Dr. Gyan Pathak

Farmers have already been protesting against the Centre demanding legal guarantee for Minimum Support Price (MSP) for their crops and also implementation of Swaminathan formula C2+50 per cent for calculating MSP so that they could gent…

The way AAP, BJP and the Congress have been trying to woo the electorates living in Delhi’s slums, unauthorized colonies, and less developed areas, it is increasingly becoming clear that the key to winning the legislative elections lies…

Slowing down of India’s GDP in the second quarter of the current financial year during July- September 2024 to 5.4 per cent, which was a seven-quarter low, has raised a serious concern about maintaining growth momentum of the country in…

The second leg of farmers’ movement that had begun in the beginning of 2024, with a call for a March on Delhi from Punjab on February 13, is set to spillover into 2025, since the PM Narendra Modi led Centre was not even ready to talk to the…

On December 6, 1992, exactly 32 years ago, Babri Mosque at Ayodhya was demolished. On November 9, 2019, a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India delivered a verdict for building Ram Temple at the demolition site. Ram Temple was…

The data given by the Union Ministry of State for Labour and Employment Ms. Shobha Karandlaje in a  written reply in Rajya Sabha on December 5, 2024 conceals the frightening ground level reality of unemployment in India. The pattern is…

Electorate of the country has been tossing Congress up and down for quite some time, and the trend is more pronounced in the last one and half year ever since Karnataka elections in May 2023 when people brought the Congress with…

G20 Presidency has called the Rio de Janeiro Declaration “historical” as the leaders committed to taxing billionaires, tackling inequalities, and support for climate action with focus on sustainable growth and fight against poverty, but it…

Jharkhand is once again heading for an Adivasi and anti-Adivasi electoral battle, just within a couple of months since Lok Sabha election 2024 result was out on June 4, in which BJP had lost all the five seats reserved for Scheduled Tribes…

It may be shocking to know that about 10 per cent of children in India aged 6-10 are out of schools, and out of pocket health expenditure of Indian rural households are just unaffordable to them since they need to spend Rs 4,129 yearly on…

Social protection gaps in India are still at an alarming level. More than half of the population (51.2 per cent) in the country are still totally unprotected, while over half of the global population (52.4 per cent) are covered by at least…

Though oilseed crops are the second most important determinant of the agricultural economy, next only to cereals within the segment of field crops, India has lost the self-sufficiency in oilseeds achieved during the "Yellow Revolution" in…

The Akal Takht’s declaring Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal a ‘tankhaiya’ on August 30 is most likely to reset the Punjab politics in general and Sikh politics in particular. In the tumultuous history of Punjab, this…

“The day is not far when India will be the hub of industrial manufacturing and the world will be looking towards it,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said in his independence-day speech, but the challenges before India on this voyage will…

What emerged from the meeting held by the Union Minister of Labour and Employment Mansukh Mandaviya with Central Trade Unions (CTUs) on August 28 is quite disconcerting, since the government is bent upon implementing the newly announced…

The Artificial Intelligence revolution could further widen the gap between high and low-income countries, a new joint report from International Labour Organization (ILO) and the UN Office of the Secretary General’s Envoy on Technology has…

The shocking incident of rape and murder of a trainee doctor on duty in RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata has shaken the confidence of everyone – from patients and their attendants to doctors on duty, especially women. We need…

Established in 2010, C-Edge has grown up to become a significant player in India’s fintech landscape, but has been compromised now ironically for the cybersecurity services it boasted about which included threat detection, vulnerability…

Union Ministry of Labour and Employment has started meeting representatives of Central Trade Unions seeking their co-operation for early implementation of the four labour codes, which were put on hold by Modi government during its entire…

Given the huge shortage of healthcare professionals and hospital beds, lack of pre and post hospitalization medical facilities at affordable costs, inadequate funding, and non-release of promised budgeted funds even under the…

With Indian National Congress (INC) saying no to alliance with Arvind Kejriwal led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for Haryana Vidhan Sabha Election scheduled to be held in September-October 2024, electoral battle in the state is set to be direct…

In Haryana a rift within the BJP between the two camps – Khattar and Saini is clearly visible, Khattar was brought in the political scene of Haryana by PM Narendra Modi in 2014, making him chief minister of the state. Modi’s idea was to…

Chhattisgarh Lok Sabha election contest is chiefly between the BJP and the Congress, and there seems to be very close contests between their candidates in almost half of the constituencies. Tribal population which is around 30 per cent of…

Gross Bank Credit in India has witnessed only a little improvement compared to last year. The latest data release

Omicron spread across the world has made the world understand: that vaccines alone do not prevent the spread of COVID-19; that people need to follow the five major recommendations – wearing well-fitted masks, safe distancing, avoiding…