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.Remembering The Human Rights Activist Father Stan Swamy On His Second Death Anniversary
By Sarah Thanawala July 5, 2023 marks the second death anniversary of Jesuit priest and Adivasi rights activist Father Stan Swamy, one of the 16 persons accused in the Bhima Koregaon–Elgar Parishad Maoist links and criminal conspiracy case. On July 5, 2021, Swamy died in judicial custody, after being...
Another Setback To Saudi Bid For 2030 World Cup As Tricontinental Event
By James M Dorsey For the second time in a month, Saudi Arabia has discovered that money buys a lot but not everything. First, there was Argentinian soccer superstar Lionel Messi, who, contrary to Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, and several others, turned down a mouthwatering Saudi offer to go...
United Nations Bodies Come Out Strongly Against US Economic Blockade Of Cuba
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Nothing on the horizon now threatens the end of the U.S. economic blockade of Cuba. Critical voices inside the United States and beyond fall flat; nothing is in the works, it seems. Recently, however, the United Nations put forth a denunciation that carries unusual...
82 Year Old Sharad Pawar Faces The Toughest Battle In Retaining NCP Under His Fold
By Sushil Kutty How should Sharad Pawar be addressed, what is his status in India’s political spectrum, is he still Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Chief and patriarch of the combined Opposition? The NCP founder has promised to restore the mangled NCP to its pre-split glory in three months flat....
Indian Economy Is Showing Buoyancy Getting Confidence Of Foreign Investors
By Anjan Roy Global confidence in the India growth story is getting vindicated, as foreign portfolio investors (FPI) put their faith the Indian market by placing their money here into Indian stocks. As a result, the Indian equity market is rising to unprecedented levels. The Bombay Stock Exchange index,...
Modi-Shah Trying To Break The Morale Of RJD Rank And File
By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi is resorting to petty vengeance against Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar as well as Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Yadav and his son, Bihar deputy chief minister, Tejashwi Yadav, amply proving that the man lacks the imagination to tackle...
On Doctors Day, The Society Has To Resolve For Universal Healthcare
By Dr Arun Mitra Doctors Day on July 1 has always been a happy day for the doctors when they get messages of good wishes from their family members, nears and dears and patients who have been successfully cured. This day is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Bidhan...
BJP’s Support Base In Bengal Before Panchayat Polls Is Shrinking
By Tirthankar Mitra Come elections, hurling allegations and canards baseless or otherwise at political opponents is standard poll tactics. One of the principal leaders of BJP campaign in West Bengal rural polls, Subhendu Adhikari calling upon Left and Congress voters to support the saffron camp nominees as their leaders...
India’s Missile Power Has Vastly Improved But Still Lags Behind China
By Girish Linganna Regional security dynamics are profoundly affected by a country’s missile capabilities. It is crucial to evaluate India and China’s missile potentialities because they are two major world powers. Both countries possess all classes of ballistic missiles, anti-satellite capability and anti-ballistic missile defence. India has developed a...
Decoding Great Novelist H G Wells’s Views On Science And Socialism
By Joshua Fagan The continuing fame enjoyed by H. G. Wells owes itself largely to his two most famous novels, The Time Machine (1895) and The War of the Worlds (1898). Imaginative and daring, these books infuse the reader with a combination of hope and realism: hope for the...
France’s Left Has Finally Woken Up To Racist Police Violence At Nanterre
By Mathieu Dejean and Christophe Gueugneau Still out of breath after the marche blanche in Nanterre — a solemn procession in tribute to Nahel, the seventeen-year-old shot dead by French police in this suburb west of Paris on Tuesday — La France Insoumise (LFI) MP for Seine-Saint-Denis Éric Coquerel...
Prime Minister Seems Determined To Get UCC Bill Passed In Parliament Before 2024 Polls
By Kalyani Shankar Is Prime Minister Narendra Modi trying to complete all the three core agenda of the Sangh Parivar? He had overseen the other two issues in the past nine years of his regime- building the Ram Temple in Ayodhya and revoking Article 370. Implementing a uniform civil...
Electronics, Defence Production Will Strongly Push India’s Economic Growth
By Nantoo Banerjee Electronics and defence production are expected to strongly accelerate the country’s economic growth engine in the coming years. Global manufacturers now find India as the most happening place as China used to be in the beginning of the current century. From just two small mobile phone...
Sharad Pawar Emerging As Potential Threat Has Unnerved Modi-Led BJP
By Arun Srivastava Ajit Pawar, nephew of Sharad Pawar, joining the bandwagon of Prime Minister Narendra Modi — just after five days of his being described publicly as the most corrupt politician of Maharashtra, by none else but by Modi, at a public rally in Bhopal on June 27...
BJP Has An Uphill Task In Strengthening NDA In Uttar Pradesh
By Dr. Gyan Pathak In the light of ongoing efforts of opposition unity in the country, a sense of urgency has developed in the top BJP leadership to strengthen the NDA across the country in general and Uttar Pradesh in particular, since the state sent largest number of BJP...
Maharashtra May Witness Many More Political Dramas Before 2024 Polls
By Sushil Kutty What happened to Balasaheb Thackeray’s Shiv Sena has happened to Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party. A desperate Bharatiya Janata Party has taken to decimating opposition parties to thwart Opposition unity, plainly using Modi’s “guarantee to jail corrupt politicians” to engineer and split opposition parties for guaranteeing...
BJP High Command Giving Special Stress On Mahakaushal Region In Its Campaign
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Entire central leadership of BJP including Prime Minister Narendra Modi is paying special attention to Madhya Pradesh. In the span of one month Narendra Modi has visited Madhya Pradesh twice. One of the visits included tribal areas of the state. It may be mentioned...
BJP Working Hard To Retain Present Lok Sabha Seats In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP leadership is making preparations to achieve target to win all the 80 seats in Lok Sabha polls next year following alarming reports from the ground. BJP leadership has kept at least 20 seats including 18 where party candidates were defeated in 2019 polls on...
