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.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...
Latin America’s Second Wave Of Left-Wing Governments Are More Focused
By Kyla Sankey Until recently, Latin American commentators were widely reporting on the inevitable “ebbing” of the pink tide. By the mid-2010s, the commodity boom that began in the early 2000s had rapidly gone into decline. The Right had grasped the opportunity to destabilize its opponents through campaigns of...
The Big Battle In AIADMK Is Set To Continue Despite E K Palaniswami’s Win
By Sushil Kutty They don’t look like lost and found brothers. Edappadi K Palaniswami and O Panneerselvam share nothing in common other than that they were “dual leaders” of the AIADMK, the party that MGR founded and J Jayalalithaa carried in her aura. Now, her two self-proclaimed protégés have...
NDA’s Tribal Candidate Draupadi Murmu Has Divided The Opposition Camp
By Arun Srivastava The presidential election to be held on July 18 in the real sense is a royal battle between the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the former BJP minister Yashwant Sinha. It would be wrong to construe that Sinha has a tough challenger in Draupadi Murmu. But...
India Ran Faster In Population Race Than Expected
By Dr. Gyan Pathak World Population Prospects 2022 has revealed that India ran faster in population race to become largest populated country in the world in 2023, four years ahead than estimated in 2019, bringing unprecedented challenges which needs to be converted into demographic advantage with planning and action...
Opposition Parties Find It Tough To Match BJP In Organisational Strength
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Major opposition parties are busy in overhauling their organisations to take up the challenge of BJP in 2024 Lok Sabha polls. No opposition party can match BJP in terms of its organizational muscle power. So soon after the state assembly election, all leaders and workers...
Breakdown Of Constitutional Governance In Sri Lanka – What Is The Way Ahead?
By Mohan V Katarki An unprecedented political crisis has arisen in Sri Lanka, leading to the breakdown of constitutional governance. Unorganised angry protesters, who are deeply affected by economic meltdown, have forced two Prime Ministers Mahinda Rajapaksa and his successor Ranil Wickremesinghe to resign, and have driven out the...
