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.Rising Cases Of Covid-19 In The Country Bring New Concerns
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India has achieved yet another milestone in vaccination when it exceeded 200.33 crore as per provisional reports from across the country till 7AM on July 19. However, this alone should not be a matter of complacency either on part of the government or the people...
Bangladesh And Nepal Badly Hit By Power Shortages, Seeking Help From India
By Ashis Biswas Nepal and Bangladesh are feeling the negative impact of the uncertainties plaguing power generation and related operations in India, in the wake of the Ukraine war. Neither Nepal, nor Bangladesh can expect much relief from long power cuts until more supplies can be sourced from India...
IndiGo’s Ban On Kerala CPI(M) Leader EP Jayarajan Unfair
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Indigo Airline’s three-week ban on CPI(M) leader E P Jayarajan from flying on the airline for his alleged unruly behaviour onboard a flight in which Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was travelling from Kannur to Thiruvananthapuram, is grossly unfair and unacceptable. A travel ban of...
Internationalising Rupee Is Unlikely To Stabilise The Currency
By Nantoo Banerjee The best way to stabilise the Indian Rupee is to contain inflation and imports. Simply put: the inflation rate should be below four percent and the country’s massive annual trade deficits need to be reduced to zero. The country should totally focus on making goods in...
Imran Khan’s PTI’s Massive Win In Bypolls Is A Big Jolt To Pak Ruling Coalition
By Sankar Ray A clear win in 15 out of 20 seats in the bye-elections to Punjab provincial assembly by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has unnerved the 13-party ruling Pakistan Democratic Movement.It indicates that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz is not at all formidable in its home turf. It was thrashing...
Implementation Of Labour Codes Gets Complicated
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The implementation of the four labour codes gets complicated and there is no sign that Modi government will be able to roll these out. Hurdles are many in the way: All states are not yet ready with their rules; SP Mukherjee Committee will not be...
BJP Clear Winner In Civic Polls, But Congress Captures Scindia’s Gwalior
By L S Herdenia There are several highlights of the results of local body election announced on July 17. The first and most important highlight is the gain made by the Congress which captured Mayors post in three municipal corporations. The second is the humiliating defeat suffered by Jyotiraditya...
Food Items Increase, Not Petro Products Hike Contribute More To Inflation
By Subrata Maumder Pan India outrage is reaching its peak with the soaring inflation and government inability to control it. Angers were hurled against the government failure to rein in the oil products price hike and its impact on inflation. Inflation (measured by Consumer Price Index) increased by 6.34...
Frowning Hanuman, Snarling Lion – Symbols Of A “New” India
By Amulya Ganguli From an irate Lord Hanuman depicted on car windows to a snarling version of the age-old Asokan emblem, the signs of India discarding the old benign, Nehruvian era and entering an aggressive Hindu civilizational phase are all too evident under the new ruling dispensation. The architectural...
Opposition VP Candidate Margaret Alva Has Better Credentials Than Dhankar
By Sushil Kutty Congress leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge is emphatic that the Opposition’s Margaret Alva will by far be a better Vice President than the BJP’s Jagdeep Dhankar. Kharge should be forgiven for his loyalty to the Opposition’s cause. And the Opposition’s cause...
Russian ‘Conflict’ Diamonds Leave Kimberley Process Divided
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Diamonds are forever! That was a James Bond spy thriller released in 1971. And then, the Heart of the Ocean that got sunk in the ocean in the Titanic movie! It was a replica of the big blue 45.52-carat Home Diamond that’s worth $350 million,...
Final Status On Control Of Shiv Sena Party Depends On Supreme Court
By Harihar Swarup The Thackeray-Shinde feud has split the Nation. While some commentators are critical of Eknath Shinde’s departure, terming it as a subversion of party politics, others find it to be a correction of Uddhav Thackeray’s departure from the alliance with the BJP in 2019. The dissension within...
Russia Surprises Sanction-Slappers By Exporting More Oil Than Before
By K Raveendran It is becoming increasingly clear that the western sanctions against Russia for its Ukraine invasion is hurting Europe more than these were meant to harm Moscow. While a guaranteed energy crisis is staring Europe on its face due to the stoppage of gas flow from Russia,...
Economic Crisis Is The Main Focus As Tories Choose Britain’s Next Prime Minister
By Arun Srivastava For rightist Conservative Party, choosing a visionary and able administrator as the prime minister in place of Boris Johnson has indeed become a major combative task. This was for the first time that party was deprived of a talented leader. After coming to power three years...
‘Alleged’ PFI Document Makes Some Dangerous Observations About India
By Sushil Kutty Those who wrote the PFI document, currently in circulation, to convert India into an Islamic state by 2047 know their English. The grammar is clean and it took the author just eight pages to conquer India lock, stock and barrel. The long and short of it...
Controversy In Kerala Over CPI(M) Leader’s ‘Anti-Women’ Remark
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A flaming political row has erupted over the controversial comment made by former minister and CPI(M) MLA M M Mani against Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP) MLA K K Rema in the Kerala Assembly. The Opposition United democratic Front (UDF) has demanded an apology from Mani,...
Spotlight on U.S. Double Standards In Dealing With Turkey And Middle East
By James M Dorsey US and European acquiescence in Turkey’s long-standing refusal to honour Kurdish ethnic, cultural, and political rights came home to roost when Turkey initially objected to Finnish and Swedish membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). Ultimately, Turkey postponed potential conflict in NATO by dropping...
Not Bharat Jodo Yatra – Congress Should Campaign On BJP Gujarat, Himachal Choro
By Nitya Chakraborty The Congress high command led by president Sonia Gandhi decided at its Thursday meeting to start its proposed Bharat Jodo yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir within next few weeks and this yatra is scheduled to cover twelve states and two union territories measuring 3500 kms in...
