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 And Sangh Parivar Had Never Any Faith In An Integrated Inclusive India
By Amulya Ganguli It might not be churlish to say that the celebration of the 75th year of Indian independence is more an official event associated with the BJP than a national occasion. The fact that the BJP was ousted from Bihar while facing an angry opponent...
Regime Change In Bihar Is A Positive Development For Opposition
By Arun Srivastava In the fierce battle for buttressing political supremacy between the two Chanakyas, Amit Shah was made to bite dust by Nitish Kumar by aborting his mission Operation Lotus, an endeavour to remove Chief Minister Nitish from power and also restructure his task to finish yet...
Modi Government Is Using 75th Anniversary Programme To Distort History
By Dipankar Bhattacharya A week ahead of the 75th anniversary of Independence, India commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Quit India movement on 9 August 2022. The Congress leadership had been arrested immediately after giving the Quit India call from the All-India Congress Committee session in Mumbai, but...
Rapid Urabanisation To Reshape India’s Energy Consumption Pattern
By K Raveendran The rate of urbanisation in India has so far been slower than other emerging countries. But this is expected to change drastically in the coming decades. So much so that in the next two decades, the country is expected to add a new city of...
India Is Now Preferred Destination To Japanese Companies For Investment
By Subrata Majumder In 2020, Japan adopted two policies to strengthen supply chain resilience. Big subsidy was provided to stimulate Japanese investors to diversify offshore investment and invest in domestic market for supply chain resilience. The main aim was to reduce overdependence on China. Focuses were made on...
International Chess Olympiad In Chennai Was A Great Event For India
By Kalyani Shankar Chess became a craze after Celebrated Bengali Director Satyajit Ray’s movie ‘Shatranj ki Khiladi’ created a big buzz in 1977. But the recent Netflix release ” Queen’s Gambit” took it to a different level worldwide. The story is about a child prodigy living in...
Venkaiah Naidu Had A Good Rapport With Opposition During His Tenure As V-P
By Harihar Swarup “My operation depends on your co-operation, otherwise there will be separation.” As Venkaiah Naidu, 73, demitted office as Vice-President of India on August 10, the Rajya Sabha of which was ex-officio Chairman, will be poorer for his quick wit and puns, many of which elicited...
Veteran Lawyer Kapil Sibal Is Angry With Supreme Court And Judiciary
By Sushil Kutty Veteran lawyer Kapil Sibal isn’t a happy lawyer. It was only a few days ago that the Supreme Court had asked him to be the court’s friend, help it understand the “freebies culture”, and what ought to be done with the pettifoggery that some political...
Chinese Exporters’ Dragon Grip Entangles India
By Nantoo Banerjee Why is it a matter of such a tearing hurry for Indian Railways that it has to rush to China to import 39,000 wheels while the same could have been locally produced? The Railways were well aware of the shortage of wheels for Linke Hofmann Busch...
Congress Must Stand Up To Modi Government’s ED Terrorism
By Amulya Ganguli The enforcement directorate’s relentless pursuit of the Congress and other opposition parties can prove to be counter-productive in the long run. For a start, the impression can grow that the supposedly autonomous agency is being less than professional in its targeting of the non- BJP parties....
India Has World’s Highest Number Of ‘Extremely Poor’ Denizens
By Sushil Kutty Droupadi Murmu has taken oath on July 25, the 15th President of India. Her salary: Rs 5 lakh per month, plus perks. But why talk of the President’s salary? That is because there’s a big gap between what Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s picks for high office...
Workforce Being Ditched, Assurances Of The Centre Lose Face Value
By Gyan Pathak Social security coverage to entire workforce in India will remain a dream even if the Code on Social Security 2020 is implemented in the country. There is lack of enough provisions in it. Moreover, skilling to make our workforce future ready will also not be possible...
Nitish Kumar Caught Into BJP Chakravyuha And Gasping
By Arun Srivastava Sceptical of the political consequences of its open attack on Nitish Kumar just ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP duo Narendra Modi and Amit Shah have preferred to launch a proxy war through R C P Singh an ex union minister in Modi...
Is Indian Economy As Strong As Claimed By FM Nirmala Sitharaman
By K R Sudhaman Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is confident that Indian economy is in a comfort zone to weather the storm witnessed in the global economy, with some of the advanced economies heading towards recession. Winding up the debate on price rise in Rajya Sabha she quoted IMF...
Kerala Wants Tax On Essential Goods Withdrawn
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANTHAPURAM: The Seventh Governing Council meeting of Niti Ayog saw Kerala making a strong pitch for reviewing the decision to impose tax on essential items and co9ntinuing the GST compensation for the revenue loss to the States for five more years. A clear-cut and...
National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme Being Sabotaged
By Gyan Pathak The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, popularly known as MGNREGA scheme is systematically being sabotaged. It is being financially throttled by the Centre in many ways – by reducing budgetary provisions, not releasing funds in time, and resorting to political expediency by...
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...
