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.Corporate Encroachment On Peasant Agriculture Is A Matter Of Concern For All
By Prabhat Patnaik There are a number of misconceptions about Indian agriculture which, if not removed forthwith, can have potentially adverse effects on the ongoing kisan agitation against the three farm laws. The first of these is the belief that corporate encroachment on peasant agriculture is a matter concerning...
Prime Minister Has To Make Necessary Corrections In His Climate Programme
By Binoy Viswam Global warming is the biggest challenge humanity faces today. No country can afford to ignore its impact on the national and international levels. The Kyoto protocol in 1997 was a landmark initiative where 84 countries came together to address the menace of global warming. In the...
October Labour Market Deterioration Is Baffling
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Even the festival season has failed to brighten the labour market. Employment rate fell to 37.3 per cent in October as against 37.9 per cent in September, the labour participation rate (LPR) to 40.4 per cent from 40.7 per cent, while unemployment rate rose to...
Facebook’s Rebranded Meta Bracing For A Dystopian Future?
By Prabir Purkayastha Last week, Zuckerberg at Connect 2021 launched a new company brand Meta. According to Facebook, “…brings together our apps and technologies under one new company brand. Meta’s focus will be to bring the metaverse to life and help people connect, find communities and grow businesses.” Is...
Akhilesh Yadav’s SP Gaining Ground In Uttar Pradesh To Challenge BJP
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Much significance is being attached to the statement of Samajwadi Party national president and former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav that he would not contest assembly polls. Akhilesh Yadav, who is MP from Azamgarh, will now concentrate on campaigning for his party rather than looking after...
Congress Re-Energised By Impressive By-Poll Victories
By Rahil Nora Chopra After the by-polls to 29 assembly and three Lok Sabha seats where Congress scored a surprise victory in Himachal Pradesh, and notable wins in Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Karnataka, senior Congress leader Randeep Surjewala tweeted: “BJP has lost 2 out of 3 Lok Sabha seats. In...
Imran’s Surrender To Radicals Poses Grave Danger To Pak Society
By James M Dorsey Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan may have averted for now further violence by caving in to demands of a militant, supremacist religious group. But in doing so, Khan is allowing radical ultra-conservatism to fester, undermining social cohesion, threatening economic development, and giving militants a say...
Defeat In Virginia Rings Alarm Bells For Democrats As Mid-Term Poll Approaches
By C.J. Atkins The big defeat of the Democratic Party in the latest Governor’s elections in Virginia and the erosion of its base in the strongholds of New Jersey and New York have ominous portent for the President Joe Biden and his party colleagues for the coming midterm elections...
BJP’s Task Gets More Tougher In Coming Assembly Elections
By Nitya Chakraborty The results of the by polls of thirty assembly constituencies and three Lok Sabha seats announced on November 2 make it clear that the BJP’s days of supremacy in Indian politics have been reversed. The Congress has staged a significant come back while the regional parties, ...
Pre-Poll Petroleum Price Game Between Govt, Oil Firms On Its Way
By K Raveendran The behaviour of fuel prices in India is falling into a regular pattern. Three distinct patterns emerge, relative to elections in the country in the price movement of petroleum products. These phases fall into pre-election, election and post-election scenarios. The pattern has been repeating itself ad...
India Will Be A Loser By Joining A Sort Of Quad For West Asia
By Prakash Karat The part-virtual and part-person meeting of the foreign ministers of four countries – the United States, Israel, India and United Arab Emirates – on October 18 saw the emergence of a new grouping in West Asia. It is significant that the meeting took place when the...
Russian Revolution In 1917 Has Inspired Generations Throughout The World
By D. Raja Few events can be cited in human history that have altered our understanding of human society to the extent of the Russian Revolution (October 25, 1917, as per new calendar November 7). While the French Revolution fuelled the revolutionary aspirations of the masses but fell prey...
JD(U) Win In Bihar Bypolls Conceals Dangers That Lie Ahead For NDA
By Gyan Pathak By winning both the assembly seats – Kusheshwar Asthan and Tarapur – in Bihar that went to by-polls on October 30, the JD(U) has reaffirmed its advantage over the RJD, under three major conditions. First, JD(U) contested in alliance with BJP, voters turnout was less than...
Winds Of Change Blowing Across Great Gangetic Plain
By Sushil Kutty “First step outside Maharashtra, giant leap towards Delhi via Dadra Nagar Haveli!”, Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut, Neil Armstrong-like, tweeted, soon after the Sena’s newly minted candidate, Kalaben Delkar, won the Dadra and Nagar Haveli (DNH) bypoll. Kalaben defeated the BJP’s Mahesh Gavit and...
MP Results A Personal Victory For CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Nobody expected such a massive BJP win in the by-polls held in Madhya Pradesh on October 30. Most of the observers thought that because of the exorbitant price rise of diesel, petrol, LPG cylinders and scarcity of fertilizers at the time of sowing and terrible...
BJP And Allies Sweep Assam By-Elections On Development Plank
By Ashis Biswas In Assam, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ally the United Peoples’ Party Liberal (UPPL) won all five seats where assembly by-elections were held on October 30.Its performance in the biggest state in India’s Northeast somewhat offset its miserable showing in West Bengal, where...
Amarinder’s Pak Journo Friend Aroosa Alam Is A Pioneer
By Harihar Swarup Aroosa Alam, the Pakistani journalist and advocate of India-Pakistan peace, whose “pure, beautiful friendship” with Amarinder Singh is now at the centre of a public slugfest between the former Punjab CM and his estranged colleagues in the Congress. Over the years, both when Amarinder was out...
Wall Street View – External Pressures, Downgrade Besiege Pakistan Rupee
By Matein Khalid A perfect macro storm for the Pakistani rupee has seen it tank from PKR 152 in May to PKR 170 now. The primary catalyst for the rupee’s plunge was the escalation in the trade deficit and the PTI government’s indiscriminate borrowing from the banking system to...
