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.BJP Is Using The Electoral Bonds Scheme To Cripple The Opposition
By Nitya Chakraborty Latest reports that the BJP leadership has offered a few legislators of the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti a total of Rs. 1,00 crore has created furore in the state capital Hyderabad and as usual the BJP leaders have denied this. But, this type of move...
Handing Over Tata-Airbus Project To Gujarat Is The Height Of Partiality
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi has handed the prestigious and precious C-295 Tata-Airbus project to Gujarat, his home state which will go to polls any time before the year is out, but the election date for which hasn’t been announced yet! Could it be that the...
Tory Party And Its Backers Favour Unbridled Capitalist Practices
By Prabhat Patnaik The most intriguing question with regard to Liz Truss’ resignation as the prime minister of Britain after a mere 44 days in office is this: what is it about her economic programme that the “market” (read “finance capital”) found unpalatable? At its core after all...
Tharoor Absent In Kharge’s High-Level Steering Committee
By Rahil Nora Chopra With Mallikarjun Kharge taking over as the new president of the Indian National Congress, a steering committee with 47 members — including Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi, AK Antony, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, KC Venugopal, Salman Khurshid and Jairam Ramesh — has been constituted...
No Sign Of Early Peace In Myanmar As Junta Intensifies Its Attacks
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav In a meeting of foreign ministers of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries on Thursday, ways to reduce conflict in Myanmar were discussed. The regional block that comprises 10 member countries including Myanmar held its meeting without Myanmar, which has been barred...
24th Party Congress Of CPI Has Charted A New Path To Fight RSS-BJP Agenda
By Binoy Viswam The 24th Congress of the Communist Party of India will be marked as the Congress of confidence and rejuvenated spirit. The Party Congress held in the historic city of Vijayawada gave new impetus to the Party to march forward. Each moment of the Congress from October...
Kerala Governor Arif Md. Khan Is Flouting All Norms On Centre-State Relations
By Prakash Karat Kerala is witnessing the spectacle of a governor who is out of control. One day he is demanding the resignation of all the vice chancellors of Kerala universities and on another day he “withdraws pleasure” from a minister in the government and asks the chief minister...
Raging Debate On ‘Muslim Prime Minister’ In India Is Uncalled For
By Sushil Kutty Congress leader Shashi Tharoor started the whole shebang. And he couldn’t have been more specious. “Shouldn’t India have a Muslim Prime Minister now that Britain has a Hindu Prime Minister?” Problem is Tharoor gets away with the contentious just because he throws worthless words like “floccinaucinihilipilification”...
Garbage Mountains In Delhi Now A Major Political Battle
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Chief Minister of Delhi and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal accused the BJP on Wednesday of building three garbage mountains in 15 years and filling the national capital with waste, and then visited the largest site at Ghazipur today, that became a scene with BJP workers...
Left Wing Luiz Lula All Set To Be Next Brazilian President After October 30 Poll
By Satyaki Chakraborty Brazil’s Presidential frontrunner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, better known as Lula is set to win in the crucial elections on October 30. Just seventy-two hours before the elections, the opinion polls give Lula a handsome margin of six to seven percent as against the incumbent...
Assam Govt Sealing The Just Inaugurated Miya Museum Is A Case Of Vendetta
By Ashis Biswas With the Assam Government sealing the newly opened museum devoted to ‘Miya culture’ within hours of its opening in Goalpara district, clearly the targeted marginalisation of Bengali speaking Muslim settlers is set to intensify further. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma personally spearheads the offensive, describing...
Bengal BJP Is Desperate In Getting Out Of Present Mess Before Panchayat Polls
By Tirthankar Mitra Inclusion of yesteryear Bollywood super star, Mithun Chakraborty in BJP’s core committee for West Bengal appears to be a political gamble by saffron camp leaders to stop Trinamool Congress juggernaut in the panchayat polls next year. In the backdrop of a faction riven party structure which...
Legal Position On Moonlighting In Indian Workplaces Is Unclear
By G. S. Bajpai and Neha Kapur Since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, which shook the world, changes in employment patterns have become apparent. Flourishing sectors with dynamic work environments suffered jerks and trembled with fewer jobs, high prices and minimal demand. In the wake of the...
Time For Modi Govt To Shift More To Russian Oil And Contain Inflation
By Subrata Majumder, Oil is the second biggest energy for India. It accounts for 29 percent of total energy in the country. Although coal is the biggest energy, oil is more sensitive to inflation as it impacts directly on the common people. Nearly 65 percent of oil is used...
Déjà Vu Over Nirmala Sitharaman’s Rupee’s Weakness Against Dollar
By K Raveendran We haven’t had any ‘pearls of wisdom’ from finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman for quite some time. But her latest one on rupee that the Indian currency’s problems are basically because the dollar is strengthening rather than the rupee weakening makes up for the longer than normal...
Mallikarjun Kharge Has To Focus All His Energy On Winning Assembly Polls
By Sushil Kutty To think that the Congress-led UPA was ruling India till just eight years ago is unbelievable. Looks like eight years were a lifetime for the Congress. An exodus of sorts has emptied the Congress of known faces. Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi had to reestablish the...
AAP Resorting To Competitive Hindutva Against BJP Is Ominous
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal has increasingly been becoming blind to the communal politics in India since 2014 when he could see the evils of both corruption and communalism, but now he does not see any of those quagmires. Many AAP leaders are...
Besides Indian Origin, Rishi Sunak Is Also A Big Player In Crypto Market
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav A former hedge fund manager, Rishi Sunak is a big crypto bull. He wants the UK to become the crypto hub of the world. He is of Indian origin and most Indians are happy at Sunak becoming the Prime Minister of a country that ruled...
