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.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...
Amit Shah’s ‘Confession’ Betrays Modi Frustration
By K Raveendran Amit Shah’s is known to be his master’s voice. So when he admitted the other day that there may have been lapses on the part of the government in dealing with the Covid pandemic, he must have done it on authority. “We may...
World Environment Day Has A Special Message This Year
By Dr. Arun Mitra World Environment Day is observed every year on 5th June. The COVID-19 Pandemic has made us to think that the issue of environmental degradation and climate change cannot be just a ritual discussion but it has to be taken very seriously. Climate Change is...
Flaming Controversy Over Opening Of Temples
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala Government’s decision to open temples in the State has kicked up a flaming controversy. The Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government’s move came in the wake of the Centre’s direction that places of worship can be opened from June 8. While Hindu, ...
U.S. Military Intervention Subverts Peace In Venezuela
By W T Whitnet Jr. The United States Embassy in Bogotá announced on May 28 that the U.S. is sending 50 or so soldiers of the Army’s 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB) to Colombia. They would be carrying out consultations with Colombian Army commanders and providing them...
Tory Govt’s Immigration Laws Are Hurting Black Community Most
By Bethany Rielly The British Government’s “cruel” detention and deportation laws have “disproportionately impacted Britain’s black community,” a campaign group told MPs on Tuesday. Hearing evidence, ministers were told that the new immigration Bill still contains “every aspect” of the hostile environment policies that caused the Windrush...
Rajya Sabha Elections On June 19 Are Key To 2020 Politics
By Kalyani Shankar The upcoming biennial elections to Rajya Sabha are crucial to both the BJP and the Opposition. Elections for 24 Rajya Sabha seats spread across 10 states will be held on June 19. Rajya Sabha members are indirectly elected by MLAs of state assemblies. The political...
