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.Sign Of Easing Of Global Recessionary Trend Is Good For India
By Anjan Roy A Christmas celebration has started at least on the global stock markets. The financial markets are showing a surprising buoyancy and climbing new heights. Indian stock markets jumped up. The representative BSE index rose by close to 1000 points and touched its historic record high of...
Congress Is Congress, It Never Changes – Ashok Gehlot Proves It Once Again
By Sushil Kutty Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has a lot of explaining to do after his “explosive” interview in which he called arch rival Sachin Pilot “traitor” six times and would have made it a dozen if the interviewer hadn’t cut short the interview. “What’s happened to you...
Anti-BJP Politicians Are Merely Hounded By Modi Government
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Face is the index of the status of health of a person, and the capital of a nation is the index of a country’s state of affairs. Delhi, the national capital of India, also gives ample opportunity to see how the anti-BJP AAP leaders ruling...
BSP Worried After Congress Puts Kharge On Top, Khabri In Uttar Pradesh
By Rahil Nora Chopra The BSP’s strategy for 2024 general elections is trying hard to regain its lost base among Dalits and Muslims. After BSP registering its worst Uttar Pradesh assembly elections defeat in terms of seats, winning only one seat in the 403-member House, and garnering just 12.8%...
Supreme Court Has Responsibility In Ensuring An Impartial Election Commission
By Arun Srivastava With the Supreme Court questioning the Centre about resorting to unnecessary “haste” and “tearing hurry” in appointing Arun Goel as Election Commissioner, the saffron Think Tank and academician supporters of the Narendra Modi Government have turned belligerent and have indiscreetly alleged that it was trying to...
PM Crop Insurance Mostly Benefits Private Firms
By Dr. Soma Marla Not a single day passes without media reporting suicides committed by farmers in rural India. Crop failure due to drought, untimely and excessive rains and other weather calamities along with the acute deprivation and unpaid debts are some of the major causes forcing farmers to...
Foreign Diplomats Want Proper General Elections In Bangladesh In 2023
By Ashis Biswas Even a spell of sustained economic growth in recent years has not helped Bangladesh in resolving its problematic image-related issues effectively in the larger international arena. One indication of this according to observers, can be found in the gratuitous advice occasionally showered upon Dhaka by serving...
Domestic And Sexual Violence Against Women Has Reached New Peak In India
By Prakash Karat The United Nations’ call to observe November 25 as an International Day for “Elimination of Violence against Women” has got wide media coverage after the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, presented a chilling fact sheet that across the world every 11 minutes a woman or a...
Assam Chief Minister’s Anti-Rahul Tirade Has Reached Its Lowest Ebb
By Sushil Kutty The good news is, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has gone so ’low’ that from hereon he can only go ‘high’. Sarma comparing Rahul Gandhi to Saddam Hussein is straight out of the book of the absurd. For one, Saddam was married with sons. Two,...
No Combination Is Expected To Get Majority In The National Elections In Nepal
By Sankar Ray Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Center) and its chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal a k a Prachanda have been pushed to the fourth position in the election to the Pratinidhi Sabha (national parliament) and Pradesh Sabhas (provincial legislatures) of Nepal held on November 20., It is even...
Savarkar Sided With The British Authorities During Freedom Movement
By Krishna Jha That Savarkar had appealed to the British colonialists several times to get released and spared after he was sent for life transportation has been proved true through all the Maafinamas that are now in public domain, but that was not all. In these letters, he had...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Facing Her Biggest Challenge On Economic Front
By Ashis Biswas In Bangladesh the ruling Awami League (AL), battered by extremely difficult economic challenges in the present post Covid pandemic/Ukraine war period, faces an existential challenge as it braces up for general elections in 2024. With each passing day, the anti-Government rhetoric used by main opposition outfit...
Rishi Sunak Is Under Attack By Tory Elites For New Approach To EU
By Arun Srivastava Ever since Rishi Sunak became the Britain’s new prime minister, a section of the super elite Britishers and Tory leaders owing allegiance to Boris Johnson, have been desperately trying to project Sunak as a failed leader. They were planning to wreck his image of being an...
A Pan-Indian Law Against ‘Forced’ Conversions Should Respect Right To Privacy
By Mihir Nigam Religious conversion is a topic that has remained central to the country’s politics. It also gained significant attention in many recent intellectual debates and discussions on freedom of religion. Article 25 of the Constitution grants “freedom of conscience and free profession, practice, and propagation of religion”...
Republican Establishment Wants To Ditch Trump But They Are Stuck
By Luke Savage Whatever their disappointment about this month’s lackluster midterm results might be, the United States’ conservative establishment has clearly sensed an opportunity. Over the past two weeks, a swelling cavalcade of right-wing pundits, talking heads, and elected officials have sought to distance themselves from Donald Trump and...
10-Year Tenure For Public Sector Bank Leadership Is Out Of Sync With New Banking
By K Raveendran From frying pan into the fire. This is exactly the case about the tenure of the managing directors and CEOs of public sector banks (PSBs). The perennial complaint about leadership tenure in PSBs was that frequent changes at the top led to instability and lack of...
Trinamool Congress Makes Big Forays In Meghalaya Before Assembly Polls
By Ashis Biswas In Meghalaya, led by MP Abhishek Banerjee, the state unit of the Trinamool Congress (TMC)has surprised hill voters by launching a massive pre-poll campaign a few days ago. In a state where most other parties including the ruling National Peoples’ Party, Congress and the BJP have...
Rooting Out The Malaise That Turns Lower Judiciary Dysfunctional
By Arun Srivastava There is a famous adage; wife of a weak villager is the sister in law (Bhabhi) of entire village. The condition of the district judiciary is more or less the same. Every individual enjoying the patronage of the political system or basking in the glory of...
