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.Indian Public Sector Banks Have Used Pandemic To Improve Balance Sheets
By K R Sudhaman India’s former chief economic adviser Arvind Subramaniam had flagged in his economic survey some years ago that India faced a major economic issue – twin balance sheet problem wherein Indian banks suffered huge debts as corporates, which had overleveraged banks were suffering huge losses resulting...
Hungary Exit At Doha No Deterrent For PM To Promote Civilizationalist Agenda
By James M Dorsey Hungary didn’t qualify for the Qatar World Cup, but that hasn’t stopped Prime Minister Victor Orban from exploiting the world’s current focus on soccer to signal his Putinesque definition of central European borders as defined by civilization and ethnicity rather than internationally recognized frontiers. Orban...
The Road To American Socialism Runs Through California
By Dave Kempa As California’s midterm election results are finalized, it’s clear that the Left has pulled together an impressive string of wins over the Democratic Party establishment. San Franciscans passed numerous housing-related ballot measures championed by Supervisor Dean Preston, who is a member of Democratic Socialists of America...
Future Of AAP And Kejriwal At Stake More Than BJP In Delhi Poll
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As the election campaign ends on December 2, the high-profile Municipal Corporation of Delhi election remains by and large bipolar, Congress too cannot be discounted in the fray since several of its candidates have gained upper hand in triangular fight in many wards. For Congress...
Indian Economy Has Resilience Despite Global Recessionary Trends
By Anjan Roy The latest set of figures on the fortunes of the India’s aggregate income, the gross domestic product or better known GDP, shows the Indian economy resilient and on course, despite some weaknesses. The latest GDP figures demonstrate the continuing successes, as well as failures of the...
India’s Pilot E-Rupee For Retail Has Big Prospects In The Coming Years
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) launched the central bank digital currency (CBDC), nicknamed e-rupee or digital rupee, for the retail segment on December 1. It released Rs 1.71 crore in e-rupee format to four participating banks to roll out its use. As of now...
Prime Minister’s 50 Km Motorcade Show In Gujarat Campaign Is A Big Boost
By Sushil Kutty The uncharitable will say Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s convoy should have given way to the ambulance much earlier, not wait for a turn in the road, and that the ambulance, on a medical emergency, must have been held up on the straight behind Modi’s poll-festooned saffron-garlanded...
Building A Welfare State Requires A Huge Increase In Fiscal Efforts
By Prabhat Patnaik The post-second world war period had seen a spate of welfare state measures in the advanced capitalist countries, especially in Europe, in emulation of what the Soviet Union was effecting. Capitalism had to accept these measures, notwithstanding its hostility to them, because it was in the...
New Data Protection Bill Will Be A Boon To Indian Big Business
By Prabir Purkayastha The new avatar of the Indian Data Protection Bill 2022 is not simply the rebirth of the earlier 2019 one. The objective of the earlier Data Protection Bill 2019 was to give a legal framework for the Supreme Court’s Puttuswamy judgement of privacy as a fundamental...
Digitalisation In Agriculture Is Going To Adversely Affect Small Farmers
By Ravula Venkaiah The Narendra Modi government has recently signed an MoU and released recently to introduce a policy called digitalisation in the agriculture sector. What are the benefits of it? What are the losses? Discussions are going on. Recently a discussion forum was held in Delhi under the...
Gehlot, Pilot Band Together For Rajasthan Leg Of Bharat Jodo Yatra
By Rahil Nora Chopra The game of check and mate has started in Congress, with speculations abound, rife and the assembly polls due next year in Rajasthan, looming large. The AICC has had to step in to manage and control the party’s image, which is once again in tatters...
December 6 Is Again A Reminder Of The Damage To Indian Ethos By Sangh Parivar
By Krishna Jha The 30th anniversary of Babri Masjid demolition is December 6. The wound is still livid. Razing down of Babri Masjid was a major step towards destroying our composite culture. It was also a part of the Ayodhya strategy of Hindutva forces that awaits its completion. To...
BJP’s Campaign For Gujarat Polls Has Turned Vicious And Toxic
By Prakash Karat The BJP campaign for the Gujarat assembly election gives an insight as to how Gujarat became the laboratory for the Hindutva forces and how the corporate-communal axis was forged that became known later as the Gujarat model. Some of Amit Shah’s assertions in his election speeches...
Take Over Of NDTV Channel By Adanis Is A Sad Day For Liberal Secular Camp
By Sushil Kutty Too much has been spoken and written about how the Adani Group juggled shares and equity, whatever they might mean to the common layman, to snatch ownership of NDTV and run away with it such that it became the hottest story among a bevy. ‘O! No.’...
India’s GDP Growth Has Slowed Down But Overall, The Trends Are Positive
By K R Sudhaman India’s economic growth might have dipped to 6.3 per cent in July-September quarter of this financial year but the good news is the slide is not going to be as pronounced in the whole year. The year 2022-23 may still end up with GDP growth...
Serious Implications Of Mainpuri Lok Sabha Polls For Akhilesh Yadav
By Pradeep Kapoor Aware of the serious implications on his political future of the results of Mainpuri by-polls for Lok Sabha, Akhilesh Yadav has mobilised the support of his family and party leaders to retain the seat won by his father Mulayam Singh Yadav who recently passed away. Samajwadi...
One In Every Three Persons Lives In Digital Darkness
By Dr. Gyan Pathak “Future will be digital. But the future of digital must be human-centred,” said the UN Secretary general Antonio Guterres in a video message on the occasion of the 17th Internet Governance Forum (IGF), that begun on November 28 in Addis Ababa and will concluded on...
Fissures Threaten To Widen Into Big Cracks For West Bengal BJP
By Tirthankar Mitra Fissures threaten to widen into cracks in West Bengal BJP as leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari is trying to justify an invitation to tea with chief minister, Mamata Banerjee. Implosions are being reported in the saffron camp of the state, after the leader of the...
