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.Distinct Signs Of Unrest In Congress In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The more things change, the more they remain the same. This seems to be very true in the case of the Congress party in Kerala. The spectacular victory in the Thrikkakara assembly by-election had given a big boost to the party, which has been languishing...
Spectacular People’s Power Is On Display In Sri Lanka
By Prakash Karat People’s power was displayed in a spectacular fashion in Sri Lanka on July 9 when tens of thousands of people stormed the Presidential Palace, the President’s Secretariat and the official residence of the prime minister and took them over, sweeping aside the police and soldiers guarding...
Indian Exports Are Showing Good Growth But More Potential Remains
By K R Sudhaman The recessionary trends in some of the advanced economies and the prolonged Ukraine-Russian war notwithstanding, India’s foreign trade continues to be on the upswing. After clocking over $400 billion merchandise exports for the first time in 2021-22, the new financial year has begun well with...
New Webb Telescope Of NASA Provides Astounding Details Of Sky
By Prabir Purkayastha The new Webb telescope has shown that NASA’s $10 billion investment and 26 years are finally delivering their promise: pictures of the cosmos in depth, detail and quality far beyond what we had. The first images have captivated the public, and astrophysicists are drooling at the...
Latest Chart Of ‘Unparliamentary Words’ Will Make A Mockery Of Debate
By Sushil Kutty ‘Ashamed’, ‘abused’, ‘corrupt’ and ‘betrayed’. These and other select words cannot be used in Parliament. Against each other and against the Lok Sabha Speaker and the Rajya Sabha Chairman, starting Monday, July 18, the first day of the Monsoon Session. For example, honourable MPs cannot term...
Floods, Farming, And Feni – Indian Monsoon Is Finally Here
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav India is making news of rains and floods. It seems the entire country from Kerala to the North-East and from Kashmir to Gujarat, India is wet and inundated. Visuals of the roaring flow of rivers and inundated farm and city areas have swarmed social media...
Employment Rate Worst In Two Years In India Now
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Unemployment situation in India remains grim, despite some increase in employment in rural areas with beginning of monsoon and agricultural and allied activities. As on July 13, 2022, the unemployment rate on 30 days moving average was 7.5 per cent according to CMIE, a little...
Prof. B D Chattopadhyaya Imparted Fresh Dimension To Understanding Of Indian History
By Kanad Sinha Professor Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya who passed away in Kolkata on July 13 at the age of 82,was one of the two pillars on whom our understanding of Early Medieval India stood, the other being Professor Ram Sharan Sharma. The concept of the ‘Early Medieval’ is immensely important...
Unemployment And Hunger Haunt The Indian Masses Under Modi Regime
By Krishna Jha India’s unemployment rate has risen to 7.80 percent in June. Haryana and Rajasthan are at the top. The other worrisome data point about the rate of unemployment, seen in June, 2022,was a fall of 2.5 million jobs among salaried employees. Unemployment has risen mainly in the...
Gun Violence Is A Serious Public Health Crisis In India Also
By Dr. Arun Mitra The investigations into murder of Punjabi Singer Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, popularly known as Moosewala in the Punjab state of India should not be limited only to tracing the murderers and members of the gangs involved, or that how was the AK 94 gun used to...
NATO Is Responsible For Long Wars In Many Countries Of The World
By Ben Chacko LONDON: The peace movement needs to break the new “taboo” around criticism of Nato, activists heard at the launch of the Stop the War Coalition’s updated pamphlet Nato: a war alliance on Tuesday night in London. “Nato is central to so much of what is going...
Rupee Slide Far From Over, More Ground Left To Cover
By K Raveendran The rupee hitting new lows has become a monotonous regularity. The currency has fallen in the relentless climb by dollar, subjugated any resistance offered by other currencies, including the euro, which has fallen to its 20-year low, fast approaching the highly embarrassing parity in the wake...
US Supreme Court’s Abortion Judgment Is An Assault On Women’s Rights
By Debabrata Biswas BOSTON: Last month, the Supreme Court of the United States overturned the Roe v Wade judgment of 1973. SCOTUS issued its decision with regards to the case Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Centre (Mississippi). Abortion rights will cease to be a federal affair from now and...
The Importance Of Being Elon Musk-The World’s Richest Person
By Sushil Kutty ‘How many children does Elon Musk have?’ is old-hat. The question tagging this fellow now is ‘how many more children does he plan to have?’ On world population day, a camera panned the faces of 19 Indian children born of two women and their common hubby....
Beijing’s Kathmandu Headache: Will Communists Win Nepal Elections?
By Sankar Ray The four-day visit of the eight-member team of the Communist Party of China in Kathmandu, led by Liu Jianchao, the new head of CPC’s international liaison department, as well as a meeting with the chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Center),Pushpa Kamal Dahal, at...
Soaring Food And Energy Prices Accentuate Cost Of Living Crisis
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India is entering into a major cost of living crisis due to multiple domestic and international crises, which included soaring food and energy prices, rising poverty, joblessness, endangered food security, disincentive to farmers growing food articles, and lopsided policy interventions. The way the government is...
Take-Homes From Biden’s Pilgrimage To Saudi Arabia
By James M Dorsey At the core of a US policy debate over the merits of President Joe Biden’s pilgrimage to the Middle East lies the question of how best to ensure regional stability and protect United States interests. Lost in the debate is whether the cost of maintaining...
Decoding The Great Poet P B Shelley On 200th Anniversary Of His Death
By Jenny Farrell Two hundred years ago, on July 8, 1822, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned. He was less than a month short of thirty. Revolutionary socialist Friedrich Engels’s enthusiasm for Shelley lasted a lifetime. Even before he went to England as a young man, he tried his...
