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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.Opposition Playing Hindu Card After Successful Bhoomi Pujan At Ayodhya
By Pradeep Kapoor Keeping an eye on next assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh in 2022, the opposition parties too are playing Hindu card relating to the bhoomi pujan of Ram Mandir at Ayodhya which took place on August 5. Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra succeeded in hard...
One Year After Abrogation Of Special Status Of Jammu & Kashmir
By Ashutosh Sharma On August 5, 2019, the central government annulled Jammu and Kashmir’s special status — which granted exclusive land and job rights to permanent residents of the former state. One year later, contrary to the commanding national narrative, Kashmir today has a ruined economy whereas mainstream...
75 Years On, The Shadow Of Nuclear War Looms Large
By Ben Chacko Seventy-five years ago, when the US dropped a bomb named Little Boy on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the world entered a new and terrifying era. People on the ground — some distance away — reported a brilliant flash of light (fishermen off the...
Maligning Manmohan Singh Will Not Refurbish Congress Image
By Arun Srivastava There is a famous adage in Hindi “wife of the weakest poor is the Bhabhi (sister in law) of entire village). The axiom implies that the poor does not have respect and prestige. It may sound obnoxious, but the situation of the former Prime Minister...
Class Action Suit Gives Indian Consumers A Powerful Tool
By K Raveendran A historic development that has empowered the Indian consumer like never before has gone largely unnoticed amidst the country’s preoccupation with the Covid pandemic and its dire consequences for the economy and the lives of the people. Rules framed under the new Consumer Protection...
In India’s Society And Politics, Tomorrow Is Another Day
By Sushil Kutty A year later or 50 days later or, shall we say, 500 years hence and we’re still squabbling; meaning, we haven’t changed at all in all these centuries. Why, there’s the Ramayana and there’s the Mahabharata to attest to the surety that man, especially the...
Modi Is Talking Of Atmanirbhar But Dismantling Public Sector Units
By Dr Somu The Union cabinet has recently approved the proposal to sell government stake in 23 public sector enterprises (PSEs). Disclosing the decision, finance minister Nirmala Sitaraman said that disinvestment of BPCL, Air India and Railways (partially) would help the government meet its divestment target of...
National Education Policy Will Be Of Little Benefit To Indian Poor
By Arun Srivastava No education policy will prove to be of any worth unless the annual budgetary allocation for improvement of education is substantially increased. Besides the most important issue that needs an explanation from the government is what kind of education it envisages to provide to the...
Universal Basic Income Is The Best Option To Help The Poor In Covid Era
By Bert Schouwenburg The economic shutdown occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing job losses have rekindled enthusiasm for the introduction of a universal basic income (UBI), a concept that manages to divide opinion not only between left and right, but within left and right circles too....
Congress Needs Leadership, Direction, Revival And A New Narrative
By Kalyani Shankar For the first time since Sonia Gandhi took over as the Congress President after the resignation of Rahul Gandhi last August, the rift between the old guard loyal to Sonia and the Team Rahul has come out wide in the open. The reason for the...
Parliament Must Discuss New Education Policy Before Adoption
By Binoy Viswam As has become trademark of the Narendra Modi government during the COVID-19 pandemic, once again Parliament has been side-stepped in a matter of national importance as the Union Cabinet approved the National Education Policy. As a matter of great national importance that will affect India’s...
BJP’S Central Leadership Using Pilot To Cut Vasundhara To Size
By Arun Srivastava If the BJP has been acting on a simple one line mission to pull down the Ashok Gehlot’s Congress government, it would have accomplished the task by now. But BJP’s mission is not so unpretentious. Its strategy to dethrone Gehlot has many dimensions; the primary...
Vietnam Can Be A Big Participant In India’s Global Supply Chain
By Subrata Majumder Since the face-off between India and China fuelled up in Ladakh, chorus for de-coupling India from China erupted to boycott Chinese products. The government has already put some barriers to the economic engagement with China, spiking security concern. It restricted Chinese FDI approval through...
Education Has To Be Tuned To Aspirations Of Rural India
By Sanjeeb Mukherjee Knowledge and labour are the two key ingredients of human civilization. They work through extensive social cooperation. Hence the terms of social cooperation will determine which sections of society mainly gains from education and labour. Knowledge is formally produced and reproduced through the education...
A Judicial Memorandum For Legislations Is Urgently Needed Now
By Yash Agarwal Legislatures in India, both, the Parliament and the state legislatures, pass hundreds of bills each year. Each of these bills includes what is known as the “Financial Memorandum”. It’s a brief section which details out what the financial costs or implications would be on the...
Bhumi Pujan In Ayodhya Boosts Yogi’s Image As An Aggressive Saffron
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The bhumi pujan for Ram Temple at Ayodhya on August 5 will undoubtedly boost the image of saffron clad Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath not only in India but abroad also. Simultaneously, with the construction of the temple during his regime, CM Yogi...
Banking Sector Faces Tough Situation Under NPA Pressure
By Nantoo Banerjee It is difficult to understand why the government and Reserve Bank (RBI) are pushing commercial banks to increase lending to pep up industrial growth and economy at a time when the market is highly unstable and demand for nearly all products are badly down. The...
Congress Has Still Prospects Under Dynasty Based On Ideological Dynamism
By Amulya Ganguli It is a good sign that the last meeting of the Congress bigwigs involved a sharp exchange of views. It showed that there is still life in the old warhorse. Perhaps the fact that it was a video conference helped in the airing of conflicting...
