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.India’s Economic And Diplomatic Woes Multiply
By Amulya Ganguli It isn’t only the economic slump which is a cause of concern, there is also reason to be worried about how India’s diplomatic ties with countries far and near are deteriorating. To take our neighbours first, the chances of a rapprochement with Pakistan...
Is India Capable of dealing with a Health Catastrophe?
By Nilanjan Banik Mr Chen was having cough and running temperatures. The family member mistook the symptoms for any other ordinary viral fever, until the time he started complaining about breathing difficulties when he got admitted in a hospital. Mr. Chen died on 22nd January from pneumonia and...
Was this Republic Day Mocking ‘We the People’?
By Anand Teltumbde The Republic Day symbolized aspirational metamorphosis of India, into a sovereign, democratic republic as the Constitution proclaimed. It conjured up images of Indian people who were self-governing, who decided to give themselves a democratic republic. Two more words “secular and socialist” were added to this...
Arvind Kejriwal-Led AAP Remains The Hot Favourite In Delhi
By Harihar Swarup Ask a man on the street or people living in posh localities, who they would vote for in the coming Delhi elections and their prompt reply would be—“Arvind Kejriwal”. It appears a wave is building up for Kejriwal and, on his party, the Delhi...
Roadmap To Make India A 5-Trillion-Dollar Economy
By Nilanjan Banik and Buddhadeb Ghosh The Budget is all about allocation of resources towards social sectors such as education, health, infrastructure, and agriculture. Ideally, the government should spend/allocate funds toward any sector, in a fashion, which requires the most. Take for example the agriculture sector. There are...
In a Season of Impetuous Lawmaking, Whither Nuclear Safety?
By Sonali Huria Since returning to power last year with an overwhelming majority in the 2019 general elections, the Modi-led government has passed a series of legislations in rapid succession without any credible dialogue both within and outside Parliament – amendments to the Protection of Human Rights Act,...
Senator Adam Schiff Makes Valid Point On Trump Impeachment
By John Wojcik With the words “If right doesn’t matter we’re lost” the chief House impeachment manager, Rep. Adam Schiff, D., Calif., ended a day of testimony in the Senate chamber yesterday where lawmakers proved conclusively to anyone listening that President Trump is guilty of abuse of power....
Police facial recognition tech roll-out ‘threat to human rights’
By Ceren Sagir A Metropolitan Police scheme to snoop on Londoners using live facial-recognition (LFR) technology is “dangerous” and a “threat to human rights,” privacy campaigners warned today. Warnings flooded in after the Met announced it would begin deploying the technology, which has failed multiple trials, across...
India Budget Exercise Is Different This Year
By Gyan Pathak India budget exercise for the fiscal 2020-21 is different this year, not only because our Prime Minister has involved himself in the exercise, but also due to multiple new political and economic challenges that enforced him to come into the picture. The focus is on...
BJP’s Machination To Divide The Indian Society Continues
By Arun Srivastava The BJP leadership usually boasts of their fight against Emergency and claim they were primarily responsible for forcing the autocrat Indira Gandhi to retreat. They are free to make any claim which suits them. But the fact is fight during the Emergency was simple. It...
Women’s Protest Against CAA-NRC Spreading To Up Towns
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Much like the now iconic Shaheen Bagh in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh women’s protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) at Ghanta Ghar, Lucknow is gaining strength and support with every passing day. In fact, it is infectiously...
Davos Summit 2020: Rising Global Inequalities Cast Shadow
By N Sundaramurthy Oxfam Rights Group has come out with a study, ‘Time to Care’, on the occasion of the 50th annual meeting of World Economic Forum (WEF), a five-day summit from January 20, 2020, at Davos, Switzerland. The data were sourced from Credit Suisse Research Institute’s Global...
Delhi To Witness Triangular Contest Despite Frontrunner AAP
By Rahil Nora Chopra After the decisive Jharkhand elections, now on 8 February, Delhi will witness a triangular fight among Congress, BJP and AAP, when the national capital votes to choose a new legislative assembly. The Congress, which ruled the city for 15 years till 2013, but drew...
Nitish Kumar Must Come Clean On Citizenship Controversy
By Arun Srivastava Will Nitish Kumar strive to keep his flock together and united, or sacrifice the interest of his party JD(U) for protecting and promoting the personal interest of Modi and Shah? This is the question haunting most of the JD(U) leaders. This question has attained huge...
‘Social Unrest’ Also A Factor For Growth Plunge To 4.8% In Current Fiscal
By S. Sethuraman India, with a revised down growth projection at 4.8 per cent in current fiscal (2019/20), finds itself on a rough road to regain the lost momentum for 7 per cent, given the latest IMF projections of 5.8 per cent in fiscal 2021 and 6.5 per...
Remembering The Constitution On India’s 70th Republic Day
By Krishna Jha Our Republic Day is here, a moment for us to introspect how close we have been to meet the ideals spelt out in our Constitution. In India, for more than half a decade, the extreme rightist forces have been in power, elected with promises to...
China Emerges As Potential Investor To Stimulate Make In India
By Subrata Majumder Domestic investment is sluggish and consumption is in slump. It dragged GDP growth in tailspin. On the contrary, foreign investors were unperturbed and poured in cash, reposing confidence in strong parameters of the Indian economy. Amidst this paradoxical situation of investment, China emerged as a...
Madhya Pradesh Split Wide Open On CAA-NRC Debate
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Along with rest of India, CAA and NRC are causing tensions and clashes between us of the two measures and administration in Madhya Pradesh, too. However, an incident in Rajgarh, which happens to be the home district of Digvijaya Singh, caused a flutter...
