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.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...
Congress In Kerala Loses The Perception Battle
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Overkill does not pay in politics. That is the bitter lesson the Congress and the party-led Opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) is learning at a heavy cost. The Congress’s attempt to extract undue political advantage from the Students Federation of India (DSFI)’s attack on Wayanad...
There Is Little To Justify India’s Coal Shortage
By Nantoo Banerjee It is a matter of concern that India, sitting over the world’s fifth largest proven coal reserves of well over 111 billion tonnes, produces only around 800 million tonnes of coal per annum and continues to be a major global coal importer year after year. China,...
Central Trade Unions Get Ready To Fight New Rules For Workers
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Had the Modi Government not been undergoing some fresh resistance from the unemployed youths for yet another disastrous policy experiment in defence recruitment, the rules under four controversial labour codes would have been notified by now for their implementation from July 1, as it had...
Right-Wing Takeover In Andalusia Is A Setback To Spain’s Coalition Govt
By Eoghan Gilmartin “A very hard blow.” Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez couldn’t mask his disappointment at the resounding defeat for his Socialist Party (PSOE) in its traditional stronghold of Andalusia last Sunday. In a seismic shift in the country’s electoral politics, the conservative Partido Popular (PP) swept to...
Fear And Sycophancy Stalking Present India Under BJP Regime
By Amulya Ganguli A feature of the present ruling dispensation at the centre is the fear that it has generated even among the rich and famous. The late tycoon, Rahul Bajaj, was perhaps the only one who had referred to this phenomenon of “new India” at a gathering where...
Akhilesh Failed To Give Proper Leadership In Campaign For Bypolls
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav is responsible for the defeat of his party candidates in Azamgarh and Rampur. Since Azamgarh and Rampur Lok Sabha seats were won by Akhilesh Yadav himself and another important leader Mohd Azam Khan, the defeat of the Samajwadi candidates...
In Power Battle In Maharashtra, Ideology And Dynasty Are In Collision
By Anjan Roy The continuing crisis in Maharashtra shows a clear dichotomy between the political class and the people. The rank and file of the Shiv Sena pivots on personality cult rather than on an ideological appeal. Here is a lively demonstration that rising numbers could not stand in...
India’s Neighbouring Economies Are Facing Severe Balance Of Payments Crisis
By K R Sudhaman India is surrounded by economies that are moving towards bankruptcy and severe balance of payments crisis. Only Bangladesh like India is on a revival mode. But Indian economy is perhaps the fastest growing in the World. It is therefore pertinent to analyse what went wrong...
Droupadi Murmu Is All Set To Become The Next President Of India
By HarharSwarup Battle lines for coming Presidential election have been drawn. The ruling NDA has set up, former Jharkhand Governor Droupadi Murmu as its presidential candidate. Murmu is a tribal and this would be for the first time a tribal and woman would be elected President as NDA has...
Battle Lines Are Drawn In Maharashtra But For Uddhav, It Is Really Tough
By Sushil Kutty The militant Shiv Sena is in search of a commander-in-chief. The first one was Sena founder Bal Thackeray. Uddhav Thackeray didn’t shape up to be one. Now, the mantle may have fallen on Aaditya Thackeray. This is because Uddhav Thackeray’s emotional speech didn’t help. It wasn’t...
Learning Poverty Increases To 70 Per Cent, Inequality Widens
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Global learning poverty has further increased to 70 per cent in 2022 with largest increases in South Asia and the Latin America and the Caribbean, as per the simulation result based on the latest available data and evidence. It means the world has lost...
SC Remarks On Gujarat Riot Case Liable To Be Misused As Condoning Of Failures
By K Raveendran The ground on which the conspiracy charge has been thrown out in the in the appeal filed by Zakia Jafri in the Supreme Court challenging the clean chit given by the SIT to Narendra Modi and 63 other state functionaries in the Gujarat riots case leaves...
Friendship Yatra Is A Big Boost To Communal Harmony In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The recently-concluded Statewide ‘Friendship Yatra’, undertaken by President of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) Syed Sadiq Ali Thangal was a laudable initiative to promote communal harmony. Not surprisingly, it has earned fulsome praise. The ‘Harmony meetings’, held as part of the Yatra, which witnessed...
Broad Left Unity Achieved Before French National Assembly Polls Sees Strains
By Marlon Ettinger Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s left-wing alliance elected 142 MPs to France’s National Assembly on Sunday. In some ways this was a success: the broad left more than doubled its number of MPs and helped strip President Emmanuel Macron of his majority, though it also fell way short of...
