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.Ranjan Gogoi Is Not Retiring With Glory
By Amritananda Chakravorty Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi is retiring on November 17. Lawyers often joke that an incumbent chief justice of India always makes the last one look better, and nowhere has it been more true than the present one. In the run up to the...
Communist meet worried at ‘Loot of Nature’
By Sankar Ray “Nature is plundered for the greed of profit of the monopolies, including the recent destruction of Amazonia in the interests of capitalism”, noted the 2200-plus word appeal of the 21st international meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties in Izmir, the third-largest city of Turkey on...
By-Election Blues For Congress And UDF
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The result of by-elections to the five Assembly constituencies held in Kerala recently has grave implications for the Congress in particular and the party-led United Democratic Front (UDF) in general. True, the Congress and the UDF won three out of the five constituencies...
BJP Opposes Kamal Nath’s Plan On Legislative Council
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: After registering massive victory in Jhabua Vidhan Sabha by-poll, Kamal Nath government has initiated move to constitute Legislative council in the state. Congress in its Vachan Patra (a sort of manifesto) promised to constitute the Upper House in the state. As the...
BJP Sees Alliance Fortunes Soar In Haryana, Flounder In Maharashtra
By Rahil Nora Chopra After the assembly election, it was assumed that in Maharashtra, BJP-Shiv Sena would soon form the government, and in Haryana, BJP opened their doors for Dushyant Chautala-led JJP and independent MLAs. It was believed that BJP-Shiv Sena would take no time in forming the alliance...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Power To Condone Delay Under Sec 5 Limitation Act Applies To Special Or Local Laws If It Is Not Expressly Excluded: The Supreme Court held that Section 5 of the Limitation Act can be invoked to condone delay in case a revision under Section 48, Himachal Pradesh Value Added...
Trump Sinks Deeper Into The Impeachment Mud With Each Passing Day
By John Wojcik Testimony by Christopher Anderson, a State Department Foreign Service officer, that Rudy Giuliani was orchestrating for President Trump the administration’s policy towards Ukraine was just the latest in a string of voices confirming for Congress the worst claims of the two whistleblowers. At this...
Modi Govt’s PR Offensive On Kashmir Turns Into A Disaster
By Barun Das Gupta Erle Stanley Gardner could well have written another Perry Mason thriller with the title: “The Mystery of the European Union Parliamentary Delegation” visiting Kashmir. There is a lot of mystery about the status of the delegation, who invited them, who fixed their meeting with...
UN Body Crosses Limit In Doubting Supreme Court’s Integrity
By K Raveendran One may or may not agree with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights about its assessment of the situation in Kashmir. But no proud Indian can back its attempt to cast aspersions on the integrity of our Supreme Court. “We are extremely concerned...
Shiv Sena Aiming For A Leadership Role In Maharashtra
By Mriganka M Bhowmick The coalition is always a compulsion; it is never a choice for peaceful co-existence to take the power sharing ahead. Political power, by its nature, is always up for grab and sharing it with any other political party hinders the organizational growth of the...
Samajwadi Party Gets A Big Boost After By-Poll Results
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national President and former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav should read wake up call for his party in recently concluded by-elections for 11 assembly seats. Samajwadi Party not only retained its seat in Rampur but also added Jalalpur from BSP and Jaipur from...
Britain Set For Elections On December 12
By Arun Srivastava LONDON: In his fourth bid the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson managed to get the approval of the MPs to finally resolve the Brexit deadlock by calling a general election, on 12 December which would be the most unpredictable in a generation. The margin...
German Left Wins State Elections In Thuringia
By John Wojcik Shouts of joy rang out on October 27 night at Berlin’s Karl Liebknecht Haus, headquarters of Germany’s Left Party (Die Linke), when it was learned that Die Linke won the state elections in Thuringia with 31% of the vote, the highest total ever for the...
Economic Losses In Kashmir Are Mounting With Every Passing Day
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi talked about the Development priorities and his vision of new Kashmir in an interaction with a delegation of European parliamentarians on Monday. The delegation is in Kashmir on Tuesday to see the situation and make their own assessment. This is...
RITES Emerging As Indian Multinational
By Satyaki Chakraborty RITES, the public sector enterprise under the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India is making waves in the global market as the exporter of rolling stocks and project contractors. The developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America are wooing RITES to set...
Honduras’s Right Wing President Hernandes Facing Massive Protests
By Emile Schepers Since the re-election of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández of the right-wing National Party in 2017, mass protests have been ongoing in the streets of Honduran cities. That election was considered fraudulent by many, but now a court decision in the United States has added...
GDP Growth Is Useless If It Fails To Connect Common Man
By Nantoo Banerjee In a country where poverty, hunger and human destitution growth rates more than match the economic growth indices there ought to be something seriously wrong with that country’s economic progression system. Such a situation is possible only in a radically capitalist economy or in banana...
Argentina Victory Gives A Big Boost To Left In Latin America
By Nitya Chakraborty Things are finally looking up for the Left in Latin America again. After the victory of Eva Morales in the presidential poll in Bolivia on October 20 following a bitter battle with his rightwing opponents, on October 27 just a week after, the conservative government...
