Opinion
Appeal
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.Second Wave Of Corona Virus: Kerala Caught Off Guard Too
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Like the rest of the country, Kerala, too, is paying a heavy price for indifference to and defiance of the covid-19 protocol. The disastrous results are there for all to see. In a determined effort to get a grip over the grave situation arising out...
Panchayat Elections In Uttar Pradesh Acting As Super Spreader
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: CPI national secretary Atul Kumar Anjaan has blamed the collapse of state administration for chaotic condition in Uttar Pradesh during pandemic. Atul Anjaan said that when ICMR and IMA had warned about severity of second wave there was no preparation on the part of Yogi...
Castro Era Ends In Communist Cuba After More Than Six Decades
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Former Cuban President Raúl Castro retired from his last major public office standing down as first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba at its Eighth Congress. held on April 16 to19..With this, the island nation of Latin America, the first communist nation in...
High Oil Price May Hit Indian Economy Hard
By Nantoo Banerjee After the new wave of coronaviruses in comes the oil shock to India’s fragile economy. Going by government estimates, India’s GDP had shrunk by eight percent in 2020-21 as against a four percent growth in the previous fiscal. While the current year’s economic growth picture remains...
Secular Parties Must Offer A Viable Programme To Challenge Narendra Modi
By Amulya Ganguli Mamata Banerjee’s election strategist, Prashant Kishor, has listed the BJP’s three plus points. The first is Narendra Modi’s image – he is a god to some people, Kishor said, – the second is Hindu-Muslim polarization and the third is the prevailing anti-incumbency sentiment against the ruling...
All Rightwing Leaders Of Big Countries Have Failed In Corona Management
By Arun Srivastava It is merely a coincidence or the curse of the destiny, it is yet not clear, but one thing is explicit that the rightist political parties and their leaders, like Donald Trump, Narendra Modi and Boris Johnson, have been primarily responsible for the spread of the...
Lula Cleared To Run Against Bolsonaro After Supreme Court Ruling
By Satyaki Chakraborty Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been cleared clear to run against Jair Bolsonaro, the present Brazilian president in next year’s presidential election as the Supreme Court upheld a verdict annulling his corruption convictions. The majority decision came on Thursday after Supreme Court...
Varanasi And Mathura, Are New Ayodhya In The Making
By A J Philip Sense and sensibility should guide everyone while taking decisions that have far-reaching consequences. Even judicial decisions are not exempt from this rule. However, it is difficult to say that some of the recent decisions pertaining to disputes about temples and mosques were taken in the...
Scientists Warn: India’s Second Wave Is Much Worse Than The First
By Prabir Purkayastha India’s second wave is spreading faster and registering an even steeper rise than the first wave of Covid-19. The new daily case count is nearly 2,00,000 per day and already twice the first wave peak. It is still rising, doubling every 12-14 days. India is now...
Closest Collaboration Between Govt, Prvate Sector And IMA Is Need Of The Hour
By Harihar Swarup India has been vaccinating its citizens with domestically manufactured COVID vaccines since January 2021. The government has adopted a phased approach in vaccinating its population — first the at-high-risk populations, then the 60-plus and from April onwards, everyone over the age of 45 years is eligible....
Narendra Modi’s Model Covid Management Is Now Coming Out In True Colour
By Sushil Kutty In Lucknow, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath could, if he wants, smell the stench of death. For the last several days, the city’s crematoriums have been inundated with Covid corpses. So much so, with people taking a morbid interest in the goings on at the city’s largest...
Salaried Class Losing Jobs Faster Than Expected This Year
By Gyan Pathak It is now in the open. The biggest loss of employment in 2020-21 was suffered by the salaried employees as against the popular belief that they were safest in terms of employment and source of earning during the COVID-19 lockdown and subsequent restrictions. The situation is...
Supreme Court Under The Spell Of A Black Planet
By K Raveendran The seat of the Chief Justice of India seems to be under the spell of a black planet, with the result that every incumbent comes under a cloud even before he occupies the august position. No one has any clue about such a planet, but its...
Bengal Poll Campaign Issues Show There Is Nothing Unique In The State
By Anjan Roy Many a myths about Bengal and claims of uniqueness have been blasted during the current campaign for the assembly elections. Bengal lived a conceited life of uniqueness from the rest of the country- a claim purveyed y the Leftists for over three decades. The main of...
Vietnam Elects New Leaders To Boost Growth And Welfare
By Amiad Horowitz Vietnam has elected a new government, and although many Americans might not pay much attention to Vietnamese politics, there are significant reasons for them to do so—especially now. With one of the fastest growing economies in the world, Vietnam has become an important trade partner with...
U.S. Decision On Troops Pull Out From Afghanistan Has Put India On Backfoot
By Barun Das Gupta US president Joe Biden has announced that his country’s full troop withdrawal from Afghanistan will be completed by September 11 this year, bringing to an end a 20-year long war which has cost the American taxpayer $2 trillion and taken a toll of 2,312 US...
Urban Poor And Migrants Need Greater Assistance During Covid Surge
By Gyan Pathak Daily spikes in incidents of COVID-19 infections, caseloads on health facilities, active cases, and deaths have been worsening every day since the first week of February 2021, and so the more and more stringent containment measures are being put in place to control the outbreak day...
BJP Transmuting Bengali New Year Into Hindu New Year During Polls
By Arun Srivastava The most auspicious and poignant cultural identity of the Bengalis, the Poila Baisakh ,which heralds the beginning of the Bengali new year has become the victim of the evil machination of the RSS and BJP. April 15 was the day and the Bengalis, throughout the world,...
