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.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...
Drivers’ Protest Shows The Three New Criminal Laws Are Pandora’s Box
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Narendra Modi government had successfully avoided any meaningful discussion on the three new criminal laws in the Lok Sabha by resorting to suspension of almost entire opposition members in the Lok Sabha, but had to face a serious roadblock even before their implementation enforcing the...
Soren Checkmates Modi-Shah’s Design To Dislodge Him From Office
By Arun Srivastava With their malicious design to engage Bihar chief minister, Nitish Kumar in a psychological war proving to be absolutely ineffective, the Narendra Modi and Amit Shah combine has tossed a new type of conceptual war against Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren. While the duo failed to...
Congress’s Bharat Nyay Yatra Will Clash With 2024 Poll Preparations At Ground Level
By Sushil Kutty It sounds odd calling Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Nyay Yatra’, “nationwide east-to-west yatra”. The yatra is east-to-west, but not nationwide. Cutting through 14 states and 85 districts is not the entirety of India. It is another matter if it has a nationwide impact. Also, the claim that...
Ahead Of Budget On February 1, Finance Minister Has To Work On Strategy For Debt Reduction
By K R Sudhaman Ahead of the general Budget on February one, International Monetary Fund has warned India to return to fiscal consolidation path and efficient spending implying mounting debt and rampant freebies culture are unsustainable. Finance Ministry might be dismissive of IMF observation saying any interpretation that the...
Ladakh’s First Female Surgeon Dr. Padma Deskit Is Saving Lives In Border Areas
By Harihar Swarup Padma Deskit, Ladakh’s first female surgeon, wanted to be a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, but her hopes were dashed after his father was diagnosed with cancer. As the eldest child Deskit prioritised family and returned to Ladakh. Deskit completed her MBBS...
Sued By Own Workers And Convicted, Nobel Laureate Yunus Plays The Victim Card
By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury On January 1, 2024, a labour court in Dhaka, Bangladesh sentenced Grameen Telecom chairman and controversial Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus and three others to six-month jail in a case filed against them for violating labour law. Judge Sheikh Merina Sultana of Dhaka’s 3rd...
