Rhetoric of success & systemic risks

China's "Two Sessions" 2025 By Maciej Gaca (Centre for International Relations, Poland) Following the turmoil on global scene caused by the Trump administration, China is changing strategy...

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...

Will ncap clean the air?

India's Polluted Cities By Dhurjati Mukherjee Air pollution levels remain dangerously high in many parts of the world. New data from WHO shows that 9 out...

Quota for well-off irrational?

Creamy Layer By Dhurjati Mukherjee The Government's decision, of implementing the concept of 'creamy layer' by disallowing a section of OBCs reservation benefits in the UPSC...

US, UK moves can hit India

Harshad To Adani, Scams On  By Shivaji Sarkar The year 1992, Finance Minister Manmohan Singh liberalised economy, stocks zoomed, small salaried class crowded the equity market...

FM’s data, reality varies

Glitter is Not Gold By Shivaji Sarkar Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has projected a promising economy that could take the country to a path of...

Sainyam & sankalp not enough

Losing Covid Fight? By Poonam I Kaushish In Covid 19 season, I am daring to pick two truisms. One, tomorrow never comes. Two, as economist John...

Setting strategic footholds

Modi's Gulf, East Africa Visit By Dr. D.K. Giri (Prof of Practice, NIIS Group of Institutions) Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-day state visit to Jordan on 15-16...

No place for girls

Rape Country By Poonam I Kaushish India is at war with its girls and women. As tales of savagery and nightmarish drugging, beating and rape of...

Politics of punishment

Done To Death By Poonam I Kaushish Phew, as Delhi resounds to the drumbeats of electoral victory and the silence of defeat, one question continues to...

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...

Running out of time

India's Water Woes By Poonam I Kaushish India’s first major climate catastrophe is at our doorstep: Water. Groundwater levels in 21 major cities, including Delhi, Bangalore...

45 collateral exits

Lateral Entry Politics By Poonam I Kaushish The reservation ration tamasha is back on the political platter as our netagan continue to conjure populist hullabaloo to...

TN case raises questions

Governor's Conduct By Insaf Is Tamil Nadu Governor undermining the faith and trust attached to the constitutional post, is a question doing the rounds in the...

A wake up call

Tawang Clashes By Dr. D.K. Giri (Prof. International Relations, JIMMC) On 9 December, the Indian and Chinese troops clashed at Yangtse in Tawang sector in Arunachal Pradesh....

Is foreign policy an issue?

Indian Parliament Elections By Prof. (Dr.) D.K. Giri (Secretary General, Assn for Democratic Socialism) Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in an interview that elections in India are...

Uniform civil code, anyone?

When Ram, Rahim Poll Cut Outs… By Poonam I Kaushish In this season of freebies galore interspersed with vitriolic hate speeches and venomous tu-tu-mein-mein, now Ram-Rahim...

Bolstering the partnership

India-France Dialogues By (Prof.) Dr. D.K. Giri (Secretary General, Assn for Democratic Socialism) External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar met Anne-Marie Descotes, Secretary General of the French Ministry...

By god, riches are a lie-ability

Netas Dog Millionaires By Poonam I Kaushish Heard this week's flavour amidst the ongoing maelstrom over the Rs 11,000 diamond heist of Nirav Modi? Lies, damn...

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...