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.What Narendra Modi Left Unsaid In His Covid-19 Address
By Sushil Kutty Thursday, March 19 night, at 8 pm, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation. He uttered the word coronavirus several times but did not elaborate on how his government intended to fight the pandemic in a way that will limit its impact on India which is...
Pakistan Severely Hit By ‘Coronakratch’, But No Lockdown Yet
By Sankar Ray With 456 detected positive, Pakistan is the most severely hit South Asian country by the Coronavirus pandemic. ‘Coronakratch’ — an acronym for the pandemic of ‘Coronavirus, king of all crashes’ — has been coined by Frédéric Lordon, Director (Research) at Centre de Sociologie Européenne (CSE), under...
Have Modi-Shah Buried the Hatchet With Shivraj Singh Chouhan?
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Narendra Modi-Amit Shah duo has not forgiven Shivraj Singh Chouhan, once propped up by L K Advani and Sushma Swaraj for briefly challenging Modi as an alternative OBC face to lead the BJP in 2014. After the Madhya Pradesh assembly election in December 2018,...
Despite US Blockade, Cuba Produces Covid-19 Medicines
By Yaditza del Sol González HAVANA: Although there is no preventive vaccine or specific treatment at this time for the new coronavirus SARS COV-2, which causes COVID-19, the Cuban pharmaceutical industry is guaranteeing production of proven, high efficacy treatment medications, including recombinant human interferon alpha 2b, in addition to...
Trade Unions Fight To Protect Workers From Covid-19
By Ben Chacko Trade unions across the world are leading the battle to protect workers and their families from economic dislocation caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Unions are fighting to ensure workers receive sick pay, avoid catastrophic loss of income if employers are closing businesses, and that governments put...
Trinamool Congress Scores A Self-Goal
By Ashis Biswas In its desperation to stop Bikashranjan Bhattacharya, a candidate jointly sponsored by the CPI(M)-led Left Front and the state Congress, from winning a Rajya Sabha seat from Bengal, the ruling Trinamool Congress(TMC) ended up scoring a self-goal. Given the combined strength of the opposition in the...
The Difference Between This Pandemic And Earlier Ones
By Anjan Roy Humanity has faced outbreaks of many, many pandemics over historic times. Bubonic plague several centuries back to Spanish influenza just a hundred years back had wiped out large sections of human population. But many of their lessons have not been learnt and those have been lost....
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...
