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.Stalled Labour Market Recovery And Disparities Need Urgent Redressal
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The global labour market recovery has been stalled and significant disparities between advanced and developing economies persists along with great disparities between the various groups of workforce within nations are at alarming level that need urgent redressal to avoid catastrophic impacts on workforce including complete...
No Silver Lining To The SilverLine Project In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Dark clouds are gathering over the Kerala Government’s SilverLine high-speed rail project. The prestigious project, which, when implemented, would reduce the running time between Kasaragod to Thiruvananthapuram from 11 hours to less than four hours, has run into several hurdles, raising doubts about its realization...
Poll Campaign For Presidential Poll In Chile On November 21 Heating Up
By W. T. Whitney Jr. The 1973 U.S.-supported military coup against Chile’s socialist government and the murder of President Salvador Allende may be old history. The Pinochet dictatorship ended in 1988 and democratic forms—elections, political parties, debate—are in place. And Chile’s economy, recovering from the pandemic, is booming. For...
Celebrating Pakistan Team Win Does Not Constitute An Offence Under UAPA
By Yashashwini Santuka In the last one week, post the India-Pakistan Men’s T20 Cricket World Cup match which was won by the Pakistan team, a range of alarming developments followed. The most imminent among them was the observation of hate and anger against those celebrating the Pakistan men’s cricket...
China’s New Law On Land Border Activities Has Grave Implications For India
By Anjan Roy Come 2022, India can anticipate serious incursions and incidents on the Indo-China border along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). The Chinese have just unilaterally passed a new law empowering the Chinese state to undertake a wide variety of activities along its land borders which in...
Yogi Adityanath Is Making Use Of Sedition Case To Woo Hindu Voters
By Sushil Kutty Sometimes the Supreme Court says something of great import and then leaves it behind like it was a no account fleeting thought. Take the archaic sedition law. Earlier this year, the apex court said it was time for India “to define the limits of the sedition...
Education Must Be Rooted In The Reality Of A Vast And Diverse Country Like India
By Prabhat Patnaik Education in post-independence India was supposed not just to provide knowledge and skills to students, but also to facilitate the process of “nation-building” (to use a clumsy word). Since the concept of an “Indian nation”, although it existed in a rudimentary form earlier (going back even...
BJP’s Divisive Policies In J&K Are Responsible For Disillusionment Among People
By M Y Tarigami The recently concluded visit of union home minister Amit Shah, his first since the special status of Jammu & Kashmir under Article 370was arbitrarily and unconstitutionally revoked in August 2019, has been one more addition to the long list of disillusionments as except rhetoric nothing...
Better Nutrition For The Poor Is Imperative For India To Contain Hunger
By Dr Arun Mitra After the sad happenings during COVID-19 which led to the death of 4 lakh people according to official figures (even though some independent agencies point out this number to be between 25-40 lakh), the news of vaccinating 100 crore people with first dose and 30...
BJP Govt In Tripura Is Unresponsive To Attacks Against Opposition Leaders
By Sagarneel Sinha Trinamool Congress, which is trying to get a foothold in Tripura after ascending to power for the third consecutive time in West Bengal, has been claiming that its leaders are facing attacks in the north-eastern state while carrying out its political programmes. Recently, party’s Rajya Sabha...
Congress Steps Up Poll Campaign In Goa, Uttar Pradesh
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Congress is going to initiate its campaign for Goa and Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls with senior leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra leading the same. After visiting Varanasi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, general secretary of the party in-charge of UP, will be addressing the...
Portugal Faces Snap Elections As Left Bloc Votes Against Budget
By Satyaki Chakraborty Portugal is facing the possibility of a snap election early next year as the Socialists Party Government led by Prime Minister Antonio Costa conceded defeat in Parliament on Wednesday after his budget was voted out by his allies, the Left bloc including the Portuguese Communist Party...
Citizens Should Say No To Updating National Population Register
By Prakash Karat The updation of the National Population Register (NPR) is back on the agenda of the Census 2021 enumeration. According to a news report in The Hindu (dated October 27), the form for updation has been issued as part of the handbook for Census officers that has...
Unsavoury Gloating Over One Billion Vaccination Under Narendra Modi
By Binoy Viswam All of a sudden, the government has become science-oriented. They dramatically became advocates of vaccination. Distribution of 100 crores of vaccines became their precious campaign point. Even the mobile ringtones have been tuned in such a way to propagate the glory of 100 crores. Prime Minister...
Corporatisation Of 41 Ordnance Factories By Centre Is A Historic Blunder
By C. Srikumar The role played by the 41 Ordnance Factories as a government of India departmental defence industry for the security and defence preparedness of our country was immense, though went unnoticed. But for them, it would have been impossible for the Indian Armed Forces to have won...
‘Net-Zero’ Is Both A Solution And A Trap
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Scientific ‘net-zero’ is a solution to the overheating of the earth and hence any criticism cannot be sustainable. However, nobody should be allowed to use it as a trap against any nation. The Emissions Gap Report 2021 released just a few days ahead of COP26 ...
Adoption Of A New Born Generates Political Row In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The controversy over the adoption of a newborn in the State capital has acquired a distinct political hue with the Government asserting that there is nothing illegal about it and the Opposition accusing the Government of abetting it. The controversy came to light when Anupama...
Afghanistan Under Taliban 2.0 Reels Under A Famine Like Situation
By Sankar Ray Afghanistan is now in a penumbra of bloody uncertainty which the Taliban 2.0 is too myopic and strategically incapable to overcome. As a result, Kabul, the capital of war-torn country, is fast turning into something utterly beyond recognition. The vibrant nightlife and arts scene of Kabul...
