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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.Nationwide Strike Is The Beginning Of Total Unity Of Toilers
By Krishna Jha The call to a nationwide strike on November 26-27, 2020, by the workers, joined by the farmers against the injustices imposed by the ruling regime was given on October 2, the day when the entire country celebrates the Jayanti of Mahatma Gandhi. It was...
RBI Proposal To Allow Large Corporates In Banking Is Dangerous
By Prakash Karat The Internal Working Group (IWG) of the Reserve Bank of India has proposed allowing large corporates and industrial houses to own banks by amending the Banking Registration Act, 1949. The other proposal is to allow large non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) with asset size of...
Raghuram Rajan Has Valid Points In Opposing Corporates In Banks
By Anjan Roy All of a sudden, a recommendation of an internal working group of the Reserve Bank of India has raised a storm of controversy. The working group has suggested allowing India’s corporate houses to float commercial banks. When you mention corporate houses it conjures...
Does The Collegium System Ensure Independence Of Indian Judiciary?
By Medha Srivastava With the growth of populism and autocratic tendencies in democracies, the role of judiciaries has become more important than ever. It is particularly to check state action and protect citizen rights. In the last few years, the growth of judicial power in democracies across...
Love Jihad Ordinance Of Uttar Pradesh Govt Smacks Of Bigotry
By Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr The Uttar Pradesh government of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath passed an ordinance on November 24 which made the coercive conversion and using duplicitous means for inter-faith marriages with punishment up to 10 years imprisonment. It was no secret that the proposed law...
RBI Working Group’s Vision On Banking Sector Distorted
By K Raveendran The approach of the Internal Working Group (IWG) of the Reserve Bank in recommending that leading corporate houses be allowed to own banks can only be described as irrational exuberance, a term famously used by former American Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan to describe the...
Protecting India Constitution Is Sacred Duty Of All Democrats
By D Raja November 26! It is a historic day for our nation and its democratic polity. On that day in 1949 the Constituent Assembly which was constituted on 9th December 1946, completed its work by submitting the draft Constitution. A day before the submission, Dr Ambedkar, head...
Ahmed Patel’s Death Is A Big Loss To The Congress Party In Crisis
By Harihar Swarup Ahmed Patel was a soft spoken gentleman, never losing his temper. He was very close to the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. So much so he was known as one of the Rajiv Gandhi boys. Whenever Rajiv visited Gujarat, a familiar figure was always rushing...
Covid-Affected India Needs Results, Not Just High Level Meetings
By Gyan Pathak Prime Minister chairing a high level meeting with Chief Ministers to review the COVID-19 status and preparedness of response and management in the country has a special significance especially when the ‘situation is going out of control’, an observation that was made by the Supreme...
Public Healthcare System Has To Be Thoroughly Revamped By The Centre
By Dr. Arun Mitra Report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health that private hospitals have been charging exorbitantly from the patients during the COVID Pandemic is a serious warning for the decision makers. If even in such situations as pandemic when there is need for a lot...
Out Of RCEP, India Has To Strive For Free Trade Agreement With U.S.A
By Subrata Majumder RCEP is ready for launching. Fifteen nations (ASEAN 10, China, Japan, S. Korea, Australia and New Zealand) signed the trade deal in Vietnam on 15th November, 2020. India, even though the trade block is Asian based, opted out of the block in 2019. It...
Rishi Sunak Is Ahead In Race To Replace PM Boris Johnson
By Arun Srivastava The modesty of the UK Chancellor of Exchequer Rishi Sunak has been earning him praise across the country for his assertion that he is “definitely not interested” in being the Prime Minister of the country. People appreciate this rare kind of gesture from Sunak. ...
BJP Desperate To Expand Its Support Base In Southern States After Bihar
By Kalyani Shankar After the big win in the Bihar Assembly poll this month, the BJP is focusing on the South where three states – Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Puducherry are going for polls early next year. Elections are scheduled for West Bengal and Assam also. Will...
Tarun Gogoi’s Death Is A Jolt To Congress Dream Of Ousting BJP From Power
By Sagarneel Sinha During the 2011 assembly elections of Assam, Congress party thundered back to power with a strong majority by winning 78 seats. This was the third consecutive victory of the grand old party in the north-eastern state. The resounding success came at a time when...
LDF Govt Scores Yet Another Self Goal
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A political blunder of the first order. That is the only way to describe the Kerala Police (Amendment) Ordinance 2020 hurriedly passed by the Kerala Government. It was an unkindest cut from a Left Government headed by a party that touts the delights...
Uddhav Thackeray Is Firmly In Saddle Despite Fadnavis And BJP
By Sushil Kutty There’s something royal sounding about Raosaheb Danve. For those who don’t know, he is Minister of State for Consumer Affairs in the Narendra Modi Government and an MP from Maharashtra. He’s one of the many BJP Union ministers who is neither seen nor heard...
Wall Street Puts Big Pressure On Trump To Ensure Smooth Transition
By C.J. Atkins Wall Street is ramping up the pressure on outgoing President Donald Trump to accept his defeat and halt his efforts to overturn the election results and cooperate with the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden. Over 100 top CEOs are telling Trump it’s...
Brazil’s Largest City Sau Paulo May Soon Have A Socialist Mayor
By Hugo Albuquerque On November 15, housing rights activist and rising star of the Brazilian left Guilherme Boulos made it into the runoff elections for the mayorship of São Paulo — the largest city in all the Americas and the financial center of Brazil. A member of the...
