IPA Special
Will Pala upset the UDF applecart?
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Will the Pala assembly constituency spring an ugly surprise on the Congress-led United Democratic Front? Or, will the CPI(M)-headed Left Democratic Front (LDF)create history by wresting the seat after 54 years? These are the questions uppermost in the minds of Pala voters even...
Ban On E-Cigarettes Indicts Tobacco Industry For Promoting Cancer
By Indira Jaising In a history-making decision, the Government of India has prohibited electronic cigarettes by the promulgation of the Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes (Production, Manufacture, Import, Export, Transport, Sale, Distribution, Storage and Advertisement) Ordinance, 2019 on September 18.The effect of the ordinance is to ban production,...
Communist Bhagat Singh Would Have Loathed RSS
By R S Yadav Bhagat Singh was born on September 27, 1907. At a very young age he involved himself in the freedom struggle. He was only 23, when he was hanged on March 23, 1931. But even by that time, he had spoken and written so much...
Deepening Slowdown And Job Loss Cause Grave Concerns
By Chidambaram N The Left parties — CPI, CPI(M) CPI(ML), Forward Bloc and RSP — are holding a joint convention on September 20, 2019 in the national capital to chart out a protest action programme against the deepening slowdown and huge loss of jobs in almost all...
We Feel Like Strangers In Our Own Homeland
By Gulzar Bhat A few days before BJP government did away with the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and stripped it of statehood, I spoke to 15odd people comprising journalists, academics and intellectuals from both within and outside the state, now Union Territory, about the central...
E-Cigarettes And E-Hookahs Have No Medicinal Benefits
By Dr Pankaj Chaturvedi Smoking tobacco is the single largest cause of preventable death around the world. With more than 7 million premature deaths due to smoking including second-hand smoke yearly, the menace of smoking is far away from being tamed and is estimated to reach a massive...
Linguistic Diversity Is India’s Unique Civilisational Identity
By Sagarneel Sinha India is a land of different languages, religions, ethnicity and cultures with a variety of food items and clothes. If anything that makes India proud in the global forum, it is this diversity, which has existed here for ages. It is not that there are...
Higher Education Worst Hit Under Modi Rule
By Gyan Pathak As India is struggling to respond to economic, environmental, and social transformations, we feel lack of intellectual capital both in quality and quantity. Knowledge is the core of this capital, but that our Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a deep-rooted contempt towards higher education...
Monsoon Mayhem Wreaks Havoc In Madhya Pradesh
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Unprecedented rains have caused massive damage to Madhya Pradesh. The losses in terms of human lives, standing crops, houses, cattle have been huge. The worst-hit is the Mandsaur district, where 40 persons have already lost their life. According to Madhya Pradesh chief...
Should India Bet on FTA Again By Joining RCEP?
By Subrata Majumder After the, World Trade Organisation failed to be propitious for trade expansion, Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) emerged the thumb’s rule for trade buoyance. India followed suit. India signed several FTAs – both bilateral and multilateral. But, none of them proved to be a boon...
