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.In Pandemic, Billionaires Wealth Increases While Common People Suffer Most
By Prabhat Patnaik Wealth distribution data are notoriously difficult to interpret. This is because variations in stock prices affect wealth distribution, so that a stock market boom suddenly makes the rich appear much richer, while a stock market collapse makes wealth distribution less unequal overnight. In other...
BJP’s Campaign In Bihar Elections Has Turned Cynical
By Arun Srivastava The constitutional commitment of the Union government to provide “free coronavirus vaccination for all” was offered on Thursday in the form of bribe to the voters of Bihar. Narendra Modi led the BJP government is under Constitutional obligation to make available coronavirus vaccine...
A Grave Constitutional Impropriety By Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister
By Indira Jaising The letter addressed by the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, YS Jaganmohan Reddy, directly to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) raises issues of grave constitutional importance. Does such a direct approach interfere with the independence of the Judiciary from the Executive? A Chief...
Kerala LDF Produces A Political Quickie
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It was well and truly a quickie, to put in cricket parlance. The ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF)on Thursday formally inducted the Kerala Congress(M) Jose K Mani faction as an ally, making out a strong case for entry into the Guinness Book of World...
Will Nitish Do A Role Reversal And Join Lalu After Polls?
By Rahil Nora Chopra The most discussed gossip in Bihar at the tea stalls and pan shops is that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar might re-align with Lalu Prasad Yadav of RJD, which he had dumped a few years ago to return to the NDA. In the last assembly...
Imran Khan’s Battle With People’s Party Run Sindh Govt Has Hotted Up
By Sankar Ray Though there is no civil war like situation in Karachi, according to the Pakistan media and all the leading Pak papers are alleging that Indian media is manufacturing news, the standoff between the ‘miltablishment-backed federal government, led by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in Islamabad and Pakistan...
Militarising the quad to suit U.S. Geo-Political Interests
By Prakash Karat The forthcoming Malabar exercises in the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal in November will feature all the four countries of the quadrilateral grouping (Quad) – the United States, India, Japan and Australia. The Malabar exercises had begun as joint exercises of the Indian...
India Has To Work Hard For Building A Multipolar World
By D Raja When the world is struggling with arguably the worst health crisis of modern history, there are some other long-term issues that are raising their heads. The tension between India and China in Ladakh and the plans for the annexation of the West Bank by Israel...
CBI’s Sudden Entry Into TRP Investigation In Lucknow Has Political Considerations
By Sushil Kutty The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena are no longer handshaking friends and won’t be unless the Shiv Sena returns to the earlier nuptial arrangement – BJP on top! The two have been at war since after Uddhav Thackeray dumped his dead father’s legacy...
Farmers Continuing Agitation Against Centre Has Stirred The Nation
By Binoy Viswam The wave of resistance unleashed by the peasantry against the farm bills has conveyed a message to the nation. The people who feed the nation through their sweat and labor have the courage to fight back injustice. The Modi government was under the illusion...
State Have Valid Reasons To Be Angry With Centre On GST Compensatin Issue
By Rohan Deshpande Prior to the roll-out of the Goods and Service Tax (GST) from July 1, 2017, states had substantial power to levy origin-based indirect taxes and levies such as sales tax or VAT, octroi, entry tax, entertainment tax, etc. GST introduced a consolidated levy of...
India-U.S. Relations Under A Biden Presidency
By Nitya Chakraborty With less than two weeks to go for the Presidential elections in USA scheduled on November 3, talks have started about what is going to be the impact of the coming to the White House of Joe Biden as President and Kamala Harris as Vice-President...
BJP Aims At Changing Games In Tamil Nadu
By S. Sethuraman The road to Tamil Nadu Assembly poll, still six months ahead, for May 2021, is full of uncertainties though the ruling AIADMK has decided its Chief Minister Mr E Palaniswami will lead the party seeking a third successive term in a post-Jayalalithaa era. In this,...
India Heads List Of Covid-Related Abuses By Authorities
By K Raveendran US think-tank Freedom House has catalogued the abuse of power by governments all over the world in the name of fighting the coronavirus pandemic and heading the table is India. Perhaps a point of consolation is that the likes of United States, the United...
Migrant Labour In Bihar Set To Vote Against Nitish Kumar In Coming Polls
By Arun Srivastava The thousands of migrant workers who have re-migrated to the cities and their earlier places of work, before fleeing to their native place in the wake of onslaught of the corona epidemic, have started coming back to Bihar to participate in the electioneering. Their...
All Eyes On Priyanka Gandhi For Uttar Pradesh Bypolls
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The forthcoming by-elections for seven assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh will be the testing time for Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi. The bypolls for seven assembly seats- Naugawan, Sadat, Bullandshahar, Bangarmau, Ghatampur, Deoria, Tundla and Makhani will take place on November 3 and results ...
Pakistan Opposition To Organise Long March Against Imran Govt
By Sankar Ray The 40,000-plus rally at the Bagh-e-Jinnah in Gujranwala, near Lahore, on Sunday , the 13th anniversary of the twin blasts in Karsaz, targeting the homecoming procession of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto killing around 200 people , under the banner of Pakistan Democratic Movement comprising...
Supreme Court Must Chalk Out Its Path Of Social Justice And Democratic Rights
By Anuj Bhuwania The Indian judiciary is one of the most powerful, however, its power hasn’t been used to hold the state accountable in recent times. In India, it performs a function with and for the state. Indian courts no longer work as a shield for the...
