Opinion
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The legacy of IPA, founded by Nikhil Chakravartty, the doyen of journalism in India, to keep the flag of independent media flying high, is facing the threat of extinction due to the effect of the Covid pandemic. Only an emergency funding can avert such an eventuality. We appeal to all those who believe in the freedom of expression to contribute to this noble cause.Uncertainty In Labour Market To Continue, Unemployment To Rise In 2024
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Uncertainty in Global labour market is likely to continue while unemployment is set to rise in 2024. Growing inequality and stagnant productivity will also be cause of concern on the economic front, especially at a time when the global economy is on track for the...
Congress Must Start Immediate Damage Control Following Milind Deora’s Exit
By Sushil Kutty Milind Deora s/o Murli Deora on Sunday joined the Shiv Sena of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, the first casualty of seat-sharing in Maharashtra thanks to the Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray Shiv Sena which laid claim to the Mumbai South parliamentary constituency from which Milind Deora used...
BJP Leadership Confident Of Getting Political Mileage From Ram Mandir
By Harihar Swarup Idol of Ram as a child will be installed in the sanctum sanctorum on January 22, in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s presence. The consecration will mark an epochal change in India’s history. The infrastructure development has been rapid. An international airport, a world class railway station...
Darjeeling Tea Production Declined By Nine Percent In 2023 Hitting Exports
By Kunal Bose In more than one way, the past year would go down in the annals of the famed Darjeeling tea industry, which though infinitely smaller in terms of production than its counterparts elsewhere in the country and abroad as annushorribilis. Production of tea in the hills of...
Space Missions By Western Countries Have Become Too Expensive
By Girish Linganna Moon mission records suggest that reaching the moon’s surface is still not easy. The Vulcan Centaur rocket launched perfectly early Monday ,8th of January, morning from Cape Canaveral. It quickly left the solid rocket boosters behind and set the Peregrine spacecraft on the right path for...
Mumbai’s Affordable Housing Scheme Is Giving A Big Jolt To Ecology
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Mumbai is facing a severe housing crisis, with a growing population and a dire need for affordable homes. In the midst of this crisis lies approximately 5500 acres of salt pan land, the subject of intense debate between proponents of affordable housing and environmentalists concerned...
INDIA Bloc Parties Should Do Their Best To Raise The Voting Percentage In Their Favour
By Sushil Kutty The opposition INDI-Alliance is confident that unity among opposition parties will fetch easy victories against the Bharatiya Janata Party in the majority of the 543 constituencies in 2024 because in 2019, Modi’s victorious party could get only 38 percent of the total votes polled, while the...
RSS To Usurp Shankaracharyas As Flagbearers Of Sanatan Hinduism
By Arun Srivastava Now there is no more ambiguity. For almost a week, the four Shankaracharyas, the symbols of the Sanatan Dharma, are being ridiculed and humiliated at every public forum. The situation certainly did not acquire a nasty dimension all of a sudden. The manner in which the...
What Has Ramlala In Ayodhya To Do With Mumtaz Khan In Purulia?
By Dr. Gyan Pathak What has Ramlala in Ayodhya to do with Mumtaz Khan in Purulia? The question seems to be absurd and ridiculous on the surface, but when the Chief Priest of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Pujya Acharya Satyendra Das, recalls Mumtaz Khan while consecration rituals are under...
No Relief For Export-Import Trade As Shipping Costs Expected To Further Shoot Up
By K Raveendran Shipping rates have already gone up by more than three times in a week after the January 9 attack by Houthis on the Red Sea. But supply chain professionals are warning that the rates are going to further shoot up in the coming weeks. This is...
Russia’s Powerful Cluster Bomb Drel May Be In Military Operations Soon
By Girish Linganna The serial production of Russia’s new glide cluster bomb, Drel, is expected to commence before the year’s end. In light of this, it’s important to understand the characteristics of the Drel and assess whether it will be utilized in Russia’s ongoing special military operation. In Ukraine...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party Launches ‘India Out’ Movement
By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury After failing to stop the January 7, 2024 general elections in Bangladesh by spending millions of dollars towards lobbyists and PR agencies in the United States, Britain and other Western nations, India and Hindu hating ultra-Islamist and pro-Pakistan Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has launched...
I Am Sad I Will Not Find My Childhood Ramchandra In The New Ayodhya Temple
By Devasis Chattopadhyay On 22 January 2024, India will change forever. It’s a misstep we may never recover from, a change triggered by a temple. In our country, regardless of religion, we consecrate shrines all the time. In a multi-faith and primarily agrarian society, home to 140 crore population,...
Failure Of United Nations To Stop Israeli Killings Has Led To Major Humanitarian Crisis
By Dr Arun Mitra War is the most serious threat to public health with catastrophic effects on infrastructure and environment and accounts for more deaths & disability than many major diseases combined. It destroys families, communities and sometimes whole cultures. It channels limited resources away from health and other...
India Govt Should Deal With Maldives With Caution And Perspective
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav A lot has happened over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s blissful walk on the sandy pristine beach of one of India’s least explored tourism destinations – Lakshadweep. Living among 1.40 billion people has its share of joys and perils. One of the most irritating problems that...
US Communist Party Daily People’s World Has Completed 100 Years
By C.J. Atkins The strongest weapon the ruling class possesses is its control of the press—its domination of the sources through which people get their information. A hundred years ago, a group of radical workers and Marxist writers launched a publication in the United States of America they hoped...
South Africa’s Genocide Case Against Israel Is Getting Big Support
By Chip Gibbons “No one is spared, not even newborn babies.”This is how Adila Hassim, speaking at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague, Netherlands on January 11 described the deliberate destruction of Palestinian life taking place in Gaza. Hassim was one of six lawyers who represented...
Lok Sabha Election 2024 To Carry Executive Bias Under New Law
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Supreme Court’s refusal to stay implementation of Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term of Office) Act, 2023 has shattered the dream of the people for a free and fair Lok Sabha Election 2024, though the court has agreed...
