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.Government Seeking Dilution Of Inflation Targeting By RBI
By Anjan Roy The union government is reportedly considering a change in the inflation targeting mechanism and to ask the Reserve Bank of India to dilute its hard core inflation targeting stance for formulation of monetary policy. The current mechanism for inflation targeting was introduced several years...
Owaisi Should Give A New Direction To Muslim Politics In India
By Arun Srivastava The chief of Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) Asaduddin Owaisi, gets angry when ever any one conjectures that MIM has been directly or indirectly helping the BJP in winning the elections and in return blames the Congress and other secular parties for neglecting the Muslim question....
Opposition Parties To Fight Against Laws In The Name Of Love Jihad
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh are opposed to the harassment of people in the state in the name of love jihad by Yogi Government. As many as seven cases have been filed since November 29 when Governor approved the ordinance brought by...
Norman Bodek Played A Big Role In Modernising Manufacturing Programme
By T.V. Suresh It was in the mid 1990s when I first met Norman. I was working as a Senior General Manager in an organization in Chennai, India. I was totally oblivious of the great revolution happening in the world driven by the methodologies developed in Japan. Norman...
BTC Results Give NDA A New Shape Before Assam Polls
By Sagarneel Sinha The Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) election was called a semi-final before the final Assam elections — which are less than five months away. The 46 member (40 elected; 6 nominated by the governor) council governs the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) — which has 12 assembly...
Sangh Parivar Has Some Ulterior Motive Behind Love Jihad Laws
By Amulya Ganguli One of the time-tested methods of extremist politics is checking the resilience of a constitutional order. If the system shows signs of succumbing to pressure, the rebels with a subversive cause can then push ahead to bring it down. The propagation of the concept...
Simplistic Plan Of Vaccination In Compex Scenario Is An Error
By Gyan Pathak People most at risk should get COVID-19 vaccine before those who are running a lower risk of the contagion. This is the principle of priority – seemingly very simple, but very difficult to implement. India, undergoing the process, is now faced with several impediments...
Economy And Earnings Are On A Recovery Track After Lock Down
By Satyaki Chakraborty About 75 per cent participants in an exclusive Economic Times CEO poll said the economy and earnings are set to recover faster than expected from the pandemic-induced recession. Nearly half the CEOs polled, who include some of the biggest names in India Inc, believe...
Farm Laws Have Been Framed Without Consulting Stake Holders
By Megha Katheria The Bharatiya Kisan Union has approached the Supreme Court to challenge the constitutional validity of the three farm laws. Many State Governments, including Kerala, have also announced that they shall challenge the bills before the court. This comes after talks between the farmers’...
Republican Party Has Morphed Into An Anti-Democratic Institution
By John Wojcik The decision by the majority of Republican lawmakers in the House to sign onto Donald Trump’s fascistic push to overturn the 2020 elections will go down in history. It marks the day that the Republican Party officially becomes a new type of political party...
New Parliament Building Is Okay But What About Democratic Functioning
By Harihar Swarup Every nation has a message to deliver, a mission to fulfil, a destiny to reach. The mission of India has been to “guide humanity”, Shri Swami Vivekananda rightly said. India is striving hard to achieve the objective of social welfare through its parliamentary democracy. ...
EU-DisinfoLab Report 2020 Exposes A Transnational Political Scam
By Annie Domini Resurrecting a dead professor from Harvard Law School to suit ultra-nationalist interests is only the tip of the scam-berg that has been exposed in the recent EU DisinfoLab 2020 report, called the “Indian Chronicles”. A vast transnational political scam, funded by a certain Srivastava Group,...
Indian Fuel Consumers Get Hit From Both Sides
By K Raveendran Unless the Modi government shows mercy, which is most unlikely, the plight of fuel consumers is set to worsen in the days to come. Already, prices are near all-time highs and going by current indications, the upward movement will continue without any reprieve. The...
Guv Dhankhar, Chief Minister And The ‘Nautanki’ In West Bengal
By Sushil Kutty History is full of governors and chief ministers going hammer and tong at each other, producing fireworks which at first regale and then rock the boat with repercussions felt far and wide. That said, there are no two excuses for a governor if he turns...
Election Fever Grips Again Madhya Pradesh Over Local Polls
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Only after the lapse of one month since the declaration of 28 Assembly by-poll results the state has started going in the election mode again. This time it is the turn of election to local bodies particularly Municipal Corporations. With the process of reservation...
India Muscled Out Of Bangladesh Railway Upgrade Orders
By Ashis Biswas An Indo-Japanese joint venture (JV) initiative recently winning a $500 million (Rs 31.9 billion) lump sum contract in the construction of the Dhaka Metro has brought justifiable satisfaction among Indian Railways officials. Such news allays recent fears expressed in some quarters as to whether...
Georgia Run-Offs Are Next Gop Target As Trump Pushes For Fraud Narrative
By Chauncey K. Robinson Although Donald Trump’s legal team is losing court battles left and right, its false narrative of voter fraud run amok has emboldened the Republican party’s ongoing strategy of voter suppression. This suppression poses not only a threat to the upcoming Georgia run-off...
Only A Joint Struggle Of Farmers And Workers Can Take On Centre
By Prakash Karat The big success of the Bharat bandh called by the farmers’ organisations on December 8 was a display of people’s support and sympathy for the cause of the farmers. The spontaneous response to the bandh call in many places and the support extended to...
