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.As Maharashtra Stalemate Continues, Sena Bargains For More
By Rahil Nora Chopra Since the Assembly poll verdict, it has been 14 days and no headway made towards government formation in Maharashtra. Now, senior and influential leaders of BJP have started pressuring the central leadership to hasten government formation and in doing so, also criticizing and blaming Devendra...
Virginia Election Results Are A Warning For Trump
By Emile Schepers On Tuesday, November 5, there were many important victories for the Democratic Party, but none greater than in Virginia, where Democrats took control of both houses of the General Assembly (state legislature) for the first time in 26 years. Republicans went into the election...
Ruling Party Harming Formulation Of A Proper Science Policy
By Barun Das Gupta The BJP has never been able to resolve the mutually exclusive nature of science and pseudo-science. It has always been in a dilemma as to how to reconcile their irrational belief that thousands of years ago our ancestors used to travel from planet to...
New Zealand Tightens Visa Rules For Indians
By Arun Srivastava It appears that Indians are no more wanted in New Zealand. Else there is no genuine reason to fundamentally change the parameters of the visa issuing rules. In a swift move the New Zealand government has changed the provision of the Visa. Earlier the...
New Alignments in Middle East Erode U.S. Role
By Conn Hallinan The fallout from the September attack on Saudi Arabia’s Aramco oil facilities is continuing to reverberate throughout the Middle East, sidelining old enmities—sometimes for new ones—and re-drawing traditional alliances. While Turkey’s recent invasion of northern Syria is grabbing the headlines, the bigger story may be...
Remembering The Great Mexican Painter Frida Kahlo
By Peter Frost Frida Kahlo, the doyen of the Mexican painters of the last century was one of the early feminists and a firebrand communist who took part in every people’s movement despite bad health conditions. Today Kahlo’s reputation is growing all the time even though she...
Modi Govt’s Double-Speak On Citizen’s Privacy
By K Raveendran Law and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad reprimanding WhatsApp for criminal breach of the privacy of Indians is like the devil swearing by god. “Government of India is concerned at the breach of the privacy of citizens of India on the messaging platform WhatsApp....
British Communists Extend Full Support To Corbyn In December 12 Poll
By Nitya Chakraborty In a significant development in the communist strategy in influencing the political course in United Kingdom, the Communist Party of Britain, has extended its total support to the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in his bid to oust the Tories from power to implement his programme...
No RCEP Is Not An End To India’s Act East Policy
By Ashok B Sharma India has refused to be a part of the mega trading bloc Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) in its neighbourhood in its present form as its demand were not met. Well that does not mean it has to forgo its Act East policy. Joining...
India Has To Choose Its Own Time To Join RCEP
By Subrata Majumder The last minute paradox, which led India not to join RCEP, was a bolt from the blue to member countries. At the present juncture, the policy makers viewed RCEP as the bane since this will represent India a buying market for the member countries. India’s...
South Asia Needs High-Quality Job-Rich Growth Strategy
By Gyan Pathak Amid a changing global economic landscape, South Asia will need to leverage on all sectors of the economy in a balanced way, supporting improvements in agricultural productivity and a sustainable expansion of manufacturing, while promoting higher-skill services, and supporting over 150 million people in the...
Protest Movement Reaches New Peak In Baghdad
By Steve Sweeney Iraq’s Communist Party has called for a new type of government and for the momentum of the current uprising to continue until its demands are realized as roads were blocked in Baghdad on Sunday. A party statement branded the current system a “terrible failure at...
Is this the Lowest Point Ever for Congress Party’s ‘Brand Gandhi’?
By Kalyani Shankar The brand Gandhi seems to be at a historic low at present. The grand old Congress Party has proved that it can survive without the dynasty as the recent Assembly polls to Haryana and Maharashtra showed. In both the states, the Gandhis did not campaign...
PM Is Perfectly Right In His Decision On RCEP
By Anjan Roy This is the season for withdrawals. President Trump has formally begun the proceedings for USA to withdraw from the global climate pact — the Paris Agreement. India has withdrawn from the Regional Economic Co-operation Agreement (RCEP), a club of sixteen countries including the ASEAN...
One Hundred Years Of Triumph Of Einstein’s General Theory Of Relativity
By Sankar Ray One hundred years ago on 6 November 1919, the news desk of Times, London, was dazed, stupefied and delighted when the text of announcement from the joint meeting of the Royal Society of London and the Royal Astronomical Society said that measurements taken at...
High Court Verdict On Begging Is A Landmark
By Amritananda Chakravorty In recent times, one often wonders how does a Constitutional Court like the Jammu & Kashmir High Court function in a State under complete lockdown, since last 92 days. It has been widely reported that the former President of J&K High Court Bar Association,...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Issue of inheritance rights of an illegitimate child still not settled-The Supreme Court in a recent case noted that the question whether an illegitimate child had a right to inherit from her father’s ancestral property is yet to be settled. In the present case, two issues arose, I.e., firstly,...
Massive Row over arrest of CPI-M Workers for ‘Maoist Links’
By P. Sreekumaran THURUVANANTHAPURAM: A flaming controversy has erupted over the arrest of two CPI(M) workers in Kozhikode district for their alleged Maoist links. Parties cutting across political affiliations have unreservedly condemned the police action in slapping the dreaded Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), passed recently...
