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.Global Initiative Immediately Needed To Stop War In Israel And Palestine
By Dr Arun Mitra Violent attack by the Hamas on Israel which killed hundreds of civilians took the whole world by shock. No one can support the barbarian act of killing innocent children, women and men. They have violated all laws of warfare by killing people attending Super Nova...
Centre’s Coal Ministry Converting Waste Into Wealth Through Its Special Programme
By K R Sudhaman After successful swachhata campaign by Prime Minister Narendra Modi government during the last 2-3 years to clean up government ministries and buildings by getting rid of musty files and condemned scrap furniture, Coal ministry has shown the way to convert this waste into wealth. “Kabad...
Strong Political Sentiments Blowing In The Country Favouring Caste Census
By Harihar Swarup On August 7, 1990, Prime Minister V P Singh, driven by his own set of political difficulties, announced in Parliament that the Mandal Commission’s recommendations for reservation of Other Backward Classes would be implemented. It was a turning point for Indian Political system, marking the advent...
Israel-Palestine Conflict Sends Ripples Through Shipping And Maritime Industry
By K Raveendran The Israel-Palestine conflict has sent ripples through the shipping and maritime industry, leading international companies to issue cautionary advisories and adapt their operations in the region. In view of the missile attacks and the incursion of opposing militias, the security of transporting goods through the port...
Mallikarjun Kharge Has Shown His Mettle In Nearly One Year Of His Congress Presidency
By Sushil Kutty Mallikarjun Kharge assumed the office of Congress President on October 26, 2022. He beat Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor in an election that was fixed to elect him. At the time Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was still on his Bharat Jodo Yatra and the entire...
Decoding The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Propaganda Versus Reality
By Arun Srivastava With Israel declaring war on the Gaza Strip after an unexpected attack by the terrorist Palestinian group Hamas on October 7, the global fraternity is straining to decode the real nature and reasons for the armed engagement. Apparently, there is no tangible reason for Hamas to...
Nobel Laureate Claudia Goldin’s Work Has Big Relevance To Indian Policy Makers
By Anjan Roy Ukraine war and more immediately the Hamas-Israeli conflict had driven many things from out of the public view. One of these is the Nobel Prize in Economics in this year to a not widely known academic. Claudia Goldin is only the third woman to get a...
Workers Gearing Up For Bitter Struggle To Survive With Dignity
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India has been witnessing a systematic weakening of Trade Unionism by the ruling establishment through adoption of labour policies that push the workers more and more into unorganized sector. The unprecedented sufferings that the COVID-19 crisis brought for the working class has made them accepting...
Tamil Nadu Govt Under Chief Minister M K Stalin Honours M S Swaminathan
By K R Sudhaman Contrary to the Dravida Model of sidelining Brahmins in Tamil Nadu as part of the caste politics under the garb of so-called social justice, the DMK government in Tamil Nadu led by Chief Minister M K Stalin has decided to honour father of India’s green...
An Attack On Israel Was Inevitable From Iran’s Perspective
By M A Hossain On October 7, 2023, Israel suffered its most devastating attack in decades, orchestrated by the Iran-backed Palestinian militant organization, Hamas. Notably, Hamas’s startling well-planned land-sea-air surprise assault from Gaza on Southern Israeli communities claimed the lives of hundreds and took approximately 150 persons hostage, both...
Afghanistan Needs Massive Assistance To Deal With The Earthquake Disaster
By Tirthankar Mitra Since 2021 after Taliban regime took over Kabul and rest of Afghanistan, links of this beautiful mountainous country with the rest of the world have almost been severed. If the powers that be in it chose isolation for itself, a chain of natural disasters striking it...
Netanyahu’s War On Gaza Risks Spiralling Into A Regional Catastrophe
By Branko Marcetic The human toll of the Israel-Hamas war has been truly terrifying. Israel has responded to Hamas’s murder of thirteen hundred civilians this past Saturday by launching a campaign of one-sided, vengeful slaughter of innocent Palestinian civilians. Israel has killed more than fifteen hundred Gazans, at least...
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sharma Leads Lok Sabha Poll Campaign Of BJP On Communal Plank
By Ashis Biswas In Assam, Chief Minister Mr Himanta Biswa Sarma, responding to fresh charges of corruption from the opposition, has launched a sharp counter attack specially targeting the Congress party in the pre-poll campaign for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Assam...
Ecuador’s Presidential Poll Runoff On October 15 Is Going To Be A Game Changer
By Satyaki Chakraborty Ecuador belonging to the Latin American continent is witnessing its run off Presidential elections on October 15, Sunday culminating in a fierce poll campaign marked by jail killings, car bombings, shootings and a widespread security crisis involving the common citizens. The Left wing Presidential nominee Luisa...
Delhi Police Raids On Newsclick Is A Sort Of McCarthysm By The Centre
By Prabhat Patnaik The central government’s hounding of Newsclick reminds one of the children’s story about a tiger and a goat drinking water from the same stream. The tiger, wanting an excuse to attack the goat, accuses it of muddying the water it is drinking; when the goat points...
Hamas-Israel War Has Been Taking Serious Global Dimension In A Week
By Sushil Kutty ‘Global Jihad Day’, Friday, October 13, was an imposition on the non-Muslim world. The Muslim world has a grudge and the rest of the world has to pause and pay. It is about who is the aggressor and who is the silent sufferer? It is no...
Caste Census Demand To Shape Assembly Polls, 2024 Lok Sabha Agendas
By Rahil Nora Chopra The stage is all ready for the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections as the Election Commission of India announced the dates for the upcoming assembly polls to be held in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, and Mizoram. The polls will be held between November 7 and...
Fist Fights, Locking Union Minister In Party Office Mark BJP’s Factionalism In Bengal
By Tirthankar Mitra Just as Union home minister, Amit Shah and BJP national president JP Nadda are about to make a brief visit to West Bengal early next week, fissures threaten to turn into cracks in the state BJP unit. While leading lights of Trinamool Congress, the ruling dispensation...
