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.BJP-Shiv Sena Battle In Maharashtra Is Getting Dirty Every Passing Day
By Sushil Kutty There is talk of the “fear” on Uddhav Thackeray’s face. And that if anybody started the ‘sliving’, it was the Sena’s partner Nationalist Congress Party. ‘Sliving’ is slang for somebody “slaying” as well as “living it high.” Using the analogy, the BJP-Shiv Sena ‘sliving’ has reached...
Reaching $400 Billion Export Target Is Welcome But More Potential Is Still There
By K R Sudhaman Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal are gung ho about India’s merchandise exports that is goods exports touching $400 billion mark for the first time this year. This certainly calls for rejoice as India’s goods exports growth has been tepid in the...
Mafia Induced Violence In West Bengal Has A Long Political History
By Ashis Biswas The Hon’ble Calcutta High Court’s decision to entrust the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)with the power to probe the ghastly Birbhum village massacre instead of leaving the job to the Bengal police, is commendable: it makes any cover-up job planned by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) more...
Move For A Dedicated Indian Environment Services Within Civil Services
By Harsh Mahaseth and Gauri Goel The discourse that arose in the Supreme Court in January this year about the creation of an Indian Environment Services has its origins in a report by a high-level committee that was headed by former Cabinet Secretary T.S.R. Subramanian. The committee was established...
Signals Emanating From Chinese Foreign Minister’s Visit Indicate India’s Confidence
By Anjan Roy If you go into the details of the way the unannounced visit of the Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, was handled in New Delhi on Friday, India was clearly “cold shouldering” the initiative. It is important to remember the visit was from the foreign minister of...
Prime Minister Now Favours Holding Of Simultaneous Polls In Centre, States
By Harihar Swarup Now that the Narendra Modi government is firmly in saddle, it has re-opened the issue of linking Lok Sabha and assembly elections as was the practice till 1967. The argument advanced in favour of linking both elections are in these lines. It is argued that one...
Ukraine Imbroglio Brings India Collateral Oil Benefits
By K Raveendran With self-interest having been the overarching consideration of US policies, whether domestic or international, or even relating to third party issues, Washington understands India’s Ukraine policy as much as New Delhi does. That explains why the US has been circumspect in criticising India for its stand...
2024 Lok Sabha Polls Calculation Formed The Basis For Yogi’s Ministry
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP has started preparations for 2024 Lok Sabha elections which is evident from w from rainbow coalition of various caste and social engineering reflected in ministry formation of Chief Minister Yogi Adiyanath in Uttar Pradesh. Once again BJP has repeated two deputy chief Ministers giving...
Modi Government Must Initiate Talks With Central Trade Unions
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Two-day workers strike across India on March 28-29 on the call of the joint platform of 10 Central Trade Unions (CTUs) – INTUC, AITUC, HMS, CITU, AIUTUC, TUCC, SEWA, AICCTU, LPF and UTUC – and Sectoral Federations and Associations is getting larger support, barring from...
BJP To Improve Its Position In North East Through Rajya Sabha Polls
By Sagarneel Sinha After the saffron party’s recent victory in the assembly polls, particularly in the northeastern state of Manipur, it was expected that there would be a positive impact in favour of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the northeast, which financially depends mostly on the Centre. The return...
Iran Nuclear Deal As White House Cushion For Russian Embargo
By Matein Khalid While I have been uber-bullish on Brent crude and seven sister oil and gas supermajors ever since last summer, I never imagined the sheer scale of the supply shock that the global wet barrel market endured after President Biden imposed sanctions on Russian energy exports to...
Only A Course Correction Can Ensure Some Form Of Credibility To Imran
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The very mention of Pakistan brings up the image of a country infested with religious fanatics, fundamentalists, terrorists where state actors such as ISI and Pakistan military provide support to these non-state entities. No prime minister in Pakistan has ever completed a full five-year term....
India May Miss ‘End TB By 2025’ Target
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Four years ago in March 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi while chairing the “Delhi End TB Summit” had said about ending TB in India by 2025, five years ahead of the TB-related SDG target by 2030. Now End World TB Day March 2022 has provided...
The Bizarre Case Of United States Imposing Sanctions Against Russia
By Prabhat Patnaik The juggling which US imperialism has to do to maintain its hegemony becomes more bizarre by the day. First, it kept needling Russia (“provoking the bear”) “on behalf of the western alliance” by expanding NATO to its very borders, knowing full well that Ukraine’s joining NATO...
Sonia Placates G-23, But Urges Against Public Criticism
By Rahil Nora Chopra After meeting with G-23 leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, Congress president Sonia Gandhi reached out to other members of the group. Gandhi held a meeting with Manish Tewari, Anand Sharma and Vivek Tankha on Tuesday, as she stepped up efforts to placate the leaders of the...
Criminalizing Marital Rape: When Is An Exception Not An Exception?
By Indira Jaising Law performs both a normative function and a descriptive function. Criminal law constitutes offences which are punishable with imprisonment and/or fine. The law of rape is normatively defined in Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code as being a sexual act performed on a woman...
Bulldozer Politics Is Getting Institutionalised In Uttar Pradesh Under Yogi
By Arun Srivastava Yogi Adityanath, who took oath as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for the second time consecutively on March 25, is generally referred to as “Maharaj ji”. He earned his new tag of “bulldozer baba” during the recent elections due to his frequent reference of the...
Liberal Media Has To Give A Relook At Its Tone Of Anti-Hindutva Reporting
By Sushil Kutty There are two media in India. One the ‘left-liberal secular’ media. The other, the ‘rightwing-communal’ media. There are also Indians reporting and writing for international media. And as Yogi Adityanath was being crowned Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for a second consecutive term, it was hard...
