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.The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 Is Unconstitutional
By Atasi Ghosh The Modi government has cleared the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 in a cabinet meeting on December 4, 2019 and it was introduced in Lok Sabha on December 9. The Bill proposes to amend Section 2 (1) (b) of the Citizenship Act, 1955 by excluding “persons...
British Elections Witnessing Intense Ideological Battle
By Arun Srivastava With only two days left for the polling in United Kingdom, the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has launched the final election push to deny Tories a majority. In spite of Tory candidate Boris Johnson being an unpopular contender, he has been ahead of Corbyn. This...
Jharkhand Assembly Elections: Close Contest Of Local Issues
By Harihar Swarup The ongoing elections in Jharkhand is yet another test for the BJP. The state elections are diverging from the Lok Sabha pattern and the BJP wants to arrest them. The five-phase Jharkhand assembly elections are taking place at an interesting juncture. Despite BJP’s dominance in...
Telangana Encounter Model Raises Many Questions
By Arun Srivastava All the four accused in the case of rape-and-murder of a 25-year-old veterinarian were killed by police in an encounter on Friday morning. While the killing of the criminals in encounter was celebrated and the policemen received applaud across the country from the frustrated and...
Treasury Documents Expose Johnson’s Brexit Falsehoods
By Lamiat Sabin Jeremy Corbyn revealed documents exposing Boris Johnson’s “falsehoods” over his Brexit deal — including his assurances that there would be no customs border in the Irish Sea. The Labour leader accused Mr Johnson of “deliberately misleading the country” over his Brexit deal. During a...
BJP’s Divisive Thrust Has Affected Economy
By Krishna Jha An unprecedented decline has started eroding the economy in the country. It has also induced an extremely slow pace to the growth in the eight core sectors, contracting it to 5.8 per cent in October 2019, leading to nose dive in the production in most...
Town Planning In India Requires A Fresh Appraisal
By Gyan Pathak The growing urbanization in India seems to be nothing but an urban sprawl since the legal, institutional, and financial challenges has been causing scant implementation of the Town Plan (TP) Scheme of the country that was institutionalized even more than 100 years ago. Economic development...
Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee Is Facing Revolt
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Senior Uttar Pradesh Congress leaders are gearing up for show of strength to confront the leadership. Shocked by their expulsion from party, senior Congress leaders have decided to hold big conclave of party leaders from all over the state on December 28 at Lucknow...
Ajit Pawar 2.0: post Rebellion, NCP Leader is now Mr Clean?
By Rahil Nora Chopra After Ajit Pawar came back to NCP, he immediately took over his old position as the Number 2 in the party, right below chief Sharad Pawar. After his failed rebellion and return to the party, he has again started holding meetings and addressing legislators. With...
German Marchers Reflect The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
By Victor Grossman BERLIN: Looking out my window at the wide Karl Marx Allee boulevard below, I have seen many a big May Day parade march by in the old GDR days, and many a passing bicycle race or marathon. Recently, for the first time, I...
December 6 Is A Reminder Of Both Ambedkar And Babri Masjid
By D. Raja On 6th December 1956, Ambedkar attained immortality. The whole country was plunged into sorrow. Statesmen, across the world expressed their grief and highlighted his greatness. Jawaharlal Nehru said that, “B.R Ambedkar deserves to be remembered always by us because of his fight against social injustice....
Compulsive Arguments In Favour Of Legal Betting
By Arjavi Indraneesh If you cannot fight your enemy, join him: This is a most pragmatic approach, provided one is emotionally strong enough to absorb the change in role. Something similar is being advocated with regard to the policy on gambling: if it’s not possible to prevent it,...
Indian Policy Makers Have To Reorient Investment Strategy
By Subrata Majumder India’s GDP growth continues to slid and plunged to six yeas’ low at 4.5 percent in the second quarter of 2019-20. Policy makers hoped for an upturn in the third quarter, but the investors keep their fingers crossed. Indeed, the fall in growth deciphers...
Doctors And Patients Must Have A Collaborative Relationship
By Dr. Arun Mitra In the past few years there has been increase in incidents of violence against the doctors, some of them of very serious nature in which doctors have been seriously injured. Unfortunately most of the times it is the young doctors, who are at...
Real Estate Must Get A Mega Boost To Fight Slowdown
By Anjan Roy For many many years, India’s economic paradigm used to be defined win the political articulation of popular demand: “roti, kapda aur makan” In the last three decades, we seem to have graduated from our list of demands. By and large the overall demand food and...
Bhopal Gas Disaster Victims Observe December 4
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: With tears in eyes, shouting slogans against central and state government and Union Carbide thousands of gas victims marched on the streets of Bhopal, formed human chain and attended public meetings organised by various NGOs on December 4 commemorating Bhopal Gas disaster on the...
Congress Reorganisation Snagged On Groupism
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Will Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Mullappally Ramachandran succeed where former PCC chief V M Sudheeraan failed? That is the question agitating the minds of lakhs of Con gress activists in Kerala. The question has acquired added resonance in the backdrop of...
Modi Govt Has No Policy To Rejuvenate Public Sector
By Nitya Chakraborty The Modi Government in its second term is set to follow a policy on public sector under which there will be no special efforts to rejuvenate the loss making units which have potential but due to extraneous factors, are ailing. At the same time,...
