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.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...
Death Happened Without Oxygen But Not Reported Due To Design
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The nation was shocked. First, the Union Government of India denied death due to shortage of oxygen, and then several states of the country, as against witnesses of such happening. We have a section in the Indian Penal Code (IPC) to deal with ‘culpable homicide...
Vaishnaw Must Thank Pegasus For His Good Fortune
By K Raveendran It was the ultimate comedy of errors that when information minister Ashwini Vaishnaw was defending the government in the Pegasus snooping case, media units were preparing to release a list of targeted persons, who curiously included himself. It can be safely assumed that Vaishnaw has lost...
Supreme Court Must Order A Suo Motu Probe Into Pegasus Role In India
By Arun Srivastava While Indians are stretching and splitting their hair to make out the inference of home minister Amit Shah’s suggestion “chronology ko samjhiye” (understand the chronology), the international media is agog with the information that it was Narendra Modi who during his first visit to Israel in...
Pegasus Scandal Has The Potential To Unsettle Narendra Modi
By Devasis Chattopadhyay Just when the monsoon session of the Indian parliament was about to begin, the Pegasus scandal resurfaced and created a political row in the country, two years after it initially came to light. For record, Pegasus, the sophisticated spyware developed by the Israeli cyber-security and tech...
In Covid Period, Vietnam Is Emerging As An Alternative To Chinese Goods
By Subrata Majumder China has re-emerged as the biggest trading partner of India in 2020-21 outplaying USA, after a break of two years. Prior to these, China was also the leading trade partner for five years from 2013-14 to 2017-18. Notwithstanding, China loses primacy in trade in the post...
P K Warrier Was A Pioneer In Modernising Ayurveda, Traditional Indian System
By Harihar Swarup Rare are the people like P K Warrier, who have seen so many facet of life, achieved so much in life and lived over 100 years. He popularized Ayurveda, died in Kerala’s Kottayam a month after celebrating his 100th birthday on June 8. Decorated with India’s...
Population Policy Of BJP Led States Have Generated Many Apprehensions
By Kalyani Shankar There is a raging debate going on about regulating the population growth in India. Ahead of the Monsoon Session of Parliament, three BJP-ruled states — Uttar Pradesh, Assam, and Karnataka — brought a two-child policy norm with incentives and disincentives. Even though they have not openly...
Home Minister Amit Shah Loses The Plot, Calls Pegasus Conspiracy
By Sushil Kutty The Pegasus is a mythical winged horse which with a blow of its hoof knocked a spring out of Mount Helicon. The other day the Modi Government got kicked by Pegasus, Israel’s military-grade spyware, and set phones ringing all through India, from Agartala to Agatti, Kashmir...
Indiscriminate Arrests By Authorities Lead To Serious Health Problem Of Families
By Dr. Arun Mitra Chief Justice of India has very validly pointed out the misuse of Section 124(A) of IPC which deals with the offence of sedition. Laws like the NSA, UAPA and sedition laws are a reflection of colonial era. He pointed it from legal perspective as these...
Pegasus Expose Shows Full Complicity Of Modi Govt In Surveillance
By Arun Srivastava The Pegasus expose has brought a very significant political issue in the public domain for painstaking discourse that if all the democratic institutions had not been crushed and allowed to perform their democratic roles in the defined constitutional manner and the bureaucracy had not been inactivated,...
Pedro Castillo To Formally Take Over As President Of Peru On July 28
By Satyaki Chakraborty Peru’s electoral agony is finally over. The Marxist Pedro Castillo will take over as the new president of this Latin American nation on July 28 after the national electoral authorities dismissed all the legal challenges lodged by his right wing rival Ms. Keiko Fujimori on Sunday....
Blockchain Technology Has Potential To Improve Common People’s Lives
By Francis Erdman There are many myths and misunderstandings about blockchain, the technology that underpins cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. This largely because many (not all) people who work in that space come at it either from a global capitalist mindset and/or some flavor of libertarian/anarchist mindset. They are seeking...
30 Years Of Liberalisation: 34 Days That Shook The Indian Economy
By Nitya Chakraborty On June 21, 1991, the 70-year-old Congress veteran P V Narasimha Rao took oath as the Prime Minister of a minority government amidst massive political uncertainty over its longevity. The Congress had got only 232 seats as against the usual majority of 272 in the Lok...
