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.India Must Support Right To Safe Environment In The United Nations
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The week ending July 2022 is an opportunity for India and the world to make a history by supporting a resolution in the United Nations General Assembly that seeks making the right to have a clean, healthy and sustainable environment a human right. Modi government...
Narendra Modi Is No Boris Johnson, BJP Has No Rishi Sunak To Resign
By Sushil Kutty The rupee struck 80 and trespassed into the BJP’s ‘Margdarshak Mandal’ territory, and the opposition parties took note of it. But none from the BJP cared to respond, even when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi took a swipe, tweeting “Amritkaal at 80”, and newly-minted Congress Rajya Sabha...
Changing Calculus Of Indo-Pacific Region’s Political Dynamics
By M A Hossain Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire post World War-l, the Islamic religio-political movement accelerated its activities to revive and embolden the antecedent Islamic systems around the world. After a long battle, the Taliban’s victory over the superpower America has re-energized the other mujahideen in...
High Inflation And Rising Joblessness Are The Outcome Of Modi Govt Policies
By Shreenivas Khandewale It is true that the whole world was engulfed by the adverse economic consequences of corona during 2020-21 and 2021-22 and that even during 2022-23, there are lingering effects of the pandemic. Most of the countries are suffering, as India does, from the economic dislocations in...
Socialist President Xiomara Castro Reviving Democracy In Honduras
By Hilary Goodfriend In January 2022, Xiomara Castro became Honduras’s first woman president, restoring electoral democracy to the country after more than a decade of dictatorship. Running with the leftist Liberty and Refoundation (LIBRE) party, Castro’s election breaks with the century-old two-party system that traded power between elites in...
Centre Must Withdraw GST Rate Hikes, Scrap Cess On Petrol And Diesel
By Prakash Karat The rupee breached the 80 level versus the dollar for the first time amidst a widening trade and current account deficit. The continuous decline in the value of the rupee is bound to increase inflationary pressures. This, coupled with already existing inflation and high unemployment, shows...
Exclusion Of Poor Students From Higher Education Is Disastrous
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Higher education in India has been going out of reach for the poor students of the country due to a range of issues which chiefly includes financial lack of affordability that prevents them to access reading and writing materials and the ever increasing tuition and...
New Sri Lankan President’s Primary Task Is To Take Care Of Immediate Economic Woes
By Sushil Kutty India has a new President, and so does Sri Lanka. But look at the difference. India’s president-elect will ease into her new job while Sri Lanka’s new President Ranil Wickremesinghe has done it with a mixture of unease and determination writ large on his face. What...
Congress, Opposition Parties Protest ED Harassing Sonia Gandhi
By Rahil Nora Chopra All over the country mass protests were held by the Indian National Congress workers, while several senior party members were detained outside the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters in New Delhi on Thursday. The Congress leaders were registering their protest against the Enforcement Directorate’s...
Decoding Politics Of BJP In Making Droupadi Murmu As President Of India
By Ambuja Raj The Bharatiya Janata Party (‘BJP’) is widely denounced as an elite party most. justifiably so, as it has, through its two tenures of rule and much before that, engaged in the political sphere through a creedal backbone of Hindu, upper-caste interests. However, ever so often, the...
GST On Food Will Further Add To Malnutrition Among Indian Poor
By Dr Arun Mitra In the 2021 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report, India ranks 101st out of the 116 countries. With a score of 27.5, India falls into the category of serious level of hunger. According to the GHI a rank of ≤ 9.9 is considered to be low,...
P K Balakrishnan Nair (Balan), The Erudite Librarian Of Ajoy Bhavan Is No More
By Satyaki Chakraborty Com PK Balakrishnan Nair, popularly known as Balan, the erudite librarian at Ajoy Bhavan, the CPI headquarter, passed away in New Delhi on July 20 at a local hospital after a period of illness. He was 82. He had a fall in his house recently and...
AMLO Is Trying To Free Mexico And Latin America From US Hegemony
By Medea Benjamin When Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador travelled to Washington, DC, on July 12, his most exciting encounter for Mexicans in both the United States and Mexico was not his meeting with President Joe Biden but his impromptu encounter with well-wishers outside his hotel room at...
Inflationary Pressure Is At Its Peak In India In ‘Amritvarsh’ Year
By Binoy Viswam The BJP government was enthusiastic to adorn the 75th year of independence with a high sounding name. Because of that, the people every day read and hear the term ‘Amritvarsh.’ The word suggests a year in which life would be victorious over death. As it happens...
Dhaka’s International Image Undone By Bangladeshis Moving Out
By Ashis Biswas In a curious paradox, Bangladeshis are scrambling to emigrate to Western shores even as the country emerges as an economic model in South Asia, faring a cut above others during the pandemic-hit times. Yet, ina mystifying development, hundreds of Bangladeshis are denting their country’s increasingly glowing...
Bill For Alternate Dispute Resolution Has Numerous Loopholes
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Mediation is an alternate dispute resolution (ADR) system outside the traditional court system. In India, this service is presently provided by private ADR or mediation centres, and also through the court annexed mediation centres set up by courts and tribunals. Mediation is a voluntary process...
Rishi Sunak Has A Tough Fight On Hand To Get Support Of Common Tory Voters
By Arun Srivastava The final ballot of the British Parliamentarians which put Rishi Sunak at the top place with 137 votes as against Liz Truss’s 113 votes does not give any indication of what finally can happen on September 5 when the final results will be out following voting...
In Yogi Adityanath’s Govt, Ministers Are At War With Bureaucrats
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh ministers are finding it difficult to function due to powerful bureaucrats who are running the show independently. High profile Deputy Chief Minister Brijesh Pathak created storm in UP when he wrote letter to his departmental secretary for health Amit Mohan Prasad and questioned...
