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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.FinMin’s Economic Package Doesn’t Address Workers’ Issues: AITUC
By IPA Special Correspondent New Delhi: The All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) on Friday termed the government’s economic package inadequate to tackle the situation arising from COVID–19 and said it includes already running schemes. On Wednesday, AITUC demanded Rs 5 lakh crore-package for the needy to deal with...
Coronavirus Response: Mass Quarantine As Mind Control
By Deepa Punjani The humanitarian crisis that Covid-19 has unleashed cannot be underestimated. It has changed our world for the foreseeable future and its echoes will reverberate even after normalcy has been restored. Underlying the pandemic, however, are serious questions that impinge upon our human rights and civil liberties,...
Love In The Time Of Coronavirus And The Internet
By A Dishwasher, un Lavaplatos Introductory note: The capitalist economy has produced a type of human being who, in moments of crisis such as these times impacted by coronavirus (COVID-19), is capable of buying everything, leaving others who need the same items with nothing. —Dagoberto Gutiérrez No one was...
Govt Advice To PSUs On Virus Control Is Welcome
By Nantoo Banerjee It is high time that central ministers and top bureaucrats stop meddling with commercial decisions of the management of their departmental undertakings, especially at this difficult time. In the past, such interferences have led to financial misery of many public sector undertakings (PSUs). The worst of...
Covid 19: Democracy Could Have Saved China, And The World
By Amulya Ganguli After Deng Xiaoping launched his four modernizations drive in the 1970s related to agriculture, industry, defence and science and technology to extricate China from Mao Zedong’s personalized ideological straitjacket, a pro-democracy activist, Wei Jingsheng, put up a poster on the so-called “democracy wall” in Beijing, calling...
Covid-19 Aftermath: World Poised To Embrace De-Globalization
By Mriganka M Bhowmick It is not the time to get worried by pondering over the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. Rather, it would be more prudent to accept the reality and chart out a new economic and business strategy based on the possible outcomes of the pandemic....
Lucknow Medical University Doctors Complain Of No Preparations
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Salary deduction from doctors and other members of the staff of the prestigious KG Medical University to buy the necessary three-layer protective masks is a sad commentary on the preparations, or lack thereof, to fight Covid-19 in Uttar Pradesh. Since the medical university does not...
Coronavirus And Capitalist Crisis: Decoding Structural Violence
By Joe Sims In a new and dangerous twist to the coronavirus crisis, Donald Trump is now calling for an end to social distancing perhaps as early as Easter. His goal is to restart the economy and avoid the worst impact of the coming recession. Can you imagine? Trump,...
Disruption Of Public Service Aside, India Lockdown Is A Must
By Harihar Swarup Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement declaring “lock down” — or, in common man’s language, “curfew” — throughout the country to tackle the coronavirus menace, is a welcome step. But the uncalled for inconveniences caused to people has been overlooked by government. As a result, there has...
It’s The Turn Of Coal Now To Start Shining Again
By K Raveendran There is a new star emerging on the post-coronavirus energy horizon, and that is the humble coal. The Covid-19 pandemic has shaken energy markets to the core, creating incredible volatility for fuel prices. But the one energy source that has not blinked is coal, which according...
We Won’t Win Against Covid-19 Without Nutrition, Stress Reduction
By Dr Arun Mitra Like many parts of the world our country too is grappling to prevent spread of Covid -19 to the third stage. This is a precarious situation wherein every step has to be taken cautiously with lot of precaution. The medical, paramedical staff and the safai...
First Death Due To Covid Reported In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THURUVANANTHAPURAM: The first death due to Covid-19 in Kerala has been reported on Saturday. The unfortunate victim is a 69-year-old man belonging to Chullickal in Ernakulam district. The man, a heart patient, had been under treatment at Kalamassery Medical College Hospital ever since he returned from...
Combatting Corona: India Sees ‘Walk Down’ After The ‘Lockdown’
By Sushil Kutty US President Donald Trump has promised to sign on a $2 trillion economic relief package for the US coronavirus hit. Americans are not very sure if the relief will reach intended beneficiaries, more likely fund-rich companies. Narendra Modi unveiled a Rs 1.7 lakh crore relief tranche...
Understanding Laws In The Time Of Corona
By Priyam Lizmary Cherian The Epidemics Disease Act, 1897 In response to the growing threat of the pandemic COVID-19, on March 11, 2020, the Cabinet advised all States and Union Territories (UTs) to invoke Section 2 of Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 (“the Act”). This was done in order to...
Amid Coronavirus Lockdown, Who Will Support The Poor?
By Binoy Viswam These are the days of unprecedented suffering, unusual for any country. The outbreak and spread of COVID-19, caused by the Coronavirus, has literally locked down the nation. The pandemic that originated from China, passing through Europe has come to India. Though there were ample warnings from...
Modi Must Ensure That Lockdown Does Not Imperil The People
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi has been playing truant with the people of the country in fighting coronavirus. If Modi has been really worried of the welfare of his people it must not have taken two and half month for him to grasp the escalation of the monstrous virus...
Judicial Backlogs Can Become History
By Shailesh Gandhi Everyone agrees that delays in judicial delivery give rise to a large number of our country’s problems. I decided to try and evaluate how many extra judges would be required to start reducing judicial backlogs. The 20th Law Commission, in its report no. 245 submitted in...
Many Hurdles To Post US-Taliban Treaty Transition In Afghanistan
By Sankar Ray The post-peace optimism halts before a politically nebulous terrains in the landlocked Afghanistan is multi-horned. And the manifestation is symbolic as well as sanguinary. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (also known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria)-inspired terrorist strike at a Sikh...
