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.Public Sector Is Still Playing A Critical Role In Indian Economy
By Satyaki Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to embark on a big-ticket privatization is certainly welcome but India cannot be without public sector, which always played a critical role in bailing out the economy in crisis. “India needed a mix of socialism widely represented by public...
Question Hour Is An Essential Ingredient Of Vibrant Functioning Of Parliament
By Harihar Swarup Long before Prime Minister Narendra Modi, there was PM Atal Behari Vajpayee, whose primary identity was that of an outstanding parliamentarian. Elected to Lok Sabha a remarkable 10 times, hurling speech after thundering speech, taking opposition attacks on the chin, when Vajpayee was PM it...
NIA Continuing Hounding Of Scholar Activists For Relationship With Elgaar Parishad
By Arun Srivastava Police and intelligence agencies acting in a reckless manner driven with sense of vengeance and self-promotion has been an old machination, but the difference between the old and the latest tactics is its ruthlessness and resorting to brutality to finish the accused and his or...
Bizarre Developments Are Taking Place In Television Channels
By Sushil Kutty It’s another Saturday and if we thought it will be weekend as usual, we were wrong. Tension continues to brew. Both at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between wannabe superpower China and regional bulwark India and in Mumbai and Bengaluru, where the fair and...
Slum Dwellers Asked To Be Evicted By Supreme Court Have Nowhere To Go
By Aman Garg and Shivaang Maheshwari The judiciary is the last resort of the distressed, the deprived and the despondent. Naturally, they expect a humanitarian and empathic response from it. But it isn’t always so. On August 31, 2020, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court headed...
Nearly Two Decades After 9/11, Military-Industrial Complex In USA Is Stronger Than Ever
By C.J. Atkins It has been almost 20 years since Al Qaeda terrorists flew hijacked planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and crashed another into a field in Pennsylvania after a passenger revolt. On that day, 2,977 people lost their lives, leaving behind hundreds of...
India, China Should Take Forward Implementation Of Five Point Moscow Formula
By Nitya Chakraborty The five point formula agreed at the two hour talks between the two foreign ministers of India and China on Thursday night in Moscow amidst heightening tensions in Ladakh border, has come as a ray of hope in working on some arrangement to avert...
China May Not Vacate Occupied Territory In Ladakh Border
By Barun Das Gupta The meeting between the Foreign Ministers of India and China, S. Jaishankar and Wang Yi, in Moscow on Thursday proved as infructuous as the previous one between defence Ministers Rajnath Singh and Wei Fenghe on September 4. China is in no mood to vacate...
Indian Economy: Contrasting Views — Rajan And Rangarajan
By Anjan Roy A pall of gloom is hanging about India’s economic future ever since the GDP estimates about the first quarter of the current fiscal were laid bare a week back. There is a virtual competition among forecasters about the extent of estimated contraction of the Indian...
Bihar Poll Permutations See Nitish Woo LJP, Manjhi
By Rahil Nora Chopra As the Bihar Assembly election approaches, the political parties are getting busy forming the alliance with other partys. At one time, the main pillar of Dalit politics was Ram Vilas Paswan. In fact, two years back Paswan and Nitish Kumar were good friends. When Nitish...
Six Years Of Modi Rule Has Led Indian Economy To Near Collapse
By Prabhat Patnaik The GDP growth in the first quarter (April-June) of 2020 over the first quarter of the previous year has been minus 24 per cent according to preliminary official estimates. But most knowledgeable people believe that even this is an underestimate of the actual contraction...
National Digital Health Mission Will Be Another Mechanism For Surveillance By Centre
By Dr Arun Mitra Healthcare has always been a concern in our country, but lately the people are more sensitised towards it. This is because of the spread of COVID which is taking toll on the lives of many people from all socio economic strata. In addition...
Planned Conspiracy Is On To Distort The Role Of Early Indian Freedom Fighters
By Krishna Jha To build our present it is imperative to have a rich sense of history, which means hindsight with objectivity, without bias, without any inclination to stigmatise it. But what is happening is simply the reverse. A concerted effort has been unleashed to dim the...
From Sudha Bharadwaj To Rhea, Women As ‘Enemy Of The State’
By Annie Domini The 28-year-old Rhea Chakraborty, actress-girlfriend of the late Sushant Singh Rajput, has been arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau on charges of drugs consumption, for allegedly buying cannabis for Rajput. Cannabis, or marijuana, also known as weed in common parlance, is a mild psychoactive drug...
Twin Disasters Ringing Alarm Bells For Indian Economy And Public Health
By Prakash Karat IN the space of a few days, there have been two developments concerning the pandemic and the economy which are alarming. India became the country with the second largest number of Covid-19 cases in the world, overtaking Brazil. Preceding this came the news that in...
Online Fantasy Sports Are Entertaining Young Indians Like Never Before
By Satyaki Chakraborty Are you not getting enough of cricket, football, kabaddi, basketball, volleyball, baseball, hockey and other favourite sports of yours? You can now try the online fantasy versions of these, and that too for free! Homebound Indians bored of the pandemic have been taking to...
Priyanka Has Succeeded In Making Up Congress Battlefield-Ready
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, with her aggressive posturing and fighting spirit, has succeeded in making her party the main opposition in Uttar Pradesh. Her ground level work during the pandemic has reaped dividends in raising the party morale as well as...
AGR Order: A Case Of Subjective Judicial Overreach?
By Rohan Deshpande On September 1, 2020, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Arun Mishra finally sought to set at rest the controversy surrounding payment of Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) dues by telecom companies. It may be recollected that on October 24, 2019,...
