Landmark initiative
Biodiversity Pact
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
In the realm of environment, which is obviously the centre point of focus in the world today, the climate and biodiversity...
He came, he saw, he conquered
Namaste Trump
By Dr D.K. Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JMI)
American President Donald Trump’s much-hyped 36-hour visit to India and all that went with it, was unprecedented...
Ideas more dangerous than guns
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...
Es baar coaltition sarkar!
Modi 3:0
By Poonam I Kaushish
The old order has yielded to the ‘new normal’. A power paradigm of Modi’s 3.0 which serenades ‘Es baar coalition...
Yogi acts, Uddhav dithers
Silencing Loudspeakers
By Insaf
There is to be no blaring noise in Uttar Pradesh. Following Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s orders to remove loudspeakers from religious sites...
Sinister shawdow in S. India
Lanka's Jehadi Killings
By Dr. D.K. Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JMI)
The house searches and arrests of three suspects in North of Kerala by the National Investigating...
Deadly nudge by Corona
Health & Economics
By Dr. Oishee Mukherjee
The economy seems to be at a virtual standstill due to the coronavirus pandemic, even though the death toll...
Additional funds critical
NEP & Budget
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The National Education Policy (NEP) continues to solicit much debate and educationists will be eagerly looking forward to the Budget...
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...
Connecting the dots
Pahalgam & Pakistan
By Prof (Dr) D.K. Giri
(Professor of Practice, NIIS Group of Institutions)
In a conference in Hyderabad on 24 and 25 April, I was...
Need to revisit ethos
Rising Violence
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The decisive role violence played in the ordering of the Third World, including India, cannot be ignored or consigned to the...
Opportunity creation vital
Labour Productivity& Jobs
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Reskilling as well as internship proposals announced recently by the government are welcome but anappropriate strategy of generating employment needs...
India as mediator?
Ukraine Peace Efforts
By Prof. (Dr.) D.K. Giri
(Secy Gen, Assn for Democratic Socialism)
The statement by David Cameroon, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom lends...
Policy stimuli wished for
Gloomy 2019
By Shivaji Sarkar
A year passes with some gloom and the New Year enters with hope and aspirations. 2019 has had both good as...
New model of governance in new year
By Inder Jit
(Released on 2 January 1990)
Familiar resolutions and exhortations are withusagain in the New Year, which also marks the beginning of the new...
Culture & geopolitics interface
PM Modi in Nepal
By Dr D.K. Giri
(Prof. Intl Relations, JIMMC)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Lumbini, the birth place of Lord Buddha in Nepal,...
It’s hope vs hurdles
Naga Peace Talks
By Sagarneel Sinha
Anxiety is refusing to die down among the people of Nagaland, as the peace deal to the Naga problem still...
Brazen vote bank politics
Assam NRC Row
Till yesterday not many had heard of the National Register of Citizens (NRC). Today it has raised a huge controversy with the...
Much ado about nothing!
Modi-Jinping Meet
By Dr D.K. Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JMI)
Let us recall a famous quote on concept of time in politics, attributed to Harold Wilson, the...
Astute conservation vital
Water Crisis
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Prime Minister Modi’s radio broadcast on the last day of June exhorted people to start a mass movement to conserve water....