Growth stunted, no optimism

Employment Crisis By Shivaji Sarkar The country may continue to have employment crisis as it missed the recipe for quick progress through new job opportunities after...

Fresh assault on judiciary

By Inder Jit (Released on 27 January 1981) Another Republic Day has rolled by. The nation has gone through the ritual of annual celebrations at the...

A wake-up call

Pahalgam & Aftermath By Dr. D.K. Giri (Professor of Practice, NIIS Group of Institutions) A good deal of debate has been taking place since the launch of...

Recession fear grips

Fortune Lost In Stocks Crash By Shivaji Sarkar The Indian stock market is crashing again, perhaps on artificial resuscitation and gasping. The pressure is building. Recent...

Ill intent or stand buried?

Farm Reforms By Dhurjati Mukherjee The three farm laws have been repealed, the farmers’ have called it a big victory, but a nagging question lingers—whether it...

Funds availibity critical

Budgeting Welfare By Dhurjati Mukherjee The interim Budget presented by stand-in Finance Minister Piyush Goel putting thrust on rural industrialisation possibly fulfils the dream of Mahatma...

Overcoming obstacles vital

Housing For All By Dhurjati Mukherjee A big question mark hangs over Modi government’s ambitious target of achieving ‘Housing For All by 2022-Rural’, given that...

Cut years, educate more

Costlier NEP By Shivaji Sarkar The much awaited New Education Policy (NEP) has turned out to be old wine in not a well-crafted supposedly new...

Violence scars tmc sweep

WB Panchayat Polls By Insaf The dominance of ruling TMC over West Bengal politics is once again vindicated in the results of the Panchayat elections. The party swept...

Suspense period politics

Amid Polling & Counting By Dr S. Saraswathi (Former Director ICSSR, New Delhi) Polling for 2019 Lok Sabha election, in seven phases stretching to 39 days from...

Not just Bihar’s concern

Bodies In Ganges By Insaf No dignity in death, an expression that too shall illustrate India’s second wave of the pandemic. This week, the depressing pictures...

Past fixation at present cost

Politics Of Statues By Poonam I Kaushish It's been a week of stark contradictions in India's ongoing political nautanki. Seven days when we stood witness to...

Bihar repays Rs 63 cr a day

Victory Cheers, Debt Tears By Shivaji Sarkar The Bihar election delivered a clear mandate, but the celebrations mask a harder truth: the state is walking into...

RBI: Worst Days Over, Yet

Inflation, private banks worrisome By Shivaji Sarkar The slowdown has bottomed out, asserts RBI. Indeed, a positive indicator in the last over a year whereby India’s...

Govt money is Neta’s money yaar!

Tadka of Populist Revadi By Poonam I Kaushish It is a perfect electoral cake rolled out by various Parties to the strains of ‘Vote For Me,’...

Have benefits percolated down?

Modern Indian State By Dhurjati Mukherjee Every alternative day we hear talks of modern developments in social economic and scientific spheres without understanding or assessing its...

Agri alone can sustain India

GDP Euphoric By Shivaji Sarkar India’s GDP is rising, large corporate is aiding recovery and popular decisions are helping the people having an ease of living,...

Industry-Agriculture clash

Fight for Space By Dr S.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) The Tamil Nadu Government has cancelled the notification issued on constituting a Petroleum, Chemical and Petro-Chemical...

The People’s Right To Information

Inder Jit (Released on 7 August 1984) Ignorance continues to abound in regard to Parliament, its constitution, practices, procedures and privileges. Thirty-four years as a sovereign...

Disciplining law makers

Code of Conduct By Dr S.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu has been urging political parties to adopt a Code of Conduct for MPs...