Creation & quality vital

Unemployment Challenges By Dhurjati Mukherjee Providing jobs is indeed a big change for a populous country like India with a huge number entering the labour force...

Milking poll benefit

Cow Politics Back By Poonam I Kaushish Gau mata politics is once again back with a bang. “Some people, the moment the words gai and Om...

Time to gear up

Terror's new wings By Poonam I Kaushish It was a tumultuous week. In the first, the ice cracked as Prime Minister Modi met with back-from-the-cold mainstream...

Not an ideal model

US Presidential Election By Dr S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) US President Donald Trump has not conceded his defeat in the presidential election and is...

Privatisation no answer

Banking Crisis By Moin Qazi Famous investment leader Warren Buffett said, "It's only when the tide goes out that you realise who has been swimming naked"....

Time for booster

Politics of Vaccine By Poonam I Kaushish Covid-19 announced itself to the world as 2020 dawned blitzing globally, unnerving health systems, nose diving economies and the...

DMK throws a challenge

Tamils & CAA By Insaf The ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu has given a fresh twist to Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019. In an affidavit in Supreme...

Strategic gains for India!

Jordan & Vietnam Visitors Dr. D.K. Giri Prof. International Politics, JMI Two Heads of State from the Middle East and South Asia came calling last week, providing...

Bjp’s Nirvana 2019?

Ayodhya Again By Poonam I Kaushish Politicians are an unholy lot! They take a "holier than thou attitude" on anything and everything be it religion or...

Its time to bell the cat

'Business' Of Illegal Migrants By Poonam I Kaushish In the summer of 1975, hundreds of thousands of people fled South Vietnam after Saigon's fall for fear...

Ganga plains in Eco crisis

Himalayas Face Snow Famine By Shivaji Satkar An alarm bell is tolling. A “snow famine”, or more accurately, recurrent and intensifying snow droughts, is occurring in the...

India’s dispiriting record

World Health Day By Moin Qazi India's economy is soaring and is now the world's envy, but its healthcare system remains an Achilles' heel. As World...

A veritable pause

Executing Operation Sindoor By Prof (Dr) DK Giri (Professor of Practice, NIIS Group of Institutions) In a powerful speech Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered some hard messages...

How safe are we?

India's Exports Slide Rajiv Gupta It has not been even a month since the horrific bomb blast at the Red Fort, but already it seems like...

Listen to Ladakh

Protest Gone Awry By Poonam I Kaushish Political India is in the midst of a loud cantankerous cackle on Ladakh. Busy dissecting, debating and deliberating six...

Should j&k believe in hope?

Change of Guard By Insaf Will winds of change blow in Jammu & Kashmir? The sudden change of guard –removal of Lieutenant Governor GC Murmu and...

Strong states & strong centre

By Inder Jit (Released on 12 March 1985) Three cheers for our people. They have once again asserted their sovereignty. No one need have any doubt...

India’s diplomatic balancing act

US Invasion of Venezuela By Dr. D.K. Giri (Prof of Practice, NIIS Group of Institutions) The recent US invasion of Venezuela has sent shockwaves across the globe,...

Jo jeeta woh sikander!

Crime Pays In Politics By Poonam I Kaushish Taint is the flavour of the new high stakes poll season in Karnataka. The more criminal and immoral,...

Is Govt stifling freedom?

New Grammar of Sedition By Poonam I Kaushish “Off with her head, arguments later”, ordered the Queen in Alice in Wonderland. A term synonymous in modern...