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.How Free Will Be The Social Media Giant Twitter Under Elon Mask?
By Sushil Kutty Elon Musk wants to give everyone on Twitter full and final rights to free speech and the ‘blue tick’, which is now only the headband of a privileged few, the majority of who were of the Jack Dorsey bent of mind. Dorsey and his successor Parag...
Continuing Russia-Ukraine War Is Leading To Apprehensions About Escalation
By Dr Arun Mitra With repeated rhetoric of use of nuclear weapons between Russia and Ukraine, fear has gripped the minds of people around the globe. Rightly so, as the use of nuclear weapons would lead to unprecedented catastrophe. If the war doesn’t stop soon there is likelihood of...
Amit Shah Has Given Uttar Pradesh BJP Unit A Target Of 70 Lok Sabha Seats
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and BJP are working for Mission 2024 to achieve the target of getting more than 70 seats in Lok Sabha from Uttar Pradesh. Soon after taking over as chief minister for second time Yogi Adityanath announced programmes for his ministers with...
AAP Winning A Seat In Guwahati Municipal Poll Is A Jolt To Trinamool Congress
By Ashis Biswas For the Delhi-based Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), winning a seat in the 2022 Guwahati Municipal elections was not exactly a major victory, but it certainly helped in consolidating its position as the undisputed front runner among regional parties in India, currently ahead of the Trinamool Congress...
Electricity Blackout Across The Country Exposes Faulty Policies
By Dr. Gyan Pathak “Netaji, do you know the meaning of converting UP into Gujarat? It means 24- hour electricity, no power cut for 356 days in every village and street. You can’t do it. You don’t have the guts to turn UP into Gujarat. It takes a 56-inch...
There Are Many Lessons To Learn From Sri Lanka’s Economic Crisis
By Prabhat Patnaik So much has been written on the Sri Lankan economic crisis that the facts are by now quite well-known the massive build up of external debt; the huge Value Added Tax concessions that pushed up the fiscal deficit and made the government borrow abroad even to...
The Missing Link Between Elon Musk And Indian Entrepreneurs
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Elon Musk’s financial muscle is being felt all over the world. After buying Twitter for $44 billion in cash a few days back, Musk is now joking that Coca-Cola is next on his shopping list. In a list of 2668 billionaires worldwide, India has 166...
Chief Justice Of India N V Ramana Has Got The Chance To Throw Out Sedition Law
By Sushil Kutty Finally, the much-maligned sedition law, Section 124-A, will meet its nemesis, when May 5 the Supreme Court will take up for hearing former Union minister Arun Shourie’s petition challenging the constitutional validity of Section 124-A of the Indian Penal Code. There is almost childish eagerness and...
Is There More To CM Nitish Attending Tejashwi’s Iftaar Party?
By Rahil Nora Chopra Bihar CM Nitish Kumar’s presence at an iftaar party hosted by RashtriyaJanata Dal (RJD) leader TejashwiYadav on 22 April, a day before Kumar moved out of his 1 Aney Marg house, has given rise to the speculation that both parties may be toying with the...
Congress Preparations For 2024 Lok Sabha Poll Without Prashant Kishor
By Nitya Chakrabory Now that the poll strategist Prashant Kishor has finally dissociated himself from the Congress Party’s plans for the next state assembly elections culminating into the Lok Sabha polls in March/April 2024, the Congress Party has to focus fully on how to make optimum use of the...
Time Of Final Reckoning Has Come For Sedition Law
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The time of reckoning has finally come. The Supreme Court of India is to begin final hearing of petitions challenging sedition law on May 5, 2022, as the Apex Court has said on April 27, and would not entertain any request for any further adjournment...
Petition Challenging Abrogation Of Article 370 Must Get Priority By Supreme Court
By Prakash Karat The chief justice of India, N V Ramana, has stated in court that he would consider resuming the hearing of the petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 and the creation of two union territories by dismantling the state of Jammu & Kashmir in July, after...
Highest Judiciary Is Avoiding The Tasks Of Protecting Indian Constitution
By Arun Srivastava Majoritarian’ propensities have completely riveted the Indian politics and its social order. This majoritarian principle has not only vitiated the political structure, instead it has also affected the judiciary; the bureaucracy is already dancing to its tunes. Stimulating majoritarian is the part of the well designed...
May 1 This Year Has Special Significance For Indian Working Class
By Amarjeet Kaur May Day reminds us the saga of great sacrifices of the workers throughout the world in bringing to focus the extreme exploitation of the working class that they were treated as animals, no fixed working hours, no justified return of their hard labour, no occupational safety...
Employment Outlook In India Turns Bleaker With People Losing Hope In Jobs
By Krishna Jha We have entered a phase when the history of class divided society has been taking a new turn. One of the basic features that are called the driving forces through which capitalism is characterised is labour, and through labour, comes surplus that drives ahead the productive...
Andhra State Unit Sets Up Reception Committee For 24th Congress Of CPI
By Ram Narsimha Rao CPI general secretary D Raja said that the unity of left, democratic and secular parties is the need of the hour to save the country from the clutches of communal fascists. He underlined the necessity of launching struggles in the same spirit as of communist...
NIA Can Continue With Its Dirt On The Departed Activist Stan Swamy
By John Dayal It may take time to get the Bombay High Court to clear Jesuit Father Stanislaus Lourduswamy’s name in the so-called Elgar Parishad case. And it may take longer to get the Vatican machinery to launch the formal process to grant Sainthood to the 84-year-old priest, whose...
Jaishankar Is Proud Of India’s Global Role But What About Within The Country
By Sushil Kutty There are two Indias. One outlined by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, and the other by over 100 ex-bureaucrats and ex-diplomats who wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister. And if S. Jaishankar’s is a fine exposition of everything that is fine about India, and...
