Opinion
Appeal
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.Tightrope Walk Ahead For India Between National Unity And Aspirations Of J&K
By Gyan Pathak With passage of resolution for restoring Article 370 in the Legislative Assembly of Jammu & Kashmir on November 6, 2024, a tightrope has been stretched through national unity of the country and the legitimate aspirations of the people of the state on which India will have...
MSP Should Be Judiciously Used By The Centre To Take Care Of The Welfare Of Farmers
By Kunal Bose Food prices remain a major concern for the Reserve Bank of India as it uses its monetary policy handle to bring inflation continuing to play truant within the desired ambit while supporting economic growth. Policymakers will, therefore, be drawing some comfort from the agriculture ministry’s first...
Middle Class In India Is Suffering Badly In Terms Of Maintaining Living Standard
By Krishna Jha Country is swallowed up by impoverishment. Hunger, unemployment, and absence of any possibility of respite from the hurting present have left the entire people in the throes of depression. The middle class is also suffering along with those called the ‘have not’, though they never identify...
Trump’s Critique Of Bangladesh And Its Implications For Relations With U.S.
By Tajul Islam Donald Trump’s recent critique of Bangladesh on social media, branding it as a nation rife with “barbaric violence” against religious minorities and claiming it exists in a “total state of chaos,” has drawn significant attention. This statement, made just days before the US presidential election, appears...
Trinamool Mobilises Three Leading Football Club Chiefs In Support Of Its Naihati Bypoll Candidate
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Football and electoral politics make strange bedfellows though a few politicians have been in sports bodies and ran them almost as their fiefdom in West Bengal. But heads turned and eyes were raised in amazement when the men heading Mohan Bagan, East Bengal and Mohammedan...
PM Narendra Modi And Amit Shah Opening Old Wounds In Jharkhand
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Wittingly or unwittingly, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah have been continuously raising the issue of infiltration during their election campaigns. They talk about “Bangladeshi Muslim infiltration” in their rallies, but little knowing the tribal psyche that has developed during the...
Left Wing BSW Participates In Formal Talks For Forging Anti-Right Coalition In Thuringia
By Satyaki Chakraborty Nearly two months after the holding of the elections to the German state of Thuringia for the state parliament, formal talks started on Monday between the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the left wing BSW for the formation of a coalition government...
Andhra Pradesh Politics Hit By Yogi’s ‘Batenge Toh Katenge’ Syndrome
By Sushil Kutty A sibling rivalry and a mother’s appeal to be true to a father’s legacy. Then, there’s a Chief Minister out to make hay from the family feud. Then, his Deputy Chief Minister applauds another state’s Chief Minister and asks his state’s Home Minister to adopt this...
BJP’s Kerala Unit Badly Battered By Hawala Expose
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Kerala unit has been shaken to the core by the ‘expose’ by the former office secretary of the party in Thrissur, Tirur Satish. The damning disclosure is that the Rs 6 crore of “black money” stolen from a car at...
Surging Global Gold Prices Are Setting Records Almost Daily
By Nantoo Banerjee With geopolitical tensions rising in Europe and Asia and central banks across the world buying gold like never before are mainly behind the near continuous rise in gold prices since last year. The surging gold price trend may continue through the coming months unless peace and...
Maharashtra Administration Asked By Election Commission To Remain Neutral
By Dr. Gyan Pathak November 4, 2024, the last day for withdrawal of nominations for the Vidhan Sabha Election in Maharashtra is marked by Election Commission of India’s (EC’s) orders of transfer of Maharashtra DGP and asking the chief secretary to send a panel of names of three IPS...
Amit Shah’s Tirade Against Bangladeshi ’Immigrants’ Is Aimed At Jharkhand Polls
By Arun Srivastava Once again, with elections to Jharkhand assembly knocking at the door, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has fired his salvo of lies, with the promise to introduce uniform civil code (UCC) for the state while exempting tribal communities from its implementation, once it comes to power....
Newly Elected Conservative Party Leader Kemi Badenoch Is Sure To Give A Tough Fight To Starmer
By Asad Mirza The election of Kemi Badenoch, as the new leader of Britain’s Conservative Party seems to have rattled not just the common public but even the diehard Tories. But this should also be seen as the last-ditch efforts by the Conservatives to revive the party’s fortunes to...
WAQF Board Amendment Bill Discussion In Parliament In Winter Session Will Be Stormy
By Sushil Kutty After Partition, some Muslims remained in India, choosing not to go to Pakistan. Since then, Indian Muslims never tired of stating “we remained in India out of our own choice”. Today, after 78 I-Days, they say, “Ye Desh Kisi Ka Baap Ka Nahi hai!” It would...
BRICS A Ray Of Hope For Peace And Just International Economic Order
By Dr Arun Mitra The declaration of the recently ended 16th summit of the BRICS (now expanded BRICS) has several points for which the developing and least developed countries have been aspiring for many decades. Even though colonization through direct military control by the erstwhile colonial powers has largely...
Trump Vs. Harris In The Final Hours Of The 2024 Presidential Election
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The American Presidential Election 2024 has come to its final moments, with polling slated to take place in less than 24 hours. It’s either Kamala Harris of the Democratic Party or Donald Trump of the Republican Party who will be the next US president, arguably...
New CJI Sanjiv Khanna’s Tenure May Be Marked By Continuity Rather Than Contrarianism
By K Raveendran The tenure of Justice Sanjiv Khanna, who is set to succeed Justice D Y Chandrachud as the new Chief Justice of India, is too short to become a pivotal phase and as such promises more continuity than breaking new ground. At the same time, his nuanced...
One Third Of Persons Globally Are In Unpaid Care Work, In India 54.1 Per Cent
By Dr. Gyan Pathak One third of the working-age persons of the world aged 15 or older outside the labour force in 2023were engaged in unpaid care work, while in India they were 54.1 per cent, the new estimates presented in the ILO Statistical brief revealed. The share of...
