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.SAIL’s Decision To Dissolve Raw Materials Division Highly Questionable
By Sankar Ray The decision of top management of the Steel Authority of India to close down its Raw Materials Division Head Office in Kolkata is a bolt from the blue for 400 and odd direct and indirect staffers in Kolkata at a time when everyone is panicked about...
SC Order To Evict Illegal Houses Will Render One Lakh Homeless
By Ujjaini Chatterji A Supreme Court order to evict over 10,000 households from Khori Gaon near the Surajkund area of Faridabad, Haryana will affect over one lakh people who have been living in the area for over 40 years. The population in these households primarily consist of workers who...
After Seven Years Of Uninterrupted Reign, Narendra Modi Facing Challenges
By Harihar Swarup The beginning of the third year of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second term would be an apt occasion to look at the early days of this innings. He began as a run-hungry batsman, eager to notch up a big score, belting out sixes and fours to...
Political Intervention To Arrest High Fuel Prices On The Way
By K Raveendran The Narendra Modi government is back with its diabolical game on fuel prices. With crucial assembly elections on the way, including the all-important UP poll, alibis are being found to warrant a political intervention and arrest the continuous spike in petrol and diesel prices, conveniently blamed...
Faster Recovery Of Economy From Pandemic Should Be Priority Now
By Anjan Roy As the petrol and diesel prices are creeping up almost day by day, the general public is wondering what is happening. Politicians are shouting hoarse and demanding a government hand in checking the rise. Everyone is saying the petroleum products price hike will at the next...
Doctors Need Full Support And Protection To Treat Patients In Pandemic
By Dr Arun Mitra A doctor was called to the police station for inquiry into a complaint lodged by him against someone who had misbehaved with him. The police officer asked the doctor that why he did not retaliate when the said person was misbehaving. The doctor politely replied...
Supreme Court Must Give A Relook At The Abuse Of UAPA By Ruling Regime
By Arun Srivastava The euphoria over the release of the three student activists after one year of their stay in Tihar jail is being re assessed just within 24 hours of granting their bail, after the Supreme Court stating on June 18 that the manner in which the HC...
Bangladesh Is Seen Favourably By Foreign Tourists For Travel Purpose
By Ashis Biswas A curious paradox prevails in Bangladesh: There is more anger at home about the growing spiral of non-political crimes and violence, than among Western diplomats, companies and investors. In broad sections of the Bangladeshi media there is much anguish expressed over the recent spate of murders,...
How Benjamin Netanyahu Won America But Lost Israel
By Ramzy Baroud Recently deposed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is as much American as he is Israeli. While other Israeli leaders have made their strong relationship with Washington a cornerstone in their politics, Netanyahu’s political style was essentially American from the start. Netanyahu spent many of his formative...
Removal Of Sedition Related 124A Of IPC From Indian Statute Is Imperative
By Binoy Viswam Ever since RSS led BJP has come to power, the democratic spirit of the Constitution has been constantly under attack. In fact democracy itself and its impeccable values are grossly threatened by the managers of state power. In the name of patriotism, attempts have been made...
G-7 Decision On Vaccine Donation Is Insufficient For Developing Countries
By Prabhat Patnaik The G-7 meeting that has just concluded has promised to donate one billion doses of anti-Covid vaccine to the rest of the world, consisting primarily of the so-called “developing” countries. The US has promised 500 million doses, Britain 100 million doses; the otherG-7 countries, Italy, Japan,...
Narendra Modi’s Present Vaccine Policy Encourages Health-Inequity
By Dr Arun Mitra As per the reports the Sputnik vaccine on its arrival will be first given to Apollo Hospital. Whether it will be inoculated free of cost or will be paid has not been made clear by the government. It is understandable that the production of vaccine...
Domestic Workers In India Are Among The Worst Hit By Covid-19
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Domestic workers are the worst hit segment in the labour market during the one and half years of the COVID-19 crisis. Even after ten years of adoption of the Domestic Workers’ Convention they have been fighting for legal recognition, equality, decent remuneration and working conditions,...
Explosive Links Between Two Encounter Specialists In Mumbai
By Sushil Kutty Who’s afraid of the Antilia explosives scare case? So far five “policemen” are in the NIA net. Two of them encounter specialists of the ‘Ab Tak Chappan’ variety, the extremely scary Sachin Vaze, and the dreaded Pradeep Sharma who is said to have shot dead 113...
Lakhs Of Preventable Covid-19 Deaths Happened Due To Lack Of Planning
By Ujjaini Chatterji “Had the government followed the rule of law and followed expert advice the 2nd wave would have been anticipated. Without being advised by experts or ignoring their advice on matters of public health, which is impairment of the Rule of law, no preparations were made for...
G-23 Candidate Against Rahul In Congress Presidential Polls Likely
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Congress party is going to announce the party president election dates soon. According to sources, the process of election will start in the first week of July and Rahul Gandhi will be contesting. While the G-23 group of leaders, led by the Congress veteran...
Russia Rejoins The Global High Table Of Diplomacy Once Again
By Anjan Roy What we have witnessed this week is the most profound reset of global diplomatic relations in recent times. A meeting between two leaders of the two most militarily powerful countries in a way sets the clock back into the past which significantly could be a...
Narendra Modi Has Exposed His Doublespeak And Hypocrisy At G-7 Meet
By Prakash Karat Prime Minister Narendra Modi has an inordinate capacity for doublespeak and hypocritical posturing. Even then, his performance at the outreach meeting of the G7 Summit at Cornwall reached new heights. At the session on “open societies” to which four guest countries were invited – South Africa,...
