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.Mahagathbandhan In Bihar Has To Continue Its Issue Based Struggle
By Krishna Jha Marx had once said while explaining dialectics that history repeats itself, but always acquiring new levels, of unity and the struggle of opposites. NDA has won the polls defeating the Mahagathbandhan. It was a close fight and anti-incumbency factor had been a driving...
BJP Government Must Not Rush On Dangerous Course
By Gurnam Kanwar CHANDIGARH: The BJP central Government and BJP leadership are jointly pushing the Punjab and All India farmers struggle against 3 black agrarian laws to dangerous proportions which are fraught with catastrophic consequences for Punjab as well as India. Whole Punjab, except BJP, has arisen...
Online Traps For Women And Girls Expanding
By Gyan Pathak Online traps for women and girls have been expanding and have become stronger in the recent months. Social media platforms are being used for trafficking and recruiting potential victims. Despite the plethora of existing anti-trafficking legal and policy frameworks at the national, regional, and...
Biden Economic Recovery Plan Emphasizes Labour Law Reform
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—Congressional passage of the Protect the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, the most pro-worker rewrite of U.S. labour laws since the original 1935 National Labour Relations Act, is high among Democratic President-Elect Joe Biden’s economic priorities, assuming he successfully takes office on January. 20. Next...
Cuban Report says U.S. Blockade Still Causing Immense Economic Loss
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Cuba’s Foreign Ministry every year prepares a report on Cuba’s experience with the U.S. economic blockade of the island, in force since 1962. On October 22, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez presented this year’s report at a press conference in Havana. The Ministry releases...
Congress Eyes Assam To Regain Its Lost Status In The Northeast
By Sagarneel Sinha With the end of the Bihar elections, the focus now shifts to the four states — West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Assam — which are expected to go to polls together by April and May next year. In the north-eastern region, Assam is politically...
Dipankar Bhattacharya Is Right On His Strategy For Bengal
By Nitya Chakraborty CPI(ML) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya is perfectly right when he said in an interview to a leading national daily after Bihar assembly poll results on Tuesday night that the lesson from the Bihar results is that the number one priority of the Left must be...
The Importance Of BJP Emerging As Winner In Bihar
By Amulya Ganguli After all the talk of anti-incumbency undermining the NDA government in Bihar and the unexpected flowering of RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav’s political talent creating history by bringing down Nitish Kumar, the latter has lived to fight another day although he has been badly scarred...
Gold Helped Indian Households Cope With Covid Blues
By K Raveendran The Covid pandemic has demonstrated, yet again, why Indians set store by their gold. Faced with a squeeze on incomes, people have increasingly turned to gold to raise the much-needed cash to survive what has been for a majority of Indians one of the most...
Shivraj Singh Chouhan Emerges More Powerul In BJP Politics After Poll
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Rejection of the Congress slogan “defeat the traitors”, overwhelming endorsement of defections and defectors, defeat of three BJP ministers (former Congress legislators) including controversial dalit woman minister Imarti Devi, slight erosion in the influence of Jyotiraditya Scindia are important crucial highlights of...
Samajwadi Party Is Yet To Learn Lessons From Assembly Bypolls
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Despite retaining its one seat Malhani, there is nothing to celebrate for Samajwadi Party in the by polls for seven assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh the results of which were announced on November 10. Although Samajwadi Party got 23.61 per cent votes...
Celebrating The Ascendency Of Kamala Harris To The Vice Presidency
By Chauncey K. Robinson Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has made history as the first African and Indian American and as the first woman elected to that office in the history of the United States. There are those on both the right and the left who downplay the...
Left Getting Back Its Mojo In Latin America Again Following Bolivian Win
By Nitya Chakraborty The swearing of the new left wing Bolivian President Luis Arce on November 8 following the massive victory of the Movement towards Socialism (MAS) in the general elections on October 18 signals a fresh shift in the politics of Latin America towards pink tide after...
Bihar 2020: From Socialism To Social Democracy
By Papri Sri Raman Even as a new government takes office in the eastern Indian State of Bihar, two new books on the State seem to be shouting from the rooftop, what ails Bihar. . One of the books is called Ruktapur by an independent journalist, Pushyamitra....
Fight For A People’s Constitution Begins In Chile
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Chileans voted in a national referendum on October 25. Commentary reflects what happened: “We began to dig the grave of the Pinochet-era constitution and the market economy,” one report said. This was an “overwhelming, historical triumph of the people,” declared Chile’s El Siglo...
India Is Being Fast Pushed To The US Orbit
By Nantoo Banerjee It may be difficult to reconcile that India, a leader of the non-aligned movement (NAM), should get so quickly aligned with the emerging United States-led power block, Quad, to protect itself from a border threat from China. India is canvassing even with select EU members...
Republican Party Is Weakened But Trump Has Maintained His Own Base
By Kalyani Shankar Every world leader leaves behind a legacy. What kind of legacy has US President Donald Trump left? His successor Joe Biden has now inherited some bad and some good policies, which he has to tackle. A Reuter’s report sums up Trump’s legacy thus: “Saying...
India-US Economic Relations Have A History Of Stability And Progress
By Subrata Majumder India-USA economic relations have a long history of continuity irrespective of the changes in the White House. The burgeoning market of India, the availability of Indian technical manpower and the use of English language by the educated Indians, have made Indian market most attractive to...
