Are these being adhered to?

Constitutional Principles By Dhurjati Mukherjee As the nation celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Constitution, number of questions come to mind regarding the country’s adherence to it...

Conserving nature critical

For A Better Future By Dr OisheeMukherjee Governments across the world strive for a better future for their citizens. The past two decades though have seen...

Banks, economy in turmoil

Electoral Bonds Shear Rs 29 Tr By Shivaji Sarkar The Indian economy may or may not have matured, it has specialised in its murky Bombay stock...

Sushasan wins, nitish back

Bihar For NDA, Bi Har For MGB  By Poonam I Kaushish At the end, it all feels good. A six week, two phase grueling election which...

The republic in bad shape

By Inder Jit (Released on 26 January 1982) Several questions, wild and not so wild, are being asked in New Delhi as India celebrates another Republic...

Tax system’s big illusion

Record Returns, Shrinking Revenue By Shivaji Sarkar It has been a week of pure hungama in Parliament. Rarely has the Lok Sabha appeared so charged, so...

In or out, reorient policy

India & RCEP By Shivaji Sarkar Keep China out is the new trade policy of India. Its prime approach is that anything that opens the...

Rate rise critical

Euro Type Crash By Shivaji Sarkar The latest Reserve Bank of India decision to stagnate rates shows that semblance of reality has finally dawned. As...

Where lies the truth?

NPAs Conundrum By Shivaji Sarkar The nation is in a quandary. It wants to know who is telling the reality of bank non-performing assets (NPA) —...

Alarm for masses & job seekers

Economic Mess By Dhurjati Mukherjee Economic slowdown in India and uniform acceptance that future is not quite bright is under sharp focus. It gets reinforced by...

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...

Balatkar akhir kab tak?

Society At War By Poonam I Kaushish A 15-year-old girl leaves home for her tuition classes on 9 January in Haryana. Four days later her body...

Population main constraint

Environmental Balance & Growth By Dr S.S Chhina (Senior Fellow, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi) India surpassed China in the race of population on March 3,...

‘Supari’ for good men

SC Plays Crime Pooper By Poonam I Kaushish Crime does not pay … as well as politics. Wherein thousands of our criminal-politicos slug it out for...

The Identity Trap

By Rajiv Gupta Most people who have gone through a job interview will be familiar with the question, “Tell me about yourself” where the interviewee...

Tap parallel banking

Rescuing PSBs By Shivaji Sarkar The strength of the Indian economy has been a reliable banking system and the parallel economy. The 11 Public Sector banks...

Raising the right questions?

Pulwama Tragedy By Dr. D.K. Giri (Prof. International Politics, JMI) The Pulwama terrorist attack and the subsequent counter-operations by the army are the hot topics for debate...

Rbi builds India first

Trump Can Wait By Shivaji Sarkar In an assertive policy pivot aimed at shielding the Indian economy from both internal slowdown and external headwinds, the Reserve...

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...

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...