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.Peace And Harmony At Stake For Tribal Body Polls In Tripura
By Sagarneel Sinha The general polls for the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) of this year are quite different from the past elections. Unlike the past, this time the elections are multi-corner contests with all the major parties of the state jumping into the fray to try...
Where America’s New Citizenship Law Passes, India’s CAA Fails
By Hamza Lakdawala On March 18, the United States House of Representatives passed two key bills that will create a pathway to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants, some migrant farm workers, and children whose parents immigrated legally to the country, like those under the H-1B visa program. The...
Biden Appointees Moving Fast To Reverse Trump’s Anti-Worker Moves
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—With few exceptions, the federal Labor Department, other agencies, and even the GOP-dominated National Labor Relations Board seem to be rushing to reverse Trump-era anti-worker rules and edicts. DOL’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will send real inspectors to high-hazard workplaces—especially hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living...
India’s Vaccine Diplomacy Has Given A Good Boost To Country’s Image
By Kalyani Shankar India’s vaccine diplomacy has been steaming ahead and has set the pace for countering the Covid pandemic. It was indeed a big boost when as part of the first Quadrilateral Security Dialogue leaders’ meeting, the US, India, Japan, and Australian leaders decided to help India produce...
Next Six Months Are Crucial For India In Dealing With Virus
By Gyan Pathak The unprecedented level of spike in COVID-19 infections in India one year after the lockdown of March 24, is an additional threat, not only in terms of infection and death but lives in general due to impending economic disruption, if India does not plan for the...
A Debilitating Legal Setback To BJP Led NDA In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Murphy’s Law seems to be operating against the saffron brigade in Kerala. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance(NDA) in the State suffered a major setback when the Kerala High Court dismissed a petition filed by BJP candidates in Thalassery, Guruvayoor and Devikulam ...
NCT Bill Passed In Parliament By BJP Is Against Wishes Of Delhi Citizens
By Sushil Kutty Only the Jarawa and the North Sentinel must not know of Arvind Kejriwal. The Delhi Chief Minister cannot stomach the jolt that the ‘Govt’ in Delhi means ‘LG’ courtesy the “unconstitutional” Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, 2021. Union Minister of State for...
Sanitation Workers Still Manually Scavenge Toilets In India
By Neha Kumar In 2018, Trade Unionist, Pragya Akhilesh, popularly called “Toilet woman of India”, recorded more than 10,000 abandoned toilets in the rural areas of India where women were forced to be manual scavengers in both the banned dry and the recently built sanitary latrines under Swachh Bharat...
Corona Mess, Scams Lead To Right Defeats In German Bypolls
By Victor Grossman BERLIN: Germany, once viewed as an exaggerated model of exactitude and discipline, is currently in a muddle. Above all, it’s the Covid mess. Seen last spring as a model of swift, effective response, Germany is now torn by controversy, with its sixteen states and dozens of...
India Needs State-Owned Banks For Development
By Nantoo Banerjee It will be suicidal to privatise India’s state-controlled banks at the current stage of its development. India has a long way to go to become a sustainable capitalist economy. Even capitalist economies have state-owned banks and financial institutions. India’s state-sector banks, financial institutions and public enterprises...
Supreme Court Should Stay Issuance Of New Tranche Of Electoral Bonds
By Nitya Chakraborty The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on March 24 the petition filed by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) to stop the sale of electoral bonds till the issue is decided by the apex court. This hearing on the eve of the state assembly polls...
Had China any Role behind army coup in Myanmar?
By Barun Das Gupta The Myanmar army staged a coup d’etat and seized power on February 1 and declared a state of emergency for one year. The army dismissed the government of the National League for Democracy (NLD) which was returned to power for the third time in a...
Now, An Atmanirbhar Think Tank To Buttress Modi Regime’s Image
By Amulya Ganguli There is no second opinion about the BJP’s remarkable organizational capability. Whenever a group of academics or retired bureaucrats come out with a statement criticizing the government, a rival group loses no time to put out a favourable assessment of the ruling party. The promptness of...
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...
