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.Congress Is Facing Big Churning In Kerala As New President Takes Over
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The K. Sudhakaran era in the Congress in Kerala has begun with the Kannur strongman formally taking charge as the president of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) on June 16 amid much hype and blatant violation of the Covid-19 protocol. The Police have filed...
Political Stalmate In Nepal May Continue Even After November Poll
By Barun Das Gupta Nepal Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli lost parliamentary majority on May 10 but did not resign. He continues to be the PM, courtesy president Bidya Devi Bhandari. The next election to the House of Representatives will be held on November 12 and 19 this...
Delhi Police Is Acting As Super Judiciary In Defying High Court Bail Order
By Arun Srivastava Once again the Delhi police has been caught distorting the judicial provision and penal policy by not releasing the three student activists Natasha Narwal, Devangana Kalita and Asif Iqbal Tanha granted bail on June 16 by the Delhi High Court on the plea that it needed...
Japanese Investors Have Been Slow In Adapting To Digital Economy
By Subrata Majumder Surprises loom large over Japanese investment in India, which plummeted in 2020 against the spurring growth in investment by global riches like USA, Singapore and UK. Analysts were agog with Japanese volte- face to India’s FDI potential, despite the fact that total FDI flow in India...
Calcutta High Court’s Delayed Disposal Of Bail Pleas Violates Rights
By Purbayan Chakraborty THE Calcutta High Court has a celebrated history when it comes to the protection of constitutional rights. It has very recently championed the cause of liberty by granting interim bail very expeditiously to the four accused All India Trinamool Congress leaders through its order on May...
Court Strictures Are A Clear Indictment Of Modi Govt
By K Raveendran It is a sign of the times that we live in that a court has to say protesting and terrorist acts are two different things and not interchangeable to suit the whims and fancies of the government of the day. The observation, by the Delhi High...
Chirag Paswan May Be Getting Ready To Start A New Political Innings
By Arun Srivastava Revolt has much wider connotation and it has got an ideological implication. Actually the five Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) members of parliament severing their relationship with the party and later replacing Chirag Paswan as the party president by Pashupati Paras the younger brother of Ram Vilas...
Opposition Split Gives Advantage To President Ortega In Nicaragua Poll On November 7
By Nitya Chakraborty Nicaragua is holding its general elections on November 7 this year but the tempo of the poll campaign has already hotted up in the wake of the recent victory of the left candidates in parliamentary elections in Mexico and presidential elections in Peru. This small Latin...
Prof. D N Jha Was A Great Fighter Against Distortions In History
By Harihar Swarup Former professor and chair at the Department of History at Delhi University specialising in ancient and medieval history, D N Jha consistently called out what he saw as distortions of Indian history. A historian whose work on India’s ancient past often found its way into...
Indian Democracy Is Only As Strong As Country’s Own Institutions
By B K Chaturvedi This week, at a G-7 conference, India reaffirmed its commitment to democracy in a joint statement. The statement, which India has signed, says, “We are at a critical juncture, facing threats to freedom and democracy from rising authoritarianism, electoral interference, corruption, economic coercion, manipulation...
The Importance Of Being Akhilesh Yadav In Emerging Indian Polity
By Nitya Chakraborty In March/April 2021, India witnessed a sort of Kurukshetra battle in the soil of West Bengal which is far away from Aryavartha, the Hindi heartland and the epi-centre of both the Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata..Prime Minister Narendra Modi lost that battle to the Trinamool Congress...
Both BJP And The Congress Are Now The Victims Of Dissidence And Indiscipline
By Kalyani Shankar Both the Congress party and the BJP – the two main national parties- are facing internal problems in the states where they rule. The basic difference between the two parties is the Congress is on the decline while the BJP is growing to replace Congress in...
Revolt In LJP Signals Churning In Bihar Politics
By Gyan Pathak Revolt in Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) has signaled a churning in Bihar politics the final outcome of which may not only impact the political fortunes of the party but also of the BJP and JD(U) individually and NDA as a whole, which may also present an...
Akhilesh Yadav Giving Final Shape To Mission 2022 To Capture Power
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Enthused by the recent success in panchayat polls which showed the mood of rural voters, Akhilesh Yadav is preparing for Mission 2022 to take on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and BJP to capture power. Akhilesh Yadav is in aggressive mood to enter alliances...
Foolproof Vaccination Strategy Needed To Deal With ‘Forever Virus’
By Sushil Kutty Dr Larry Brilliant, an epidemiologist who helped the WHO eradicate smallpox in the last century says “it’s too late to hope for herd immunity” against Covid-19 and, therefore, the novel coronavirus can be called the “forever virus”, something that wouldn’t sit well with most of us....
Kerala Workers Lose Rs. 13,650 Crore In Wages During Lockdown
By Rejimon Kuttappan Rajesh Ravi, a 42-year-old auto-rickshaw driver in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of Kerala, could earn only Rs. 400 in the last 30 days. “Pre-lockdown, my monthly earning was around Rs. 10,000, with which I could manage my five-member family budget. Now, we are in real trouble....
After Mid-Term Win, Mexico President Takes Up Programme For Transformation
By Andrés Jiménez Montoya With the announcement of results from the June 6 Mexican midterm elections, the centre-left MORENA Party has held onto its federal congressional majorities in the Chamber of Deputies and won state and local elections across the country in 31 states and Mexico City. MORENA (Movimiento...
Curb On Investment And Import From China Fails To Work
By Nantoo Banerjee At first, it was the virus. Then came the vaccine. China has converted the pandemic into a great opportunity for economic expansion and international cooperation in pursuit of its strategy to become a strong imperial economic power in Asia and other parts of the world. Paradoxically,...
