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.Gogoi Appointment And Coronavirus: Modi Must Explain
By Sushil Kutty The coronavirus is now everywhere. Maybe not yet in the Tahiti islands or ones in the Minicoy in the Lakshadweep archipelago. Definitely not in the island which has been declared a country by the runaway godman from India. Meanwhile, the number of confirmed coronavirus positive cases...
Coronavirus Response: Why Prevention Is Our Only Hope
By Nipun Saxena I have come across many people questioning the Government’s move to contain Coronavirus (Covid-19) and most of these criticisms centrally revolve around the idea that this pandemic has a lesser mortality/fatality rate than other pandemic diseases. Conservative estimates have pegged it between 2% to 3%. The...
Trump’s Coronavirus Response Leaves American Workers Upset
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON – Donald Trump’s dizzying reversals and commands to the country about what to do to combat the coronavirus pandemic leave one of the biggest groups of U.S. workers – the 2.1 million federal government employees – and their unions confused and upset. And guidance, or...
Gogoi Nomination Puts Missing Pieces In Jigsaw Puzzle
By K Raveendran Some of former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi’s judgments, particularly towards the latter part of his tenure, had raised eyebrows as they were seen by many as suffering faults in terms of jurisprudence. The nomination of the former CJI to Rajya Sabha by Modi government...
Trump Accepts Coronavirus Reality, Will Modi?
By Sushil Kutty In the United States trains are running on a reduced schedule. Ferries have stopped. The subway and bus lines are operating only on Saturdays. Commuter rail has cut service. And in some media, Trump has found redemption. Mainly because he spoke of the US facing a...
Incalculable Damage To Judiciary’s Credibility
By Arun Srivastava Former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi has been well within his fundamental rights to do whatever he likes, though like any other Indian he must refrain from indulging in any illegal, anti-constitutional and unethical act. A conscientious legal luminary, Gogoi has come under severe criticism...
Covid-19: Science Myths And Business
By Dr. Arun Mitra The medical fraternity around the globe is up in arms to mitigate the impact of Novel Corona virus. The WHO has declared it a Pandemic and issued guidelines for its prevention. Governments in each country are following those details. These include personal human behaviour, travel...
Democratic Debate: Biden & Sanders Differ On Corona Combat
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—In their first one-on-one debate of the long presidential primary campaign, former Vice President Joseph Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders, Indiana-Vermont., went in different directions on what the federal government – aiding the U.S. people – should do to battle the coronavirus pandemic. And that wasn’t...
Denmark To Compensate Workers Affected By Coronavirus
By Steve Sweeney Danish authorities have won praise after striking a deal with unions and employers to avoid coronavirus causing job losses and financial detriment to workers forced into quarantine. Under the tripartite agreement, the government will pay 75 per cent of quarantined workers’ wages and their employer will...
No End In Sight For The Mammoth Coronavirus Crisis
By Kalyani Shankar A clear picture on the ramifications of the extraordinary coronavirus outbreak is yet to emerge. Till two weeks ago the virus was just a news story, but now it has touched the life of every ordinary citizen. From work to play to ‘what is for dinner...
India Running Short Of Time Before Corona Enters Third Stage
By Gyan Pathak The highest single day detection of COVID-19 patients so far at 23 on Monday pushed the total count for India to 125, and the incidence of 25 doctors in Kerala quarantined, indicate that the country is running short of time before the pandemic enters into the...
India Not Conducting Enough Corona Tests Is A Mistake
By Sushil Kutty United States President Donald Trump has the distinction of being the last world leader Prime Minister Narendra Modi hugged. The next time the two come face to face, Trump will have a phalanx of his Secret Service to keep Modi at bay. And one of the...
Kerala Toughens Battle Against Covid-19
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Even as the Kerala Government is doing an excellent job in trying to contain the spread of the dreaded Covid-19, some disturbing developments are causing grave concern. The most worrying feature of the extremely serious situation has been the tendency to ignore the strict guidelines...
Will CM Kamal Nath’s Government Survive the Current Crisis?
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Will Kamal Nath government survive till March 26 when the state assembly meets again after the adjournment on Monday. The Chief Minister was told by the Governor to hold the floor test by Tuesday. Meanwhile, the issue has been raised in the Supreme Court. Now...
Present Bulk Drugs Crisis In India Is Totally Self-Made
By Nantoo Banerjee It is now almost 45 years since the high-profile Hathi Committee recommended the urgent need for manufacturing active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) or bulk drugs in India for the country’s future health safety. The size of India’s pharmaceutical market at that time was less than Rs. 500...
BJP’s Manoeuvres On NRC-NPR Have Stopped Reaping Benefits
By Amulya Ganguli The Narendra Modi government’s various measures on citizenship are running into difficulty. The Delhi government is the latest to oppose the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the National Population Register (NPR). Considering that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was being seen to be moving close to...
Modi-Shah’s Evil Design To Turn India Into A Police State
By Arun Srivastava The Modi government has been using the still ill-developed facial recognition technology to find out the persons who carried out the Delhi pogrom. This technology is used only in the case where the police has utterly failed to identify the goons. The gravity of the situation...
A Tale Of Two Healthcare Systems To Deal With Corona
By Ian Goodrum The world has a Public Enemy No. 1, and it’s the novel coronavirus. Capable of causing severe pneumonia among those it infects, the virus first wreaked havoc on the city of Wuhan in China’s Hubei province and has since spread at an alarming rate. At present,...
