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.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,...
Ankhi Das’s Exit From Facebook Is Not Enough For Indian Users
By K Raveendran Ankhi Das, who through her own interpretation of her role as public policy director of Facebook in India gave a tinge of saffron to the social media giant’s blue colour scheme, has finally exited the India operations. She has been with Facebook since 2011, when...
Ankhi Das Stepping Down Is An Eyewash: Facebook Won’t Change Its Ways
By Annie Domini Ankhi Das, whose claim to fame has been publicly supporting Prime Minister Narendra Modi while steering public policy at the social media behemoth, Facebook, unproblematically asserting that “likes can get you votes” on May 17, 2014 (a day after Modi-led NDA won the Lok Sabha...
RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat Has Declared War Against Indian Ethos
By Krishna Jha While analysing the features of fascism in the Italian context, Antonio Gramsci had pointed out that grounds were prepared even before the dominating forces unveiled themselves. The various democratic structures were slowly taken over. Uniformity was imposed on culture replacing its multiplicity. Efforts were made...
Polling Trends In First Phase Of Bihar Assembly Poll Unnerve BJP
By Arun Srivastava The fear of losing the electoral battle has turned the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi fraught and in his desperation to retrieve the ground he had forgotten his political stature and aura and has stooped low to the level of using unpleasant jibes against the young...
Mayawati’s Understanding With BJP In Uttar Pradesh Has Been Exposed
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The council polls for 10 seats from Uttar Pradesh exposed understands between BSP and BJP. For long, there were rumours about BSP leader Mayawati’s links with the BJP but the approaching by polls have brought about the understanding into open. Shocked by Samajwadi Party’s...
Border Dispute Between Tripura And Mizoram Needs A Permanent Solution
By Sagarneel Sinha The border dispute between Tripura and Mizoram refuses to die down. Early this year the Centre signed a pact with the stakeholders, which also included the two state governments, to permanently settle the 34,000 Bru refugees in Tripura. The Brus, known in Tripura as Reangs,...
NIA Is Acting As Another “Caged Parrot” Like CBI
By Arun Srivastava The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) which in recent times has suffered severe crisis of credibility and faith in the eyes of the people has suffered yet another shattering blow with the Maharashtra government withdrawing general consent for operations within its territory. Before Maharashtra four...
Facebook Has A Moral Responsibility To Disallow Hate Speech In Its Platform
By Jithendra Palepu A Wall Street Journal report published in August this year had accused Facebook of political bias in India. The report stated that Facebook India’s public policy head had intervened multiple times concerning the banning of several Bhartiya Janata Party leaders for posting ‘hate speech’ on...
Trump’s Hurry To Install His Nominee Barrett To Supreme Court Signals Ominous
By Al Neal With exactly a week until Election Day 2020, Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, has now been installed, taking the seat previously held by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. As voters nationwide line up hours in advance to cast a ballot or...
AIADMK Is Facing Major Odds In Fighting Assembly Polls In Tamil Nadu Next Year
By Kalyani Shankar The ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu is quietly getting ready to face the Assembly polls scheduled for early next year. With just a few months left, the party is sorting out its internal problems, first by declaring the incumbent chief minister E. Palaniswamy (EPS) as...
