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.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...
23 Million People Are Facing Acute Food Crisis In Afghanistan
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav About five months since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, the country with 40 million people is seeing the worst crisis in its painful political upheavals of the last few decades – hunger and starvation. As per UN reports, Nearly 23 million people are in the...
Call For Indianisation Is A Fallacy, If Not A Fraud, On The Constitution
By Dr M.P. Raju A call to Indianize and decolonize the legal and constitutional system of India may appear to be innocuous and even attractive. A closer look at such calls may show otherwise. Such a call is not new. However, the recent call is a little different in...
Ruling Socialists Frontrunner In Portugal National Elections On January 30
By Satyaki Chakraborty Portugal’s ruling Socialist Party led by the present Prime Minister Antonio Costa is leading in the current opinion polls as against the main opposition Social Democratic Party for the national elections scheduled on January 30 this year. The other parties, Left Bloc and the Communist Party...
Spanish Communist Deputy PM Yolanda Diaz Imparts Dynamism To The Coalition
By Eoghan Gilmartin When Pope Francis granted Spain’s left-wing deputy prime minister Yolanda Díaz an official audience before Christmas, the opposition Partido Popular branded the meeting a “communist summit.” It seems that even for the mainstream right, the head of the Catholic Church is now part of the “anti-Spain”...
Uttar Pradesh Has Witnessed Various Twists In Politics In Three Decades
By Harihar Swarup Uttar Pradesh which dominates national politics, has had an eventful history in the assembly elections as well. As the state heads for polls, a look at its frequently changing governments and CMs, and the role of key leaders shows its fascinating twists and turns among different...
No End Of Woes For Unorganised Sector Labour As Third Wave Peaks
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The third wave of COVID-19 has depressed the labour market in India. The first two weeks of the new year witnessed more stringent containment measures in several states and metropolis in the country resulting in closures of many economic activities, and this trend is most...
Imran Khan’s Peace Pipeline Is Meant To Woo International Monetary Fund
By Sankar Ray The much fanfare with which the Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi announced the 100-page long maiden National Security Policy 2022-2066 meets with both bouquets and brickbats. It was okayed by the miltablishment prior to nod by the cabinet as the PM revealed the ‘civil military...
