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.Screening For A Lethal Financial Virus From China
By K Raveendran A virus originating in Wuhan has had the world coming crashing down. Whether the virus escaped from the lab or spread as a contagion from the nearby market is yet to be settled. It is also unclear as to how long is to going to take...
Rakesh Tikait Is Haunting BJP In Uttar Pradesh And Punjab On Poll Eve
By Sushil Kutty So now we know how a ‘dacait’ behaves and acts, how he talks and whether or not he shaves daily! BJP MP from Bahraich Akshayva rLal Gond identified the ‘brigand’ as none other than farmer leader Rakesh Tikait. Gond further added that Rakesh Tikait is “foreign...
Per Capita Means Of Survival In Rural India Becoming Scarce
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The latest situation assessment of agricultural households and land and holdings of other households in rural India made by the NSS 77th round has revealed that per capita means of survival in rural India is dwindling fast and both farm and non-farm households are in...
Exports Are Looking Up But More FTAs Are Must For Higher Growth
By K R Sudhaman When Murasoli Maran of DMK became Commerce and Industry Minister in Vajpayee’s NDA government, he told a chamber meeting that Sri Lanka exports more than South India put together, Bangladesh more than East India, Nepal more than North India and Pakistan more than West India....
Gujarat’s New Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel Is Constantly Under Watch
By Harihar Swarup In a dramatic turn of event, BJP replaced its Gujarat Chief minister with a first-time MLA. Bhupendra Patel’s rise has been dizzying—from a young man who sold firecrackers, to the owners of a construction firm and corporator, to the 17th Chief Minister of Gujarat marked his...
German Left Working Head To Improve Position In National Elections
By Victor Grossman BERLIN: In German elections – like the coming national elections on next Sunday, September 26 – all you have to do is present the registration paper mailed to every citizen, then make crosses on a paper ballot. No trouble with the boss, no missing work, long...
Change In Punjab CM Will Have Its Impact On Other Congress-Ruled States
By Kalyani Shankar After months of suspense, the Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh has been replaced with Dalit leader Charanjit Singh Channi who took his oath as the Chief Minister on Monday. Punjab being a border state affected by militancy in the eighties, anything happening in Punjab is...
Crores Of Households In India Under Utter Penury
By Gyan Pathak Crores of households in India, both in urban and rural areas, have nothing that we call asset, neither physical nor financial. They have only their bodies and lives that they somehow carry on. They don’t have even an address since they don’t have even land or...
Mahant Narendra Giri’s Death By Hanging Calls For Thorough Probe
By Sushil Kutty Murder most foul, or suicide that leaves a stink? The death of a mahant in UP’s Prayagraj is being spoken about in hush-hush tones, both in public and private. The mahant was found hanging by his neck in his “room” in the “akhara” by disciples who...
Samajwadi Party Launches Massive Poll Campaign To Attract Youth
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: While raising new slogan, Nai hawa hai, Nai SaPa hai, Samajwadi Party national President Akhilesh is now focussing on Mahila and Youth for broader perspective to win forthcoming assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh. Earlier MY formula meant for Samajwadi Party muslim and yadav which helped...
Afghan Women’s Strong Opposition To Taliban 2 Rules Impacts Pakistan
By Sankar Ray The silence of 72-year-old All Pakistan Women’s Association towards severe scuttling of women’s rights in Afghanistan after the return of Taliban is no bewitching as APWA has always been establishmentarian. But baffling is the home-exiled new generation of women with a yearning for empowerment, particularly working...
Political Trouble Is Brewing In El Salvador’s Bitcoin Paradise
By Hilary Goodfriend Between the growing authoritarianism of his government and the massive popular pushback to his absurd new Bitcoin law, the honeymoon for El Salvador’s young, centrist presidentNayibBukele is over. At forty years old, El Salvador’s millennial millionaire president has projected an international image as a youthful and...
Equating NATO With QUAD Is Highly Mischievous
By Nantoo Banerjee By equating the US-led North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) with the four-nation Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD), China is probably justifying its massive military-economic expansion in the south and central Asian region. China knows very well QUAD can’t be likened to NATO. The two are totally different...
Uttar Pradesh Moving Towards Communal And Caste Polarisation
By Gyan Pathak “BJP does not do caste politics,” said Yogi Adityanath, the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh at ‘Vikas Utsav’, an event organized at Lucknow on March 19 to mark the completion of four-and-a-half years of BJP government in Uttar Pradesh. However, he did not also miss the...
Bid To Communalise ‘Narcotic Jihad’ Issue In Kerala Must Be Defeated
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The concerted attempts to communalise Pala Bishop Mar Joseph Kallarangatt’s remark that jihadists were trapping women of other religions through ‘love’ and ‘narcotic’ jihad to convert them and use them for terror activities, must be defeated. Not surprisingly, the BJP is using the issue as...
Congress High Command Has Taken A Big Risk By Changing CM In Punjab
By Sushil Kutty Captain Amarinder Singh’s bed of thorns is now occupied by Charanjit Singh Channi, a Dalit Sikh and the first of his kind! Meaning there’s never been a Dalit Chief Minister of Punjab despite Dalit strength in Punjab’s population approximating 32 percent, one of those mysteries that...
Congress Facing Major Organisational Challenges After Exit Of Amarinder Singh As CM
By Arun Srivastava If BJP can replace its chief ministers just ahead of the assembly elections, why can’t Congress do; this is the catchphrase put forward in public domain to rationalise the leadership’s action to remove Capt Amarinder Singh from the office. Charanjit Singh Channi, the dalit face of...
Germany Going For Crucial Federal Elections On September 26
By Loren Balhorn When Angela Merkel finishes up her fourth and final term as German chancellor on Sunday, September 26, it really will mark the end of an era. Though not the country’s longest-serving head of government (an honour still reserved for founding father Otto von Bismarck), Merkel’s reign...
