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.BJP’S NRC Bogey May Not Work In West Bengal
By Ashis Biswas In Assam, there is a major disillusionment among some people over the perceived failure of the much publicised National Register of Citizens (NRC) updating exercise. Far from identifying and isolating at least 5 million Bangladeshi illegal migrants if not more, the tangible outcome of the...
Presidential Poll In Sri Lanka Has Special Importance For India
By Barun Das Gupta Sri Lanka is going to elect a new president on November 16. The present incumbent, Sirisena Maithripala, is not contesting. Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa’s Brother Nandasena Gotabaya, better known as Gotabaya, is contesting this time. Though there are as many as 35 contestants...
Loan Waivers, Rate Cuts May Put Banks In Deeper Distress
By Nantoo Banerjee Veteran banker and financial wizard Deepak Parekh is absolutely right to lately express his concern about the system of loan waivers and write-offs “every now and again” while there is little “to protect the honest, common man’s savings.” The HDFC chairman’s comments came in the...
Two Chief Ministers Who Have Botched Their Cases
By Amulya Ganguli Two chief ministers, Arvind Kejriwal and Mamata Banerjee, have severely weakened their positions at a time when the next Assembly election in their states is not far away. Yet, both started on a high note, none being more upbeat than Kejriwal. Even after Narendra...
Labour Seeks New Alliance To Thwart Johnson’s Brexit Deal
By Arun Srivastava The political development in Britain is moving along expected lines. Boris Johnson has failed to persuade the Commons to bail out his Brexit deal. His political advisers have made him to believe that the Parliament would stand by him and winning a clear majority for...
No End In Sight To Madhya Pradesh Corruption Scandals
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Almost every day when you open your newspaper you read news about some or other officer found involved in corrupt practices. Invariably property and cash running into several crores is recovered. The latest to be caught owning property worth more than Rs. 100...
All About Abhijit Banerjee, 2019 Economics Nobel Co-Winner
By Harihar Swarup Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, who has won the 2019 Nobel for Economics, along with his Esther Duflo (his economist wife) and Michael Kremer, has observed the Indian economy is on a shaky ground. The data recently available do not hold any assurance for the country’s economic...
Last-Minute Posturing With Eye On Ayodhya Verdict
By K. Raveendran The last minute volte face by the Muslim parties to the Ayodhya dispute rejecting the terms of the so-called settlement as reported by the mediation panel is a clear case of grandstanding meant to influence the court’s decision. An agreed, settlement would have made...
BJP Pitches Hyper-Nationalism Even In State Assembly Polls
By Sagarneel Sinha With the election dates for Haryana and Maharashtra approaching nearer, one picture that emerges very clearly is that of the paralyzed opposition battling against the BJP, which is leaving no stone unturned — not only to win both the states but to register a victory...
Hunger In India Is Too Serious To Be Ignored Now
By Gyan Pathak Falling of India from 55th position in 2014 to 102nd position in 2019 in Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a terrible global indictment of the miserable performance of Modi government on tackling incidents of hunger in the country. On GHI severity scale, the country scored...
Canadian Election: Who’s The Real Progressive?
By C.J. Atkins Justin Trudeau won in 2015 on a left-leaning platform filled with pledges to tax the rich, make elections more democratic, and save the world from climate change. But four years, a number of scandals, and several broken promises later, it’s getting harder for his Liberal...
Opposition Disunity & New Social Alliances Put Bjp Ahead In Haryana
By Sagarneel Sinha Haryana, which goes to poll on October 21 along with Maharashtra, is witnessing a gradual shift with formations of new social alliances replacing the old existing ones. When in 2014, BJP formed the government for the first time in the state on its own, the...
Mystery Of Triple Murder In West Bengal
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: Once more the professionalism of west Bengal police has come under the scanner and for the wrong reasons. Even normally, the sensational triple murder on October 8 of Bandhuprakash Pal, his wife and young son at their Jiaganj residence, Murshidabad district, would have launched...
Air Pollution Levels Reach Danger Zone Again
By Dr. Arun Mitra Like the past several years, we are once again faced with a situation where air quality index has crossed dangerous level. Those already suffering from respiratory illnesses are at the worst receiving end. One such serious situation occurred in 1998 when whole of...
NSS Sheds Its Policy Of Equidistance
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The campaigning in the five Assembly by-elections in the State has acquired a new dimension with the Nair Service Society (NSS), the powerful organisation of the Nairs, changing its political stance. Shedding its traditional policy of equidistance, the NSS has opted for the...
EU Offered Brexit On Platter To Boris Johnson
By Arun Srivastava LONDON: Apparently the UK prime minister Boris Johnson has got the Brexit deal, but an insight into the development gives rise to suspicion about the true nature of the deal and whether it prove to be successful. The deal is to be ratified by the...
Talibans Repent Destroying Bamyan Architectonics
By Sankar Ray The Taliban leadership today regrets its adventurist stand of ‘smashing the rare sandstone relief of Lord Buddha in the Bamyan province of Afghanistan in the very early March 2001. Although the Islamic fundamentalist outfit, is yet to admit this openly, the repentance was writ on...
Economy Is In Shambles, Democracy Is Under Attack
By D. Raja The Economy is in shambles. The experience has shown that NDA government has failed to manage the economy. The relentless neo-liberal drive towards privatization and crony capitalism has been the core of the governance. Moving away from pro-people Structural reforms, the Modi government exclusively remained...
