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.Central Trade Unions Preparing For General Strike On November 26
By Sukumar Damle On October 31, 2020, the AITUC turned 100. Barely a month later, the workers all over India have decided to stop working on November 26, 2020 for a day. This decision was taken at a National Convention of Workers — online for the first...
Only 36 Countries Have Not Criminalised Marital Rape
By Anusha Agrawal The past few years have witnessed the growth of Indian judicial decisions towards a more liberal and open mindset of a changing society. Such decisions show how the country is moving away from the shackles of a medieval India to a society where everyone’s...
Trade & Investment Tie-Ups With Taiwan Make Sense
By Nantoo Banerjee China’s latest objection to India’s proposed bi-lateral trade pact with Taiwan, the world’s 17th largest exporter and importer, on the ground that it is against the ‘One-China Principle’ is illogical and unacceptable. India’s trade volume with Taiwan increased by a whopping 20 percent, last year,...
What If Bjp Stumbles In Bihar Assembly Elections?
By Amulya Ganguli The BJP will not be too pleased with the way the election scene has been panning out in recent times. After losing Maharashtra, Jharkhand and Delhi and suffering a jolt in Haryana, it is facing the prospect of yet another jolt in Bihar. ...
Nitish Looking Forward To The Survival Gift From Narendra Modi
By Arun Srivastava What a paradox, the person who till yesterday was the public face of the NDA in Bihar to woe the voters and ensure the victory of the alliance at the polls, was looking towards the prime minister, Narendra Modi with the hope that he would...
Promise Of A Free Covid Vaccine! To All Indians Is Difficult To Achieve
By Nilanjan Banik Prime Minister Narendra Modi is keen about delivering COVID-19 vaccine free of cost to the people of India. At the state-level, Governments of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu promised delivery of free vaccines. Noble promise but is it doable? Research on vaccines for...
Madhya Pradesh Voters Witness Ugliest By Polls Campaign In State
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: After witnessing and also tolerating most stinking, ugly and also hectic election campaign, voters of 28 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Madhya Pradesh will exercise their franchise on November 3. Most of these by-elections which have been caused by defections will be remembered...
Why Have Fast Track Courts Failed In India?
By Yash Agarwal The Supreme Court of India had recognised speedy trial as a fundamental right as far back as 1986. We know how that has worked out in reality over the three decades since. Cases continue to languish, pendency continues to worsen and an ever larger proportion...
Unions Prepare For General Strike If Trump Subverts Biden Win
By Mark Gruenberg Central Labor Councils in Rochester, New York, Seattle, and Western Massachusetts have issued calls for a general strike should Republican White House occupant Donald Trump steal the November 3 election by dubious means including judicial intervention by rightwing Supreme Court The first resolution,...
Nitish Kumar Is Fighting A Grim Battle For Survival As Polling Starts
By Harihar Swarup The 2020 assembly election in Bihar has taken an interesting turn. The competition between top national and regional parties, the rift within existing alliances, the discourse around jobs, and most importantly, the focus on Nitish Kumar’s record have made the polls complex. Indeed, it...
Pandemic Cost 11.7 Per Cent Loss In Labour Hours In World Economy
By Prabhat Patnaik The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has for some months been bringing out a report that monitors the impact of the pandemic on the world economy, especially the labour-hours lost because of the lockdown and their ramifications. The statistics it provides are not compilations of...
Bid To Use Contempt Of Court As Tool For Tyranny
By K Raveendran A concerted attempt to make laws relating to content of court as a tyrannical tool to stonewall criticism of judicial decisions and the judges who deliver those decisions has not gone unnoticed. Most disturbingly, these efforts have coincided with a progressive degradation in the quality...
Covid 19 Spread Reduced Carbon Dioxide In China
By Sankar Ray Japanese scientists in a study found a marked fall in Carbon Dioxide in China due to outbreak of Covid 19 right from February-March 2020, according to a paper published in Nature on 29 October 2020- ‘Detection of fossil-fuel CO2 plummet in China due to...
Quad Is The Grouping Meant To Combat China In Indo-Pacific
By Sushil Kutty Though very much part of Indo-Pacific, wannabe superpower People’s Republic of China cannot be part of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or ‘Quad’ for the simple reason that the Quad has come to be because China came to be the way it came to be! ...
Testing Time Ahead For Kerala LDF Government
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There is no getting away from the grim reality. The Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government finds itself in a deep political hole in the wake of the arrest of the Chief Minister’s former principal secretary M. Shivashankar and son of CPI(M) State...
British Labour Party Vertically Split Over Suspension Of Corbyn
By Arun Srivastava The plan has been executed with utmost precision. No amount of explanation is going to satisfy the inquisitive labour leaders of the rational for suspending the former Labour Party chief Jeremy Corbyn. Most of the independent observers and experts feel that this has been a...
Mayawati Livid At Samajwadi Party For Rebellion Of BSP MLAs
By Rahil Nora Chopra A day of political drama during which a rebellion by a group of BSP MLAs suggested the possibility of a surprise in the Rajya Sabha election in Uttar Pradesh ended after the nomination of the 11 candidates in the fray was rejected on the technical...
People’s Alliance Faces A Big Challenge In Jammu & Kashmir
By Prakash Karat THE People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) that has taken shape in Jammu & Kashmir augurs well for democratic politics and the future fight for safeguarding the constitutional and democratic rights of the people of J&K. The first Gupkar declaration was on August 4,...
