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.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...
Factors That Could Determine Sustainability Of Gold Bull Run
By K Raveendran The relentless rally in gold is clocking all-time highs almost on a daily basis, with all eyes focussed on when the ounce price will hit the $2,000-mark. It had already crossed 1,974 last week, rising continuously from July 20, although it seemed to have taken...
Time For Nuclear Weapons Abolition Has Come Now
By Dr Arun Mitra While visiting the Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, one wonders how with the knowledge of destructive power of weapons could man build and then use the nuclear arms on human population. To watch the pictures of the destruction while going around the memorial and to...
Rajasthan Governor Has Not Been True To Constitutional Norms
By Harihar Swarup Blinking first in its battle of attrition with Governor Kalraj Mishra over convening the Rajasthan Assembly at short notice, the Ashok Gehlot government has settled for a special house session on August 14 instead of July 31 as originally demanded. Even though brisk horse trading...
NEP Stresses More On Centralisation Rather Than Democratisation
By Dr. Amit Dasgupta The new education policy, named as National Education Policy, 2020, like many other measures is being introduced among the Covid 19, pandemic. The Prime Minister gave a call to convert crises into opportunities while giving the call for making India “Atmanirbharshil”. Introduction of such...
U.S. Economic Crisis Poses A Major Challenge To Donald Trump
By Anjan Roy America today illustrates what economic distress can do to humble a proud nation. The land of democracy is facing the worst threat to the country’s basic political feature with the blow coming from none other than its highest guardian President Trump is proposing to...
Joining BJP Could Be One Of Sachin Pilot’s Limited Options
By Rahil Nora Chopra After Sachin Pilot’s move to dislodge the Ashok Gehlot government in Rajasthan failed, the young Congress dynast has no option left but to join the BJP. In case he harboured any plans to float his own party, then he must know that in the...
August 5 – One Year Of Undermining Democracy In Jammu & Kashmir
By Prakash Karat August 5 marks the completion of a year since the infamous steps were taken in parliament to nullify Article 370 of the constitution that provided for special status to the state of Jammu & Kashmir and the damaging legislation which dismembered the state and created...
Real Income Of Working People Began Declining Even Before Pandemic
By Prabhat Patnaik The pandemic and the lockdown are certainly causing an absolute shrinkage in the Gross Domestic Product of the Indian economy. But these tend to obscure something very serious that was happening even earlier, namely a real income decline for vast numbers of working people....
Job Losses Due To Pandemic May Cross 18 Million In Pakistan
By Sankar Ray The results of a nationwide economic survey in Pakistan, undertaken by IPSOS, Europe’s leading market research outfit indicate that the net job loss in the country due to pandemic, is feared to surpass substantially the estimate by the ministry of planning, worked out in April...
