Arjun Kumar, Ritika Gupta, Anshula Mehta, Sunidhi Agarwal, Chhavi KapoorKeeping the state of public finances and the accountability at the centre, the Centre for the Study of Finance and Economics (CSFE), IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute organized a...
TK ArunHow could the CPI(M) not give Shailaja Teacher a second term as health minister? After all, she had been the public face of Kerala’s competent Covid management, until chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan took over that role with daily...
Simi Mehta, G SrideviOn the celebration of the birth anniversary of Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar and in the context of Shudras revolution in nations building, the Centre for Human Dignity and Development (CCHD), IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute,...
Soumaydip Chattopadhyay, Arjun KumarOver the most recent few decades, the worldwide South, particularly India, have seen an enormous growth of urban cities. In India, more than 33% of its population lives in cities. In any case, the metropolitan turn...
Neoliberalism has lead to mass sufferings in the country. DEAD bodies of human beings floating in the River Ganges, is the latest in the gory stories we have been witnessing for the last few weeks. Frantic calls from friends’ right from the ones who are at high echelons to common people continued incessantly. These calls were made either for oxygen, beds in hospitals, or/and even for getting a place for cremation and burial. Not just that. Keeping the dead body overnight waiting for cremation cost more than Rs 55,000 is not an isolated case, rather innumerable such instances occurred.
K R Shyam SundarThis article analysing the recently published Industrial Relations (Central) Recognition of Negotiating Union or Negotiating Council and Adjudication of Disputes of Trade Unions Rules, 2021, points out issues with the criteria for recognition of a union in...
Tikender Singh PanwarOn May 8, I got a call from one of my state cadre (Himachal Pradesh) IAS officers posted in Delhi. The call was mainly to check each other’s well-being owing to the second wave of the pandemic...
Amita SinghThe recent GNCTD Amendment Act seems to be a case of using legislation to settle ideological disputes. However, in doing so, it not only violates the principles of constitutional morality and objectivity, but also defies the democratic and...
Chandrachur SinghBeing a premier university, DU has a pandemic responsibility it is not fulfilling. It must rise to the occasion to do its duty as academic institutions world over are doing.Around 30 academics, a large number of non-teaching staff, and...
Failure to invest in increasing vaccine production capacity has resulted in a desperate shortage of vaccines. If a third wave of the pandemic is to be averted, some 900 million people must be vaccinated twice over before winter sets in. That would call for 9 million doses a day, whereas we have 2.3 million dose availability at present.
