Major challenges ahead

NDA's 3rd Govt By Dhurjati Mukherjee With the economy showing some resilience, the challenges before the new government are indeed quite widespread. There is also talk...

India must simplify

GST not el dorado By Shivaji Sarkar The goods and service tax (GST) or ‘one nation one tax’ is not the kind of El Dorado the...

Challenges & expectations

Economic Scenario By Dhurjati Mukherjee There is much talk of reforms and the economy standing on sound footing. Experts believe that the next fiscal could see...

Halt land degradation

Rising Desertification By Dhurjati Mukherjee Desertification has emerged as a critical problem across the world, specially due to climate change and global warming. This has led...

Rank under pandemic

Rule of Law Index By Dr S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) The Supreme Court has asked the government to treat a writ petition filed in...

India’s fresh initiatives

Transition in Afghanistan By Dr DK Giri, (Prof, International Politic, JIMMC) Taliban has regained power in Afghanistan after 20 years. The motto of their battle for power...

India-Russia careful on optics

Trump's Long Shadow By Shivaji Sarkar The currency crisis is bound to impact India growth. Indeed, a deep crisis is ahead. The falling rupee is likely...

All together, but u ….?

Loktantra Bachao' By Poonam I Kaushish Unity in disunity or disunity in unity? Flummoxed? Certainly, as INDIA bloc rallied together in a Loktantra Bachao show of...

Constitutionally just not done!

From Your Lordship to Jan Sevak By Poonam I Kaushish Now days when you see someone holding his nose you don’t know whether it’s pollution or...

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...

Show the way, house

Parliament Session By Poonam I Kaushish Monsoon embraced the country in its squelchy soaking tentacles even as the first day of Parliament’s 19-day monsoon session got...

At the receiving end!

Small Farmers By Dhurjati Mukherjee Small farmers are the pride of India and need to be given attention. This was stated by Prime Minister Modi during...

More trouble ahead

Indo-Pak New Low By Poonam I Kaushish The story of India-Pakistan relations is a tale of the proverbial one step forward two steps backwards. All depends...

No ticket for ‘criminals’?

4 Assembly Elections By Insaf Criminalisation of politics has come into sharp focus at an opportune time. With Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Telangana to go...

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...

What about minority languages?

Hindi Vs Others By Sagarneel Sinha India is a diverse country where many languages and dialects are spoken. According to a report of the 2011 census,...

Hopeful, firms lukewarm

Modi Taps US Corp By Shivaji Sarkar The visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the US has tried to kindle hopes in an economy that...

Will new govt focus on poor? 

Post-2019 Elections By Dhurjati Mukherjee The campaigning and polling for 2019 General elections is over. Those who cast their vote would have done so in the...

India tilts to China, Russia, Eu

Multilateral WTO Trumped By Shivaji Sarkar One man has rewritten world trade rules. Reciprocity is the name of the game. Difficult to find fault with his...

Has govt will to remove poverty?

Widening Inequality By Dhurjati Mukherjee It is a widely known fact that inequality has been widening in most Third World countries, including India. This runs contrary...