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.RSS And VHP Have Globalised The Politics Of Hate And Bigotry
By Arun Srivastava The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Narendra Modi government have globalised the hate politics and divisiveness. The two evils which have been, after Narendra Modi becoming the prime minister, dictating the political discourse in India have made their way to the international arena. This is clearly...
China’s Slow Economic Growth Hitting The Trade Flows Of RCEP Nations
By Subrata Majumder Business tycoon Gautam Adani jeered at China’s global powerhouse, lamenting China was increasingly isolated, owing to protectionism and shift in supply chain. Given these, RCEP (Regional Cooperation of Economic Partnership), which is driven by China, is in tailspin. Nearly one third of China’s global trade is...
Kanam Rajendran Likely To Get A Third Term As CPI State Secretary
By P. Sreekumaran Will Kanam Rajendran get a third term as the state secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI)? That is the question doing the rounds in political corridors of Kerala. The four-day CPI State conference is being held in Thiruvananthapuram from September 30. CPI general secretary...
Demand For Separate State In Tribal Belt Of Bengal Revives Again
By Ashis Biswas Ever since underground leader Jiban Singha of the banned Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) reiterated the call for a separate state, there have been signs of a resumption of activity on part of its activists in Assam and North Bengal. Northeast India media reported the arrest of...
Trinamool Congress May Be Back To Opposition Camp Along With Congress
By Tirthankar Mitra A thaw in the relation between Congress and Trinamool Congress seems to be in the offing after it had hit a new low post 2021 state Assembly elections. Strangely enough, indications that the two outfits who had turned from political allies to bitter opponents are not...
Survey Results Challenge Image That Gulf Rulers Like For Themselves
By James M Dorsey Several recent public opinion surveys send a mixed message to autocratic reformers in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar, which hosts this year’s World Cup in less than two months. These reveal contradictory attitudes among Arab youth towards religion as well as widespread...
Jhulan Goswami Has Retired But She Is Leaving Behind A Great Legacy
By Harihar Swarup Jhulan Goswami is retiring. With that ends a spectacular career and a story worth countess retells. The mindboggling numbers—more than twenty years as top-flight fast bowler, over 350 wickets across formats, most balls bowled (9945 till Friday) in ODIs and also the youngest (23 years, 277...
Political Situation Is Hotting Up For Lok Sabha Elections In 2024
By Kalyani Shankar Political parties in India have begun advance planning for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls from now on. The ruling NDA and the Opposition parties have been vying each other in their preparations. They are making and remaking strategies according to the political climate. The stage is...
World’s Second Richest Person Gautam Adani Is A Big Beneficiary Of Modi Era
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The story of meteoric rise of Gautam Adani to world’s second richest person as per the leading journal Forbes, has indeed a key element of getting ‘benefit from a rising India’ since 2014, when his friend Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister of the country....
By Refusing To Be Congress President, Rahul Gandhi Has Created A Mess
BY Sushil Kutty How can the Congress take a hit and no lightning bolts strike 10, Janpath when the loyalist stabs the cherished family in the back? Instead, the high command carries on as if nobody other than the perpetrator Ashok Gehlot could get hurt. And, by extension, the...
Employment Scenario In Bengal Is Still Precarious Despite Tall Claims By State Govt
By Tirthankar Mitra At the risk of sounding florid, the economy of West Bengal can be stated to be placed between a rock and a hard place. For claims shouted from the rooftops about its job generation fall flat on their faces at the sight of the faces of...
Neo-Fascist Meloni’s Win In Italian National Elections Is A Bad Omen For Europe
By C.J. Atkins Tally another victory for the neo-fascist, anti-immigrant right wing in Europe. Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Brothers of Italy party—the successor to the post-World War II Italian Social Movement—is set to be the next prime minister of that country following Sunday’s national election. Almost exactly a...
Joint Opposition Rally In Haryana On September 25 Has Helped In Advancing The Cause Of Unity
By Nitya Chakraborty The joint opposition rally held at Fatehabad in Haryana on Sunday organized the INLD leader Om Prakash Chautala on the occasion of the birth anniversary of his father Devi Lal has made a good success in facilitating the unity of the anti-BJP political parties to...
Vedanta-Foxconn Semiconductor Fab Project Must Work
By Nantoo Banerjee It may be early to predict the future of Vedanta-Foxconn’s proposed $22-billion joint venture project in India for an integrated display and semiconductor fabrication ecosystem. The promoters have already got themselves enmeshed in a political controversy over a sudden change in the project location — from...
Ashok Gehlot Is Making His Position Vulnerable By Playing Not Straight
By Sushil Kutty Politics is the art of keeping the adversary guessing, which is what Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot is good at. The harbinger of the crisis that is dogging the Congress in Rajasthan, Gehlot says something before going to bed and, then, something altogether different the next...
The War In Ukraine Is Behind Much Of The Present Distress In Germany
By Victor Grossman BERLIN: Some readers might expect – at last – a jolly, happy bulletin from Berlin. Germany, fourth richest power in the world, the strongest in Europe, seems to have overcome at least for now the ravages of the pandemic. Except in public transportation and medical institutions,...
Payroll Reporting In India Is Still Unreliable
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The latest data released by the National Statistical Office has been presented in a way that shows a ‘buoyancy’ in the formal job creations in India in July 2022 compared to a year before, across the three major schemes – Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF), Employees’...
RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat’s Outreach To Muslim Leaders Is An Eye Wash
By Arun Srivastava The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is not known for evolving the device of communal harmony. An insight into the working of the RSS would unravel the truth that its Maharashtrian Brahmin leadership are known for striving to give a concrete shape to their basic idea of...
