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.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...
Myths And Superstitions Have No Place In Modern Healthcare System
By Dr Arun Mitra Good health is essential not only for the progress of an individual but even more so for the society as whole. Since times immemorial mankind has looked into various methods and developed different techniques to impart effective healthcare. Primitive society attributed the causation and treatment...
Uddhav’s Soft Hindutva Is Being Challenged By Shiv Sena Hardliners
By Kalyani Shankar Is the ongoing Maharashtra political crisis an ideological battle within the Shiv Sena or the inability of Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray to convince his Sainiks about his soft Hindutva? Or is it the BJP’s ambition to eliminate all non-BJP governments, or is it for the...
100% Electric Two-Wheeler Penetration In India Possible By 2031
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With demand incentives withdrawn after FY 2024, maximum penetration of electric two-wheelers in India could be 71.54 per cent in Technology Driven Scenario by FY 2031, while with no technological improvement and reduction in battery cost, penetration level of 21.86% only can be achieved even...
AltNews Co-Founder’s Arrest By Delhi Police Is A Violation Of All Laws
By Sushil Kutty At last the Delhi Police has gone and done the unpardonable. The capital’s constabulary, which answers to the Union Home Ministry, summoned AltNews co-founder Muhammad Zubair from Bengaluru to Delhi and Monday, June 27, took him into custody in what looked like a sleight of the...
United States Supreme Court Is Using Its Unchecked Power Against People
By Ben Beckett On Friday, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion and making abortion illegal in at least eighteen states, with more potentially to follow. Despite ample warning, based both on the justices’ histories and the leak of the decision almost two...
Supreme Court’s Judgment In Gujarat Riots Case Bodes Ill For Democracy
By Arvind Narrain Senior advocate Fali S. Nariman, described civil rights activist and journalist Teesta Setalvad as a “foot soldier of the Indian Constitution”. Today, the foot soldier has been arrested for zealously pursuing justice for one of independent India’s most egregious wrongs, namely the Gujarat pogrom, which was...
Tripura Bypoll Results Showed The Faultlines Of Trinamool Congress
By Ashis Biswas Senior Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders in West Bengal are deeply embarrassed by the unacceptably poor performance of their party in the recent Tripura Assembly by-elections. They have been remarkably reticent on the issue, not least because the humiliation they face is directly attributable to party second-in-command...
