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.Increased Minimum Wages For MGNREGA Workers Is Insufficient
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Centre has finally notified an increase in minimum wages of MGNREGA workers in the country, but it is too little to offset the reduced real time wages of the rural workforce on account of the high level of retail inflation that stood at 6.44...
The Debate Over CBDC Vs Financial Privacy Rages On In US And Nigeria
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The use of digital currencies has been a topic of discussion for some time now, with both supporters and opponents presenting their views on the matter. Recently, US Senator Ted Cruz, a member of the Republican Party representing the state of Texas, introduced a bill...
Present Revolt In Iran Is Rallying Its Diverse Working Class In The Struggle
By Niloufar Nematollahi Protesting crowds, clapping and chanting azadi, azadi, azadi, surround a police car, pushing it until the vehicle tips over. A girl with a covered face, her hair in a tight ponytail, climbs on the car and holds up a black scarf she has set alight. Amid...
Rahul Disqualification Puts India In Unenviable League Of Nations
By K Raveendran Incumbent ruling dispensations disfranchising former rulers and banning them for life from contesting elections is something that one often associates with countries with fragile democracies. Indians are used to news about politicians losing their seats in parliament and being debarred from contesting elections on account of...
Congress Has The Massive Task Now To Organise Stay On Rahul’s Conviction
By Harihar Swarup If not people, BJP will make Rahul Gandhi a leader by persecuting him. History has shown whenever a leader is persecuted as Rahul Gandhi is being done, he gets people’s sympathy. Wayanad MP Rahul has lost his Lok Sabha seat after being convicted of a criminal...
Passing Of 2023-24 Budget In Lok Sabha Without Debate Was A Subversion
By Anjan Roy Overshadowed by the news of Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from parliament, March 24 witnessed another unique parliamentary episode. For the first time in 75 years history of independent India, the general budget was passed without a debate on the provisions of the budget. It has bypassed all...
Congress Has To Mobilise Its Legal Brains To Organise Stay On Rahul’s Conviction
By Sushil Kutty The day after, and the day before’s anger hadn’t ebbed. Everybody had something to comment about Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification. And none of them had full knowledge of the law that resulted in Rahul Gandhi‘s disqualification. American politicians, like Ro Khanna, who tweeted his anger,...
Centre’s Claim Of Improvement In Job Market Is Misleading
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Union Ministry of Finance in its Monthly Economic Review of February 2023 has not only defended again the highly debatable criterion of ‘one hour per week’ engagement of a workers in an economic activity being classified as employed by the Periodic Labour Force Survey...
Indian Economy Is Still In A Position To Insulate Itself From Global Turmoil
By Anjan Roy Now that the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and Bank of England have all raised their policy interest rates to fight inflation, there might be further flutters in the financial sector and several other banks might be nervous about the future. However, the central bankers have...
Arab Plan For Syria Puts Europe And America In A Bind
By James M Dorsey A push by Arab allies of the United States to bring Syria in from the cold highlights the limits of a Chinese-mediated rapprochement between the Middle East’s archrivals, Saudi Arabia and Iran. The effort spearheaded by the United Arab Emirates, and supported by Saudi Arabia,...
Opposition Petition To Supreme Court Forms The Core Of Political Campaigning Against BJP
By Nitya Chakraborty The petition moved jointly by 14 leading opposition parties to the Supreme Court seeking its intervention in the ‘misuse’ of central investigation agencies by the Narendra Modi government against the leaders of the non-BJP parties, has big political significance in the present phase of political turmoil...
Rahul Gandhi’s Politico-Legal Battle Against Lok Sabha Disqualification Begins
By Sushil Kutty Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is no longer a Member of Parliament. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla took the decision to disqualify the Gandhi Family scion following his conviction in a case of criminal defamation, with two-year jail sentence. Less than two years of jail and he...
Fight For A Prosperous Secular India Is The Best Tribute To Shaheed Bhagat Singh
By D. Raja “The proletariat will win. Capitalism will be defeated. Death to Imperialism!” Read Shaheed Bhagat Singh, wearing a red scarf, from a telegram message that was to be sent to the Third International on the occasion of Lenin’s death anniversary in 1930.This gesture made by Bhagat Singh...
A Gross Misunderstanding Of Language Led To Rahul’s Conviction
By Dr. Gyan Pathak What is ‘understanding’ an utterance and what is ‘misunderstanding’? The answer is obvious – if someone understands exactly the same as to what was uttered is ‘understanding’ and if someone derives any other meaning is ‘misunderstanding’. Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s conviction for two years of...
BJP Intensifies Its Efforts To Maintain Dominance In Bihar And Uttar Pradesh
By Arun Srivastava Barely thirteen months before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, which together contribute 120 seats out of the total of 543 seats in the Lok Sabha, the political campaigning and organizational activities are most manifest in the BJP camp while the Bihar Mahagathbandhan ...
Collapse Of US Banks Is Reflective Of Systemic Contradiction Of Capitalism
By Prabhat Patnaik There is nothing mysterious about the reasons for the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank and the Signature Bank in the United States. There is also nothing mysterious about why the entire banking system of the capitalist world has come under a cloud: once some part...
Mamata, Akhilesh Push For A Third Front; Court Patnaik, Kejriwal
By Rahil Nora Chopra The political buzz around the formation of a regional front has been gaining ground, especially after the much anticipated meeting of the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee with the Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, in which both of them discussed about exploring the possibility...
15th National Conference Of IPTA Calls For Protecting Composite Culture
By C. Adhikesavan The grand old organization of Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA) concluded its three- day 15th national conference successfully in Daltonganj in Jharkhand deciding to preserve communal harmony, unity in diversity and peace throughout the country. The conference also highlighted that it is the need of the...
