Opinion
Appeal
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.Productivity Of Workers Is More Important Than Duration Of The Shift
By Arun Srivastava Corporate sector pitching for an increase in the working hours and paying less wages, disproportionate to the value of their labour, sends a terrifying message that character of the Indian economy is experiencing changes and has come full circle to acquire the silhouette of the capitalist...
Trump’s Second Presidency Is An Opportunity To Review UK-U.S. Special Relationship
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Donald Trump’s presidency is an opportunity to challenge Britain’s “special relationship” with Washington and the NATO war machine. Both Trump and his liberal opponents present his movement as one disrupting these old alliances. Trump derides allies for not pulling their weight and even talks of...
French Socialists Ditch Leftwing New Popular Front By Dealing With President Macron
By Harrison Stetler PARIS: French Prime Minister François Bayrou comfortably survived his first confidence vote on Thursday, a little over one month after the veteran centrist became France’s prime minister. The January 16 vote, called by the left-wing force La France Insoumise (LFI), came two days after Bayrou’s inaugural...
How Mark Zuckerberg Fell For The Republican Right After His Liberal Period
By Paris Marx NEW YORK: Until pretty recently, if you thought of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, you’d probably come up with a flesh-and-blood automaton whose mission to connect the world turned into the upending of political systems and poisoning of our information environment — not to mention that weird...
India’s Nouveau Riche Are On A Foreign Spending Binge
By Nantoo Banerjee Indians are travelling abroad like never before. Last year, over 30 million Indians travelled abroad, mostly on leisure trips. The number is nearly 15 percent more than that in 2023. The total expenditure rose by 25 percent. Rich and upper middle-class Indians are also increasingly sending...
Centre’s Invite For Talks With Farmers Averted A Great Crisis
By Dr. Gyan Pathak True to their word, after the Centre’s invite for talk, 121 farmers ended their fast-unto-death hunger strike at Khanauri border of Punjab and Haryana on November 19, while their leader Jagjit Sigh Dallewal who has been on fast-unto-death hunger strike since November 26, 2024, has...
Nitish Kumar Pushing His Son In Politics May Prove To Be Counter Productive
By Arun Srivastava Irrefutably Nishant Kumar is the heir apparent of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, but the real intent of Nitish behind introducing him in the politics has two distinct motives; first it is being viewed as a part of his strategy to counter Tejashvi, who has been...
Beastly Attacks On Saif Ali Khan Underline Bollywood’s Constant Insecurity
By Sushil Kutty First things first, Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan escaped death by the skin of his spine. Doctors at Lilavati Hospital prised out a piece of cold steel from his spine, proving Saif isn’t spineless, after all. Nope. Saif “walked into Lilavati “like a Sher”, a Lilavati...
Life Imprisonment Sentence Against RG Kar Medical Doctor Killer Does Not Satisfy Many
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Sanjay Roy, the prime accused in the rape and murder case of a post graduate student of RG Kar Medical College and hospital in Kolkata was pronounced guilty by additional district and sessions judge, Sealdah court, Anirban Das. The civic volunteer was sentenced lifetime imprisonment...
Trump’s Business Interests In Israel Had A Role In Bringing Early Truce In Gaza
By Asad Mirza The Gaza ceasefire deal came as a win for Donald Trump, even before he started his next stint as the 47th American President. Though, both the outgoing and the incoming presidents- Biden and Trump claimed it as their victory, yet in real terms the deal fructified...
Why Is The U.S. President Donald Trump So Keen Now To Take Over Greenland?
By Christine Schwöbel-Patel NEW YORK: Why is Donald Trump so obsessed with Greenland? During his first presidency, Trump surprised many by voicing his intention in 2019 to buy the Arctic island from Denmark as part of a real estate deal. At the time, he was mostly met with ridicule,...
Threat Of A Free Fall Of Indian Rupee Against U.S. Dollar In Initial Period Of Trump Regime Is Real
By Anjan Roy The recent volatility in the exchange rate of the Indian rupee against the US dollar has given rise to a debate on how the central bank should react to the situation of progressive depreciation of the national currency. To wit, the rupee appears to hit 90...
Hindenburg Disbanding And The Unresolved Questions That It Leaves Unanswered
By K Raveendran The decision by Nate Anderson to wind up his Hindenburg Research firm ahead of the Trump administration taking charge has certainly given a political window of escape to the BJP and the Modi government, which have been most vocal in defending the Adani group target by...
Biden Is Right-Oligarchs Have Taken Over New U.S. Govt Under Donald Trump
By Satyaki Chakraborty The outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden said in his farewell address to the American nation on Thursday that the democracy in U.S. is sliding into an oligarchy dominated by the big tech billionaires. He did not name Trump but it was clear that he was mentioning...
Global Labour Market Is Under Immense Pressure With Economic Deceleration
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Global labour market is under immense pressure with economic deceleration, geopolitical tensions, the rising costs of climate change and unresolved debt issues. Though, in 2024, global employment expanded in line with a growing labour force, keeping the unemployment rate steady, similar to previous year, young...
Lofty Promises By Political Parties On The Eve Of Elections Ominous For Indian Democracy
By Sushil Kutty People fought kings and queens, sultans and maharajas, for exercising their right to vote. Those were days when democracy was nascent and voting was limited to where the magna carta prevailed and where immigrants took over part of a continent and called it ‘New World’. Then,...
Kerala Opposes Union Government’s Offshore Mining Plan
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government led by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has voiced its strong objection to the Union Government’s plans for offshore sand mining along the Kerala coast. The State has also taken strong exception to the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) controversial draft...
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Was A Socialist Based On The Spiritual Values Of India
By Mithun Dey On January 23 this year, the nation is going to observe 128th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Netaji was a firm believer that rashtrabhakti (patriotism) is a fusion of religion and nationalism, of the spiritual and the political. He looked for religious philosophy that...
