Control mechanism critical

Cyclones &Climate Change By Dhurjati Mukherjee The fury and devastation of cyclones is back. First Tauktae and then Yaas have stretched the affected States’ administration workload,...

Islamabad’s fresh attempt

Reviving SAARC By Dr D.K.Giri (Prof. International Politics, JIMMC) Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is pledging to host the next SAARC summit, which has been suspended after...

Govt must be realistic

Spectre of Reforms By Dhurjati Mukherjee There is much debate over NDA government having initiated major reforms which would change the face of the economy with...

No more ‘abuse of power’

'Bulldozer Justice' By Insaf The hammer has come down on ‘bulldozer justice’! Demolishing the house of a person accused or convicted of a criminal activity as...

Upgrading higher education?

Professors of Practice By Dr OisheeMukherjee The recent decision of the University Grants Commission (UGC) for engaging experts and professionals from various fields as professors of...

Maha melodrama

Shiv Sena Vs Shiv Sena By Poonam I Kaushish Fatigued and bored of Indo-China war games on India’s eastern front? Flip attention to the west coast...

Pentagon report on Chinese armed forces

By Dr. Ewa Fronczak (Center for International Relations, Poland) The numbers don't lie - the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) is currently the largest armed force...

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...

Resetting foreign policy!

Voicing Global South By Dr. D.K. Giri Prof. International Relations, JIMMC India hosted the virtual Global South meeting on 12 and 13 January as a part of...

What’s the big deal?

Political Morality By Poonam I Kaushish “Idealism is good in politics, but if you are kicked out, who cares!” asserted Maharashtra Dy Chief Minister Fadnavis, adding,...

Hitting self-destruct button

Disunity In Unity? By Poonam I Kaushish Unity in disunity or disunity in unity? Flummoxed? Certainly, as INDIA bloc seems to have developed cracks. In the...

Govt money nobody’s money

Tale Of Statues By Poonam I Kaushish It's been a week of stark contradictions in India's ongoing political nautanki. At one end we have tall talk...

It becomes sweeter

Jan Dhan Yojana By Moin Qazi India's flagship financial inclusion programme, the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY), got a big boost as the Government is...

One nation one election, anyone?

UCC: Tiptoeing Stealthily By Poonam I Kaushish It’s been a raucous winter session of Parliament. But in its penultimate week Prime Minister Modi continued to have...

Avoid tribal backlash

Forest Rights By Dhurjati Mukherjee The Supreme Court decision asking States to implement their own orders, rejecting 11.8 lakh claims over forest land by Scheduled Tribes...

Higher education rudderless

HRD's Severe Crunch By Shivaji Sarkar "My dear, here we must run fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to...

Triggers a political circus

Birbhum Killings By Insaf A tragedy is turned upside down into a political tamasha. Eight houses were set on fire in West Bengal’s Birbhum district on...

Now ‘undeclared’: Cong

Emergency Revisited By Dhurjati Mukherjee The BJP is marking the 50th anniversary of the Emergency, emphasising how power was misused by Late Indira Gandhi for personal...

Budget guns down hope

Defence Modernisation By PK Vasudeva Hope for any major jump in military modernisation in the backdrop of heightened tension with neighbours Pakistan and China has been...

Oppositin unity makes headway

By Inder Jit (Released on 19 July 1988) Opposition efforts at forging unity and offering the country a credible national alternative to the Congress-I have made...