By Dr. Arun Mitra It is to utter to dismay that only about 23.8 % families of the doctors who lost their life fighting COVID-19 have received the insurance amount announced by the Prime Minister under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package (PMGKP). This is as per the information...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak At conclusion of the 17th three-day Pravasi Bharatiya Divas convention (January 8-10) at Indore on Tuesday, majority of 3,500 participants from 70 countries have been dispersing with enthusiasm and hope that Indian diaspora has a greater role to play not only to India’s journey ahead...
By Nantoo Banerjee It is rather depressing to note that the unemployment rate in the country reached 8.30 percent in December, the highest over the last 16 months. In urban areas, the unemployment rate exceeded 10 percent. The number of people looking for jobs last month increased to 40.48...
By Sushil Kutty Has Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ achieved what it set out to? What was it that Rahul Gandhi wanted to unify? His party went to pieces here, there and everywhere, wherever it had lost elections, and in states where the Congress was robbed of its hard-fought...
By K R Sudhaman The preliminary official estimates by Ministry of Statistics has corroborated multilateral and other rating agencies forecast that India’s economic growth would be around 7 per cent in financial year 2022-2023. This only confirms that Indian economy is on a revival mode. The projected GDP growth...
By Sankar Ray Pakistan – Islamabad camaraderie, built up after the capture of Afghanistan by the Taliban and formation of a new Emirate in Kabul on 15 August 2021, faces a sanguinary breach. A conflictual discontent was simmering ever since the federal government had struck a ceasefire with the...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Was the decision to reinstate Saji Cherian, MLA, as a minister in the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government in the state hasty? That is the question doing the rounds in Kerala’s political corridors. Cherian had been forced to step down as Culture and Fisheries Minister...
By Sulagna Som Historians Ranabir Chakraborty and Aditya Mukherjee slammed the New Educational Policy of the present government at the Centre at the 81st session of the Indian History Congress, held at the Madras Christian College, Chennai, between 27 and 29 December 2022. They blasted the on-going saffronisation of...
By James M Dorsey Saudi Arabia isn’t wasting time to milk for what it’s worth soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo’s move to the kingdom. Neither are others in the Gulf eager to join the bandwagon. Playing for nine-time Saudi league champion Al Nassr FC for US$211 million over 2.5 years,...
By Sushil Kutty The Lt. Governor, Delhi, VK Saxena, acts as if he’s a power unto himself. But everybody knows his loyalty to the Union Ministry of Home is absolute. The Delhi Government is at the mercy of frequent interventions, call them interferences. And if Delhi is suffering, it...