Modi’s Five-Nation Tour By Dr. D.K. Giri (Prof. International Relations, JIMMC) Prime Minister Narendra Modi just concluded the five-nation tour (15-20 May) with quite a few goodies in his bag as well as at least one…
What Austerity! By Poonam I Kaushish Austerity? What’s that? In a milieu of George Orwellian ‘more equal than others’ India, this term sounds hollow. So, when Prime Minister Modi recently urged Indians in the name of…
India’s Energy Future By Dhurjati Mukherjee India’s energy future is challenging with fuel prices quite high and availability a matter of concern. If oil prices stay at around $95-$100 a barrel, over last year’s average…
PM’s Five-Nation Trip By Dr. D.K. Giri (Prof. of Practice, Institute of Management Bhubaneshwar) West Asia is on fire, Strait of Hormuz is closed, crude oil sells at $120, Rupee is at record low and India’s forex…
Missing U In Unity? By Poonam I Kaushish Unity in disunity or disunity in unity? Flummoxed? Certainly, as Opposition fault lines cracked wide open post BJP’s victory and TMC, DMK, CPM’s defeat mingled with despair in…
TN Rises, WB Moves Up By Shivaji Sarkar India’s economic geography is changing rapidly. The gap between states that build industry, attract investment and create jobs and those trapped in political confrontation, debt…
Lotus Blooms In Bengal By Poonam I Kaushish At the end, it was all about feel good. A six-week long grueling election which culminated in the lotus blooming in West Bengal, Sarma continuing to brew tea in Assam, Vijay…
UAE’s OPEC Exit, Higher Oil Risks By Shivaji Sarkar None, not even US analysers, expected that a “non-descript war” with a small country like Iran could change the global energy scenario, that America is keen on…
India Chairing BRICS By Dr. D.K. Giri (Prof. of Practice, Institute of Management Bhubaneshwar) In 2001, Goldman Sachs coined the acronym BRIC – Brazil, Russia, India and China – to do an investment story. Twenty five…
Re Slide Costs RBI $40 Bn By Shivaji Sarkar The Iran war is hurting India more than it could ever imagine. It’s hitting gas supplies, NRI remittances, FDI and causing immense losses to Reserve Bank of India. India also…
Opposition Stands By Poonam I Kaushish Last Friday was historic in more ways than one. First, the Modi-led NDA Government tasted its first defeat since taking office 2014. Two, the first time a Constitutional Amendment…
By Inder Jit (Released on 8 October 1974) Domestic issues are again to the fore after a brief interlude in the shape of the visit by the Shah and Shahbanou of Iran. But it has an interlude which New Delhi has every…
Rupee Slides, Prices Bite, India Slips By Shivaji Sarkar The Iran war is hitting many countries beyond they could have imagined. The IMF forecast has subdued global growth. India is no less a sufferer. IMF makes India…
War & Diplomacy in Iran By Dr. D.K. Giri (Prof of Practice, NIIS Group of Institutions) It is said that war is a failure of diplomacy. This is eminently evident in the case of Iran which is perceived as a threat to…
India’s Economic Strength By Dhurjati Mukherjee The much-touted economic strength of India has come into question. Not just because of reports of GDP over estimation but the future trend of growth, hampered by…
US & Saudi Arabia By Ewa Fronczak (Expert, Centre Foe International Relations) Will the escalating tensions involving Iran disrupt the implementation of the landmark US–Saudi agreement on rare earth elements? The…
By Inder Jit (Released on 16 October 1990) More and more people are swearing by secularism today than ever before in the past two decades. Equally interestingly, more and more people are today swearing by Dr B.R.…
Goodbye Maoists By Poonam I Kaushish Goodbye Maoists. After over six decades of relentless Maoist insurrection which cast a long shadow across North, South, East and West, the dreaded ‘Red Corridor’ is clear of all…
West Asian Conflict By Dhurjati Mukherjee The West Asian conflict has affected global fertiliser supply. Shipments of it have piled up on the wrong side of the Strait of Hormuz. In India, Algeria and Slovakia,…
By Juliusz Gojlo (Expert, Centre for Intl Relations, Poland) “Amateurs talk strategy; professionals talk logistics.” The observation attributed to US Chief of Army Staff Omar Bradley captures a fundamental truth about…
