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.Women Are Suffering Most In This Era Of Pandemic
By Dipa Sinha and Sona Mitra Low and declining women’s labour force participation rates in India have been a longstanding concern. 94% of the women who are counted as being in the workforce remain concentrated in the informal sector. In the non-farm sector, women are usually located as...
Delhi Police’s “Conspiracy” Theory Against Activists Is Brazen Misuse Of Power
By Prakash Karat The crime branch of the Delhi police has fabricated a conspiracy theory which seeks to link anti-CAA protesters with the communal violence which took place in north-east Delhi in end February. The pattern of arrests, the cases and charge-sheets filed, reveal the real conspiracy which...
Modi Has To Overcome Impetuosity In Decision-Making
By K Raveendran It is high time Prime Minister Narendra Modi reigned in his impetuosity in taking decisions that affect the destiny of the nation. It is true that he stakes his prime ministership by such thoughtless action, but that is insignificant compared to the price that the...
Despite Shah’s Virtual Rally, BJP-JD(U) May Stick Together
By Harihar Swarup The campaign for the Bihar election, scheduled for the end of the year, has begun. In a display of what campaigning may look like in the coronavirus disease (Covid-19)-hit era, Union home minister and top Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Shah addressed workers in...
Tension At India-Nepal Border Is Most Unfortunate
By Arun Srivastava The BJP leadership, especially the Prime Minister Narendra Modi who claims to be the custodian and public face of nationalism has miserably let down the Indian nationalism and put the country in a bad light. In the annals of the century old India-Nepal relationship this...
IBC (Amendment) Ordinance 2020 Has Many Legal Loopholes
By Sakal Bhushan The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code was enacted in the year 2016 and its provisions, in respect of the corporate insolvency, were enforced with effect from December 1, 2016. Prior to this revolutionary legislation, India had a very complex insolvency regime governed by multiple laws like...
India Needs To Avoid Pitfalls In Targeted Covid-19 Response Strategy
By Gyan Pathak India has been implementing targeted lockdown in place of general lockdown since June 1, 2020. More stringent measures are being put in place in the containment zones. However, about half of the three lakh cases of infections were added during the targeted lockdown period. It...
Centre’s Covid Management Has Many Faultlines
By Dr. Arun Mitra As per predictions by the experts, India is in for peak in the COVID-19. The rate of increase of new cases has already started showing up. We stand at 4th position in the world as far as number of cases goes. True, that...
India’s Battle For Economic Revival Amidst Covid Will Be Long Drawn
By Ashok B Sharma India has begun the process of gradually unlocking the lockdown with the hope of reviving the ailing economy that has been showing a downward trend even before the countrywide lockdown was announced on March 24. The country’s GDP recorded 4.2 per cent in 2019-20...
Modi Is Talking Big Ignoring The Harsh Ground Realities
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi has launched the mission to denigrate anything which dates back to the time of Jawaharlal Nehru or Indira Gandhi. Though he has been accusing Nehru and Indira for every wrong, he is planning to launch fresh attack to finish the father and...
Delhi Covid Management Scene Is Turning Grimmer With Every Passing Day
By Sushil Kutty The ‘New Delhi’ dateline is grim reading. Scores of Covid-19 deaths jostling with scarce numbers of hospital beds all over the country. Government hospitals are choc-a-bloc with Covid patients and private hospitals are pushing up the asking price for a bed. Then, there’s the...
Chouhan’s Audio Clip Gives Big Handle To Congress Before By-Polls
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: A day after an alleged audio clip of CM Shiv Raj Singh Chouhan went viral in which he purportedly says that the “BJP central leadership had decided that the Congress government in the state must fall” the Chief Minister tweeted on Thursday...
Modi Government’s Governance During Pandemic Is A Disaster
By D. Raja The world today seems to be reeling under the pressure to re-align life, from everyday mundanities to more complex activities, shadowed by the presence of COVID 19 pandemic. For one, the deep fissures that were already festering within society are now amplified and pronounced....
Migrant Workers Would Keep Haunting The Country For Long Now
By Anjan Roy Until the nationwide lock-down was imposed to fight the spread of virus, India took no note of the humble migrant workers and the role they played in running the engines of the economy. The crisis and the huge movement of these hapless people gives...
Tripura Govt Must Function With More Efficiency To Meet Corona Challenge
By Sagarneel Sinha Ever since the BJP came to power for the first time in the north-eastern state of Tripura in 2018, the government led by Biplab Deb has faced serious allegations for weakening democracy in the state. The allegations even gained more strength when BJP won...
Pakistan’s Nuclear Programme Is On An Expansion Spree
By Sankar Ray Pakistan which has been developing and rapidly expanding a diverse nuclear arsenal since its first and so far only series of nuclear weapon explosive tests in May 1998 is under suspect among the peace-loving scientists some of whom are Pakistanis. The lack of official information...
Nitish Might Break With BJP, To Ally With Manjhi For 2020 Polls
By Rahil Nora Chopra The most political effect of coronavirus is seen in Bihar, where the assembly election is going to be held in October-November this year. The issue of migrant labourers and students will be the pivot on which the coming election will hinge. In the beginning,...
Justice For George Floyd Petition Gets 17 Million Signatures
By Mark Gruenberg There are petitions, and there are petitions…and then there’s the petition by started by a 15-year-old Portland, Ore., girl, identified on Facebook as Kellen S., on change.org, demanding justice for George Floyd. Talk about a tsunami, and her petition is it. Following Floyd’s burial...
