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.New Unofficial Census In Assam May Revive Ethnic Tensions In The State
By Ashis Biswas In Assam, old ethnic tensions over identity politics are set for a revival under a new format. Jana Gosthiya Samannay Parishad Asom (JGSPA). This new organisation is conducting what it calls a digital census for homegrown Assamiya-speaking Muslims only. The objective is: to identify/ separate native...
World Environment Day June 5 Is A Reminder For Actions For Climate Change
By Ajit Singh COVID-19 has disrupted the personal and professional lives of most people. More than three million globally have succumbed to the virus and across sectors, people have lost jobs and livelihoods. The pandemic has been the greatest human tragedy the world has witnessed in the last 100...
Patent Rights On Medicines And Vaccines Must Be Waived Off
By Dr Arun Mitra As the world is passing through serious crisis of COVID Pandemic, at present Vaccination seems to be the only answer to put a break to it. The process has to be carried out simultaneously at the global level if we have to achieve an...
Mexico Is Poised For Crucial Elections To Lower House On June 6
By Nitya Chakraborty Mexico is going to the polls on next Sunday June 6 to elect its 500 members of the chamber of deputies, the outcome of which will decide whether the present centre left President Lopez Obrador, known by his initials AMLO, will be able to go ahead...
Inconsistency Is The Hallmark Of Modi Government’s Covid Vaccine Policy
By Prabhat Patnaik India is facing an acute vaccine shortage. The impression that generally prevails is that this shortage is because while production capacity is slow to increase there has been a sudden spurt in vaccine demand since vaccination is now open for the 18-44group in addition to the...
Jobs Recovery To Be Slow And Working Poverty To Rise Sharply
By Gyan Pathak There will be a very slow jobs recovery with very high inequality risk from now onward until at least 2023 end, if employment and social trend in the first half of 2021 is of any indication. Though the global employment recovery is projected to accelerate in...
BJP, RSS Working On Damage Control Formula For Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP and RSS leadership is busy with damage control exercise for Uttar Pradesh in order to achieve Mission 2022. Realising that it could be tough challenge for BJP to retain UP especially after debacle in West Bengal, BJP high command sent senior leaders to Lucknow...
Post Poll Defeats, Congress State Units To Hold Internal Reshuffles
By Rahil Nora Chopra Congress, which suffered a crushing defeat in the assembly elections in Kerala, Assam and West Bengal, is having a tough time with many leaders demanding a generational change in leadership, both within the organisation and also in parliamentary politics. The Congress’s five-member panel, headed by...
Indian Masses Are Paying The Price For Faulty Policies Of Modi Govt
By Prakash Karat As the peak of the second wave of the Covid pandemic begins to slowly recede, the havoc wreaked on lakhs of families has been occupying the attention of the whole country. There is widespread dismay and anger at the way the health emergency caught the Modi...
Lakshadweep People Are Fighting To Protect Secular Character Of Nation
By Binoy Viswam Lakshadweep, the group of small islands, located in the Arabian sea towards the South West coast of Kerala shores is the smallest Union Territory in India. Among the 36 Islands in the UT, only 11 are inhabited and the total population is roughly estimated around 75,000....
BJP Faces Uncertain Future In Bengal As Dissensions Grow Among Cadres
By Arun Srivastava While celebration of the seven years of Narendra Modi regime is being observed as a major national event by the RSS and BJP workers in different parts of the country, the BJP rank and file in Bengal have developed a cold feet to the latest central...
Narendra Modi, Yogi And Catch-22 Situation In Uttar Pradesh
By Sushil Kutty Perhaps Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath wakes up to a headache these days. Post-Covid complications? More likely it’ll have to do with speculation rife that the Yogi is no longer in the good books of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and that the Uttar Pradesh BJP...
Pakistan Starts Manufacturing Covid Vaccines With Chinese Assistance
By Sankar Ray Pakistan has started indigenous production of Covid-19 vaccine PakVac, a replica of China’s single-dose, CanSino at the National Institute of Health plant, set up in April. Like Russia’s Sputnik, it is a single-shot vaccine. This was disclosed by Dr Faisal Sultan, special assistant to the Prime...
Mythily Sivaraman Was A Model Human Rights Activist And Trade Union Worker
By R. Vaigai “Freedom is indivisible. There is no question of freedom for one and none for the other. We have to stand united for complete freedom,” said Mythily Sivaraman, a Marxist, trade unionist, and women’s rights activist, who left us on May 30, 2021. Comrade Mythily, a friend,...
If Modi’s Wishes Had Wings, Things Would Have Been Different
By K Raveendran The Allahabad High Court had said that the state of affairs regarding treatment and management of Covid cases in Uttar Pradesh could only be considered ‘Ram Bharose’. The government quickly moved the Supreme Court against the observation. The apex court obliged, asking high courts to desist...
My Days With Alapan Bandyopadhyay, New Chief Adviser To Mamata
By Nitya Chakraborty Alapan Bandyopadhyay is in the eye of the storm raging between the Centre and the State of West Bengal. The gentleman bureaucrat has been hogging national headlines after the Modi-led Union government ordered his transfer on the night of May 28 following the PMO charge that...
Bengal BJP In Swoop As Centre Takes On Alapan Bandyopadhyay
By Arun Srivastava Unable to take Mamata Banerjee head on, Narendra Modi is resorting to tactics of attacking her from behind. This is certainly not the characteristic of a warrior, as fighter as Modi is being projected by his supporters and party colleagues. The show cause notice to Alapan...
Minority Scholarship Order: Kerala Govt Caught In A Cleft Stick
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala High Court’s verdict which quashed the 80:20 ratio in granting scholarship to minorities has put the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government in a tight spot. The Government had granted 80 per cent scholarships to the Muslim community and 20 per cent to Latin...
