prof. International Politics, JMI) Atal Bihari Vajpayee left deep footprints on Indian politics in the six decades of his...

Economic trigger not religion?

Pahalgam Tragedy By Dhurjati Mukherjee The media’s portrayal of the recent killing of 26 tourists in Pahalgam is a grim pointer to the growing religious fundamentalism...