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.The Unique Story Of The Pig Heart Transplantation Scientist M M Mohiuddin
By Sushil Kutty As the hijab controversy simmers and the Karnataka High Court hears the case whether wearing the hijab is essential practice in Islam, there are people who are asking if a recent breakthrough in heart transplants involving the heart of a pig does not tell a story...
Former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Is A Recluse Now
By Harihar Swarup Why former West Bengal Chief Minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, a hardcore Marist, declined to accept Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award, bestowed on him by BJP-led Central Government? He put forward a feeble excuse for rejecting the prestigious award, saying he was not informed about it. This...
Forming Of A Federal Front Of Regional Parties Without Congress May Not Work
By Kalyani Shankar Will too many cooks spoil the Opposition broth? Many players in the national opposition camp are trying to come together ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls against the BJP. You have Congress President Sonia Gandhi attempting to form a united opposition coalition. You have West...
Decoding CPI(M)’s Draft Political Resolution For 23rd Party Congress
By Nitya Chakraborty The CPI(M) central committee has just released its draft political resolution (DPR) for discussion and adoption at the 23rd congress of the party scheduled in Kerala in April this year. The last party congress was held in 2018 and this DPR assesses the course of developments...
Supreme Court Bench To Consider Interim Report On Pegasus On February 25
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Supreme Court bench led by the Chief Justice N V Ramana will be considering on February 25 the interim report submitted to the apex body by the technical committee set up by the CJI through his order given on October 27 last year to go...
Priyanka Gandhi Can Spring Some Surprises In Uttar Pradesh Elections
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Priyanka Gandhi with her strategy, road shows and public meetings in fourth phase constituencies in assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh on February 23, can give surprise results for the Congress party. Priyanka Gandhi worked very hard to save Nehru -Gandhi bastion in Rae Bareli and...
Kerala Govt Petition To Centre On Right To Recall Governor Makes Sense
By Sushil Kutty To expect the Modi Government to hand over powers to recall a governor to a state government is naïve. Governors are appointed and function at the pleasure of the Centre. They can be recalled only by the Centre, in which case “recall” is a synonym for...
Kerala Government’s Commendable Conflict Resolution
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It was a classic example of commendable conflict resolution in the face of extreme provocation. The Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government’s efficient handling of the explosive situation averted a confrontation with Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan. The confrontation came about when the Governor refused to...
‘Communist Manifesto’ Is More Relevant Now On Its 175th Year Of Publication
By Nadia Urbinati The Communist Manifesto, first published on February 21 in 1848, doesn’t suggest that we should imagine the future. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels tell us that the future is harbored within things themselves, and that is why it is rational to desire it. So it makes...
Remembering Martyrdom In East Pakistan On Language Issue In 1952
By Sankar Ray Nearly four years before the martyrdom of Abul Barkat, Abdul Jabbar, Rafiquddin Ahmad, Abdus Salam and Shafiur Rahman on 21 February 1952, polymath Syed Mujtaba Ali, linguist and Bengali litterateur predicted dismemberment of Pakistan. At a meeting of Sylhet Sahitya Sangsad (Sylhet Literary Council on 30...
Bad Loans Of Indian Banks Leapfrogged In Last Seven Years
By Nantoo Banerjee Business is rarely risk free. So are bank loans. There is nothing unusual about non-performing loans or assets. They exist in every economy. But, when business promoters collude with bank management to manipulate loans in their personal favour, they become a matter of serious concern. And,...
Regional Chief Ministers Are Positioning For Post March 10 Scenario
By Nitya Chakraborty The non-BJP chief ministers belonging to the regional parties have become most active in the ongoing phase of the state assemblies elections getting the smell of a weakened BJP after the results are out on March 10.Telangana chief minister K C Chandrasekhar Rao has emerged as...
Cashing In On Digitisation, India Should Now Promote Service Led Growth
By K R Sudhaman At a time when India’s goods exports surged towards $400 billion mark and services exports $250 billion mark this financial year, it is really a welcome development that India has signed a comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement (CEPA) with United Arab Emirates (UAE). This is expected...
BJP Is Mobilising All Its Resources To Defend Its Bastion In Fourth Phase Of Polls
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP is under tremendous pressure to save its hold over Awadh and neighbouring areas from Samajwadi Party and alliance in fourth phase polling on February 23. Since BJP had won maximum seats out of total 59 seats in 2017 in nine districts Lucknow, Hardoi, Lakhimpur...
Cryptocurrency Getting More Respectability In American Market
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav A harsh critic of cryptocurrencies is becoming a part of it today! In 2019, US President Donald Trump had said that he was not a fan of bitcoin and asked Facebook to seek a Banking Charter if it wanted its digital currency Libra to work...
Indian Telephone Industries Management Is Violating All Labour Laws
By Madhulika In Bengaluru’s 80 workers have entered their third month of protest against Indian Telephone Industries Limited, one of the India’s largest public sector undertakings . The workers, many of whom, are women and belong to the Dalit community, have been on protest since December 1 of...
Massive Rush Of Political Opportunists To Trinamool Makes Mamata’s Task Difficult
By Ashis Biswas Despite marginalising opposition parties to near extinction in the ongoing Bengal civic body polls, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) remains an acutely divided house. As in 2018, hordes of TMC dissidents angered over not securing nominations ,are fighting the 2022 elections too as ‘independents’, in many...
Internet Suspension For Quelling Protests Cost India $4.7 Billion
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Modi government resorted to large scale shutdowns of internet connections to quell protests by people against its policies adopted between 2019 and 2021 is now well known, but what is little known is that the internet suspension was effected for 14,280 hours during this period...
