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.History Repeats Itself With The Killing Of Senior Hamas Official Saleh Al-Arouri
By James M Dorsey History repeats itself. Palestinian airplane hijackings and attacks on Israeli civilians in Israel as well as on Israeli and Jewish targets abroad pockmarked the 1970s and 1980s. The violence put the Palestinian issue on the world agenda. The violence erupted, and at times, was driven...
RSS Is Working On State Specific Electoral Strategy In The Eastern States
By Arun Srivastava The RSS leadership is happy that its electoral strategy has paid rich dividend in three states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh in just concluded assembly elections Now the RSS chief is concentrating on Bihar, Bengal and Odisha taking in view the coming Lok Sabha polls....
Can Sharmila’s Entry Into Congress Revive The Fortunes Of The Party Before Lok Sabha Polls?
By Sushil Kutty Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s sister Y S Sharmila is not what her name suggests—shy, placid… She has been a rebel after a cause, and so has done what she had set out to do, become a part of the Congress—which was...
Nitish Driving INDIA Bloc Decisions, To Hit The Road For 2024 Campaign
By Rahil Nora Chopra Since Chief Minister Nitish Kumar took over the reins of the party, the Mahagathbandhan alliance partners are wondering whether the decision was deliberately engineered to create a conducive atmosphere for Kumar to switch over, once again to the NDA, or put pressure on the INDIA...
Dollarisation Programme Of Argentina Will Impose Additional Burden On Its Workers
By Prabhat Patnaik Argentina’s new president Javier Milei proposes to use US dollars as the currency of his country, while abolishing its central bank altogether. What is involved in this proposal is not just maintaining a fixed exchange rate between the dollar and the domestic currency, but an abolition...
Tamil Nadu Floods Once Again Signal The Unpreparedness For Diasters
By K R Sudhaman It is unfortunate that the climate change and global warming are not getting the attention it deserves. Global conferences set long term goals, which are too little too late. UN convention on climate change comes out with targets year after year and latest global conference,...
Russia Offering Technology Knowhow To India To Build Small Modular Reactors
By Girish Linganna The expansion of civilian nuclear cooperation between India and Russia was decided upon during External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s visit to Moscow in December 2023. Moscow is prepared to offer India its technological knowhow to develop a compact modular reactor that can generate power in capacities...
Bangladesh Election On January 7 Amidst BNP Boycott Draws Global Attention
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav On January 7, 2024, Bangladesh will hold general elections. These elections are of great importance for Bangladesh, both domestically and internationally. In the run-up to the election, Nobel Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus, a critic of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was sentenced to six months in...
John Pilger Was A Fearless Journalist Who Exposed Us Atrocities In His Coverage Of Vietnam War
By Paul Donovan Australian by birth, John Pilger died on December 30 2023, at the age of 84.He initially rose to fame for his international reporting on the Vietnam war, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Burma, East Timor, Australia and the Middle East. Together with filmmaker David Munro, he broke the news...
BJP’s Crossing 400 Seats Slogan Is A Hype, Far Away From Ground Reality
By Dr. Gyan Pathak BJP has just coined this attractive slogan to its gullible constituency – Teesri Baar Modi Sarkar, ab ki baar 400 paar. Some national and international political analysts are declaring “almost an inevitability” of PM Narendra Modi’s win for the third time, supporting the first part...
Israel Is Seeking To Cleanse Gaza Of Palestinians Through Unending Bombings
By P. Sudhir The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have announced that the military operations in Gaza will continue throughout 2024. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has repeatedly stated that the war in Gaza will continue till the Hamas is totally finished. He has also stated that Israel will control...
Pegasus Spyware Is Again Being Used Against Indian Civil Rights Activists
By Krishna Jha Forensic investigations by Amnesty International’s Security Lab have come out with surprising revelations about continued and increasing use of Pegasus, a type of highly invasive spyware, developed by Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group. It has come amid an unprecedented crackdown by the Indian authorities on freedom...
Delhi Chief Minister’s Arrest By Friday By ED Is A Distinct Possibility Now
By Sushil Kutty Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s “imminent arrest” has been on the cards for two-three days and the AAP convener has been milking every drop of sympathy from talk of his imminent “arrest”. That said, while half of Delhi is convinced Kejriwal is corrupt to the core,...
India Needs To Proceed With Caution In Negotiating Free Trade Agreements
By K R Sudhaman At a time India is in advanced stage of negotiations with United Kingdom and European Union on free trade negotiations, there are warning bells to suggest trade diversions from China to India using FTAs with some of the countries. There are no doubts about immense...
Israel Military Regime Is Escalating The War To Target Friends Of Hamas
By Girish Linganna When drone-fired missiles hit an apartment in south Beirut, killing a prominent militant leader and his associates, it signalled a new direction in Israel’s conflict with Hamas. For three months, Israel has conducted an extensive military campaign in Gaza, destroying a large portion of the area...
Peter Magubane Will Be Remembered For Depicting The Horrors Of Apartheid
By Tirthankar Mitra Revolutionaries are seldom unarmed. Peter Magubane was no exception; but instead of a .machine gun or a machete, he carried a camera and clicked with it to fight his cause. Like a prophet, not honoured at home, but feted worldwide, Magubane was a Black South African...
Columbia President Gustavo Petro Wants To Lead The Global Green Transition
By Pablo Castaño During his first speech in August 2022, Colombian president Gustavo Petro put special emphasis on the environment — a novelty in a country where the security agenda has dominated the political conversation for decades. “There will only be a future if we balance our lives and...
Supreme Court’s Adani Case Verdict Fails To Inspire Confidence To Detractors
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court verdict in the keenly-awaited petitions against the adequacy of the SEBI probe into the charges against the Adani group is neither convincing nor conclusive. A bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud has given the market regulator another three months to complete...
