BJP faces discontent?
Battle For States
By Sagarneel Sinha
After being in power at the Centre for over seven years, the Bharatiya Janata Party appears to be showing signs...
Neighbours key to dream
Rupee For Global Leap
By Shivaji Sarkar
The Rupee is on at least an 11-year-journey in its quest for quasi international status, even as it slides...
Towards golden jubilee!
India-France Ties
By Dr D.K Giri
(Secretary General, Assn for
Democratic Socialism)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been on a two-day visit to Paris. On his arrival, in...
India presses for rupee trade
New Saudi Petro-$ Regime Begins
By Shivaji Sarkar
Indians are hopeful of a new petroleum pricing regime with Saudi Arabia refusing to renew the 50-year-old US-Saudi...
An election gimmick?
India Reclaims PoK
By Prof. (Dr.) D.K. Giri
(Secretary General, Assn for Democratic Socialism)
In response to former J&K Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah’s reference to Pakistan having...
Riots reminder of past
Delhi Burns
By Insaf
Delhi puts a big question mark on ‘New India’. The riots should make both its people and the government hang their head...
India’s strategic dichotomy?
Quad & BRICS
By Dr. D.K. Giri
(Prof. International Relations, JIMMC)
The Quad summit last week deepened the alliance of four members as it rattled China, the...
Needs soul searching
Microfinance & Poor
By Moin Qazi
The microfinance sector is again facing troubles, this time in Assam with stress in rural households and a spate of...
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...
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,...
Growth potential untapped
Struggling MSMEs
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The MSMEs sector, regarded as the growth engine of the Indian economy, is contributing 5 per cent of the GDP. But...
Time critical for reform
Medical Education
By Dr Oishee Mukherjee
All eyes will be on the ensuing Budget session to see whether the National Medical Commission Bill, sent to a...
This needs to be ablished
High IT A Myth
By Shivaji Sarkar
Almost 81,000 Indians earned over Rs 1 crore a year, screams Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT). Is there...
Impose severe cost on nation
NGT, RBI Decisions
By Shivaji Sarkar
The regulators are failing the people. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) and the Reserve Bank (RBI) in their wisdom are...
BJP battles for allies
2019: War of Positions
By Poonam I Kaushish
Italian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci's 'War of Positions' and 'War of Manoeuvres' indicate two different phases in a power...
Poor’s Tardy Consumption
Is gdp growth the answer?
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
India’s consumption growth has experienced nothing short of an explosion over the last two-three decades according to reports....
To be or not to be!
India-US Ties
By Dr D. K. Giri
(Secretary General, Assn for Democratic Socialism)
The current India-America relations reflect Hamlet’s dilemma as expressed in his soliloquy in Act...
Has it outlived life?
Changing WTO
By Shivaji Sarkar
World trade is changing fast and in a unilateral direction. The US President Donald Trump is deciding the course. He raises...
India must watch us-eu dynamic
Security & Transatlantic Ties
By Piotr Opalinski
(Expert, Centre for Intl Relations, Poland)
The global order is undergoing its deepest transformation since the end of the Cold...
Perform or perish
Administering Change
By Poonam I Kaushish
A Government of India car drives into Delhi’s Lodi garden at 7.30am, ‘saab’ instructs his driver to stay ‘right here’....