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.Exit USA And Enter China Into Afghan Stage
By Sankar Ray No sooner had the USA and NATO announced the unconditional withdrawal of its troops by the twentieth anniversary of 9-11 attack on the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon, rattling the shaky-from-the beginning peace talks, than the diplomatic circles specialising the nebulous geopolitics...
Punjab Feud Mars Congress Chances In 2022
By Rahil Nora Chopra With farmers angry with the BJP over the new contentious farm laws, there was a presumption that the next assembly election in Punjab would be a cake walk for the Congress. But the running feud between Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and Navjot Singh Sidhu, who...
End Israeli Aggression, Free Palestine
By Prakash Karat The Israeli attacks on Palestinians in Jerusalem and the Israeli aggression on Gaza are not disparate or coincidental events. They are part of the long war waged by the Israeli State against the Palestinian people – in the occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank...
RSS Attempt To Swim Over The Tide
By Binoy Viswam RSS, the ideological harbinger of the Modi government, has come to the scene openly. While the Prime Minister and his team handle the grave situation unleashed by the second wave of the pandemic in their typical style, the RSS patriarchs could grasp the real gravity of...
RSS Launches Mission “Positivity Unlimited” To Protect Modi
By Arun Srivastava In the backdrop of Narendra Modi facing the worst drubbing of his political life with international media describing him as “India’s narcissistic Prime Minister” and “shameless demagogue” to revealing steep decline in his popularity, the four-day exercise of “Positivity Unlimited” organised by the RSS chief Mohan...
Learning Deficit A Permanent Scarring Of Covid, Says ADB
By Anjan Roy The Asian Development Bank’s Outlook 2021 is not overwhelmed by the sweeping covid pandemic incidence on the region. It has forecast resurgence in East and South Asia and somewhat sluggish growth elsewhere in the Asian continent. While there will be some transient damages to the economies...
Kejriwal’s Third Covid Wave Warning Is No Child’s Play
By Sushil Kutty The Modi Government has ruled out suspending flights from Singapore just because Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said so, arguing that Kejriwal is “not competent to speak for India”. Kejriwal wanted Singapore quarantined because a ‘Singapore variant’ of Covid-19 that preferred children could be heading for...
Improvement In Madhya Pradesh Covid Situation Brings Relief
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: After facing severe hardship since the onset of second Corona wave, the people of Madhya Pradesh are feeling some respite for the past two-three days. Newspapers are carrying reports about decline in the number of new cases and about the count of deaths. According...
Now, Mere Disagreement Is Sedition
By Ajay Gudavarthy Many new developments are taking place in Indian politics. One of them is an attempt to equate not just dissent, but even disagreement, dissatisfaction, simply thinking out loud, as sedition that can invite arrest and prosecution. Further, sedition is now being framed not just against citizens...
Vaccination Of 18-44 Age Group: The Scam After Scam
By Raveendran It took barely a few days to realise that the May 1 target for rolling out the vaccination of the 18-44 age group, by far the biggest segment of the Indian population, was a scam. May 1 came and went off as a non-event. By May 1...
Containing Covid-19 In Rural India Would Be More Challenging
By Gyan Pathak The Centre has finally discussed the strategies to contain and manage COVID-19 in the rural India, but only after the Ganges, the holiest river of the country, was found with hundreds of bodies floating on the water and buried in its sand, revealing how the disease...
India At Worst In Covid Crisis In South Asia
By Dr Arun Mitra The number of COVID cases and deaths due to it is a cause of grave concern. Presently India stands number two in the total number of COVID cases in the world after USA. True that we have a large population and so the number is...
Indu Jain: The Life-Long Spiritual Seeker
By Harihar Swarup Indu Jain, Chairman of Time of India Group, life-long spiritual seeker, pioneering philanthropist, distinguish pioneer of the arts, and passion of women’s rights, left body conscious and merged with cosmic consciousness. As tributes poured in for her from statesmen and spiritual masters—among many others– friends and...
Economy Tumbles, 1 Crore Jobs Lost Since January
By Subodh Varma The number of employed persons in India plummeted from about 40 crore in January to 39 crore in April 2021. That’s a loss of one crore employed persons, one of the steepest falls ever in four months, barring the brutal devastation caused by last year’s complete...
Migrant Crisis Comes Back To Haunt Second Wave
By Anusha R and Tanvi Singh The migrant crisis haunts India again, along with the sight of thousands of migrants leaving Maharashtra and other states to head home. While the capitalistic legislative intent of the new labour codes is much-talked-about, the immediate administrative focus right now needs to be...
It Is Time For Cooperation And Not Confrontation
By Kalyani Shankar There is a three-way confrontation going on amidst the raging Covid pandemic. The first is between the executive and judiciary, the second between the Union government and state governments. The third is between the authorities and the public. As world-famous leaders like Theodore Roosevelt and Winston...
Amit Shah’s Dangerous Mission Endangers Democratic Institutions
By Arun Srivastava There is no more obscurity about the intention. The war cries have become loud and shrill and reverberating in the battle field of Bengal. Undeniably the first assault has been launched by home minister Amit Shah. With a gullible Governor Jagdeep Dhankar on his side, willing...
West Bengal Arrests Smack Politics Of Vendetta
By Barun Das Gupta The Kolkattans woke up on Monday morning and learnt that two ministers, Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee, a former minister, Madan Mitra and a former minister and former mayor of Kolkata, Sobhan Chattopadhyaya, had been arrested by the CBI in connection with the sting operation...
