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 BJP Revamps Its Campaign Strategy Focusing On Both Left And TMC
By Tirthankar Mitra Having earlier asked its West Bengal unit to mend its affairs, the national leadership of BJP have instructed its state unit to step up its campaign against a traditional political opponent -Left. Going by it, the state saffron camp will be henceforth focussing on the “misdeeds”...
Installation Of Sengol At New Parliament Building Is A Part Of RSS Plan On Hindu Rashtra
By Prakash Karat Twenty opposition parties had boycotted the inauguration of the new parliament building on May 28 on the grounds that the Modi government had bypassed the President of India, Droupadi Murmu, who is the head of the state as well as and head of parliament and decided...
Coming Caste Census Has To Focus On Many New Dynamics Of Indian Society
By Krishna Jha We are a multi-religious country. For each community, there is a spiritual path to arrive at the basics, the most sacred that we hold to ourselves. Our culture is composite, multi- dimensional, and each according to its own context. There are those that are based on...
High Growth Rate Of GDP In 2022-23 Hides Many Concerns Over Its Nature
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s growth rate for 2022-23 exceeded expectations. It has now been estimated upward to 7.2 per cent from 7 per cent as per second advance estimate released in February. The magic was the result of a stronger-than-expected fourth quarter growth when GDP rose to 6.1...
BJP Leadership At State, Centre Have Been Stoking Manipur Fire
By Arun Srivastava It needs fairly high amount of moral strength and conviction to look straight into the eyes of the rulers of the country and expose their lies and falsehood in the public domain. Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Sunday last had said that nearly 40...
Centre and The Ruling Party Have Lost All Propriety By Defending The Accused BJP MP
By Sushil Kutty A farmer – ‘Bharat ka kisan’ – prevented the hard won gold, silver and bronze medals of the protesting wrestlers from immersion in the polluted waters of the Holy Ganga at Haridwar. This, after the wrestlers refused to take lying down any further the Centre’s intransigence....
Brazil President Lula Pushes For Integration At South American Summit
By Satyaki Chakraborty The move for the integration of the economies of South American nations has got a big boost after the conclave of twelve countries of the region at Brasilia on May 30. Brazil’s president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva inaugurated the conference which signalled the arrival of...
The Bloody History Behind The British Possession Of The Koh-i-Noor
By Girish Linganna The Koh-i-Noor and Cullinan diamonds went on display at an exhibition at the Tower of London on Friday (May 26, 2023) as representations of victory and a ‘symbol of conquest’. The Koh-i-Noor has been displayed as a tourist attraction and is backed by a video which...
US Govt Putting Pressure On India To Join NATO+ As A Part Of Asia-Pacific Strategy
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi’s yearning to be acknowledged as the world leader (Vishwa Guru) has landed India in a unpleasant quagmire endangering its identity and credibility built over the years amongst the global fraternity. The longing was so acute that he even ignored the conventional wisdom to realise...
Political Outcome From Communal Cauldron May Not Favour BJP
By Dr. Gyan Pathak BJP has broken its legs in Karnataka assembly polls when it fell into the pitfalls of majority politics. The party, including the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left no stone unturned to polarize Hindu majority votes in their favour, but miserably failed. BJP’s loss, if translated...
No Real Truce Is Ready At Ending Gehlot-Pilot Infighting In Rajasthan Congress
By Sushil Kutty The latest Sachin Pilot-Ashok Gehlot patch-up will last till June 8 when disqualified Congress Member of Parliament Rahul Gandhi returns from his trip to the United States where the Congress scion will be raising yet another front against Prime Minister Narendra Modi like he had from...
Slowdown In Containerized Exports Poses Setback To Pro-Export Agenda
By K Raveendran There is a marked slowdown in the containerized exports from India, attributed mainly to a decline in consumer demand for Indian goods in the US, EU and the UK markets, according to data from Container xChange, a leading online platform for container logistics. This trend has...
Sons Of First Joint Climbers Of Mount Everest Are Carrying The Legacy Of Their Fathers
By Harihar Swarup The first Everest climbers families took their person bond and love for the mountains to a new high on May 29, 1953, seventy years after that great achievement by tensing Norgay and Edmund Hillary who became global icons during that period. Tenzing Norgay’s son Jamling and...
Shiites And Not Jews Emerge As Touchstone Of Saudi Moderation
By James M Dorsey Saudi Arabia has removed anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli references from Islamic studies schoolbooks, according to an Israeli textbook watchdog. The watchdog, the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se), said the deletions were part of a broader textbook revision that also eliminated...
Kerala Govt To Move SC Against Centre’s Cut In Net Borrowings Ceiling
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In a swift move, the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government in Kerala has decided to move the Supreme Court challenging the Union Government’s decision to drastically cut the State’s net borrowing ceiling(NBC) on market borrowings for 2023-24. This was one of the decisions taken at...
G7 Conclave Fails To Meet Commitment For Nuclear Weapons Abolition
By Dr Arun Mitra Much was expected from the recently concluded summit of group of seven countries the G7 which included USA, UK, France, Canada, Italy, Germany and Japan. Since the world is faced with serious threat of use of nuclear weapons during the on-going Russia Ukraine war, there...
Defection Of Lone Congress MLA In Bengal To TMC Angers Alliance Partner CPI(M)
By Tirthankar Mitra Congress-Left Front alliance in West Bengal received an unexpected jolt following the defection of Sagardighi MLA Bairon Biswas to ruling Trinamool Congress. The shake-up coming days before an Opposition meet against BJP in Patna has put the alliance forged in the summer of 2016 under a...
NITI Aayog Has Failed To Play Any Effective Role In Planning For Indian Economy
By Kalyani Shankar One of the first things Prime Minister Narendra Modi did soon after assuming office nine years ago was dismantling the Planning Commission with a legacy of 65 years and set up the Niti Aayog in January 2015. Even as the chief minister of Gujarat earlier, Modi...
