Record hottest July!
Intense Heat
By Dr Oishee Mukherjee
Heat temperature has emerged as the invisible engine of planetary chaos according to a recent book titled ‘The Heat Will...
Economy rises with high debt
Malls Closing, Stocks Fall
By Shivaji Sarkar
If the country is doing well as per popular belief, why then are shopping malls and showrooms across the...
The Indian imperatives
Changing International Relations
By Dr DK Giri
(Secretary General, Assn
for Democratic Socialism)
What kind of world are we living today in? When we look around, we find...
Time for radical makeover
Wrestling With Power
By Poonam I Kaushish
If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us, said Francis Bacon. This comes to mind over...
Bolstering the partnership
India-France Dialogues
By (Prof.) Dr. D.K. Giri
(Secretary General, Assn for Democratic Socialism)
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar met Anne-Marie Descotes, Secretary General of the French Ministry...
Is foreign policy an issue?
Indian Parliament Elections
By Prof. (Dr.) D.K. Giri
(Secretary General, Assn for Democratic Socialism)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in an interview that elections in India are...
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...
Towards closer Indo Japanese ties
By Inder Jit
(Released on 26 November 1985)
Japan appears to be looking forward to opening a new chapter in Indo-Japanese friendship and cooperation. This is...
Bank funding hit: RBI
State Polls Bare Infra Risks
By Shivaji Sarkar
Amid the critical Haryana elections, the Reserve Bank of India’s concerns over infrastructure funding and new guidelines have...
No more ‘abuse of power’
'Bulldozer Justice'
By Insaf
The hammer has come down on ‘bulldozer justice’! Demolishing the house of a person accused or convicted of a criminal activity as...
SC helpless viz centre?
Farmers Protest
By Insaf
The Centre has left the Supreme Court exasperated over the farmers protests! On Thursday last, the top court gave a rap to...
Defence deals and security
By Inder Jit
(Released on 2 September 1980)
Three weeks ago, I expressed horror over the doings of the Union Energy Minister, Mr Ghani Khan Choudhury,...
Farming, Jobs, Pvt Sector…
Create integral economy
By Shivaji Sarkar
India needs some quick solutions. It needs more jobs, a free and low-cost banking, a growing industry and a thriving...
Alarming Hunger Situation
Govt unconcerned about poor
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Eleven year old Santoshi died of starvation because there was no foodgrain in her house for six weeks in...
UN, WIR Reports
India grows, but high ineqality
By Shivaji Sarkar
The world economy has grown at 3 per cent but still the pace of global investment is uncertain,...
Keep politics at arm’s length
Rift in Judiciary
By Dr S.Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
Unstoppable politics has already entered the portals of the judiciary with the CPM General Secretary, indicating...
Pf, employees at risk
Stock Market Crash
By Shivaji Sarkar
The Bombay stock market, like most others across the world, has crashed. It has lost about 4000 points in a...
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...
Will ncap clean the air?
India's Polluted Cities
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Air pollution levels remain dangerously high in many parts of the world. New data from WHO shows that 9 out...
Netas police vs janata’s police
Policewala Goonda
Last week tore to tatters the slogan: With you, for you, always. When another free-for-all epidemic of mob violence was unleashed across the...