Shocking case of negligence
Crime Against Women
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
In India, as per report of National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) 2019 every 16 minutes, a woman is raped somewhere...
Ease taxes, prices instead
3rd Stimulus Package
By Shivaji Sarkar
Post Bihar election, a new stimulus package was being awaited. Its impact would be felt in the next three years...
Doing good in bad times
Enhanced CSR
By Moin Qazi
In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder, but is in fact the very purpose of its...
Safeguards for labour vital
Labour Authority
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Basic living wage in the event of employment loss, basic minimum social security for workers and the setting up of a...
Poor budget, pvt failing
India's Healthcare
By Shivaji Sarkar
A dignitary in Delhi on his indisposition rushes to a government hospital, AIIMS or RML. In West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata...
Fresh assault on judiciary
By Inder Jit
(Released on 27 January 1981)
Another Republic Day has rolled by. The nation has gone through the ritual of annual celebrations at the...
Control mechanism critical
Cyclones &Climate Change
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The fury and devastation of cyclones is back. First Tauktae and then Yaas have stretched the affected States’ administration workload,...
Messy, image sullied
Cairn Affair
By Shivaji Sarkar
No sooner the new-look Union Cabinet with 43 fresh inductions, many bureaucrats starts the Modi-II second innings, the country gets a...
Huge idea, weak links
Digital Health
By Dr Oishee Mukherjee
Prime Minister Modi launched the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) last month, which is envisaged as a complete digital health...
Techniques need change
Dryland Farming
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Notwithstanding that COP26 was largely seen as disappointing, the UN in one of its statement said ‘significant progress’ was made in...
Parliament abdicates control again
By Inderjit
(Released on 12 June 1990)
Parliament’s recently-concluded budget session has not received the critical attention it deserves. Not many of our people have cared...
Subsidies vital, check prices
High Fuel Prices
By Shivaji Sarkar
The country needs a new approach on prices, taxes tolls and issues of progress. It wants to control prices as...
Takeaways for India
Modi In Europe
By Dr. D.K. Giri
(Prof International Relations, JIMMC)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi dashed off to three countries in Europe from 2-4 May 2022. He...
Media must be objective
Fact-Checking
By Sabina Inderjit
The famous quote ‘facts are sacred, but comment is free,’ by British journalist CP Scott, founder of what is The Guardian today...
Govt must halt unholy nexus
Pvt Coaching Centres
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The parliamentary standing committee on education has recently recommended to the government to curb the growing unholy nexus between colleges...
Mockery of people’s verdict
Goa Cong Joins BJP
By Insaf
People’s will be damned, is a dispiriting message now coming from Goa. With eight of 11 Congress MLAs joining the...
How do you evaluate commissioners?
SC Halla Bol On ECs
By Poonam I Kaushish
In this silly poll season amidst accusations slugfest between Parties in Modiland Gujarat, a five-judge Constitution Bench...
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...
Not just a war of words!
FIRs in Assam & UP
By Insaf
Watch your words as these give unwarranted leverage for action! A veiled terse message from law enforcing authorities such...
Yours vs mine?
Caste Cauldron
By Poonam I Kaushish
The caste genie unleashed by our polity nearly three decades ago has bared its poisonous fangs once again in Karnataka...