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.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...
Recurrent Floods Causing Concern In Assam And North East
By Ashis Biswas India urgently needs to work out new agreements with China and Bhutan to save its Northeast region from floods, land erosion and ecological destruction. Policymakers and economists in Assam feel this more strongly than ever, especially after experiencing the most recent spate of devastating floods....
Kanti Lal Bhuria Getting Support For State Congress Presidentship
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Jhabua Vidhan Sabha by poll is causing serious repercussions in both the BJP and Congress. While in the BJP series of dissenting voices are being raised while analysing causes of defeat, in Congress whispers are being heard about the likely changes because of...
Has a Recalcitrant Rahul Gandhi Shot himself in the Foot?
By Amulya Ganguli Quite unexpectedly, Rahul Gandhi has shown that he cannot be taken seriously. His mournful silence at a time when the Congress has shown faint signs of revival in the Maharashtra and Haryana assembly elections is one of the most curious political events of recent years....
Kerala BJP Chief ‘Banished’ To Mizoram As Governor
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The poor performance of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the five assembly by-elections held in the State has taken a heavy toll on the party. The first casualty has been the party president himself. P S Sreedharan Pillai has been sent...
Maharashtra, Haryana Verdicts Show Limits Of Bjp’s Saffron Stratagem
By Harihar Swarup What is the most significant message of the Haryana and Maharashtra Assembly election to the BJP? The message is this: the ongoing economic slowdown is finally starting to show up as a non-trivial electoral determination. BJP’s Haryana performance can be explained by a re-consolidation of...
