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.Though Distant, Rahul Gandhi Remains In The Race For Prime Minister
By Amulya Ganguli Narendra Modi has raced ahead again in the latest popularity ratings, securing 59.22 per cent of the votes among people who would like to see him continue as the prime minister. Not surprisingly, Rahul Gandhi is well behind with 25.62 per cent. Notwithstanding...
India Becoming Most Attractive Destination For Dumping Foreign Goods
By Gyan Pathak The seventh Trade Policy Review of India by WTO reveals that the country has become the most attractive destination as a dumpyard of the world, but not the most attractive destination for investment that the country was aiming at. Additionally, the frequent changes made...
Development Of Supporting Industry Is Key To Atmanirbhar Programme
By Subrata Majumder, Hit by Covid 19, India is in the dichotomy of overdependence on imports for its emerging industries. They are import intensive industries. Rapid growth in electronic industries, including mobile phone manufacturing, telecommunication equipment, automobile and digital economy led India becoming overdependent on imports. China has...
NIA Is Terrorising Farmers To Scuttle The Kisan Parade On January 26
By Arun Srivastava Shaken by the powerful farmers movement against the new farm laws the domineering Narendra Modi government has started using its Brahmashtra, the last weapon, implicating the farmers and their sympathisers in false and fabricated cases through its pet parrot the NIA. Farm unions have said...
Assam To Emerge As Northeast Regions’ Biggest Rubber Producer
By Ashis Biswas With Assam and other states in the Northeast all set to expand rubber cultivation in a major way during the next five years, India should be able to reduce substantially its dependence on imports. Encouraged by a slight decrease in imports between 2018 and 2020,...
Indian Courts Had A Trying Time During Pandemic In 2020
By Neeraj Mishra The wheels of justice stopped turning in 2020 when millions of litigants found the doors of court-rooms locked to them. Though many believe that courts discovered their virtual avatar during the pandemic and resultant lockdown and restrictions on large gatherings, it is debatable if...
Covid Vaccination Programme Has To Be Finetuned On The Basis Of Experience
By Harihar Swarup The fight against the Covid-19 is possibly entering its final stages, with the Prime Minister announcing the kick-off of the vaccination drive from January 16. This announcement precedes a herculean task ahead, in which 300 million Indians will be vaccinated in the first phase...
India Lives Up To Its Reputation As Humanity’s Healer
By K Raveendran From ‘go corona go’ chants to ringing of bells and tapping of plates to cow urine and now a vaccine with a scientific base, India’s fight against the dreaded coronavirus is nothing short of an epic, despite the incredibly short timeframe. With prime minister...
Cess On Domestic Oil Exploration Should Be Abolished In Budget
By K R Sudhaman Ahead of budget 2021, domestic oil producing companies demanded abolition of cess on domestic oil exploration and production to revive the industry struggling due to fall in crude oil prices coupled with demand pull with the unprecedented Covid 19 Pandemic causing severe bruises...
Arnab Goswami-Partho Dasgupta Chats Reveal AG’s Evil Nexus With Govt
By Sushil Kutty We’re trying to figure out what or who could ‘AS’ stand for in the Whatsapp chats “leaked” by somebody not in the Republic? The chats allegedly relate to the alleged TRP scam and allegedly is between Republic TV head Arnab Goswami and ex-chief of BARC...
Young Workforce Suffered More Job Losses During Current Fiscal
By Satyaki Chakraborty The young people in the country are now the most suffering lot as far as the employment market is concerned. The slowdown in the last three years in the Indian economy has been followed by the corona pandemic follow by the lock down in...
Madhya Pradesh Govt Is At War With Liquor And Sand Mafias Without Success
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: “Listen Mafia, either stop your nefarious activities or leave Madhya Pradesh otherwise I will bury you in ten feet deep grave”. In this language Chief Minister Shiv Raj Singh Chouhan has been warning different Mafia groups after he assumed power for the fourth...
Trumpites Planning attacks in all U.S. State capitals on January 20
By John Wojcik Some 20,000 troops are being deployed to the U.S. capital Washington DC in the lead-up to Inauguration Day, January 20, as the nation braces for violence planned by right-wing Trump extremists. No one is at ease, however, because the Department of Homeland Security, the Pentagon,...
Trump Attends the Return of the Remains of the Navy SEAL Who Died in Yemen
Dropcap the popularization of the “ideal measure” has led to advice such as “Increase font size for large screens and reduce font size for small screens.” While a good measure does improve the reading experience, it’s only one rule for good typography. Another rule is to maintain a comfortable...
Supreme Court Is Acting As The Tool Of The Modi Government
By Binoy Viswam Since last several days, the country was witnessing the developments around the historic farmers agitation. Since November 26, thousands of them have arrived and camped on the borders of Delhi to urge the government to repeal the three black laws that pose a threat to...
Supreme Court Order On Farm Laws Is Ill-Conceived
By Prakash Karat The order of the Supreme Court on the three farm laws and the farmers struggle against them is ill-conceived and one-sided. The three-member bench headed by chief justice, S A Bobde has stayed the implementation of the three farm laws until further orders....
Central Trade Unions Unitedly Oppose Implementation Of Four Labour Codes
By Satyaki Chakraborty The central trade unions led by the AITUC, INTUC and the CITU have informed the union labour ministry of their opposition to the implementation of the four labour codes passed by the Modi government in Parliament without adequate consultations with the central TUs. The...
Massacre Of Coal Miners In Balochistan Shows Imran Khan In Poor Light
By Sankar Ray The resignation of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader and Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi’s spokesman Nadeem Afzal Chan on Thursday morning over differences on the mode of retaliative strategy in tackling the virulent reaction over the massacre of 11 coal miners of Hazara community in Machh...
