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.Left Parties Make Their Major Presence In Jharkhand Poll Nominations
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: A development in the ultra-Left politics that happened on September 9 this year in Jharkhand, to be more specific in the Dhanbad coalfields, gets cemented as elections for the sixth state Assembly knock at the door and revive memories of the role that the...
Faster Civil Trials In India Through Tech Reforms And Innovations Are Imperative
By Harsh Mahaseth and Sadqua Khatoon Indian judiciary faces a significant backlog of civil cases, with around 11.1 million cases pending, of which 22 percent are older than five years. These prolonged delays erode public trust in the legal system and leave many in a prolonged state of uncertainty...
SEBI Chief’s Refusal To Appear Before PAC And BJP’s Stout Defence Reveal A Sinister Plot
By K Raveendran The desperation shown by BJP members of the parliamentary accounts committee to shield SEBI chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch from criticism for her failure to appear before the panel shows how her acts of commission and omission were not just a reflection of certain deficit in personal...
‘Success’ Of India-China Agreement On LAC Is Being Overblown
By Anjan Roy Although ice has apparently been broken between India and China over conflicts and confrontations in Demchok and Depsang areas in eastern Ladakh, tensions have not been eliminated fully. The hurriedly announced agreement, in the hours before BRICS summit in Russia’s Kazan on October 22-24, was directed...
Conditions Of Employment For Women In India Gradually Worsening
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Due to declining scope of job opportunity in the organised and formal sector, women workers in India have been increasingly trying hard even to find a place in the unorganised and informal sectors sans social security. Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2023-24 for the period...
With Congress Out Of Bypolls, It Is Yogi Vs. Akhilesh In Uttar Pradesh
By Sushil Kutty The Congress has left the Uttar Pradesh bypolls, leaving the field open for the Samajwadi Party Supremo Akhilesh Yadav against the state-BJP led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who has sole responsibility of redeeming BJP after Akhilesh Yadav took the saffron party to the cleaners in...
Austrian President Finally Keeps Far Right FPO Out Of New Government
By Tirthankar Mitra Austrian President Alexander van Der Bellen has decided to sidestep the far right Freedom Party (FPO) in government formation sending an unambiguous signal about the future. At the heart of the decision lies the question that should a party having won the largest share of votes...
Left Wing Die Linke Of Germany Is In A Renewal Mood After National Party Congress
By Marc Martorell Junyent BERLIN: “There is hope.” This was one of the most repeated sentences when talking to delegates at Germany’s Die Linke’s national congress last weekend, as the left-wing party convened in Halle, in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. This hope clearly isn’t inspired by polling data,...
CM Yogi Has The Highest Stake In Uttar Pradesh Byelections
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With announcement of NDA and INDIA bloc’s candidates for byelections of all the 9 Vidhan Sabha Constituencies in Uttar Pradesh, one can now see the chief contestants arrayed in the electoral battlefield, and also make an assessment of their respective strengths and weaknesses, the success...
Moment Of Truth Has Arrived For Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
By Sushil Kutty Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is teetering from crisis to crisis. He survived a second no-confidence motion on October 1, the second in two days, and on October 25, Trudeau faced an internal challenge from his party MPs, 24 of whom have asked him to resign...
Madhya Pradesh BJP’s Infighting Heats Up Over Budhni Assembly Bypoll Nominee
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: BJP which claims to be a party with a difference is facing unexpected and unprecedented opposition over the selection of a candidate for the Budhni Assembly seat. The Budhni is facing a bypoll to be held on November 13.The Budhni bypoll was necessitated after...
Congress-SP Seat-Sharing Talks Broke Down In Uttar Pradesh Over Choice Of Seats
By Rahil Nora Chopra After the Congress faced a shock loss in Haryana assembly polls and performed poorly on its own in Jammu and Kashmir elections, the discussions in the Congress for seat sharing in Uttar Pradesh by polls were managed by Avinash Pandey and Ajay Rai. The Congress...
Trivialising History In Books Are Continuing By BJP In Govt Funded Institutions
By Krishna Jha Jawaharlal Nehru University plans to teach the “Concept of Akhand Bharat”. It does not end here. The process has been unleashed. More distortions would be brought through Vidya Bharati, an institution through which the RSS runs a massive network of schools across the country. And here...
After 64 Years Of Film Career Aparna Sen Is Still Active As An Actor-Director
By Tirthankar Mitra A slip of a girl when Aparna Dasgupta made her debut as a tomboy Mrinmoyee in Satyajit Ray’s Samapti in 1961 , the final part of Teen Konya, few had doubts that she will go far. But perhaps none had foreseen that she would carve out...
U.S. Dominated International Financial Institutions Have Failed The Poor Countries
By Ben Chacko LONDON: The International Monetary Fund AGM in Washington had barely reflected on the efficacy of its austerity regime in reducing inflation before beginning to worry about the inevitable hike in global oil prices if Benjamin Netanyahu’s offensive is not stayed. Another global energy crisis is doubly...
Modi-Xi Talks At BRICS Summit In Kazan Signal A Breakthrough In Bilateral Relations
By Nitya Chakraborty The one-hour meeting between the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Chinese President Xi Jinping on October 23 on the side lines of the BRICS summit at Kazan, has signalled a breakthrough in the bilateral relations between the two largest nations of Asia and the...
India-China Agreement On LAC On October 21 Is A Welcome Development
By P. Sudhir The Indian government announced on October 21 that an agreement was reached between India and China on patrolling arrangements along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). This is a welcome development that hopefully would lead to the normalisation of relations between the two neighbouring countries. The...
The Curious Case Of India Attracting Lower FDI Inflows Amidst Higher GDP Growth
By Subrata Majumder An introspection of foreign direct investment flow in India reveals that FDI fell on the lowest ebb in 2023-24 within 5 years. This is despite the fact that country achieved one of the highest growth in the economy. It dropped to US$ 44,423 million in 2023-24,...
