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.India’s Merchandise Imports Continue To Grow Big
By Nantoo Banerjee Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s initiative to substantially boost India’s manufacturing industry has impacted little on the country’s growing dependence on merchandise imports and large trade deficits. It is no wonder that the government and its commerce minister say little on the country’s growing annual merchandise imports...
Supreme Court Must Come Out With An Interim Stay On The Sale Of Electoral Bonds
By Nitya Chakraborty The 26th tranche of the electoral bonds is on sale from April 3 and it will continue till April 12. Karnataka assembly elections are scheduled on May 10. The principal beneficiary of the electoral bonds, will be in a position to make full use of the...
AI Triggers Rapid Labour Market And Workplace Transition
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Rapid advances in the development and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have also triggered a rapid labour market and workplace transition. At the labour market level, it is likely to increase productivity and create new jobs, but at the same time it is likely...
Split Among Hindutva Fanatics Bodes Ill For BJP In 2024 Lok Sabha Election
By Sushil Kutty Last weekend a piece in a top newspaper asked “who will challenge Narendra Modi?” implying that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had no alternative other than himself. However, even as the post posed the question, the answer had been out twisting in the wind for months. A...
Unlocking India’s Vast Potential To Be A Leading Player In World’s Space Sector
By Girish Linganna Expansion of the nation’s space industry and the promotion of innovation have been driven by deregulation and incentivization; however, there is still a significant amount of work to be done in order to guarantee the commercial sustainability of creating a worldwide space hub. Recently, a significant...
Congress Leaders Shashi Tharoor And Manish Tiwari Have The Right Perspective On Alliance
By Tirthankar Mitra Dissenting voices in Congress leadership which had once sought a change at top echelons of the party have now been raised seeking a nationwide alliance with regional parties based on ground realities for 2024 Lok Sabha polls. The Congress leadership descending from its high horse is...
Rahul Gandhi’s 18 Years Stay At 12 Tughlak Lane House Witnessed His Roller Coaster Ride
By Harihar Swarup In May 2005, a Griha Puja — a family only affair — was organized at 12, Tughlak Lane. Soon after Rahul Gandhi moved into the house in Lutyens Delhi allotted to him months earlier as a newly member of the Lok Sabha. It was a time...
Congress Failures In Last Four Decades Have Made BJP The Largest Political Party
By Arun Srivastava On April 6, in 1980, the two stalwarts of erstwhile Jana Sangh, Atal Behari Vajpayee and LK Advani established Bharatiya Janata Party with the maxim “the party with a difference” but after 43 years of long journey, the destiny of the party is being shaped yet...
Unemployment Rate Highest In The Last Three Months
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Unemployment rate in India rose in March 2023 to its highest level in the last three months. It rose from 7.14 per cent in January to 7.8 per cent in March. Over 26 lakh people have lost their jobs in the meantime, and many more...
Sharad Pawar May Have A Differing View On Adani Issue As Against Congress
By Sushil Kutty Nationalist Congress Party Chief Sharad Pawar has come to the aid and rescue of Adani Group. He asked the Opposition to stop targeting the Adani Group. This is not what the Congress and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi wanted. For Gandhi, Gautam Adani is in the eye...
The Fallacy Of US Policy To Effect A Withdrawal From Middle East
By James M Dorsey America is in decline. Eclipsed by China’s rise, it is shifting attention from the Middle East to the Indo-Pacific. That is one refrain in the analysis of three seemingly paradigm-challenging developments in the past month: a Chinese-mediated restoration of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and...
Anil Antony Is No Prize Catch For BJP In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) thinks it has made a prize catch by getting the elder son of senior Congress leader A K Antony, Anil Antony to join the party. But the ground reality being what it is, the party will realize sooner than later,...
BJP and Congress Competing On Doles Before Assembly Polls In Madhya Pradesh
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Both BJP and Congress are promising ‘moon’ on the eve of assembly election. In Madhya Pradesh by October/ November this year. BJP has already promised Rs. 1000 per month dole to women. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is going from place to place explaining...
Pre-Draft Of National Curriculum Framework Objectionable On Many Counts
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The pre-draft of the National Curriculum Framework for School Education 2023 prepared by the National Steering Committee for National Curriculum Frameworks and released by the Union Ministry of education is objectionable in several counts including vagueness and contradictions that they contain in themselves. A modern...
The Curious Case Of Shah Rasheed Ahmed Quadri Getting Padma Shri Award
By Sushil Kutty The Congress party says the BJP-led Modi government “tutored” Padma Shri awardee Shah Rasheed Ahmed Quadri of Bidar in Karnataka to praise Prime Minister Narendra Modi in lieu for the Padma Shri, which had been eluding the master Bidri craftsman for years despite investing Rs 12,000...
Now KCR Tries To Forge A National Front To Take On The BJP
By Rahil Nora Chopra The political buzz around the formulation of a National Front is back, with the major difference being that this time the Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao is discussing with like-minded parties and trying to forge a viable alternative to take on the BJP. According...
BJP and RSS Are Concerned With Fake History, Not The Real Facts About Tipu Sultan
By Prabir Purkayastha The British saw the Mysore Kingdom of Tipu Sultan and Hyder Ali as a significant obstacle to the British Empire in India. The British lost the first three Anglo-Mysore wars before defeating Tipu in the fourth war. The British allies were the Nizam of Hyderabad and...
Centre Ignores Kerala Rubber Farmers Woes By Denying Them MSP
By Prabhat Patnaik Rubber prices, which had recovered a little after the fall during the pandemic, have collapsed again, with the farmers in Kerala, which grows 80 per cent of the country’s rubber crop, being badly hit. The central government has flatly refused to help the rubber growers, and...
