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.Lower Middle Class And Poor Students Are Suffering Badly Due To Steep Rise In Education Costs
By Tirthankar Mitra Even as India aspires for inclusive growth and development, the rising cost of higher education in the country threatens to undermine this wish. Once considered a key to upward mobility, higher education is increasingly becoming out of reach to many middle class and lower middle class...
Trinamool’s Sweeping Victory In Six Bypolls Has Given A Big Boost To Mamata’s Standing In INDIA Bloc
By Satyaki Chakraborty The sweeping victory of the Trinamool Congress candidates in the by polls held to the six assembly constituencies in Bengal on November 20, has surpassed even the wildest expectations of the TMC leadership. Out of the six seats, one Madarihat seat was with the BJP while...
US Action Against Adani A Telling Testament To Modi Govt’s Crony Capitalism
By K Raveendran The US chargesheet against the Adani group and the arrest warrant issued against Gautam Adani are the strongest indictment yet of the crony capitalism that has been playing out on the sides under the Narendra Modi government. The new developments shed light on the group’s rapid...
COP29 Came Out With New Draft Finance Deal Disheartening Stake Holders
By Dr. Gyan Pathak COP29 came out with a new draft finance deal on the last day of the summit on November 22, but it frustrated the stakeholders so much that they dubbed it a ‘slap on the face’. It had proposed $250 billion yearly, but left out specifics...
Devendra Fadnavis Is Getting Ready For Chief Ministership After Big BJP Show In Maharashtra
By Sushil Kutty Devendra Fadnavis, likely to be appointed Maharashtra Chief Minister, tweeted ‘Ek Hai toh safe hai’ as the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance was heading for sure-shot victory, concluding with ‘Modi hai toh Mumkin hai’. This, as celebration broke outside his residence and women in pink (the colour of...
JMM Led Coalition Wins Big By Capturing 56 Out Of 81 Seats In Jharkhand Assembly Poll
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Voters in Jharkhand has rejected outright the contention of the BJP top brass led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that infiltration from Bangladesh has been changing the demography of the state’s tribal areas and that they should overwhelmingly vote for BJP as it alone...
Finland’s Conservative Coalition Opts For Reversing Earlier Pro-People Measures
By Otto Kyyrönen HELSINKI: In Finland, the liberal-conservative National Coalition Party and the far-right Finns Party, whose members together add up to nearly 90 percent of the current government, have united around a shared political project: authoritarian neoliberalism. The right-wing government is taking from the poor to give to...
Who Is DOJ Of US Government To Demand Arrest Of Gautam Adani?
By Anjan Roy The real import of the US department of justice (DOJ) indictment of Indian billionaire, Gautam Adani, on counts of corruption and bribery has been somewhat lost on the wider public. It is the geo-economics of US dominion over the rest of the world that has to...
Narendra Modi Should Now Agree To Opposition Demand For Setting Up JPC
By Sushil Kutty Media should stop using “alleged” when reporting billionaire Gautam Adani’s many exploits. Why will someone so stinking rich need to bribe and commit fraud? “Alleged” robs the seriousness of the charge, and partially exonerates the man, who has friends in high places, which is all the...
Political Posturings In Delhi Turns Interesting, Turncoat Takes Centrestage
By Dr. Gyan Pathak After elections are over in Jharkhand and Maharashtra, the next electoral battlefield Delhi has come into focus, where election is scheduled to be held early next year before the term of its Vidhan Sabha expires on February 23, 2025. Political posturing of the major political...
Results Of Nine Bypolls In Uttar Pradesh To Set The Tone For 2027 Elections
By Rahil Nora Chopra The results in the by polls for nine assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh are geared to be a commentary on the battle of rhetoric between the BJP chief minister Yogi Adityanath (batoge toh katoge or if you stand divided, you will be slaughtered) and the...
Huge Shortage Of Skilled Personnel Hits India’s Renewable Energy Sector
By Tirthankar Mitra India’s aim to achieve 500 Giga Watt (GW) of renewable energy capacity by 2030 is facing a roadblock. At this critical juncture it is faced with a shortage of 1.2 million skilled workers in the renewable energy sector. This target is pivotal for the meeting of...
Ukraine’s Firing Of British Missiles Deep Into Russia Is A Slur On Labour Govt
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Every day, another lurch nearer the precipice. The British Establishment appears bent on dragging the country to war without telling anyone. As anticipated, it seems that Keir Starmer has authorised Ukraine to fire British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles deep into Russia and that Kiev has commenced...
Donald Trump’s Return Reflects The Global Crisis Of Centrism
By Zoltan Zigedy WASHINGTON DC: In the wake of the election, I have read many insightful and thoughtful assessments of how we have arrived at the point where Donald Trump was re-elected. I highly recommend the recent scathing essay by my colleague at Marxism-Leninism Today, Chris Townsend (www.bit.ly/MLTelection), on...
Outcome Of Two Assembly And UP Bypolls Will Have Impact On Choice Of Next BJP President
By Arun Srivastava Muslims have no right to vote: this is the message that was sent by the state machinery and police to the country on November 20, while the elections to the assembly were underway in Maharashtra and Jharkhand and nine by-elections were held in Uttar Pradesh. Nevertheless,...
Big Victory For Left In Sri Lanka Parliamentary Polls Is A Heartening Development
By P Sudhir The National People’s Power (NPP) has won a historic victory in the Sri Lankan Parliament elections. For the first time, a political party has won a two-thirds majority through the proportional representation system. The NPP has won 159 of the 225 seats polling a record high...
President Putin’s Hardening Of Nuclear Doctrine Is Meant For Ukraine’s European Allies
By Anjan Roy As if he needed a doctrine to make a strike, the Russian president Vladimir Putin, has amended the so-called Russian nuclear doctrine. The change provides for Russia to strike even a non-nuclear state with nuclear weapons in case it is “supported” by a country which has...
India Needs Revenue Boost To Remain On Sustainable Fiscal And Growth Path
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Centre and State governments in India are in need of raising both tax and non-tax revenue, dismantling the administered pricing mechanism, reducing subsidies, and reorienting expenditure toward national and state-level priorities. This is essential to ensure India remains on a sustainable fiscal path with higher...
