Opinion
Appeal
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.Gautam Adani’s Buying Spree Merits A Rethink In India’s Competition Law
By Dr. Shilpi Bhattacharya Do the Adani Group’s recent acquisitions of cement (63.19 per cent stake in Ambuja Cements and 54.5 per cent in its subsidiary ACC) and media (49 per cent stake in Quintillion Business Media) companies raise concerns for the Competition Commission of India (‘CCI’)? Media reports...
Broad Left Coalition Has An Edge In French National Assembly Poll On June 12
By Julian-Nicolas Calfuquir With France’s parliamentary elections scheduled on June 12, Jean-Luc Mélenchon looks in a stronger position than ever. Where other left-populist challengers around the West have struggled to build lasting organization, or even to repeat their initial electoral scores, his France Insoumise movement has established itself as...
Resurgence Of OBC Politics In Bihar Spreads To Maharashtra
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Resurgence of OBC politics in Bihar is now spreading to other states as far as even Maharashtra where NCP has renewed its demand for caste based census on June 2, 2022, the day the Bihar state cabinet led by JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar approved the...
Sharad Yadav, Yashwant Sinha Are In Opposition List On Presidential Nominee
By Rahil Nora Chopra The names of NCP chief Sharad Pawar, BSP Supremo Mayawati, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and a few others have been circulating as possible presidential candidates for the last few months. Adding to that list are the names of socialist veteran Sharad Yadav and TMC leader...
India Govt Has To Take Care Of The Bangladeshis Working In The Country
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav For the last two-three days, Indian media is running a story that says a Bangladeshi woman crossed the swampy Sundarban forests, also home to Royal Bengal Tigers, and then swam for an hour to cross a river and meet her Indian boyfriend. The 22-year-old Krishna...
Neo-Liberal Economic Agenda Can Never Tackle Inflationary Pressures
By Prabhat Patnaik Central banks all over the capitalist world are raising, or are about to raise, interest rates as a means of countering the currently rampant inflation, which is certain to push a world economy that is barely recovering from the effect of the pandemic, back towards stagnation...
Mismanagement By Organizers Of KK’s Function In Kolkata Needs Probe
By Ashis Biswas Whether as commoners or experts, people engaged in making political predictions are usually in a high-risk, error-prone business: Yet judging by initial public reactions after the unfortunate death of highly popular singer Krishnakumar Kunnath or KK in Kolkata on May 31 it seems safe to conclude...
Global Icon Thomas Piketty’s New Book Shows His Faith In Socialism
By Eric Blanc It’s a sign of the times that one of the world’s most prominent intellectuals has just published a book of essays titled Time for Socialism. As Thomas Piketty explains in the volume’s long introduction, “If someone had told me in 1990 that I would publish a...
Russia-Ukraine War Crosses 100th Day With No Signs Of Early Truce
By Aman Kumar On May 23, a domestic court in Ukraine sentenced a 21-year-old Russian soldier to life in prison for committing war crimes. The soldier had shot dead an unarmed civilian in Ukraine. This was the first conviction related to the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia. On...
During Eight Years Of His Rule, Narendra Modi Has Encouraged Divisive Forces
By Binoy Viswam The Modi government under the control of RSS has completed eight years. The Prime Minister and his companions have mobilised every propaganda means to boast about their ‘tremendous’ achievements. The sufferings and sorrows of the masses are cunningly drowned with the flood of propaganda gimmicks. During...
Relentless Attack On Democracy Is The Highlight Of Modi Regime Since 2014
By Prakash Karat The BJP is conducting a fortnight campaign to celebrate the completion of eight years of the Modi government. The campaign seeks to highlight claims of the various achievements of the government regarding economic growth, infrastructure development, foodgrain production, social welfare schemes and foreign policy. All these...
BJP Govt Is Making Use Of Central Agencies To Hound Opposition Leaders
By Sushil Kutty What’s with the Modi Government, why are AAP leaders being arrested? After Satyendar Jain, it could be Manish Sisodia. ‘Satyendar’ translates to ‘honesty’, the gospel ‘truth’. Yet, the enforcement directorate arrests Satyendar, health minister in the Delhi Government, and architect of the famed “mohalla clinics”. Kejriwal...
BJP Much Ahead Of Political Rivals In Lok Sabha Poll Preparation
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP is much ahead of political rivals in making preparations for 2024 Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh using Hindutva, holding investment meet and gearing up party workers to achieve target. Significantly enough Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath asked the party leaders and workers to achieve...
India Still Among Top 20 Clean Energy Access-Deficit Countries
By Dr. Gyan Pathak World is not yet on track to achieve the clean energy access for all by 2030, and at the current rate of progress, 670 million people will remain without electricity by 2030 – 10 million more than projected last year. Currently, 733 million people worldwide...
Cryptoassets In India Are Still Being Sought After By People
By Prachi Arya The evolution of the internet is underway. Users may soon experience the same kind of disorientation that was caused by the cataclysmic shift of the internet from English computer scientist Tim Berner Lee’s World Wide Web to social media-based Web 2.0. The Information Technology Act, 2000...
Renewed Focus On Skewed System For Designating Senior Advocates
By K Raveendran The remark by two judges of a Supreme Court vacation bench on the need for senior advocates to enrol and train at least 15 juniors is set to breath new life into the long-drawn controversy about the abuse of the system of designating senior advocates. “We...
Climate Change Has A Big Impact On The Healthcare System Of All Countries
By Dr Arun Mitra I very vividly remember when 30 years back in the year 1992 we wanted to hold a public function as a part of campaign for the promotion of healthy environment and preservation of ecology, not many people took it seriously. However we carried out with...
Left Wing Candidate Luiz Lula Has Now A Big Advantage In Brazilian Prez Polls
By Satyaki Chakraborty The left wing candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, better known as Lula, is firmly on his path to big victory in the coming presidential elections in Brazil scheduled for October 2 this year. A recent opinion survey run by Instituto FSB found that in the...
