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.From Non-Alignment To G-20 Summit In Delhi Next Week
By Dr. Arun Mitra Much euphoria is being created about the upcoming G-20 meet in Delhi next week. The high pitch is particularly to project that it is because of Prime Minster Narendra Modi that India has got the chairmanship of the group. Truth of the matter is that...
Investors Shun East, Northeast Despite Contrary Claims By Govts
By Ashis Biswas Two East and Northeast Indian states — Assam and West Bengal — have largely failed to secure significant investments from domestic or foreign private sector in recent years. Assam is ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) while in neighbouring Bengal, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) was...
Kerala Rejects Centre’s Smart Meter Scheme
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government in the State has said an emphatic ‘No’ to the total expenditure (TOTEX) model for the rollout of pre-paid smart electricity meters in the State. The State Government has also vehemently opposed the amendments to the Multi-State Cooperative Societies...
Jyotindra Nath ‘Mani’ Dixit Was A Diplomat Par Excellence
By Harihar Swarup I have seen an array of foreign secretaries (FS) during my career as a diplomat, some talented, some mediocre, and some undeserving, says Pawan an ICS-turned politician But as a personality, there was perhaps none as colourful and competent as Jyotindra Nath ‘Mani’ Dikshit. What set...
Niraj Chopra – A Sporting Icon Doing The Nation Proud
By Tirthankar Mitra By no stretch of imagination, India is replete with much good news. Of course, the landing on the moon of a Indian spaceship did the nation proud, but there is a huge distance between the scene of this triumph of Indian science and the masses. The...
Economy – Mainly Acute Joblessness Must Get The Prime Focus In India Campaign
By Nitya Chakraborty As the leaders of the INDIA alliance prepare for their third meeting in Mumbai on August 31 and September 1 to take forward the decisions taken at the last conclave in Bengaluru on July 17 and 18, one issue that should figure most prominently in their...
BJP Manifests Spine-Chilling Symptoms Before 2024 Elections
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Spine-chilling causes and effects have emerged in the evolving tale of the two alliances in India. INDIA opposition alliance was born on June 23 at Patna Conclave with 16 anti-BJP political parties on board. The birth of INDIA alliance shook the BJP out of its...
Prime Minister Is Having A Paranoia Over Preparations For G20 Summit
By Sushil Kutty The paranoia is what you see. The reason why New Delhi has been shut tight and out of bounds for ordinary Indians. The Modi regime is convinced Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s adversaries will go to any extent to derail the G20 Summit to tarnish Modi’s reputation...
Bangladesh And Nepal Look To India For Emergency Foodgrains Supply
By Ashis Biswas As both India and Bangladesh prepare to hold general elections early next year, concerned authorities are finding it extremely hard to maintain effective foodgrains supply chains and contain inflation. In addition, Nepal has been urging India to sell significant quantities of rice, wheat and paddy to...
Jayanta Mahapatra Has Left A Lasting Legacy Of His Poems On Pain And Longing
By Tirthankar Mitra Time was when Cuttack was a city in Odisha whose resident’s footprints in the Indian literary scene were nothing home to write about. One of its residents, Jayanta Mahapatra, an Indian poet writing in English changed the notion and more. To say that Mahapatra’s passing at...
Obama’s Support To Nobel Laureate Mohammed Yunus Complicates Bangladesh Politics
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav On July 23, the Supreme Court of Bangladesh upheld a lower court decision that said Mohammed Yunus must pay taxes on $7 million of donations he made between 2011 and 2014 to three trusts — Professor Muhammad Yunus Trust, the Yunus Family Trust and the...
Bernie Sanders Proposes Military Spending Cut By U.S. And China
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON: Senator Bernie Sanders is proposing the United States and the People’s Republic of China mutually agree to cut military spending, shifting the money to combatting global warming. Sanders made his proposal in an Op-ed in The Guardian on August 21. But when he proposed a...
Political Intrusion Puts Indian Higher Education In Crisis
By Nantoo Banerjee The growing power tussle between the Centre and opposition-ruled states over the management control of the University Grants Commission-funded universities in states threatens to ruin the sanctity of the country’s higher education system. Chief ministers of a number of opposition states and centrally-appointed governors there are...
Chandrayaan 3 Success Has Given A Big Boost To India’s Image As A Powerful Nation
By Kalyani Shankar India successfully landed the Chandrayaan 3 spacecraft on the Moon last week. It is the fourth country to do so. Congratulations to ISRO for this achievement, which fills every Indian with pride. Scientists worldwide are especially interested in the Moon’s South Pole region. The Chandrayaan 3...
RSS Desperate To Take Control Of Key Public Universities
By Arun Srivastava After making inroads into school education, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is striving to take control of higher education, particularly functioning of the universities. RSS has already set up Shiksha Bharti, an educational wing to control and define the school level education. However, it has also started...
BJP Beating About The Bush, India Alliance Set To Expand
By Dr. Gyan Pathak INDIA alliance is all set to expand with more political parties on board. A concrete roadmap for general election 2024 is being prepared for the Mumbai meet to be held on August 31 – September 1, in which it would be formalized. Several other issues...
For Ensuring ‘Security’ At G20 Meetings, Delhi Is Being Converted Into A Police State
By Sushil Kutty Police state like conditions exist. In violence-hit Nuh, where there will be a G20 Sherpa meet, the communal environment has gone from bad to worse and the Manoharlal Khattar government appears to be in cahoots with the VHP. Never has India with her myriad of diversities...
ISRO’s Inaugural Solar Study Mission Aditya-L1 Set For Launch On September 2
By Girish Linganna Aditya L1, India’s inaugural solar study mission, is set for launch by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on September 2, 2023. Previously known as Aditya 1, the mission’s name, ‘Aditya’, has been derived from Sanskrit, meaning the Sun. Its ‘L-1’ designation refers to the Lagrange...
