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.Demand For Repealing Labour Code By Centre Gaining Momentum
By Satyaki Chakraborty The fight by the central trade unions of the country against the implementation of the central labour codes has been extended to Parliament as Member of Rajya Sabha, Elaram Kareem, introduced on Friday, a Private Member’s Bill seeking the repeal of the Code on Wages,...
Russia And China’s Joint Statement Against NATO Expansion Significant
By John Wojcik Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, issued a joint demand Thursday that NATO halt its plans for further expansion and end their continued push to whip up a “Cold War mentality.” The joint call in the wake of NATO’s preparations for intervening...
Rahul Gandhi Has Offered A Visionary Programme To Fight BJP In 2024 Polls
By Nitya Chakraborty The Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s speech in Lok Sabha on February 2 during the debate on President’s address, stands out as a major policy programme which has all the points for emerging as a common minimum programme for the political parties who are interested in fighting...
2022-23 Budget Whose Silences On Immediate Issues Are Ominous
By Prabhat Patnaik No budget in recent memory has-been presented at a time when the economy is in such dire straits: unemployment is so bad that there are job riots in Bihar and UP; wealth and income inequalities are among the worst in the world; millions more have been...
Free Access For Pharma Corporates To Loot Rare Forest Wealth
By Dr. Soma Marla During the last winter session of Parliament Union government has introduced amendments to the existing Biological Diversity Act, 2002. It was said that the proposed amendments would ease access to biological resources (including rare medicinal plants, seeds and Traditional knowledge) by the Indian traditional medicine...
SP-RLD Alliance Of Jats And Muslims Crucial Factor In Western UP
By Rahil Nora Chopra With an eye on the upcoming Uttar Pradesh polls, the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) are trying to revive MAJGAR, the caste combination of Muslim, Ahir (Yadav), Jat, Gujjar and Rajput, which suffered a major dent following the 2013-Muzaffarnagar violence. SP...
The Great Chinese Enigma Continues Despite Narendra Modi’s Bravado
By Sushil Kutty The Chinese have their own idea of immortality. China plans for the next 100 years, if not for the next 1000 years. If that is not immortality, what is? The Middle Kingdom turned communist and Mao Ze Dong took off with a vision, not just for...
Disinvestment Of BEML Faces Resistance From Employees At All Levels
By Rahul Chakraborty The Narendra Modi Government’s move to disinvest the public sector Bharat Earth Movers Ltd. (BMEL) is getting stiff resistance from both the employees of the company as also the former bureaucrats who are expert in the process of disinvestment. There is widespread anger among the central...
Socialist Cuba Has Withstood Sixty Years Of United States Blockade With Dignity
By Satyaki Chakraborty Sixty years have passed since the then United States President John Kennedy initiated economic blockade against Cuba headed by Fidel Castro which is still continuing now. On February 3, 1962, the blockade was first initiated in the form of embargo on all trade between Cuba and...
Indonesia’s Holocaust Museum Highlights Stakes In Battle For Soul Of Islam
By James M Dorsey Controversy over the opening of Southeast Asia’s first Holocaust museum highlights differences in the Muslim world over the limits of religious tolerance and Muslims’ ability to debate those limits. The controversy over the museum in Minahasa, North Sulawesi, home to one of Indonesia’s two known...
Narendra Modi Government Has No Defence Now In Favour Of Its Stand On Pegasus
By Krishna Jha “… Though the Israeli government’s oversight was meant to prevent the powerful spyware from being used in repressive ways, Pegasus has been sold to Poland, Hungary and India, despite those countries’ questionable records on human rights…” wrote Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti of the New York...
BJP’s Communal Agenda Is On Full Display In Poll Campaign In Uttar Pradesh
By Prakash Karat As the election campaign for the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls is in full swing with the first phase of elections be held on February 10 in western UP, it has become clear that the BJP is banking solely on the Hindutva communal plank for mobilising support....
Akhilesh-Jayanta Combine Has Edge In First Phase Of Uttar Pradesh Poll
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The polling in 58 assembly seats during first phase in Uttar Pradesh elections on February 10 will set the mood and trend for rest of the constituencies in UP. BJP is more under pressure to retain its seats as it has won 53 out of...
Health Allocation In 2022-23 Budget Much Below The Needs Of The Present Challenge
By Dr Arun Mitra We have faced serious health crisis in the last two years particularly due to the COVID Pandemic which has cost dearly precious lives, economy and pushed millions of people into joblessness and loss of livelihood adding to the already existing poverty. Large number of population...
Regional Non-BJP Chief Ministers Turning Increasingly Against BJP
By Sushil Kutty If reformation was the goal, the “bigoted” Bharatiya Janata Party would also have been invited to the all-parties’ meet to fight “bigotry and religious hegemony.” However, Joseph Stalin’s namesake, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, didn’t think his call to fight “bigotry and religious hegemony” would...
Kerala Let Down Yet Again By 2022-23 Union Budget
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Union Budget has come as a huge disappointment for Kerala once again. The 18-point wish list of the Left Democratic Government , which had pinned great hopes on the Budget remains what it is: a mere wish list! The State’s disappointment is clear from...
Another Bonanza For Corporates
By Amarjeet Kaur The whole exercise appeared to be a farce as it was claimed to be budget vision for 100 years of independence. In 2015 also the budget presentation was claimed to be for 25 years. The Finance Minister failed to give account of what happened to all...
Mexican President Obrador Is Set To Win His Recall Election In April Next
By Kurt Hackbarth The new year 2022 is looking bright for Andrés Manuel LópezObrador and his party, MORENA. Despite a two-year pandemic that has taken its toll on other world leaders, his popularity rating remains high. After months of scuffles with the opposition, the recall election he promised to...
