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.Divisive Politics On Uniform Civil Code Has Risen Its Head Again
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With issuance of notification by the Central Law Commission of India on June 14, 2023 soliciting views from the public and recognized religious organisations on Uniform Civil Code, the divisive politics of BJP-RSS clan has risen its head again, as usual, ahead of Lok Sabha...
Latest Killings In Manipur Signal Total Failure Of Amit Shah’s Efforts
By Sushil Kutty One thing is getting certain and certain as we get closer and closer to the general elections 2024. That is, the BJP will go to any extent to win elections. Who can forget the 2019 elections on the heels of the Balakote airstrikes; which had at...
Narendra Modi Govt’s MSP For Kharif Season Is Neither Fair Nor Remunerative
By Prakash Karat The BJP-led union government announced the minimum support prices (MSP) for the Kharif Season 2023-24 on June 7, 2023 claiming that “the move is to ensure remunerative prices to growers for their produce and to encourage crop diversification”. The MSP announced is neither fair nor remunerative;...
US May Agree To Supply India High Powered Predator Drones During Summit
By Girish Linganna Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting USA on a four day state visit beginning on June 21. He will discuss pending defence deals with the US President Joe Biden and the other senior policy makers during his visit including the summit with the US President on...
Kerala Has Brought Digital Revolution To The Doors Of Poor Families
By Krishna Jha There had been tall promises made by the RSS-BJP government as early as in 2019 to offer online infrastructure and Internet connectivity through the ‘Digital India’ programme with a vision to transform the country into a digitally-empowered society with a rich knowledge economy. It was to...
CPI(M)-ISF Alliance In Bengal Panchayat Elections Angers The State Congress
By Tirthankar Mitra At a time when scams galore including cash for teaching jobs, coal and cattle smuggling is dogging Trinamool Congress, it has been gifted a brownie point in the form of an alliance between Left and Indian Secular Front before the panchayat elections in West Bengal. The...
Marxist Babler’s Election As Head Of Social Democratic Party Of Austria Is A Boost To Left
By Nick Cosburn June 3 won’t be a date that many in the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) will want to remember for very long. For months, the anti-migration hardliner Hans Peter Doskozil had launched attacks on the party’s sitting leader, Pamela Rendi-Wagner, before achieving his aim of...
Shinde-Fadnavis Battle Over Chief Ministership Has Come Out In The Open
By Sushil Kutty So a Sena advertisement claims Eknath Shinde is the first choice of the people of Maharashtra for Chief Minister and Devendra Fadnavis is nowhere in the picture. The Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister’s face didn’t show on the advertisements which did not forget Modi’s picture. Is this...
After Doubling Of Bank Frauds, Swindlers To Get Second Chance
By Dr. Gyan Pathak In the first eight years under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India witnessed more than double the number of bank frauds. The first half of the ninth year, number of frauds rose even more sharply compared to the corresponding months of the eighth year. Now in...
CoWin Breach Defence By Minister Shows Disdain For Privacy Of Citizens
By K Raveendran The heavy impact of the disclosures made by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey about alleged armtwisting by the Modi government to force the microblogging giant to block criticism of the government in connection with the farmers agitation has overshadowed the disastrous data leak relating to Covid...
Priyanka Gandhi Visit Gives A Big Boost To Madhya Pradesh Congress Workers
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: June 12 proved to be a day of two major calamities for Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mr. Shivraj Singh Chouhan. One calamity was the huge fire which caused havoc in many floors of Satpura Bhawan. Satpura Bhawan is a multi story building which houses...
Congress Faction Fighting Hits A New Low In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Habits die hard. The Congress party in Kerala does not seem to have learnt any lessons from the spectacular victory its counterpart in neighbouring Karnataka scored in the recently-held Assembly elections in that State. What is worse is that group politics in the Kerala unit...
Trinamool Facing Anger Of Kudmi And Other Tribals In Purulia District
By Tirthankar Mitra At a time when Trinamool Congress finds itself between a rock and a hard place in fielding panchayat election candidates in a vast swathe of Junglemahal in West Bengal inhabited by Kudmis, the Left Front has put up candidates from this community in Purulia district for...
At A Period Of Intense Political Rivalry, US, Russia, China Organise Joint Naval Drills
By Girish Linganna The geopolitical rivals United States of America, China, and Russia, were among the nations that took part in naval drills, Multilateral Naval Exercise KOMODO (MNEK), held in the waters off the coast of Indonesia to improve their ability to work together during a humanitarian crisis. From...
RSS NGO Spreading Dangerous Theory About Producing ‘Customised Babies’
By Dr Arun Mitra The news item published in the media on 12th June 2023 that an NGO affiliated with the RSS women’s wing, the ‘Rashtriya Sevika Samiti’ has launched a documentary and guidance titled “Garbha Sanskar” to help the women bear customized “Cultured and Patriotic Children” is highly...
Gorkhas From Nepal Are Not Joining Any More The Indian Army Due To Agnipath Scheme
By Harihar Swarup Ayo Gorkhali (The Gorkhas are upon you), is quite a menacing war cry on the battlefield. The Gorkhas have impressed one and all with their courage and fighting spirit. Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw paid them the ultimate compliment: “If a man says he is not afraid...
M Karunanidhi’s Centenary Year Begins In Tamil Nadu With Big Fanfare
By Kalyani Shankar Former Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi was many things to many people. He was ‘Thalaivar” to his cadres, a wily politician to his opponents and a visionary to his admirers. His autobiography ‘Nenjukku Neethi ‘ shows his life and struggle. Karunanidhi is among the half-a-dozen...
United Opposition Going To 2024 Lok Sabha Polls Without A ’PM Face’ Makes Sense
By Sushil Kutty Unity on not allowing the thorny “who will be PM face” to play spoilsport with the Patna Conclave has made it relatively easy for cobbling unity among opposition parties. Ambitious opposition leaders are happy they didn’t have to stake claim for the “PM face”. Octogenarian NCP...
