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.A Decade Since The Fukushima Power Plant Meltdown
By Dr Ian Fairlie As we mark the tenth anniversary this week of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan where an earthquake and a tsunami led to a meltdown of nuclear reactors, the emission of huge amounts of radiation and a continuing humanitarian disaster,...
Far Right Brazilian President Bolsonaro Facing Big Political Challenge
By Benjamin Fogel The Brazilian Supreme Court overturning former president Lula de Silva’s convictions inits judgment on March 7 has imparted a new dimension to the political battle in this most populated Latin American nation which has been ruled by the far right President Jair Bolsonaro since 2018 when...
American Rescue Act Is A Big Rebuff To Neoliberal Economic Agenda
By Nitya Chakraborty The historic American Rescue Act signed by President Joe Biden on Thursday marks a milestone in the struggle of the people of the United States for a better living standard defying the neo liberal agenda of austerity and robbing the poor while making rich richer. The...
Democracy Being Undone Under Modi’s Leadership
By Gyan Pathak India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi a democrat? No one believes. Not even Modi Fan Club who claim his being a ‘strong’ ruler, an euphemistic term for ‘autocratic’. In the last one month, three international organizations came out with their reports on the status of democracy in...
Centre’s Fiscal Policies Taking Heavy Toll On The Country’s Economy
By Prabhat Patnaik Even the blinkered BJP government sees the need for a fiscal policy that would stimulate the economy by increasing government expenditure; but it finds itself in a bind since it does not know how to finance such larger government expenditure. Simply spending more by borrowing, that...
ASEAN Vulnerability To Chinese Trade Trap Is A Concern To India
By Subrata Majumder It was Chinese BRI (Belt Road Initiative), which turned debt trap for some developing nations. Sri Lanka and Pakistan are the cases in point. Now, it is RCEP, which tends to be Chinese trade trap for ASEAN. Ever since ASEAN signed FTA with China, trade balance...
Justice Thrown Under The Truck In Yogi’s Uttar Pradesh
By Sushil Kutty Law & order throughout the country has gone to the dogs. That’s a solid irrefutable statement and anybody saying otherwise should be arraigned for complicity. Whether it be West Bengal, now under Election Commission of India rule, Maharashtra or Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat or far below down...
Congress’s Leadership Crisis Still Holding Party Back
By Rahil Nora Chopra The control of the Congress high command over the party has weakened because of the leadership crisis created by Rahul Gandhi’s unexpected exit after the debacle in the Lok Sabha elections of 2019. Although Rahul is still being treated as the supreme leader in the...
BJP Steamrolling Assembly Elections Through Huge Financial Muscle Power
By Nitya Chakraborty The campaign for the state assembly elections to the states of Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala along with the union territory of Puducherry is in full swing now. The polling starts on March 27 and ends on April 29 and the results will be...
Central Agencies Intervention In Kerala Assembly Elections Is Unprecedented
By Prakash Karat The Kerala Assembly elections are being fought by three alliances – the CPI(M)-led LDF, the Congress-led UDF and the BJP-led NDA. Both the Congress and the BJP have been targeting the LDF government with a string of false allegations which began with the gold smuggling case...
All Embracing Unity In Farmers’ Agitation Has Historic Significance
By Krishna Jha It was four decades back when in United States, agriculture was corporatized, in the same way as in our country today. Situation has been not very different. It was a total structural change, as here the three farm laws profess. Added with it is the illusion...
BJP Mobilises Massive Financial Resources To Take On Trinamool
By Barun Das Gupta Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee filed her nomination paper from the Nandigram constituency last Wednesday for the coming assembly elections, sounding the reveille for the coming battle royal between the Trinamool Congress and the BJP. The TMC wants to come back to power for the third...
Upsurge In New Covid-19 Cases In India Now Is A Serious Concern
By Gyan Pathak With recording 22,854 new COVID-19 cases on March 10, India is back to the level of July 3, 2020. Just a month ago in February 2021, the number of new cases was around 9000, which was just at the level of June 3, 2020, and which...
It Is True Jyotiraditya Scindia Has Been Sidelined By The BJP Leaders
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: There is no reason to disagree with Rahul Gandhi’s statement that BJP has reduced Jyotiraditya Scindia to the position of a backbencher. Since he joined the BJP he only got the gift of a Rajya Sabha membership and ministerial berths to his followers. Besides...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Visit To India Is Important
By Arun Srivastava The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was to travel to India in January 2021 to strengthen key strategic relationship which supports jobs and investment across the UK. Though he could not undertake the visit due to major surge of covid that time in UK, the sources...
UK Supreme Court’s Uber Driver Verdict Can Have Impact On India Also
By Kingshuk Sarkar After a prolonged legal battle that started in 2016, on 19 February 2021, Uber London lost its final appeal when the British Supreme Court ruled that Uber drivers are to be classified as “workers” and not as “self-employed” individuals. The court held that the group of...
UK Supreme Court’s Uber Driver Verdict Can Have Impact On India Also
By Kingshuk Sarkar After a prolonged legal battle that started in 2016, on 19 February 2021, Uber London lost its final appeal when the British Supreme Court ruled that Uber drivers are to be classified as “workers” and not as “self-employed” individuals. The court held that the group of...
Abbas Siddiqui Factor Has An Important Role In Bengal Polls
By Nantoo Banerjee The newly-formed Indian Secular Front (ISF) by Pirzada Abbas Siddiqui, a radical Islamic cleric of Furfura Sharif, may hold the key to the formation of West Bengal’s next government in May. Siddiqui’s ISF is expected to grab at least 30 seats in the 294-member assembly and...
