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.Surging Fuel Prices Pose Threat To Economy, Government
By Nantoo Banerjee It is rather unusual to see the government calmly watching the growing misery of the common man under the pressure of rising inflation, fuelled by increasing oil and gas prices, and shrinking jobs and income. It would be fundamentally wrong if the government continues to allow...
Pegasus Revelations Speak Of Complicity Of Modi Government In Surveillance
By Sushil Kutty Nearly 300 phone numbers of Indians most-likely not friendly with the Modi Government were hacked and infected by a military-grade Israeli spyware during the run-up to the 2019 general elections which the BJP led by the Modi-Shah combine won with a thumping majority. In all 50,000...
Bengal BJP Is In Deep Crisis Due To Growing Factionalism In Districts
By Barun Das Gupta The disastrous defeat of the BJP in assembly elections in Bengal has not only demoralized the party workers at all levels but has also intensified factionalism in the organization. The party which dreamed of winning two hundred plus seats and ruling West Bengal is now...
Competitive Examinations In India Need Urgent Revamp
By Dr. Gyan Pathak All competitive exams in India, on the surface level, may seem to be doing justice to all the candidates, but in reality they are doing injustice to the poor, underprivileged, and unprivileged. They are being excluded systematically from getting better opportunity in education and jobs....
Priyanka Gandhi’s Three Day Visit To Uttar Pradesh Boosts Congress Workers
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: With her three hours, maun vrat, at the statue of Mahatma Gandhi on the day she arrived Lucknow, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra not only stumped the ruling party but also scored over other opposition parties. With her decision to sit in dharna at the statue of...
Bangladesh Prefers Using Railways In Import/Export Trade With India
By Ashis Biswas Frustrated beyond relief by powerful politically-backed West Bengal-based road transport mafia, Bangladesh business authorities have switched over using Railway services to continue their increasing import-export trade with India. Presently efforts are under way to build immediately at least two railway yards at the Benapole land customs...
Opposition Parties Have To Show United Mojo Against BJP In Monsoon Session
By Nitya Chakraborty The 18-day monsoon session of Parliament beginning July 19 has given the anti-BJP opposition parties a big opportunity to take on the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government for its gross failure in protecting the lives and livelihoods of the millions of people who have...
Govt Stand On Sedition Law Betrays Scant Respect For Democracy
By K Raveendran The stand taken by the Modi government in the Supreme Court that the ‘colonialist’ sedition can remain, but certain with safeguards, betrays the authoritarian traits of the government and its intention to use the draconian law whenever it feels threatened by dissent and adverse public opinion....
The RSS Chief Is Losing Battle Against The Hindutva Hawks
By Amulya Ganguli It appears that the RSS sarsanghchalak, Mohan Bhagwat, is finding it difficult to enforce his writ on bringing the Hindus and Muslims closer together by arguing that their DNA is the same because of common ancestry. To the Hindutva hardliners, this formula is patently unacceptable. Apparently,...
Farmers Are Being Arrested While Their Agitation Escalates
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Farmers’ agitation against the three controversial farm laws is being crushed by the government in numerous ways including clamping of sedition charges on them on the one hand, while their agitation is getting escalated on the other. If things go in this direction the nation...
BJP Is Continuously Plotting But MVA Under Uddhav Is In Full Control
By Sushil Kutty You can take this Priyanka out of the Congress, but you cannot take the Congress out of this Priyanka! We’re talking of Priyanka Chaturvedi, now of the Shiv Sena, earlier very much a fixture in the Congress. Chaturvedi recently wrote a piece for media that is...
U.S. Withdrawal Of Troops From Afghanistan Has Made Things Difficult For India
By Harihar Swarup After two decades, United States (US) President Joe Biden has announced the end of the US’s military mission in Afghanistan by August 31. This decision was not unanticipated, even if the timing and extent of the drawdown were deliberated until the last minute. Even now, the...
Narendra Modi’s Eulogy To Yogi Adityanath Is Meant For Assembly Elections
By Arun Srivastava The prime minister, Narendra Modi’s eulogy of the Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Yogi Adityanath as visionary and efficient administration and attributing “unprecedented” success to him in tackling the Covid second wave and endorsing his handling of law and order, particularly crimes against women/ ought to be...
Haryana Administration Desperate To Demolish The Farmers’ Protest
By Arun Srivastava It appears that the Haryana police is a bunch of officials and constables who are either deaf or dumb, or do not know the basics of the legal system or nurse strong hatred and aversion for the judiciary. In its quest to assuage the hurt feeling...
Farmers Will Launch Modi Gaddi Chhodo Agitation From August 9
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Atul Anjaan CPI national secretary and All India Kisan Sabha general secretary announced that farmers would launch Modi Gaddi Chhodo agitation to commemorate Quit India day on August 9. Atul Anjaan said that decision was taken at a meeting of representatives of more than 30...
Delimitation In J&K May Empower Deprived Scheduled Tribes
By Sant Kumar Sharma On June 24, Prime Minister Narendra Modi convened a meeting of all parties of Jammu and Kashmir in Delhi where he talked of delimitation, elections and then grant of statehood back to the Union Territory (UT). Just 10 days later, Delimitation Commission headed by retired...
Modi Has Effected Corporate Hindutva Alliance To Implement Neo-Liberal Agenda
By Prabhat Patnaik There has of late been an upsurge of extreme right-wing, fascist, semi-fascist or neo-fascist parties all over the world in a manner reminiscent of the 1930s. Fascist governments invariably serve the interests of monopoly capital in general, and of the newer, less “liberal” and more reactionary...
Unemployment, Decent Work Deficits And Inequality Worsening
By Dr. Gyan Pathak “Ministers, In your meetings in 2019 and 2020, you expressed support for the principle of a human centred approach to development. Now is the time to convert these aspirations … into concrete action,” ILO head said while addressing the BRICS Labour and Employment Ministerial Meeting...
