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.Aryan Khan Episode Exposes The Working Of Narcotics Control Bureau
By Sushil Kutty Actually, it shouldn’t have been breaking news. The clean chit to Aryan Khan was on expected lines. Nothing on earth could have overturned the outcome. The only two questions remaining were ‘Who in his sound mind chose to slam-dunk Aryan Khan s/o Shahrukh Khan with a...
Dissidence Issue Still Dogging BJP In Tripura Under New CM Manik Saha
By Ashis Biswas With Assembly elections only eight months away, the ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) in Tripura is not yet a united house. The central BJP leadership may have sought to combat negative anti incumbency trends among common voters by replacing Mr Biplab Deb as Chief Minister by...
Supreme Court Transferring Gyanvapi Mosque Case To District Judge Gives Wrong Signal
By Harihar Swarup The Supreme Court order of May 20, transferring the suit on the Gyanvapi masjid dispute from the civil judge (senior division) Varanasi to the district judge casts aspersions, though unintended, on the competence of civil judges in general. The matter had reached the Supreme Court on...
Ukraine War Fallout Takes The Clock Back On Shift To Electric Vehicles
By K Raveendran Car companies in India are already creating waves about the launch of electric vehicles, with nearly a dozen brands expected to hit the road in a year’s time. Joining the EV bandwagon are all major automakers, including Hyundai, Tata, Mahindra, Mercedes etc. But even as the...
Sangh Parivar Is Targeting Mosques To Keep Communal Fires Burning
By Amulya Ganguli With the world waking up to the possibility of the temple-mosque disputes in India becoming yet another religious flashpoint, as the BBC has said, the worst fears of the country’s well-wishers are coming true. The apprehension that the BJP’s rise to power will increase the communal...
Mamata-State Governor Confrontation Hots Up Over New Universities Bill
By Arun Srivastava Even before Narendra Modi and Amit Shah along with the Sangh leadership could strike at the root of Mamata government and her party, Mamata Banerjee as the retaliatory incursion has struck hard with the West Bengal cabinet deciding to amend law to make her Chancellor of...
Indian Economy Is In Crisis Facing Threat Of Stagflation
By Arun Kumar The Government, worried about the inflation rapidly inching up month after month, has finally become pro-active. The steps announced are designed to lower the prices of basics like diesel, steel, cement and plastics. Wholesale Price Index (‘WPI’) has risen at more than ten per cent for...
Places Of Religious Worship (Special Provisions) Act Is Still Legally Binding
By Prakash Karat During the Ramjanmabhoomi agitation, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and other Hindutva outfits had raised the slogan “Ayodhya sirf ek jhanki hai, Mathura or Kashi baaki hai”. This translated means “Ayodhya is just the beginning, Mathura and Kashi are left”. After winning the battle to build the...
Remembering Jawaharlal Nehru On His 58th Death Anniversary
By Nitya Chakraborty On May 27, 1964 at 1.44 PM, India’s first Prime Minister and one of the best chroniclers of this great nation’s history breathed his last at his residence Teen Murti Bhavan. Nehru along with Indira Gandhi came back to Delhi on May 26 afternoon after a...
Labour Market Recovery Is Again Under Threat
By Dr. Gyan Pathak After significant gains during the last quarter of 2021, the number of hours worked globally dropped in the first quarter of 2022, to 3.8 per cent below the pre-crisis benchmark in the fourth quarter of 2019. This is equivalent to a deficit of 112 million...
Is Arunachal And Ladakh The Dog’s Life For IAS & IPS?
By Sushil Kutty After the newspaper report with the picture showing the IAS couple watching the dog take a walk in the stadium, the Ministry of Home Affairs transferred Sanjeev Khirwar to Ladakh, and Rinku Dugga to Arunachal Pradesh, separating the couple, and punishing the dog for being the...
Geetanjali Shree’s ‘Tomb Of Sand’ Wins International Booker Prize
By Anjan Roy To talk of coincidence, ‘Geetanjali’ has got lucky for a second time in a hundred and ten years. In the first time, Rabindranath Tagore’s book of poetry, Geetanjali, won him a Nobel Prize in literature. Now, a century and more later, another Geetanjali, the Hindi writer...
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Calls All-Party Meeting On Caste Census
By Rahil Nora Chopra Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has called an all-party meeting in Patna, with an eye on getting the state cabinet’s nod to undertake a much-demanded caste census in the state. Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary has said that the all-party meeting on the...
Wage Earners And Bottom 20 Per Cent Are The Hardest Hit By High Inflation
By Sanjay Roy The Consumer Price Index (General) measuring retail headline inflation shows a year on year growth of 7.8 per cent in the month of April 2022, which is the highest in the past eight years. Actually, the CPI (General) was higher than 6 per cent in the...
Centre’s Sudden Wheat Export Ban Has Hit The Income Of Common Farmers
By Dr. Soma Marla In 2020, the present NDA government, while bringing three farm laws said they are intended to facilitate fair markets and enhance farmers’ incomes. But the government acted exactly in the opposite by banning exports all of a sudden, when the global wheat prices are attractive...
Ray Liotta Of Goodfellas Fame Was An Actor Of Great Talent
By Eileen Jones No need to get fancy or clever in paying tribute to Ray Liotta, who died suddenly in his sleep at age sixty-seven. This one really hurts. And enrages. Because we saw what he could do when he played his greatest role, Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese’s...
Indian Membership Of Quad Is Against Both Political And Economic Interests
By Binoy Viswam Strategists of various creed are busy evaluating the outcome of Quad Summit that took place in Tokyo on May 24. Its global proponents are engaged in overtime job to depict the initiative as a milestone in the developmental trajectory of the ‘democratic world’. All related words...
Despite Loss Of Jobs And High Price Rise, Narendra Modi Is Comfortable
By Sushil Kutty Eight years of Narendra Modi, and the lament is “there are still two more to go.” May 26, 2014 Narendra Modi stuck his thumb out at the naysayers and took oath. From that day on, the people of India haven’t been given reason to forget that...
