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.Not For Profit Corbevax Headed To India Generating Great Hopes
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Corbevax the vaccine for COVID-19 in a new hope. It is cheapest and hence most affordable, paving the way for equitable supply of the same to the have-nots of the world. When it headed from USA to India, newspapers like the Washington Post of...
UAE Drone Attack Adds More Heat To Oil Already Boiling Over
By K Raveendran The damage to UAE oil facilities in the drone attack by Houthi rebels is not very significant in terms of losses, but it is adding to regional tensions, causing supply disruption fears. Global oil price benchmarks are already surging to highs not seen in almost eight...
RSS And Prime Minister Have No Right To Speak Against Dynasties
By Sushil Kutty The Bharatiya Janata Party and its top most leader Narendra Modi hawk antigens against dynastic rule and political dynasties. In fact, there cannot be more dynasty-hurt people than those with the mark of the RSS parivaar on their foreheads. The BJP, while it opposes “family rule”,...
RSS Desperate To Find Out The Reasons For Desertion Of Dalits From BJP
By Arun Srivastava Social scientists are busy trying to analyse the reasons for the recent large scale desertion of senior BJP ministers and legislators and subsequently going back to the SP. While some look at it reappearing of the old syndrome, a large section of experts and scholars nevertheless...
Passing Away Of Birju Maharaj Is A Big Loss To Indian Art And Culture
By Harihar Swarup A rare combination of virtuosity and expression, grace and control Birju Maharaj, who became synonymous with Kathak, passed away in Delhi at the age of 83. He suffered from kidney ailments and has been on dialysis for some months. He died from sudden heart attack. Born...
Kazakhstan: Conflict Between Two Spheres Of Influence
By James M Dorsey When a Russian-led military force intervened earlier this month, it did more than help Kazakh President Qasym-Johart Toqayev restore and strengthen his grip on power following days of protest and violent clashes with security forces. The intervention brought to the fore a brewing competition for...
India Must Drop Jittery And Insecurity To Embrace Blockchain
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Animoca Brands is a Hong Kong-based company that develops blockchain-based gaming software. It also invests in NFT and metaverse projects like a venture capitalist and its investments span 150 companies including leading NFT marketplace OpenSea. On Monday, Animoca Brands announced that it has received $360...
Indians Should Take Their Cue From Resignation Of Virat Kohli As Test Captain
By Anjan Roy There comes a time when the established order seems ripe for a change. In Indian cricket, the time has come for that obviously. The ruling monarch of Indian cricket for the past so many years, has slid past in two formats already and in the third...
BJP Wooing Beneficiaries Of Central Schemes In Uttar Pradesh Polls
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: At a time when all political parties are offering freebies in their election promises, BJP is also banking on beneficiaries known labharthis from various schemes of central and states government to win the assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh BJP feels that major chunk of beneficiaries...
Impose Inequality Tax On Superrich In 2022-23 Budget To Help Distressed
By Nitya Chakraborty The Oxfam inequality report released coinciding with the virtual meeting of the World Economic Forum on Davos Agenda, has exposed in a candid manner how the two year pandemic has widened the inequality in the Globe including India. Specifically for India, the situation is grimmer as...
Samajwadi Party Giving Matching Fight To BJP On Eve Of Polls In Uttar Pradesh
By Kalyani Shankar Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav have emerged as the primary challenger to the BJP. in the February Assembly polls now that the poll scene is explicit. The polls will be held in seven phases from February 10 to March...
LIC IPO Undervaluation Kicks Up A Big Row In The Government
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Narendra Modi Government is in mess once again over its proposed valuation of the Initial Public Offering (IPO) of the blue chip Life Insurance Corporation. Earlier also there were allegations about the official valuation of some other leading public sector enterprises, but the LIC valuation...
Narendra Modi Ignored Grim Reality In His Speech At World Economic Forum
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The World Economic Forum’s Davos Agenda 2022 intended to bring world leaders together to address the ‘state of the world’ and to share their visions for the year ahead. On the very first day, the world has head the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi,...
In Punjab, On February 20 Poll, It Is Congress Versus Aam Aadmi Party
By Sushil Kutty There are lots of people, mostly Punjab Congress MLAs, rooting for Charanjit Singh Channi, clamouring that the Congress high command name Channi the chief ministerial face of the Congress; promise that he’ll not be replaced when Congress retains the government-ship of the border state on March...
Bengali Theatre Has Become Poorer With The Passing Away Of Saonli Mitra
By Sankar Ray Saonli Mitra, a legend in Bengali theatre who mesmerized the audience for more than three decades, passed away in Kolkata on Sunday after a prolonged illness. She was the daughter of the theatre icons of Bengal Sambhu Mitra and Tripti Mitra, but Saonli created her own...
India’s Industrial Growth Lacks Focus, Planning
By Nantoo Banerjee For years, the government has been loosely talking about making India a global manufacturing hub. Unfortunately, it does not have either a strong viable programme, or a reliable time frame, to make this happen. Despite having a big potential, India’s metal, engineering, defence hardware manufacturing, construction,...
People Must See Through The Grim Reality Under Modi Rule
By Dr, Gyan Pathak It is high time that the people of India could see, rather must see, through the grim reality under Modi rule, especially since the outbreak of the COVID-19, during which 84 per cent of the households of the country suffered significant decline in income with...
Aam Aadmi Party Is Determined To Play Larger Role In National Politics
By Sushil Kutty With the Aam Aadmi Party, it’s not the Lucknowi ‘pehle aap, pehle aap’. For Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP—born out of the womb of an ‘andolan’—there is time still to conquer India and like the industrious ‘ant’, AAP slogs on, it’s ambitions intact in the future which could...
