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.Supreme Court Finds ‘Shackles Of Policy’ Put By Govt As Intimidating
By K Raveendran With the Modi government increasingly citing ‘policy’ to justify what it is doing, the Supreme Court has felt compelled to deprecate this tendency. A bench comprising Justices DY Chandrachud and AS Bopanna, hearing a plea against the levy of GST on equipment such as wheelchair...
More Tightening Of Monetary Policy May Not Be Effective At The Moment
By Dr. Nilanjan Banik Over the last two weeks, the Opposition is disrupting the Lok Sabha on the grounds of high LPG price and GST on pre-packaged food items as factors behind inflation. And on August 5, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) increased the repo rate by 50...
Congress Is Under Siege By The Modi Government And It Will Continue
By Sushil Kutty Men and women in black. The women outdoing the men in scaling police barricades. Especially Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. The nationwide protests were against price rise; unemployment, and GST on “dahi and dhood” and other food items. Not surprisingly, the presser earlier in the morning made...
Narendra Modi Is Making All Efforts To Make India ‘Opposition Mukta’
By Arun Srivastava While Narendra Modi’s buddies and his Andha Bhakts have been striving hard to project him as one of the most visionary political leader India has ever produced, his actions portray a different picture that strengthen the impression of his being a leader who does not...
Some Semblance Of Normalcy Is Returning To Kashmir At Long Last
By Harihar Swarup Is anything changing in Kashmir? The merchant selling bronze items in narrow streets of Lal Chowk was surprised by the question. He had no idea who I (this columnist) was. Seeing his discomfort, I introduced myself and asked him to speak freely. His reply...
Drones And Transport Capable Of Reshaping Eurasian Geopolitics
By James M Dorsey When US intelligence asserted that Iran was selling hundreds of combat drones to Russia, it was signalling more than Iranian support for Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Suggesting that Russia was not capable of serial producing its own drones, the intelligence served...
RBI Should Insulate India From Global Fluctuations As It Did In 2008
By Anjan Roy In the face of persistent inflationary pressures and tie in prices, the Reserve Bank of India has jacked up on Friday its basic policy rate —the repo rate— by 40 basis points to 5.4%. With this hike, the RBI policy rate now reaches what it was...
Indian Spectrum Management Is Plagued With Adhocism
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Spectrum (radio waves) is a scarce resource, and almost all of us may have already heard something about 2G, 3G, 4G, and now 5G. Even PM Narendra Modi has been championing for it for quite some time. However, it would be shocking to know that...
Just Okay By Lingayat Seer Is Not Helping Rahul Gandhi To Win Karnataka Polls
By Sushil Kutty If a Karnataka lingayat seer is to be believed, Rahul Gandhi will be prime minister in 2024. With that taken for granted, the Congress can set its eye on winning the 2023 Karnataka assembly elections. The lingayat seer is invested in Rahul Gandhi. He also happens...
Rahul Urges Siddaramaiah, DKS To Fight 2023 Polls Unitedly
By Rahil Nora Chopra With the ongoing war of words between former Karnataka chief minister PC Siddaramaiah and state president D K Shivakumar over the chief minister’s candidature within the Congress, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi appealed to the party’s state unit leaders to work amicably with fraternity for...
Bangladesh Hosts Top Ministerial Summit Of D-8 Islamist Countries
By Ashis Biswas Largely unnoticed by the Indian mainstream media, Bangladesh hosted the Ministerial Conference of Developing 8 grouping, D-8 for short, a few days ago. This relatively new alliance brings together eight Muslim countries spread from South East Asia to Africa. There were a few tangible, positive decisions...
United States-China Technology War Accentuates As Tensions Rise
By Prabir Purkayastha As the tension between the United States and China mounts as a fallout of Nancy Pelosi’s provocative Taiwan visit, the technology war between them is also taking a new turn. Both houses of Congress have approved the CHIPS and Science Act—a $280 billion plan to boost...
Uncertainty Continues Globally About Future Viability Of Metaverse
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Co-founder of Ethereum, the world’s second-largest blockchain network by market cap, Vitalik Buterin last week kicked up a storm by claiming that corporate efforts to create metaverse will not be successful. He specifically mentioned Meta Inc. (formerly Facebook), which suffered $10 billion of losses in...
Imran Khan Trying To Turn His Indictment By Commission To Political Advantage
By Sankar Ray Despite a clear edge in the recent popularity curve in Pakistan former Prime Minister Imran Khan and chief of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf is in political dock again. The Election Commission of Pakistan has caught him on the wrong foot by indicting King Khan and his party of...
Prime Minister’s ‘Strong Government’ Means That The BJP Regime Controls Everything
By Prakash Karat Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, spoke recently about how a strong government should be. Addressing a university convocation in Chennai on July 29, Modi said: “A strong government does not control everything or everyone. It controls the system’s impulse to interfere…A strong government does not move into...
Sangh Parivar And BJP Have No Right To Talk Of Tiranga Celebrations
By Binoy Viswam At the 75th year of Independence, India witnesses unusual initiatives from BJP, the ruling party. They are taking extra pains to exhibit their loyalty to the national freedom struggle and the National Flag. Anyone with a little understanding of history knows that neither the BJP nor...
Hounding Out The Main Opposition Party By ED And Delhi Police Has Crossed All Limits
By Sushil Kutty The prime-time anchor couldn’t hold back his happiness. He wanted to know from the anti-corruption crusader exactly where the “case” stood. The anti-corruption crusader was happy to oblige. Both had tried and found Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi guilty. The anchor spelled out the verdict and...
High Food And Energy Prices Making Living Conditions Unbearable Globally
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Since the COVID-19 pandemic struck the world, common people have been bearing the brunt of the once-in-a-generation cost-of-living crisis since the beginning of 2020. Hundreds of millions lost even access to food, energy, and finance, millions of them just perished, and millions somehow survived on...
