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.Modi Government Does Not Act On Its Own Irregularities
By Gyan Pathak Many high profile economic offences surfaced during Modi’s rule, and actions were taken mostly against his political opponents, the latest victim being Sharad Pawar of Maharashtra, the state undergoing elections. However, nothing is being done against his political supporters, or the departments that are...
Supreme Court Treats Flats Case In Kerala On A Different Footing
By P. Sreekumaran The Marad flats issue, which has hogged national headlines, has entered the final phase with the actual demolition of the apartment complexes, ordered by the Supreme Court, beginning from Friday. Marad was a sleepy town with no pretensions to fame till the Supreme Court...
Kamal Nath Averts Confrontation With Governor Over Ordinance
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Using his formidable skills at political management, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath, managed to prevent a direct confrontation between the Raj Bhawan and the state government. The state cabinet had cleared an ordinance making drastic changes in the procedure for electing Mayors...
Shiv Sena Has Scope For Modernising Under Aditya
By Sagarneel Sinha Shiv Sena, founded by Hindutva mascot Bal Thackeray, has been BJP’s one of the oldest allies — as both have a common ideology, Hindutva. Sena used to play the role of big brother with BJP agreeing to aid the former in Maharashtra, the state with...
RBI Finally Wakes Up To Declining GDP Growth
By Chidambaram N The Reserve Bank of India seems to have finally woken up to the all-pervading economic slowdown though it is still under the misconceived notion that mere lowering of interest rates will result in the revival of the economy. The CPI and other left parties...
Corporate-Communal Fascist Threat Is Growing
By D. Raja A calamity is hitting India today – calamity caused by corporate-communal fascism. This is being articulated aggressively by RSS. The recent speech made by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat at Nagpur is an emphatic reiteration of this. RSS which claims to be the largest...
Capitalism And Climate Change Cannot Go Together
By Ben Chacko Big sister says her brother’s Brexit rhetoric is “reprehensible,” the British Prime Minister’s girlfriend will meet the whole family including brother Jo, who resigned from his ministerial post, citing “unresolvable tensions.” And now Old Man Stanley Johnson has joined the Extinction Rebellion “crusties” and a...
Wall Street Is Scared Of Any Talk Of Socialism
By Rick Nagin As the world dominance of U.S. imperialism fades and the social fabric of American capitalism disintegrates, Wall Street is beset with persistent nightmares and, as proclaimed in Marx’s Manifesto, continually haunted by the spectre of communism. Its mouthpiece, The Wall Street Journal, tries to...
Rafale Does Not Give India Air Superiority Over China
By Barun Das Gupta Defence Minister Rajnath Singh received the first Rafale Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) in Paris on October 8, the foundation day of the Indian Air Force. The loyal mass media is eulogizing it as a “game changer” as Pakistan has no fighter aircraft comparable...
Magistrate Order Has Modi Govt Discredited Completely
By K Raveendran For the man on the street, the lowest-rung government official often proves to be the highest governmental authority that he comes across. The average street vendor considers cop who comes to collect the hafta represents the law of the land, its systems and sometimes the...
Corporate Lobby Sees Opportunity In Slowdown
By Dr. B.K. Kango Economic slowdown is affecting all sections of society. But corporate lobby and the rich are taking advantage of the slowdown to extract benefits and press for favourable structural changes from the government that they have helped to come to power. The government is either...
India-Bangladesh Friendship To Go Beyond Strategic Partnership
By Ashok B Sharma At a time when collective cooperation in the South Asian body, SAARC, is stalled due to the indifference of Pakistan, the bonhomie between India and Bangladesh has become necessary not only for the region but also for cooperation in the Indian Ocean rim and...
Antonia Costa Poised To Rule Portugal Again
By John Wojcik Results of Portugal’s general elections on October 6 in indicate that the center-left Socialist Party has collected the most votes and is poised to continue in government for another four years, but the party will likely have to rely on the Left Bloc and...
Will Modi-Xi Meet Exchange Quiet On Kashmir For Hong Kong?
By Kalyani Shankar Mamallapuram, the ancient port town near Chennai, is getting ready to host the Chinese President XI Jinping for an informal summit with Prime Minister Narenda Modi this weekend (October 11-13). After winning his second term, Modi formally extended an invitation to Xi in June at...
Congress Must Undertake An Introspection For Revival
By Arun Srivastava After former chief of Mumbai Pradesh Congress Committee Sanjay Nirupam, it was ex chief of Haryana PCC Ashok Tanwar who levelled serious charges against the party leadership. Both the leaders, at two separate places, one in Mumbai and other in Haryana, ventilated the same feeling;...
Cuba Prepares To Indict U.S. Blockade At United Nations
By W. T. Whitney Jr. For the 28th consecutive year, Cuba will be asking the United Nations General Assembly on November 7 to approve a resolution calling for an end to the U.S. economic, commercial, and financial blockade of Cuba. Every year, in preparation for this vote, Cuba’s...
Access To Clean Cooking Energy Remains A Dream For Millions
By Gyan Pathak Majority of Indian kitchens do not have access to clean cooking energy. We have been worst in the world, and are still so. There are many programmes to trumpet, but government fails to provide a full clean energy security cover to over half of...
Opposition Parties Are Paralysed In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: There is virtual no opposition to Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh. There is complete demoralisation in the rank and file of main opposition parties following near surrender by top leadership. Yogi Adityanath has completed more than half of his term in the...
