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.Statistical Jugglery Conceals Worsening Unemployment
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) has just come out giving a shot in the arm to Modi government. Ever since it was released last week, the government and their supporters have been gunning around the critics and are telling the country that both the...
Study Reveals Shocking Decline In Life Expectancy In United States
By Al Neal From the moment we are born there are certain immutable truths we cannot escape. And the one which drives an entire entertainment industry genre and is a constant and gnawing anxiety as we age is death. There is no avoiding it. And it leads to a...
Centre Has To Be Fully Prepared For Combating Third Wave Of Corona
By Harihar Swarup There are three possible scenarios, but in each, India needs to boost oxygen supplies and focus on vulnerable geographies Is a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic imminent? Will it be more severe than the second one? Can it be prevented? While it may be difficult...
Rahul Gandhi Is Right In Demanding Supreme Court Monitored Probe Into Pegasus
By Arun Srivastava Congress leader Shashi Tharoor not agreeing to a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Pegasus spyware scandal has come as a rude shock. According to him the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology headed by him will “do its duty” and the subject is “already...
Even Covid Can’t Curtail Craze For Gold In India
By K Raveendran It seems nothing can stand between Indians and their love of gold, not even the Covid pandemic, which has turned life upside down. It is as though they were waiting for the Covid restrictions to ease before hopped back to their favourite gold and jewellery shops....
Precarious Conditions Of The Jobless Worsening
By Gyan Pathak The condition of the jobless people in India was already precarious before the COVID-19 struck the country and lockdown was announced on March 24, 2020. It has been worsening since then. Unemployment rate remains high and prospects of regaining lost jobs or getting new one is...
Bombay High Court Judges’ Withdrawal Of Oral Remarks On Stan Swamy Is Bizarre
By Sushil Kutty Jesuit priest-cum-tribal rights activist, 84-year-old Father Stan Swamy’s death in a Mumbai hospital while still in judicial custody led to an outpouring of grief, with even rightwing media afraid they might step on toes if they cast wide the mildest of opprobrium. It was funny reading...
IUML Calls The Shots On Scholarship Issue In Kerala UDF
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There is no mistaking it. It is the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) which calls the shots in the United Democratic Front (UDF). The Front may be led by the Congress. But when it comes to taking decisions on crucial matters, it is the IUML...
Supreme Court Must Course-Correct From Its Kedar Nath Singh Ruling
By Md Zeeshan Ahmad and Zain Haider The sedition law is once again under fire. This is not for the first time that the sedition law is in the proverbial eye of the storm. The legal history of independent India shows that the sedition law (that is, Section 124A...
Decoding Mamata’s Opposition Unity Strategy Against BJP For 2024 Lok Sabha Polls
By Nitya Chakraborty The national political situation is presently volatile and every day, new revelations are coming out exposing the authoritarian character of the Narendra Modi Government which is in power at the centre for the last seven years. The exposure in the media about the Pegasus snooping covering...
Steep Rise In Fuel Prices During Pandemic Has Hit The Poor And Jobless Most
By Krishna Jha The cost of living for people from all economic strata except the favoured few gets shockingly high with every rise in petrol and diesel prices. According to SBI findings, there is a 50 basis points increase in consumer price inflation whenever the hike comes. The latest...
‘Farmers Parliament’ Is Yet Another Milestone, Many More To Come
By Gyan Pathak Farmers assembled at Jantar Mantar, staged protest, and organized their own parliament ‘Kisan Sansad’ on July 22, not far from the Parliament of India, which is in session. While the farmers’ parliament debated the APMC Act in two session, punctuated by a ‘langar’ on the first...
Income Tax Raids On Dainik Bhaskar Are Meant To Punish The Paper For Covid Coverage
By Sushil Kutty Remember Arvind Subramanian? He was Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chief economic advisor. Then he quit. Nowadays, he’s with Brown University, US. He also has links with think-tank ‘Center for Global Development (CDG)’, which in a study claims that India’s Covid death count till June 2021...
Nationalisation Of Banks In 1969 Brought Big Benefits To Agriculture
By Prabhat Patnaik On July 19, 1969, 14 major banks were nationalised in the country. Today, after 52 years there is some talk again of privatising the nationalized banks, which naturally raises the question: why were banks nationalized at all? The answer to this question is usually given in...
AIBEA Has Been Fighting For People’s Welfare Through Public Sector Banks Funds
By C H Venkatachalam On the eve of independence of our country, on August 14, 1947, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru spoke in the Constituent Assembly that India has a tryst with destiny. Similarly, AIBEA made a tryst with destiny on the April 20, 1946 when AIBEA was founded....
Two Accidental PM And FM Steered India Out Of Economic Crisis In 1991
By Anjan Roy At the launch of his six volume collected works, Dr Manmohan Singh remembered his days as finance minister. He had observed, he was not only an “accidental prime minister”, as some people had written, but he was “an accidental finance minister as well.” That was...
Can Priyanka Gandhi’s Leadership Topple Yogi Raj In UP?
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Congress general secretary in-charge of UP, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, has geared up in Uttar Pradesh, her kharambhoomi, with a mission to rebuild the Congress in UP ahead of 2022 assembly polls. She landed in Lucknow on 16 July for a three-day visit after...
Pegasus Is The Cyberweapon For Authoritarianism In India
By Prakash Karat The chronology suggests new security collaboration initiated with Israel during NSA Ajit Doval’s visit in March, 2017 preparatory to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to that country. The Pegasus spyware scandal is not just a case of violation of privacy, or illegal surveillance or snooping by...
