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
Mothers of Rohit Vemula and Payal Tadvi file petition to end caste discrimination in campuses – The mothers of Rohit Vemula and Dr. Payal Tadvi have approached the Supreme Court to create a mechanism in campuses to end caste based discrimination. The petition states that not only are instances...
Rightwing AFD Gains In German Elections In Two States
By Victor Grossman and John Wojcik BERLIN—Elections in two German states in eastern Germany on September 1 saw large gains by the rightist Alternative for Germany party (AfD), though the party apparently failed to worm its way into either of the two state governments. Voters in both Saxony...
Bank Mergers Are A Misguided False Step
By B. Sivaraman Can merely merging 10 banks by dumping six financially tottering banks on four relatively viable ones make the four banks stronger or weaker? Though this is a matter of common sense and one need not have to be a financial expert to find the right...
Rightwing Macri Loses Local Polls In Argentina
By Graciela Monteagudo Argentina President Mauricio Macri’s yellow balloons — those that floated high during his 2015 presidential campaign — suddenly deflated on August 11. Macri and his coalition, Cambiemos, lost by a landslide to the “Fernández formula” in the polls to officially choose which candidates will be...
‘Howdy Modi’ Set To Take Houston By Storm This Month
By Kalyani Shankar Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to woo the Indian Diaspora once again when he visits the US later this month to participate in the UNGA conference. A mega community event called “Howdy Modi” (an official Texas greeting) is being planned in Houston on...
Anger Mounting Against Boris Johnson Among Common Tories
By Ben Chacko This weekend’s marches against Boris Johnson and his government displayed an eclectic mix of slogans and motives. For many demonstrators, these were protests against an unelected Prime Minister and his right-wing policies. They were rightly demanding a general election so that the electors can decide...
Providing Tax Sops, Incentives To The Rich Will Not Tackle Recession
By Nantoo Banerjee The government’s post-budget announcement giving a host of new tax reliefs and concessions to industry, including making violation of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) mandate only a civil offence abolishing criminal prosecution, may be good news for the stock market and select business establishments, but...
Current Slowdown Recalls Manmohan-Era ‘Policy Paralysis’
By Amulya Ganguli There is a curious similarity between the opening months of Narendra Modi’s second term and the closing period of Manmohan Singh’s second term. In 2012-13 when the Manmohan Singh government was entering the final phase of its tenure, it was afflicted by what was...
The Case Against Electronic Voting
By Chirag Patnaik There is a lot of debate on the pros and cons of electronic voting. Those promoting the idea point to the fact that we will get results quickly, that the chances of errors are fewer, less cumbersome, cheaper, saves paper etc. But here are some...
China On Backfoot Over Protests In Hong Kong
By Arun Srivastava China’s intensifying propaganda offensive is a move to convince a watching world that protesters were anti-national and their demand for scrapping the extradition bill was against the interest of Hong Kong. Debasing and insulting the pro people elements has been the known tactics of the...
Digvijaya Under Attack Both By BJP And Congress
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: In a rare coincidence former Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh is being attacked both by his party colleague and also by the BJP and Bajrang Dal. Umang Singar, a member of the Kamal Nath cabinet has accused Digvijaya Singh of...
India To Deploy Newly Formed Integrated Battle Group Along Pak Border
The Indian Army has decided to deploy a newly restructured army battalion specialising in conducting cross border strikes near the Pakistan border in next few months, Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat said. “The international border portion of Jammu and Kashmir will see reorganisation first followed by others,...
Modi Averts Trump’s Overture On Article 370, For Now
By Harihar Swarup Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s latest encounter with US President Donald Trump in France laid to rest, for the time being, the threat of the US inserting itself into India-Pakistan. During media interaction in advance of the talks, Modi was direct, explicit and firm in conveying...
NRC Has Caused A Human Tragedy In Assam
By Barun Das Gupta Cyril Radcliffe, sitting in a London hotel, is said to have knifed India into two with the help of a map lying in front of him. What was the rationale behind the way he wielded his knife? None whatever. Veteran journalist, the late Kuldip...
Time For A Closer Look At CIBIL Norms
By K Raveendran At least one of the reasons cited by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman while announcing the merger of public sector banks is untenable. In what is considered as the second wave of the government’s efforts to revive the economy, Sitharaman announced a series of banking...
Bank Mergers Should Not Lead To Disruption
By Anjan Roy In apparent irony when finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman was talking about creating commercial banks capable of servicing a five-trillion dollar economy, the quarterly GDP growth figures showed a further dip. The principal reason for banking reforms could not be to service a multi-trillion dollar...
Bhopal Is Now Hotbed Of Political Slugfest
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: All is not well in Madhya Pradesh Congress. Followers of various factional leaders are openly holding out threat that if their boss is not appointed as the President of the state Congress they may resort to other options. Most vociferous are the followers...
Kerala Congress(M) Facing Tough Contest In Pala By-Election
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Pala in Kottayam district is not an assembly constituency that luxuriates in its obscurity. It has all pretensions to national and international attention. The constituency’s unique selling point (USP) is the fact that it was represented by Kerala Congress(Mani) chairman, K. M. Mani for...
