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.G20 Presidency For India Caught Between Pride And Humiliation
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his pride and magnanimous words when the country took the responsibility of G20 in the beginning of December 2022, and now UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said with great poignancy to turn “words into action” to get the world...
Congress Is The Weakest Link In Left-Led Opposition Alliance In Tripura Polls
By Ashis Biswas In Tripura, with only 48 hours before the scheduled Assembly polls on February 16, the state Congress unit has been left to fend for itself by the party high command in carrying out its pre poll campaign. Despite earlier assurances by local Congress leaders, neither Mr...
Demolition Politics By Centre At Tughlakabad And Mehrauli Sends Ominous Signal
By Gursimran Kaur Bakshi As south Delhi’s Mehrauli Archaeological Park gets a makeover ahead of the G-20 Summit in Delhi in September, a massive anti-encroachment drive by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) took place in the Ladha Sarai village of Mehrauli on February 10. The demolition drive was carried...
U.S. Economic Sanctions Aggravate Earthquake Response In Syria
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Suffering in Syria and Turkey caused by a strong earthquake on Feb. 6 has elicited an immense worldwide humanitarian response. The toll as of press time for this article was 36,000 people dead, with the number of recorded deaths steadily rising as rubble from...
Debt-Heavy Adani Group May Take Time To Overcome That Sinking Feeling
By Nantoo Banerjee With government banks and financial institutions involved in massive funding in the lately stock-crashed Adani group enterprises, legislators from India’s main opposition parties are understandably concerned. Last week, even the Supreme court sought to know from the government and market regulator the steps needed to improve...
MGNREGA Budget Cut Is Being Protested Across India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Ever since the Union Budget 2023-24 was tabled in the Parliament of India, MGNREGA workers across the country has been protesting against substantial budget cut for the second year reducing the earlier employment guarantee making the rural workforce restive. The reduction in budget allocation would...
CPI(ML) Liberation Calls For Broadest Unity Of Democratic Forces To Fight RSS-BJP
By Arun Srivastava With India facing a diabolical threat from the rightwing RSS and BJP, the immediate and most urgent task for the revolutionary communists is to save the country from this flurry of fascist disaster and destruction and to accomplish this it is imperative that all democratic forces...
BJP Leadership Desperate To Retain Power In Tripura Again At All Costs
By Ashis Biswas Pre-poll campaigning has reached its peak in Tripura, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi visiting twice during the last three days for addressing election meetings in the state and the Home Minister Amit Shah holding road shows and meetings on February 6 and 7 and again on...
BJP President JP Nadda’s Bengal Visit Before Panchayat Polls Is A Big Flop
By Tirthankar Mitra Beset by defection and dissension, West Bengal unit of BJP seems to be like a part of retreating army trudging along wearily. Recent tour of party president JP Nadda to the state aimed to be a pep up pill before the yet to be announced panchayat...
Nachiketa Desai’s Death Is A Big Loss To Fearless Journalist Community
By Sagari Chhabra Nachiketa Desai a journalist passed away on in Ahmedabad on Sunday, 5th February after a fall at his house. Why should a journalist’s death, make news when the entire profession has been dealt a dying blow by massive lay-offs, corporate takeover, dissolution of the Working Journalists’...
Like Bolivia, Peru Can Overturn The Coup By Mass Demonstrations
By Ken Livingstone As the mass mobilisations for the return of democracy in Peru intensify, the illegitimate government of President Dina Boluarte this week declared a state of emergency in seven regions where the largest anti-government protests are taking place. The coup-government clampdown now exists in 11 of Peru’s...
Opposition Parties Have To Force The Prime Minister To Agree To JPC Into Adani Affairs
By Sushil Kutty Is Adani-Modi and the so-called Hindenburg revelations that brought the alleged murky ties between a prime minister and a stinking rich moneybag an issue in the Tripura assembly elections, the first of nine state assembly elections scheduled for 2023? The answer is, there is so far...
Using The Cow As A Political Tool In Indian Society Is A Dangerous Trend
By Dr Arun Mitra The cow is in picture again, this time with the approval of competent authority and on the direction of the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairy. With emphasis on aiming to celebrate the ‘Vedic tradition’ and the immense...
Shorting Being Made Scapegoat For Adani Group’s Woes Due To Malpractices
By K Raveendran In a desperate bid to defend Adani, an orchestrated attempt is being made to present shorting as something undesirable and even abominable. Adani himself has tried to pretend that the action by US investment firm Hindenburg in exposing the irregularities in his group’s accounting practices as...
Labour Market Remains Volatile With Fall In LPR
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s labour market remains volatile. The month of January 2023 witnessed a large number of unemployed moving out from the labour market after they got frustrated after months of searching jobs. This act of the unemployed excluded their count as unemployed resulting in fall in...
Bringing Two Ancient Shalagram Silas From Nepal For Use In Ram Mandir Has Great Significance
By Harihar Swarup Recently, two large boulders, believed to be 60 million years old, were dispatched to Ayodhya. These stones were found along the Gandaki river at a site in Muktinath valley in Nepal. The region is thought to be part of erstwhile kingdom of Mithila, ruled by Ram’s...
Indian Market Has Been Drawing Big Attention Of Global Tourism Industry
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Indian tourism market is slowly but surely taking the centre stage. With Ganga Vilas, India is setting the stage for high-budget tourism products. That could bring a paradigm shift in the way the Indian tourism market is looked at. A four-day meeting of the G20...
For Common Republican Party Supporters, Donald Trump Is The Preferred Candidate
By Luke Savage This week, a poll conducted by Morning Consult about the 2024 Republican presidential field put Donald Trump at nearly 50 percent support with likely GOP primary voters, ahead of presumed rival Ron DeSantis by double digits. Former vice president Mike Pence sits at a meager 7...
