Opinion
Appeal
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.Uttar Pradesh “Love Jihad” Ordinance Is A Sarkari Honour Crime
By Kavita Krishnan UP’s new “love jihad” ordinance is a sarkari honour crime against inter-faith relationships. With it, the District Magistrate becomes the government-approved khap panchayat which can arbitrarily decide to separate lovers; deem a marriage illegitimate, and sentence a Muslim man to prison for 5-10 years....
Trump Steps Up Terror Threats In Lead-Up To Biden Inaugural
By John Wojcik A top lawyer for Donald Trump called on national television for the execution of Chris Krebs, the former U.S. cybersecurity chief in charge of protecting the 2020 election from cyberattacks. The president fired Krebs, a lifelong Republican that he appointed, after Krebs described the...
Biden’s New Presidency Has Got Tougher Tasks Compared To Obama
By Nitya Chakraborty Now that the road has been cleared for the President elect Joseph Biden to officially take over on January 20 next year for a four year term, the question has arisen as to what will be the nature of his presidency and the shape of...
‘Desi Amazon’ Is Fine But Not In Government Sector
By K Raveendran The reported move by Government of India to set up a state-owned Indian version of Amazon.com is, to say the least, a move that is against the trend of technological power concentrating away from the hands of governments. In fact, the development of information technology...
Owaisi’s AIMIM Unlikely To Be Of Big Impact In West Bengal Elections
By Sagarneel Sinha After tasting success in the recently concluded Bihar elections, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul (AIMIM) led by Hyderabad MP Assaduddin Owaisi is now concentrating on West Bengal — where polls are just 5 months away. The state has around 27 per cent Muslim population — and...
Modi Ministers Desperately Trying To Divide The Farmers’ Unity
By Arun Srivastava Representatives of 35 farmers’ organisations rejecting Modi government’s offer to set up a new committee which would include the agriculture experts and economists to look into issues, has not come as a surprise. Narendra Modi deputing his ministers to talk to the agitating farmers had...
Indian Students Suffered The Most During Covid-19
By Gyan Pathak Digital India campaign, initiated by not less than the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is now five years and five months old. It was launched under the ‘visionary leadership’ on July 1, 2015. Within the last five years most of the people were made to...
Bank Licences To Corporates Is A Retrogade Step
By C H Venkatachalam With RBI’s Internal Working Group submitting their recommendation that Corporate Houses and Big Business Houses can be allowed as promoters of Banks, a lot of debate is going on. To us in AIBEA, it is not very difficult – rater it is very easy...
RCEP Creates World’s Largest Free Trade Block
By Amiad Horowitz On November 15, a group of 15 countries, including the 10 members of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and other regional powerhouses like China, Japan, and Australia, made history by signing the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). The agreement establishes the...
Hyderabad Municipal Poll Is An Acid Test For BJP In Southern States
By Kalyani Shankar Whoever thought that a civic poll would create so much excitement, passion, and polarization? The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections on December 1 has become an unprecedented high profile political event. It is being fought with the same vigour as Lok Sabha polls by...
Behind BJP’s Obsession With The Hyderabad Municipal Polls
By Amulya Ganguli There are several reasons for the BJP’s preoccupation with the Hyderabad municipal elections. It is unusual for a national party to deploy its big guns for a local contest. But the BJP is no believer in commonplace rules. If the party believes that an...
India Is Striving To Stand Up Again From Covid19 Jolt
By Anjan Roy India is making a spirited effort to leave its vicious sick bed and start walking again. That is, going by the latest GDP figures released by the National Statistical Office. After a deep contraction of almost a quarter in April to June this year,...
Chinese Defence Minister’s Talks With Nepal Ministers And Army Crucial
By Barun Das Gupta At a time when China’s relations with India have touched their Nadir and armies of the two countries are facing each other in eastern Ladakh, Chinese Defence Minister Gen. Wei Fenghe flew to Kathmandu last Sunday on a “working visit” to discuss, among other...
Rigorous Restrictions Needed On People For Going Out
By Dr. Arun Mitra With the onset of winter there is surge in the COVID cases. Delhi is already getting nearly 8000 cases every day. Now the cases are rising in other parts of the country as well. This is time when government needs to be very cautious,...
British Labour Party Vertically Split On Ideological Lines
By Arun Srivastava Jeremy Corbyn’s left-wing allies have launched a campaign for the restoration of whip for the former Labour leader, he on his part has been contemplating to initiate legal proceedings against the current labour leader Kier Starmer for denying him of his right. While the...
Frederich Engels Was Prophetic About Origins Of Women’s Oppression
By Prof. Mary Davis The great significance of Friedrich Engels’s Origins of the Family, Private Property & the State is that it is one of the first Marxist analyses of development of family and origins of women’s oppression (the first was August Bebel’s Women & Socialism, 1879)...
India Must Concentrate On Finished Goods Output
By Nantoo Banerjee For now, it appears to be a right decision on India’s part to opt out of the China-led 15-nation Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement to protect the country’s immediate industrial and trade interests. After prolonged negotiations for years, the agreement, sans India, was...
Corruption: Only Industry That Flourished During Covid
By K Raveendran It does not matter if Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and the mandarins in North Block agree or not, it is official that India is in recession. Data released by the National Statistical Office revealed that India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted 7.5 percent in...
