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.Bengal Congress Awaits Delhi’s Signal For Pre-Lok Sabha Polls Tie-Up
By Tirthankar Mitra INDIA, the anti-BJP alliance, seems to be going downhill in West Bengal even as next year’s Lok Sabha elections are inching closer. It is difficult nay a well nigh impossible political proposition now for the three INDIA alliance partners namely Congress, CPI(M) and Trinamool Congress to...
Israel-Hamas War Enters Second Month With No Indication Of Ceasefire
By Girish Linganna The world was awakened a month ago to the deadliest attack Israel has ever faced. Operationally, Israel was responding to an attack by Hamas, the organisation that governs the Gaza Strip, by conducting operations within the Palestinian territory. The second month of the Israeli-Hamas confrontation is...
Lok Sabha Ethics Committee Functions Without Code Of Conduct For Members
By Nantoo Banerjee It is difficult to believe that there has been no listed ‘code-of-conduct’ for the directly elected representatives of Lok Sabha since the country held its first general elections between October 21, 1951 and February 21, 1952. Paradoxically though, Lok Sabha has an ethics committee with the...
Arbitrary Powers Of The State Governors Must Be Ended
By P. Sudhir One of the ways federalism and the powers of the elected state legislatures are being undermined, is by governors sitting over the bills passed by the legislatures without taking any decision regarding them. According to the constitution, bills passed by the state legislatures have to be...
Remembering D N Ghosh, The Architect Of Bank Nationalisation In 1969
By Nitya Chakraborty Dhruba Narayan Ghosh, known as D N Ghosh, the young official who played the leading role in preparing the draft of the ordinance on bank nationalisation issued on July19, 1969, passed away in Kolkata on November 6. He was 95. Originally, a member of the Indian...
Court Observations Against Agencies Set A Trend Ahead Of Upcoming Review Petitions
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court’s displeasure with the way the Centre is using its agencies to suppress criticism or force adversaries into submission is finding expression at increasing frequency. “It can’t be a State that is run only through its agencies,” Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul said while hearing...
The Saffron Ecosystem Is Getting Ready To Launch Sub-Caste Census
By Arun Srivastava Frightened of the tremendous impact of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s state caste census on the impending Lok Sabha polls, the saffron ecosystem has come up with a plan to launch a sub-caste census well before the general election starts. This arrangement, according to a think-tank...
BJP Leaders Are Needlessly Creating Furore Over Nitish’s Remarks
By Sushil Kutty Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was the wrong guy at the wrong place. He should have been an American speaking to a house of US legislators. And to think that modern-day Indians make such a hue and cry about free speech. What about Nitish Kumar’s right...
Death Of A Horse Of Kolkata Mounted Police By Sheer Noise Should Serve As A Warning
By Anjan Roy The death of a horse, ironically named Voice of Reason, has erupted into widespread bemoaning what we humans are doing to the environment and our insensitivity to nature and other sentient beings. A horse belonging to the Calcutta Mounted Police died of fright from loud noise...
World Goes Against Its Pledges, Doubling Fossil Fuel Production
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Despite pledges by 151 national governments to achieve net-zero emission by phasing out fossil fuels production, the world is set to double its production by 2030. A new report from the UN environment agency (UNEP) has warned that global coal production would continue to increase...
Stretching Working Period To 70 Hours A Week Contradicts Global Practices
By Krishna Jha Looking at the data and studies done across the world, it appears that the Infosys founder N Narayana Murthy when he said that in India youth should work for seventy hours a week, he was ignoring a reality: working hours in India are amongst the longest...
High Onion And Potato Prices Are Now Major Issues In Bangladesh Poll Campaign
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The national elections in Bangladesh are scheduled to be held in January 2024. The Shiekh Hasina-led Awami League will try to continue its uninterrupted stint in power since 2009. The united opposition led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, whose top leader, Khaleda Zia, is serving...
Nitish Trumps RSS, Modi With Caste-Based Socio-Economic Report
By Arun Srivastava Once again, the Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has proved that his bête noire Narendra Modi could not match his political craftsmanship and administrative acumen. Though the middle class bhakts of Modi claim that he has perfect understanding of the time, when to strike and how...
Congress Emerging Stronger In Madhya Pradesh, Closer To Power
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha Election campaigns reach its mid-way, with only a week left for campaigning, Congress seems to have emerged even stronger than previously expected just one week ago, or even likely to perform better than in the last election held in 2018....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Is Playing The OBC Card In Telangana Polls
By Sushil Kutty The Bharatiya Janata Party despairs that the opposition INDI-Alliance is dividing Hindus into caste to rob the BJP a chance at victory in the five states’ assembly elections. The moral high-ground the saffron party took by championing a casteless Hindu society, however, does not fetch votes...
Israel Will Be Doing A Terrible Blunder If It Extends The War To Iran And Lebanon
By Girish Linganna As Israel grieved in the aftermath of the October 7 tragedy, where more than 1,400 citizens lost their lives due to the actions of Hamas terrorists, US President Joe Biden visited Tel-Aviv to pledge American support. However, during an appearance with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,...
Portugal May Face Elections Again As Prime Minister Antonia Costa Resigns
By Satyaki Chakraborty Portugal may face another national elections early next year as the Prime Minister of the ruling Socialist Party government Antonio Costa resigned on Tuesday November 7 after the police arrested the PM’s chief of staff and allegations were galore about the involvement of the PM office...
V K Pandian, A Bureaucrat Of Extraordinary Calibre Is Assisting Naveen Patnaik
By Harihar Swarup Former bureaucrat Wajahat Habibullah, while serving as director of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie, called up his school friend, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, saying that he was sending to him a freshly-minted IAS officer, who also writes movies script, an...
