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.Historic Day For Oil Consumers As Cartel Is Reined In
By K Raveendran It is indeed a historic occasion for oil consumers, suffering at the hands of oil producers. Major oil importing countries, led by the United States, have shown the courage to stand up to the challenge posed by oil cartel of OPEC+ and decided to take the...
Healthy Food Not Affordable For Over 40 Per Cent Population
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Availability of healthy food to an individual has many dimensions, and the chief among those is its affordability. It is more shocking than the shocks from COVID-19 pandemic to know that three billion people, ie about 40 per cent of the population of the world,...
Small Farmers And The Farm Law: An Introspection
By Nilanjan Banik On 19th November, PM Modi announced the repeal of the farm laws. Does it mean a good thing or a bad thing for the majority of the farmers who dot the countryside? India has around 260 million people living in poverty and 80% of them fall...
Vaccine Inequity Is A Major Concern For The Pandemic-Hit At Global Level
By Dr Arun Mitra The statement by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) that at present booster dose against COVID-19 vaccine is not a priority and administering two doses is the present priority goes along the line of World Health Organisation (WHO). Dr Balram Bhargav, director of the...
Imran Govt’s Ceasefire With Pakistani Taliban Triggers Resentment
By Sankar Ray An unseemly haste in releasing over 100 Taliban prisoners by the federal government of Pakistan ostensibly as a “goodwill gesture” almost immediately after the ceasefire agreement between the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led government and the hitherto banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has irked the parents of children massacred by TTP...
Centre’s Greenlight For AIIMS In Kerala?
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Is Kerala a step closer to having an All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS)? If the optimism voiced by the State Government is any guide, it is. A final decision will, however, be taken only after a team of the Union Ministry of Health...
Manish Tewari Book Simply Out Of Sync With Party, Family
By Sushil Kutty Guess they didn’t keep minutes of the cabinet meetings those days. If they had, Manish Tewari wouldn’t have been free with the Parker as Salman Khurshid was with the Mont Blanc. If one Congress leader warmed the cockles of the Congress high command, the other left...
A Decaying Congress Battles For Survival In Tripura
By Sagarneel Sinha The Congress party has been going through a deep crisis in Tripura. The party has weakened so much that it is almost reduced to a minor party in state politics. Currently, it is not even considered a major party both in the hills and the plains....
Apollo Hospital Group Has Revolutionazed Health Care In The Country
By Harihar Swarup At a time when the Covid-19 pandemic had struck hard and India was struggling to get the health care centres in place, Apollo hospitals showed unprecedented convergence of medical knowledge, technology and data science revolutionized patient care. With its centres of Excellence, Apollo Hospitals has been...
Modi Surprises Supporters, Opponents And The Farmers
By Kalyani Shankar Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not known for stooping. However, political compulsions made him roll back the three contentious farm laws last week. He has realized that whenever political opposition and mass movements come together, it impacts politics. As a shrewd politician, he chose to retreat....
Congress Will Benefit By Aligning With Left Parties In State Assembly Polls
By Nitya Chakraborty With only less than three months left for the assembly elections to the five states in February/March 2022, full scale preparations at the level of BJP’s central leadership as also state leaders to look for maximum allies to take on the Congress and the other parties...
Report Asks World To Prepare For The Next Global Health Threat
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The six-month accountability report presented just a week ahead of the special session of the World Health Assembly (WHA) from November 29 to December 1, only the second in the history of the World Health Organisation (WHO), has presented clear evidence of two most important...
With Foes Like Owaisi, Modi And BJP Need No Friends
By Sushil Kutty AIMIM head Asaduddin Owaisi is the Bharatiya Janata Party’s true friend, the kind who swears by “a friend in need is friend indeed.” And these days aren’t easy for the BJP. There are elections in five states. The party’s iconic leader Prime Minister Narendra Modi has...
Uma Tweets On Farm Laws Please Congress, Embarrass BJP
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: While Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shiv Raj Singh Chouhan is making all out efforts to expand the party’s base by showering benefits on tribals, a major rift has been caused in the party with veteran party leader Uma Bharti publicly questioning the decision of withdrawal...
Centre Must Not Have Powers To Transfer High Court Judges
By Prof G Mohan Gopal Article 222(1) of the Constitution of India provides that “he President may, after consultation with the Chief Justice of India, transfer a Judge from one High Court to any other High Court.” This power was very rarely used until 1976. According to data provided...
With ‘Mandar’, Anirban Bhattacharya Reinvents Bengali Filmmaking
By Annie Domini Rituparno Ghosh’s premature demise in May 2013 cost contemporary Bengali cinema much. In fact, it precipitated a particularly debilitating imaginative drought that was felt by many but convincingly articulated by few. The reign of Srijit Mukherjee in this period has been doubly disastrous for Bengali film...
Qatar World Cup Continues To Spark Multiple Controversies
By James M Dorsey When seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton wore a helmet this weekend featuring the colours of the LGBTI Pride Progress Flag during the debut Qatar Grand Prix, he was challenging more than the Gulf state’s failure to recognise rights. So will the Danish Football...
Far Right Jose Kast Leads Over Leftwing Boric In First Round Of Chilean Elections
By Satyaki Chakraborty Jose Antonio Kast, candidate of the far right received nearly 27.94 per cent of the votes as against the Left nominee Gabriel Boric’s 25.75 per cent in the first round of Presidential elections in Chile held on November 21. Since no candidate got majority of the...
