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.Bypolls In Assembly Seats Will Test Bjp’s Winning Streak
By Harihar Swarup The upcoming by-elections assume special significance given the record number of 51 seats assembly seats across 16 states and one union territory going to polls around the same time. In Uttar Pradesh, chief minister, Yogi Adityanath-led BJP is aiming to snatch Rampur and Jalalpur...
Leon Wofsy Was A Great Orgniser Even At 97
By Conn Hallinan and Max Elbaum When Leon Wofsy died at age 97 on August 25 this year, progressive movements throughout the United States lost a champion. Leon accomplished many things in his long life. He was an innovative scientist, and a fine writer and teacher, but above...
Johnson’s “Fair And Reasonable” Brexit Compromise Falls On Deaf Ears
By Al Neal British Prime Minister Boris Johnson offered the European Union a proposed “best and final offer” Brexit deal Wednesday, saying it encapsulates a real compromise for both sides and urged EU leaders to hold “rapid negotiations towards a solution” after years of squabbling. The U.K....
India Should Seek Russia’s Help To Develop Hypersonic Missile
New Delhi: India can address its concerns over China’s growing hypersonic missile arsenal by seeking cooperation with Russia in developing similar missiles through the bilateral BrahMos cruise missile programme, a security analyst has said. As India and Russia’s most productive and beneficial joint venture defence programme, the Brahmos...
Judges Recusal In Gautam Navlakha Case Is Confusing
By Amritananda Chakravorty On 3rd October, 2019, the newly elevated Justice Ravindra Bhat became the fifth judge in the Supreme Court to recuse himself from hearing the appeal by Gautam Navlakha, a human rights activist, who has been implicated in the Bhima Koregaon case. Before Justice Bhat,...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Major decisions – SC Constitution Bench adjourns hearing on Article 370 for Centre’s reply – On 1 October 2019, the Supreme Court Constitution Bench adjourned hearing of the petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the repeal of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status and its reorganisation till 14 November...
India Well Prepared Now To Join RCEP
By Subrata Majumder Majority of industry associations, entrepreneurs and trade analysts rang alarm bell for India in joining RCEP – a new and the largest trade block consisting of ASEAN -10 and 6 countries. Before, India had several FTAs. But, none of them yielded any trade benefit. Instead,...
RBI Is Now Reconciled To Slowdown In Economy
By Anjan Roy While until now, the Reserve Bank has maintained a more nuanced view of the current slow-down and tended to attribute it to cyclical factors, the fine print of RBI’s policy statement on Friday betray its concerns about the future. The Reserve Bank’s monetary...
Phased Lifting Of Lockdown In Kashmir Is Immediate Need
By Ashok B Sharma India, after winning a series of diplomatic battles against Pakistan, now needs to gradually lift the lockdown imposed on the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. So far the diplomatic success scored by India has been to foil Pakistan’s attempt to internationalise the...
Flood Devastation In Bihar Gives Nitesh Kumar A Jolt
By Arun Srivastava With the floods situation continuously getting grim, the future of Nitish Kumar as the chief minister of Bihar is at the stake. Even his close aides and friends interpret the intensity of floods as a warning sign for Nitish Kumar The Congress lost...
Who really threatens world oil supplies?
By Art Perlo The U.S. response to the Mideast crisis is not about protecting the world’s oil supply. It is to tighten control of the world’s oil supply, to protect profits for the U.S. oil monopolies, and to further control by U.S. global financial, military, and other corporations....
Using Failure As Excuse To Continue Failed Policy
By K Raveendran A three-member bench of the Supreme Court has allowed the Modi government’s review petition against the dilution of powers of arrest under the controversial SC-ST Act, which had caused disquiet across a wide spectrum, including the affected class. This had even led to a certain...
LDF, UDF, BJP Square Up For The Electoral Battle
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the candidates of the three major political fronts filing their nominations, the state is set for an absorbing contest for the five Assembly by-elections from the State. Like in Pala, the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) has had a head-start in the...
Mystery Shrouds Frequent Changes In SIT
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Mystery shrouds the reasons behind frequent changes in the Special Investigation Team (SIT), constituted by the Madhya Pradesh Government to probe, what has come to be know as the ‘Honey trap case’. Within less than a week, the government has changed the head of...
Shiv Sena Projects Aditya Thackeray As Cm Candidate
By Rahil Nora Chopra Shiv Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray has recalled the promise he had made to his late father, Bal Thackeray, to install a Shiv Sainik Chief Minister of Maharashtra, even as the BJP is projecting the present Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis as the next CM. The...
National Convention Calls For General Strike On January 8
By Amarjeet Kaur The National Open Mass Convention of Workers held in New Delhi on September 30, 2019, decided to conduct extensive campaign for next three months amongst working people in all sectors of our economy formal & informal to make the call given from this convention for...
Over 700 Homeless People Died On Britain’s Streets In One Year
By Marcus Barnett Charities have called on the British government to take urgent action on the homelessness crisis after a record number of people died on Britain’s streets last year. Figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Wednesday show that 726 homeless people died...
Understanding Communist China On Its 70th Anniversary
By G Venkat Raman Since my first visit to China as a student nearly two decades ago, I have had several opportunities to go back and observe the remarkable changes occurring within that country. Recently, I supervised an educational tour of student-participants to Shanghai, which is referred by...
