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.Two American Banks’ Collapse Underline Of US Financial System
By Krishna Jha The world was shocked as the news came that two top American banks — both Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank —collapsed in a series. So far, the explanation has been that it was only traditional bank runs. It was also added that in an unexpected...
Supreme Court’s ECI Verdict Is Jurisprudentially Unsound
Dr. Harish B. Narasappa Many observers have hailed the Supreme Court’s decision in Anoop Baranwal versus Union of India as a judgement that strengthens the independence of the Election Commission of India (ECI). A Constitution bench of the Supreme Court held that the appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner...
Biden Upsets Greens, Native Alaskans With Willow Oil Project Approval
By Mark Gruenberg During his campaign for the presidency, Joe Biden may have promised “no more drilling on federal lands, period,” but that pledge is now out the window. Belying his reputation as the “green” president, Biden has upset progressive lawmakers, environmentalists, and an Inuit group in Alaska by...
US Right-Wing Is Using East Palestine Disaster To Stoke Racism
By Akil Vicks In the weeks since the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, conservative pundits have managed to turn the conversation to their favourite topic: wokeness. In their view, the lack of media attention and federal emergency response from the Biden administration is proof that American elites...
Blunt Tool Of Interest Rate Hikes: Case For A Relook
By Anjan Roy One swallow does not make a summer, the old proverb goes. But even a single swallow can give some hopes for a return to better times. A softer trend in the wholesale prices, as revealed in the latest figures, had ignited demands for a softer stance...
ChatGPT Response To U.S. Bank Failures Discounts Impact On Indian Banks
By K Raveendran A question to ChatGPT whether a Silicon Valley Bank-type bank failure could happen in India produced a very reassuring answer. While noting that any bank, including SVB type bank, can fail due to various reasons such as mismanagement, fraud, economic turmoil, etc, ChatGPT believes the Reserve...
TMC Govt Under Pressure To Hold Student Union Election
By Tirthankar Mitra The Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal seems to be in a minefield of troubles after sweeping to power in the summer of 2021 for the third time in succession. Now, it is confronted with the demand to hold students union elections, which comes in the...
Is Chinese Economy As Large As It Is Projected To Be?
By K R Sudhaman It is now clear that Chinese data are quite overstated and the Chinese economy now at over $18 trillion as officially announced, is grossly overestimated. Recently reports appeared in some newspapers including popular Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post, to suggest that Chinese growth figures...
Central Agencies Are Handy Tools For Vindictive Modi Government
By Sushil Kutty It ain’t over till the central investigative agencies including the Delhi Police do not stop coming in the way of opposition parties demanding a probe into the enrichment of one man close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at the expense of India and its people, a...
S H Raza Retrospective In Paris: Memories Of Motherland
By Harihar Swarup “I didn’t become a French painter or a European one. I remained an Indian painter through the years. That was always in my heart and I am very glad that I was able to come back here again”. The opening of the late Indian modernist painter...
Islamic Reforms Debates Gather Steam Timing With Onset Of Ramzan
By James M Dorsey Reform of Islamic jurisprudence was the elephant in the room when two prominent Saudi clerics recently clashed publicly on whether apostasy was punishable with death under Islamic law. The debate’s timing on a Saudi state-controlled, artsy entertainment channel, Rotana Khalijiya, suggested as much. The debate...
UK’s Iconic NHS Is Slowly Dying Of Privatization
By Tony O’Sullivan We are living under a deeply cruel, ideologically driven government. Since coming to power in 2010, the Conservative’s austerity program has caused over 330,000 deaths, and the mishandling of the pandemic saw a further two hundred thousand deaths, many of them avoidable. Currently, an estimated five...
Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Reveals Danger Of Wider Financial Crisis
By C.J. Atkins Finance capital seems poised to once more drag the country into a new banking crisis, dredging up the spectre of the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers and the Great Recession that it sparked. Since Friday, the U.S. government has seized control of two banks in an...
Britain’s War On Refugees Is State-Sponsored Fascism
By Claudia Webbe This week, the Tory Party’s horrific anti-migrant Bill is in its second stage in Parliament — and it is truly frightening that such an appalling piece of legislation is progressing at lightning speed, with this second reading, a mere six days after it was introduced. This...
Nagaland’s Opposition-Free Government Must Remain One-Off
By Kalyani Shankar After the recent Assembly results, all parties in the tiny State of Nagaland formed an Opposition- free government to get a share in the power pie. All the parties unconditionally supported the ruling alliance, and all parties were in the Government with no Opposition. It isn’t...
National Capital Heading Towards A Severe Water Crisis
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The National Capital Territory of Delhi is in the first leg of a colossal water crisis, almost a month earlier than the time it had hit last year, thanks to the unprecedented rise in temperatures in the country in February that broke all records kept...
RJD Demands Restricting ‘Vindictive’ ED Operation In Bihar
By Arun Srivastava Already made has been the strong demand on the floor of the Bihar assembly that the Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation should be asked to seek permission from the respective state government before proceeding against anyone in the state, similar to...
Decade-old US-Bangladesh Spat Over Dr. Yunus Warms Up Again
By Ashis Biswas After a tense truce, the war of words between American liberal lobbyists and the Bangladeshi ruling establishment over the Nobel laureate economist Mohammad Yunus has returned in full fury. 50 Dhaka-based thinkers have strongly countered a recent statement issued in a leading American daily in favour...
