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.One Year Of Disproportionate Sufferings Of Women Workforce
By Gyan Pathak Outbreak of COVID-19 and subsequent measures and policies of the government of India, including lockdown on March 24, 2020, and changes in labour rules in favour of business and industries, have disproportionately impacted women workforce of the country, whose participation had already declined in 2017-18 to...
BJP Muddies Water To Gain Foothold In Maharashtra
By Sushil Kutty Retired top cop Julio Ribeiro doesn’t want to get into the cesspool. It’s too murky and tricky, he says, refusing to take Sharad Pawar’s bait. Devendra Fadnavis also wants Ribeiro to probe Param Bir Singh’s litany of accusations against Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh. Pawar says...
BJP Observes One Year Of Its Return In Madhya Pradesh By Praising Scindia
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Both BJP and Congress organized programmes to mark the completion of one year of the overthrow of the Kamal Nath government. While the Chief Minister Shiv Raj Singh Chouhan hosted a massive lunch to mark what he called the BJP’s return to power, Congress...
Centre’s NCT Bill Undermines 2018 Judgment Of Supreme Court
By Indira Jaising What appears to be an innocuous Bill, in fact, seeks to introduce a complete change in the way the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi is administered. The Bill introduced in parliament conceals more than it reveals, since it contains no substantive reference to the purpose...
Trivialising Threat Of Terrorism For Political Purposes Does No Good
By Harihar Swarup If there is one country that has been short-changed by the international order on issues relating to terrorism, more specifically cross-border terrorism, it is India. The Indian narrative on terrorism has been loud since the 1980s, but falling mostly on deaf ears, especially at forums such...
CPI(M) Must Decide Who Is The Biggest Enemy In West Bengal – BJP Or Trinamool
By Dipankar Bhattacharya People’s Democracy, the weekly journal of the CPI(M), has carried a political commentary in its 14 March, 2021 issue accusing the CPI(ML) of taking a ‘wrong turn’ in West Bengal. The same issue also contains a ‘PB communique’ issued by the CPI(M) Polit Bureau following its...
Politics On Vaccination And Its Slow Pace Keep People On Tenterhooks
By Gyan Pathak Politics on vaccines and vaccination in India is now a reality. The statement made by the Chief Minister of Delhi that the state can vaccinate all its people within three months if allowed by the Centre and if vaccines are made available, is indicative of some...
Covid Resurgence Coming At Critical Stage Of Demand Curve
By K Raveendran At a time when green shoots had begun showing up in the economy, the resurgence of Covid infection across the country is indeed bad news. According to the latest numbers released by the Union health ministry, the country has just recorded the highest single-day rise recorded...
Centre Has To Take Proper Lessons On Lockdown Anniversary
By Sushil Kutty Every man has a certain fixed pattern. Narendra Modi is fixated on four hours. The time he gives from announcement to implementation of snap decisions. Demonetization left us crowding ATMs for four hours, from 8pm to 12am. Came coronavirus, and deja vu! Modi stuck to his...
RSS Ideologue Springs An Unpleasant Surprise On BJP In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kerala has been sent into a tizzy by RSS ideologue and former editor of Organiser, R Balashankar, who accused the party of reaching a tacit understanding with the CPI(M) to ensure the victory of party’s state president K. Surendran...
Hybrid Hearings In Supreme Court During Pandemic Is A Big Advance
By Shailesh Gandhi The Covid pandemic has brought cataclysmic changes to the world. People have responded in varying ways and shown their strong ability to adapt and survive. The Indian judicial system has shown mixed achievements in this respect. In less than four weeks from the lockdown, the Supreme...
Privatising Insurance Companies Is a Danger to India’s Financial Sector
By C P Chandrasekhar With the cabinet approving amendments to the Insurance Act of 1938, to raise the cap on foreign direct investment (FDI) in insurance companies from 49 to 74 per cent, the process of implementing the next stage of reducing public control over Indian insurance has begun....
Vanity Of A Yogi That Shocked Uttar Pradesh Today
By Gyan Pathak Congratulations for Yogi Adityanath for completing four years of his government! Our civilisation has taught us to congratulate anyone in his moment of happiness. However, we are not able to make our mind stable on this point on account of the blitz and glitz of the...
Uddhav Thackeray Has To Keep His Allies Together On Law And Order Issue
By Sushil Kutty Calls for Uddhav Thackeray’s resignation haven’t been many, but the Maharashtra Chief Minister like all heads of states has enemies. And former CM Narayan Rane is by all means one. Rane wants Uddhav Thackeray to quit the Singhasan of Maharashtra. Resign. Leave Mumbai and Maharashtra’s fate...
Identity Issues To Be Major Deciding Factors In Assam Elections
By Sagarneel Sinha Identity factor has always played a role in the politics of Assam — and this election is no different. In fact, with the Supreme Court’s order in 2013 to complete the pending updation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) — based on the historic Assam...
Will Captain Amrinder give Sidhu a strong Portfolio?
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Congress high command had directed Congress general secretary Harish Rawat to bring Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh and former Cabinet Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu closer as the state was heading for crucial Assembly elections in 2022 in the backdrop of the farmers’ protest...
WHO Report Indicts Rich Nations For Tepid Response To Pandemic In Initial Period
By Marc Vandepitte A new World Health Organisation report, prepared by a panel of experts, begins with the findings that the world was totally unprepared for this pandemic. For decades, however, it had been predicted that such a viral pandemic would inevitably come our way. Five years ago, the...
Time To Link Anti-Privatisation Movement To Wider Struggle Of Working Class
By Prakash Karat Around a million bank employees and officers went on a two-day strike on March 15 and 16 all over the country against the privatisation of public sector banks. The following day, March 17, General Insurance employees struck work and the next day, on March 18, employees...
