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.Corporate Media In India Not Taking Strong Position Against Attacks On Human Rights
By Arun Srivastava Indian media’s unwillingness to question the rulers, the people in power and also its reluctance to uphold the cause of the common people is a deliberate move to conceal the illegal scheming of the capitalist economy and the manoeuvring of the RSS and Modi government to...
Dharmendra Pradhan Seeks CM Nitish Kumar’s Nod On Murmu
By Rahil Nora Chopra Senior BJP functionary and union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan met Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in Patna on Tuesday. According to sources in the BJP, the meeting is being deemed important in the context of the upcoming Presidential polls. Moreover, in the wake of the...
Trinamool Congress MLA Comparing Mamata With Sarada Devi Creates Furore
By Ashis Biswas Once more, there is confirmation of the familiar public plaint that in their zeal to nestle ever closer to the ‘supreme ‘leader of the moment by using barefaced flattery, practicing politicians often cross all limits. Mostly the outcome is amusing, even as the glorified bigwigs squirm...
Supreme Court Has Failed To Secure Justice For Gujarat Riot Victims
By Krishna Jha We never had experience of loss of democracy…Living in our multiplicity, nobody has ever forced us to violate the cultural limits. We have never been isolated from the other, in fact it never had a separate identity. Yet, in the third decade of the twentieth century,...
Agnipath Scheme Challenges All Traditions Of Indian Military Service
Dr Yugal Rayalu The military recruitment drives are ‘festive times’ in some of the states in north India. Village elders bless the youth going for the tests. Women folk would send the sons (now daughters too) with tilak and best wishes. In some of the families it is the...
Public Sector General Insurance Unions Reject Wage Revision Offer
By Trilok Singh The Joint Forum of Trade Unions and Associations in the public sector general insurance companies, having around 58,000 employees and officers, have unanimously rejected the offers given by the General Insurers Public Sector Associations of India (GIPSA) management. The long-pending wage revision talks between the...
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren Is Under Siege By BJP Leadership
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Having emboldened by the success in Maharshtra, the BJP has just started its political game in Jharkhand to destabilize the Mahagathbandhan government led by JMM. Chief Minister Hemant Soren has just betrayed his commitment towards opposition unity and ditched the anti-BJP political parties by announcing...
Testing Time For Uddhav Thackeray As The Battle For Shiv Sena Control Begins
By Sushil Kutty What next for Shiv Sena? Will the Eknath Shinde faction grab the party from “rightful owners”, the Thackeray’s, and run with it? That must be in Shinde’s mind. The fellow is no angel. It requires a stout mean heart to rebel and run roughshod over shallow...
Pakistan Struggling Hard To Secure Emergency Financial Aid From IMF
By Anjan Roy About a week back, Pakistan’s Finance minister was urging its citizens to consume less tea as the country was scraping the bottom of the barrel to organise even essential imports. Foreign exchange reserves had sunk to cover just a few days imports. Every leaf of tea...
Punish Culprits For Gruesome Killing Of Tailor In Udaipur
By Sitaram Yechury The horrendous killing in Udaipur has been universally condemned. While the authorities have acted in rounding up those involved, the culprits must receive severe punishment. The growing incendiary atmosphere of hate and violence in the country is dehumanising our society. This spiral of hate must end....
Samajwadi Party Takes Lessons From Defeat In Bypolls In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national President Akhilesh Yadav blamed BJP government gross misuse of official machinery and breakdown of democratic institutions to win Azamgarh and Rampur Lok Sabha by-elections. Akhilesh Yadav said that voters of Azamgarh and Rampur we’re in favour of Samajwadi Party but BJP government...
Crypto Market Crash Poses Many Questions About Digital Currency
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav By now, the cryptocurrency story has become extremely queer. The phenomenal rise in the value of bitcoin (BTC) in 2021 stands completely reversed today. For the investors, it is a saga of disappointments and frustrations. From an all-time high of about $69000, BTC has nosedived...
Colombian President Gustavo Petro Has Offered A Pro-People Programme
By Mikael Wolfe Christian Robles-Baez On June 19, Colombian voters elected left-wing candidate Gustavo Petro as president of their country. It was a historic breakthrough in Colombia’s political history since it first gained independence from Spain in 1819. For many years, Colombian politics seemed immune to the left-wing currents...
Udaipur Murder Of A Tailor Is A Horrific Hate Crime Needing Urgent Action
By Sushil Kutty Riyaz Aktari and Ghouse Mohammad. The beheading of tailor Kanhaiya Lal by the duo could have been prevented if the police in Udaipur hadn’t turned peacemakers instead of piling the full force of the law on the law-breakers. After the two believers’ video that they were...
BJP Game In Maharashtra Is Now Open – Fadnavis Determined To Be Back Again
By Arun Srivastava Apprehension has come true. Just within forty eight hours of Supreme Court refusing to pass any interim order on the Maharashtra government’s plea that there should not be any floor test in the Assembly, the BJP leader Devendra Fadavis, tipped to comeback as the person to...
NDA Presidential Candidate Droupadi Murmu Has A Strong Personality
By Harihar Swarup On June 22, Droupadi Murmu reached the Brahma Kumaris Centre at Rairangpur in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district. Inmates of the centre, including its in-charge, Brahma Kumari Supreya, were pleasantly surprised to see the presidential candidate of the BJP-led alliance paying them a visit. The spiritually inclined Murmu,...
BJP Leadership Planning Regime Change In Jharkhand Before 2024 Polls
By Sankar Ray The Bharatiya Janata Party may apply the operation-dislodge model of breakaway Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde in capturing power in Rajasthan and Jharkhand. West Bengal is also in the defection antenna. The Opposition and BJP leader of West Bengal Suvendu Adhikari disclosed almost directly that after...
Oil Bears See $50 Barrel As Within The Realm Of Possibility
By K Raveendran Enthused by the sudden crash in crude prices, oil bears are daring to imagine oil at $50 a barrel. Their optimism is boosted by tanking stock markets, soaring inflation and mounting recession fears. Ever since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February, oil prices have maintained...
