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.Tinkering With The Question Hour Diminishes Democracy
By Annie Domini On September 2, the rumble from the bowels of Parliament was of an ominous nature. The Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha secretariats had notified that there would be no Question Hour during the already truncated Monsoon Session of Parliament, scheduled to be held...
UAPA: Descent From Rule Of Law To Barbarism
By Ravi Nair Indian governments across the spectrum adopted economic policies that favour liberalisation and increased presence of multinational corporations as a means of expanding India’s global influence. Economic threats became synonymous with security threats and are treated accordingly. State mechanisms aimed at inhibiting popular opposition...
Sushant Singh Rajput’s Tv Coverage Has Turned Into A Media Circus
By Sushil Kutty The breathless media coverage of the Sushant Singh Rajput death case continues non-stop without pause or mute and journalists-turned-shamus TV news reporters cannot seem to get enough of SSR’s ‘girlfriend’ Rhea Chakraborty’s elbow. Some of the marauding hacks have even christened her ‘Vishkanya,’ which...
Big Row In Assam Over The Closure Of Govt-Funded Madrasas And Tols
By Ashis Biswas Come November, Government-aided madrasas and Sanskrit schools (tol) in Assam will no longer function as before. Their proposed conversion into regular, general schools would begin, says state Education Minister Mr. Himanta Biswa Sarma The transition is to be completed within six months. His announcement...
Spain’s Centre-Left Govt Facing Big Offensive From Rejuvenated Right
By Nitya Chakraborty The eight month old Centre-Left coalition government of Spain is facing a major crisis as the continuing Covid crisis has made both social life and economy miserable giving advantage to the Right to step up their offensive against the fragile coalition which is the first...
Rural Jobs Growth Decline In August Shooting Up Unemployment
By Satyaki Chakraborty The signs of job growth in rural India visible in the months of June and July this year, disappeared in August leading to rise in the unemployment level in the country side. The major factors were the loss of jobs under MGNREGS and the...
Congress’ UP Unit Rises Up Against Ghulam Nabi Azad
By Rahil Nora Chopra After the controversial letter to the Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi asking for a full-time party president and 11-point agenda for reforms in the 134-year-old organisation signed by 23 senior Congress leaders, what is evident now is the annoyance of UP state leaders and workers...
Boris Johnson Faces Tory Wrath As Party Slumps In Shock Poll
By Arun Srivastava It is a coincidence that both the leader of the house Boris Johnson and the leader of the opposition Sir Keir Starmer have been facing rough time. While Boris Johnson is facing a showdown with furious Conservative MPs over his government’s chaotic handling of...
Modi Govt Policies Are Responsible For Deepening Economic Crisis
By D. Raja Politics and economics cannot be separated. Politics is the concentrated expression of economics. The politics of RSS-BJP combine is responsible for the present state of economy, unprecedented decline of GDP to -23.9 per cent and for the huge devastation and despair of the toiling people...
Modi Govt Has Committed Brazen Violation Of States Rights On GST
By Prakash Karat The refusal by the central government to pay the Goods and Services Tax (GST) compensation due to the states is patently illegal and violative of the constitutional scheme regarding relations between the centre and the states. The finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, announced in the...
India Finally Positions Itself In Advantageous Position In Ladakh
By Barun Das Gupta The situation in Ladakh which had reached a stalemate with troops from both sides digging in their heels in their respective positions, suddenly changed and changed for the better for India on the night of August 30-31. India outwitted and outmanoeuvred the Chinese by...
Modi Government Has No Sound Programme To Stem Economic Decline
By Arun Srivastava Irrespective of the sneers and abuses being hurled by the BJP leaders and Narendra Modi on Dr Manmohan Singh, the former prime minister has proved to be prophetic in his observation that Modi would be a “disaster” as Prime Minister and the country would face...
Migrant Labour Can Pin Some Hopes In Judiciary For Their Rights At Last
By Raghuveer R Sattigeri The High Court of Karnataka through its Order dated June 24, 2020 asked the Government of Karnataka to ensure that compensation is paid to the Migrant workers (hutment dwellers) and to rehabilitate them on account of the destruction of their huts in a...
Democrats Gear Up To Protect The Vote Ballots For November 3 Poll
By John Bachtell Groups inside and outside the Democratic Party are linking arms in what is literally a growing national movement to protect the 2020 vote and thereby oust Trump in November. The massive effort to protect democracy is necessitated, in part, because a record number...
High Courts Are Shining Bright As Defenders Of Human Rights
By Nitya Chakraborty Two orders issued by the two different High Courts of the country on September 1 once again show that the Courts can still undertake their due responsibility as true defenders of the human rights and the constitutional ethos. In one case, the Allahabad High Court...
Centre Practising Strict ‘Financial Distancing’ In Covid Response
By K Raveendran Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been extolling the virtues of social distancing on every conceivable occasion. But his government has been following a strict policy of ‘financial distancing’ when it came to handling the aftermath of the debilitating lockdown. The slew of announcements...
Opposition Leaders Support Agitating Anganwadi Workers In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Opposition leaders in Uttar Pradesh have raised the issue of Asha workers, anganwadi workers and helpers fighting for better pay and health insurance and personal gear in view of their exposure to corona virus covid-19. It is recalled here that six lakh asha...
MGNREGA Is The Largest Social Scheme In India To Help The Poor
By Sunita Narain In these darkest days of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) — when jobs and economies have collapsed — 56 million households got work in the past three months and these jobs provided relief. This was under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act...
