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.Centre Can’t Just Extend Jurisdiction For BSF Without Consulting States
By Sushil Kutty The Border Security Force told to patrol away from the international border is of no use. Its jurisdiction limits should be in sight of the border. The Centre’s order to extend the BSF’s jurisdiction is, therefore, even if not out of New Delhi’s jurisdiction, not going...
BJP Is Trying To Consolidate Its Position Through Bypolls In Assam
By Sagarneel Sinha Only six months before Assam witnessed assembly elections, where the BJP led NDA returned back to power for the second consecutive time by defeating the Congress-led Grand Alliance. Within a short period, election season is back as the state readies itself for the bypolls for five...
Cryptos Record A Milestone In Integration With Global Finance
By K Raveendran The crypto ecosystem has recorded a milestone in integrating itself into global finance, with the first Bitcoin-based exchange traded fund (ETF) having debuted trading on the Wall Street. This means the completely unregulated Bitcoin is getting a regulatory interface in the sense the ETF market is...
Shoojit Sircar’s ‘Sardar Udham’ Is A Fabulous Biopic Setting High Benchmark
By Nitya Chakraborty I have always been an admirer of Shoojit Sircar for choosing varying themes for his films, always offering to the viewers something interesting content wise. Sircar showed his directorial talent in choosing an offbeat content in Vicky Donor and in a different manner, he portrayed the...
Stark Disparities Revealed In Indian Workforce
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Disparities among Indian workforce are stark. Gender and educational inequalities are alarming. It has been revealed at a time in the Annual Bulletin on Additional Indicators based on data collected in Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), July 2019-June 2020 released recently, which it could not...
Congress Decision To Allot 40 Per Cent Seats To Women Is Having Impact In Uttar Pradesh
By Sushil Kutty Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati called it “sheer drama”, nothing else. “Why did the UPA government not reserve 33 per cent seats in parliament for women when it was in power at the Centre,” asked ‘behan Mayawati’, one woman to another, honest to honest. Priyanka Gandhi...
Data Suggests 10 Per Cent EWS Reservation Scheme Is Unsubstantiated
By Vineet Bhalla The Supreme Court, earlier this month, while hearing petitions against the reservation of seats for Other Backward Classes (OBC) and Economically Weaker Section (EWS) in admissions to post-graduate medical courses through the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Postgraduate) (NEET PG), sought an explanation from the union...
For Film Director Shyam Benegal, There Is No Retirement From Work
By Harihar Swarup Shyam Benegal, now 86, doesn’t believe in retirement. Life will happen to you anyway, he says, as he prepares for his first film in 11 years. Benegal likes to joke that he’s always introduced as a man who needs no introduction, a line that is followed...
National Digital Health Mission Is Not The Only Answer To India’s Problem
By Dr Arun Mitra The Prime Minister launched National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) on 27th September 2021 giving high hopes that it will bring about drastic improvement in healthcare of our people. The mission is basically to collect and compile health data which has been made easy by the...
Ongoing Economic Recovery In India Is Ridden With Risks
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The recent high frequency indicators suggest an ongoing economic recovery in India, but pressures of inflation have been elevated along with several other uncertainties. Though IMF assessment for India after Article IV Consultations has said ‘inflation eased to 5.6 per cent in July returning to...
Hindu ‘Hriday Samrat’ Is A Big Failure In Protecting His Brethren In Home And World
By Sushil Kutty Maybe in a decade, or a decade and a half, the only Hindu left in Bangladesh could be India’s envoy to Dhaka. That if that gentleman happens to be Hindu. The story is that at the rate at which the Hindu is racing towards “endangered species”...
Everything Is Wrong With Indian Budgets For Prisons
By Bharat Dogra The highly unsatisfactory conditions of prisons and prisoners often gets reported in India. To what extent is this related to budget-related factors? Analysis of official expenditure data for prisons for 2019 throws some light on this issue. Data from ‘Prison Statistics India 2019’, published by the...
Imran Khan Is Fighting Twin Battles At The Moment To Remain In Power
By Sankar Ray The principal ruling party of Pakistan, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf under the Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi, is, to say the least, facing a crisis of existence and identify as the PTI-led government in Islamabad sets its foot into the last year of four-year tenure. The state is...
Remembering Marxist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop Who Ruled Grenada For Four Years
By Owen Schalk October 16 marked 38 years since the death of Maurice Bishop, leader of the tragically short-lived People’s Revolutionary Government of Grenada (PRG). The PRG was formed when the New Jewel Movement (NJM), led by the widely popular Bishop, seized control of the country from the U.S.-backed...
India’s Digital Services Tax Is Under Global Scanner
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s commerce department seems to be out of touch with the government’s intentional tax deals — bilateral or multilateral. In recent times, India has lost all tax cases against MNCs in international courts and tribunals. It also lost large undisclosed sums in fighting these hopeless litigations...
Sonia Gandhi Is Now Officially Hands On President Of Congress Party
By Kalyani Shankar The Gandhi family has established its claim over the Congress party at the CWC meeting on October 16 as seen by Sonia Gandhi’s assertive speech. Her message to the Party in simple words is that “we are the Gandhis, and we rule as long as we...
Farmers Leader Rakesh Tikait Must Talk In Public With Utmost Care
By Sushil Kutty There is a growing realization and appreciation in large swathes of the country that Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi have together been leading a resurgence in Congress fortunes in recent days and weeks; Priyanka Gandhi in particular, especially after MoS (Home) Ajay Kumar Mishra ‘Teni’ and...
Raging Row In Kerala Politics Over Silverline Project
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A fierce debate is raging over the Silverline rail corridor project connecting Kasaragod and Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala state. The Opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) led by the Congress has strongly opposed the project on the ground that it is economically and environmentally unviable. The main...
