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.Move To List Lic In Stock Market
By N Sundaramurthy LIC continues to be in front page news for wrong reasons. Stories are in circulation in the media, more so in the news portals that Prime Minister Narendra Modi government’s disinvestment targets make worsen LIC’s health and wealth. There are headlines that LIC’s bad loans have...
Delhi And Kejriwal Show Mutual Love At CM’s Swearing-In Ceremony
By Rahil Nora Chopra The winning of the Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi Assembly election has proved three things which are at present affecting voters at large. Firstly, the voters of Delhi favoured the party which declared the name of his CM candidate. Secondly, the work done by the...
Trump Visit is Meant to Bolster U.S. Interests
By Binoy Viswam Donald Trump and Narendra Modi can be rightly termed as birds of the same feather. They share many things in common. Allegiance to corporate capital, hatred towards minorities, contempt for immigrants, preaching of Islamophobia, etc, are their most savoured traits. That is why within no time...
Renewable Energy Sector In India Must Be Made Risk Free
By Gyan Pathak Energy Sector in India will soon be undergoing a paradigm shift, if the Union Government implements two key announcements made by the Finance Minister. The first is to shut down all the thermal power units spewing out pollutants over the permissible limit, and the second in...
New Immigration Policy Creates Big Confusion In Britain
By Arun Srivastava Within a month of Boris Johnson occupying the office of the Prime Minister, the Britain government has announced to close the door to “low skilled” migrant workers. Earlier the unskilled labours would land up in UK and then would start search for any opening, according to...
Sanders Winning More And More Support In Democratic Primaries
By Eric A. Gordon In the lead-up to the statewide Democratic primary caucus on Saturday, February 22, Nevada’s early voters on February 15, the first day, turned out in record numbers—more than 18,500 Democrats, almost twice the turnout on the first day of advance caucusing in 2016. Enthusiasm over...
Delaying Trade Deal To Have Nominal Impact On India
By Subrata Majumder India refused to join RCEP. Because, China became a big burden for India’s trade deficit. Export is recognized a strong driver for the growth when the nation is reeling under slow growth, according to Economic Survey. USA is to play an important role as it is...
From Silence To The Assertion Of Identity
By Ranu Jain and Fahad Ahmad The most unnerving aspect of the Ayodhya verdict was the silence of the Muslim community. The community was dissatisfied with the verdict and felt that justice had not been done, but nobody protested. It had lost faith in its sense of agency, citizenship...
Sabarimala: An Alternative View That Merits Consideration
By K Raveendran Shorn off the emotional quotient of the Sabarimala women’s entry issue, the proceedings of the nine-member bench considering the larger issues of religious practices and fundamental rights constitute a real thriller. The arguments and interjections by the bench are so absorbing that there is no scope...
India And Pakistan Should Fight Hunger Not War
By Dr. Arun Mitra The other day Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned that India can defeat Pakistan in less than ten days. Similar overtones have been heard repeatedly from Pakistani leadership and the army as well who have even warned of using nuclear weapons in case of war between...
‘Parasite’ Is Essentially A Political Movie
By Rolando Pérez Betancourt In 2019, the euphorically intoned question on everyone’s lips that defined the tiny world of cinematography was: Have you seen Parasite yet? In May last year, the latest film by the South Korean Bong Joon-ho not only unanimously won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes...
Can Congress Survive the Current Political Wilderness?
By Kalyani Shankar Many people are writing off the Grand Old Party, the 135-year-old Indian National Congress, after its poor performance in the recent Delhi polls, as it has suffered one set back after the other since 2014, despite some good patches in between. Can the Congress with such...
Of Madrasas And ‘Tols’ In Eastern India
By Ashis Biswas More often than not, political developments in Assam have an instant ripple effect on neighbouring West Bengal. With the unsettling effect of the Assam NRC updating exercise on Bengal and other states still continuing, another administrative decision announced in Guwahati has set Muslims elsewhere restive and...
Scotland Gets Ready For A Walkout From Post-Brexit UK
By Arun Srivastava EDINBURG (SCOTLAND): Boris Johnson has rejected a call from Scotland’s first minister for a second independency referendum. He said a referendum would “continue the political stagnation Scotland has seen for the past decade”. This is nothing but to simplify the peoples’ aspiration and deny the failure...
Delhi And Ahmedabad Top In Added Fat Consumption
By Satyaki Chakraborty The daily average consumption levels of visible fat (added fat) in Delhi and Ahmedabad was highest among the seven metro cities in India and the lowest in Hyderabad, according to a special analysis carried out by Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Nutrition (ICMR-NIN) from...
Amid Corona Scare, Global Investors Diversify Portfolios
By Arnab Sengupta The outbreak of the coronavirus, coupled with record valuations in equity markets, has triggered a global sell-off of high-risk investments and a significant shift in sentiment among global investors. Accompanying the dip is a well-reported surge into traditional safe-haven assets such as gold. As global investors...
Trump Cuts Trillions From Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—Congressional Democrats, progressive groups, and defenders of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid all blasted President Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts for the fiscal year that starts October 1. Two top government worker unions chimed, in, too, slamming Trump for proposing only a 1 per cent raise...
Government Advising Public To Invest In Stock Market
By Nantoo Banerjee Ignorance may be a bliss for India’s most know-all politicians in power. Otherwise, how else could a top functionary in the government advise the country’s poor fixed depositors with banks and post offices to invest in stock market for better returns? To many, such a suggestion...
