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.Education Loss Demands Special Provisions
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Almost two years has been lost since the pandemic struck, schools in India are yet to open causing great damage to entire generation of students. Loss is worse than expected, according to several studies, and yet we could not open schools and educational institutions. We...
Bangladesh Is Looking Beyond China For More Economic Assistance
By Ashis Biswas Bangladesh has not gone the way of 35 other low/middle income countries in the world that have run into debt traps, while accepting funds for China-sponsored development projects. Unlike other governments, Bangladesh authorities have not shrunk from scrapping major Chinese road/rail infra projects on grounds of...
The West, Not Russia, Is Responsible For The War Danger In Ukraine
By John Wojcik The world is fearful of possible war once again. This time the hotspot is Ukraine, with the accompanying crisis there and the fact that two of the adversaries, the U.S. and Russia, are the two largest nuclear powers on Earth. Obviously not good! But there is...
Punjab Needs A Totally Renovative Growth Strategy For Coming Years
By Harihar Swarup Lately, Punjab politics has been making headlines, not always for the right reasons. The security lapse during the prime minister’s visit and the infighting within political parties signal that all is not well in the state. At the same time, all parties have made the betterment...
India’s MSME Sector Needs Big Boost In 2022-23 Budget For Job Generation
By Nilanjan Banik At 8:30 am every day, 3000-odd labourers begin their work at a hot rolling steel plant in Jind, a small dusty town in Haryana. Hot rolling steel is used as an intermediary for making steel utensils. Although, the large steel plants have become mechanized, the hot...
Put Healthcare Sector At The Core Of Budget 2022-23
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With uncertainty continues even after two years of COVID-19 crisis, India needs to replace its adhocism with a strong healthcare system, since inter-linkage of the healthcare sector to other sectors of economy has sufficiently proved. When the health sector is week, the whole economy crumbles...
Centre Is Again Weakening Federal Principles By Unilateral Action On IAS Rules
By Sushil Kutty IAS officers don’t grow on trees. Both the Centre and states want them. Now, the Centre says it is facing a shortage of IAS and that the states are refusing to relieve IAS officers for central deputation. So, the Modi Government will amend IAS rules and...
A Thousand-Fold Abuse Of Free Speech Better Than Its Complete Denial
By K Raveendran The postulation about freedom of expression by the nineteenth century British politician, Charles Bradlaugh, is particularly relevant in the Indian context today when the Modi government is doing everything possible to deny such right to the citizens in the name of sedition. Bradlaugh’s relevance goes up...
Left Parties Resolve To Stop BJP’s Return After Uttar Pradesh Polls
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: CPI national Secretary Atul Kumar Anjaan told IPA that his party will contest 45-48 seats in Uttar Pradesh assembly polls. List of 32 candidates was released and remaining would be decided later on, he added. The CPI leader said that his party would make all...
OTT Platforms Contain Many Interesting Items For Viewers In Covid Era
By Papri Sri Raman It is a cold winter day, even a rainy day. What do I watch to get over the depression of just being there and not being able to get out of this ‘two years of lockdown’ phase? I know, your answer will be crime, of...
Massive Protests Are On Against Centre’s Bid To Sell Public Sector CEL
By Satyaki Chakraborty The move by the Modi Government to sell the public sector Central Electronics Limited (CEL) to a private company has led to widespread protests in the country. Retired directors and senior scientists of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have written a letter to...
Sedition Laws Of British Era Are Still Haunting Indian Democracy
By Sushil Kutty Nothing will change and nobody in the Modi regime will act on his recommendation, but Justice (retd.) Rohinton Nariman is an optimist and he has given a call to junk the colonial sedition law. For him the “single-most important and cherished human right” is the freedom...
Grants To Popularize Use Of Drone In Agriculture Is Just The Beginning
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav After releasing the standard operating procedure (SOP), the union agriculture ministry has issued guidelines for grants to popularize the usage of drones on Indian farms. The grants will be available until March 31, 2023, and cover expenditures for the purchase, hiring, and demonstration of agricultural...
Federal Principles Of Constitution Are Under Threat
By Krishna Jha India suffers from the greatest tragedy of the century. It is the crisis of fragmentation. The Constitution that has always stood for multiplicity, faces the threat of autocracy. There is the majority with its divisive slogans calling for end of an age when all people lived...
Centre’s Decision On Shareholding In Vodafone-Idea Is Crony Capitalism
By Prabir Purakaystha The recent announcement by the Union Government of converting a part of what Vodafone-Idea (VI) owes to the government into its shareholding, is another step in the long story of crony capitalism and so-called reforms in the telecom sector. The government has taken a 35.8 per...
Tensions Between JD(U), BJP Threaten To Splinter Alliance
By Rahil Nora Chopra JD(U) and BJP have been allies for the last two decades, save for a four-year period of estrangement from 2013 to 2017.This period coincided with Nitish Kumar retaining his hold over the chief minister’s chair, barring a short period in which Jitan Ram Manjhi led...
Covid Pandemic Has Exposed The Grim Inequality In Indian Society
By Abhiram Rajesh KOCHI: The eighth annual conference of the Kerala Security Employees Union (KSEU) was held on January 13 and 14 in Ernakulam. KSEU is affiliated to All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC). KSEU president K Vijayan Pillai initiated the proceedings with the hoisting of the Red Flag...
Sonia Gandhi Should Respond To Mamata’s Overture On Goa Polls
By Nitya Chakraborty Goa, with 40 seats, is going for elections on February 14. Hectic campaigning is on and already submission of nominations by the candidates has started with the two major contending parties the ruling BJP and the Congress set to field the respective party candidates in most...
