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.Congress Leadership Has To Listen To Dissenting Voices
By Sagarneel Sinha There have been reports of division within the Congress party about its Lok Sabha election campaign led by Rahul Gandhi with the slogan “Chowkidar chor hain” — an indirect attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for being a “thief”. Later, Rahul himself too in his...
Supreme Court Ignoring Urgency Of Civil Liberties Issue In Kashmir
By Amritananda Chakravorty On Wednesday, August 28, 2019, the Supreme Court finally took up the slew of petitions challenging the validity of the Presidential Orders dated August 5 and August 6 respectively, after 24 days of complete lockdown of 7 million people in Kashmir, and directed that these...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Resorting to legal proceedings by the wife cannot be deemed as ‘cruelty’ in divorce proceedings – The Supreme Court has held that if a wife resorts to legal proceedings, it could not be treated as mental cruelty. In his divorce petition, the husband had alleged that the wife had...
Labour Welfare Schemes Are Being Abolished By Modi Government
By B. Sivaraman Modi Government is abrogating not only labour rights in the name of labour reforms, it has not spared the labour welfare schemes either. Labour welfare cesses are being abolished and labour welfare acts are being scrapped one by one. On 8 August 2019, the government...
Boris Johnson Leads Britain To A Deeper Crisis
By Arun Srivastava Quite intriguing how could Brexit drag the Queen into the heart of Britain’s political crisis. Apprehensions were already there that the Prime Minister Boris Johnson would take recourse to suspending the parliament, but his move would come so soon is really a matter of conjecture....
BJP, Opposition Pained Alike In Losing Arun Jaitley
By Rahil Nora Chopra BJP’s trouble shooter, active lawyer, politician, cricket administrator, minister and true friend Arun Jaitley died at the age 66 years in AIIMS at 12.07 pm on 24 August. He was admitted in AIIMS on 7 August with the complaint of difficulty in respiration. Jaitley was...
Fresh Poll In Britain Is Need Of The Hour
By Ben Chacko Boris Johnson’s intention to prorogue Parliament has provoked much contrived outrage from opposition politicians and Commons Speaker John Bercow. But where have these self-proclaimed “defenders of democracy” been while Jeremy Corbyn and many progressive and labour movement figures have been demanding a genuine exercise in...
Congress More Diverse Than India’s Diversity
By K. Raveendran The Congress party has been reduced to being a confederation of leaders ever since president Rahul Gandhi announced he was stepping down following a near rout in the elections, with lack of homogeneity becoming a least common denominator. There is a palpable loss of the...
In First Year Of Modi’s Second Term, GDP Growth To Hit Lowest In 6 Years
By Satyaki Chakraborty The first year of the second term of the Narendra Modi Government is going to witness the lowest GDP growth of 6.7 per cent in the last six years. The economic crisis has accentuated in the last two years and despite all the talk of...
Shashi Tharoor In The Eye Of A Political Storm
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Senior Congress leader from Kerala, Shashi Tharoor, finds himself in the eye of a raging political storm. The controversy-prone MP from Thiruvananthapuram has, once again, kicked up a flaming row over his Modi-friendly statement. Tharoor’s remark that there is no need to criticise...
New Twist In British Politics Over Brexit
By Arun Srivastava Through the “Church House Declaration” around 165 British MPs from across the parties have pledged to form alternative parliament in case the Prime Minister Boris Johnson goes ahead with his plan to prorogue the parliament in the event of Boris failing to make a no-deal...
Sanders Leading The Opinion Poll As Democratic Nominee
By Mark Gruenberg PITTSBURGH: Citing his long-time support for workers and especially those forced to strike, the independent United Electrical Workers convention unanimously voted on August 26 to endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt., for presidential nominee of Democratic Party. Their decision at the convention in Pittsburgh makes...
Trump Secretly Mulls Ways To ‘Punish’ Chinese Leaders Over Hong Kong
WASHINGTON: Lawmakers and administration officials are reportedly seeking to impose sanctions on China. They are, however, apparently having difficulty deciding which sanctions would work best, as discussions have allegedly dragged on for weeks. US administration officials and Republican Senators are quietly working behind the scenes to come...
Weakened Congress Needs Course Correction
By Kalyani Shankar Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s comeback as the party chief recently might have shut up the young and old in the party about who should replace Rahul Gandhi, but she has her task cut out. It is more than a fortnight since she took over. It...
Stop Water Mismanagement To Save Lives
By Gyan Pathak India needs to manage water for 17 per cent population of the world but has only 4 per cent of world’s freshwater resources. Though annual utilizable water is 690 BCM from surface water sources and 447 BCM from groundwater, water supply is so mismanaged...
Senior Citizens Need Free Full Healthcare Facilities
By Dr. Arun Mitra Despite the fact that senior citizens have contributed through their life to the nation’s building, healthcare for them remains a big challenge. The National Health Policy recognizes growing need for palliative and rehabilitative care for all geriatric illnesses and advocates the continuity of...
China To Implement Its New Foreign Investment Law From January 1, 2020
By Subrata Majumder Global investors hailed China’s new Foreign Investment Law (FIL) a breakthrough to resuscitate the Chinese sagging foreign investment, even though many commentators are dubious on actual implementation. Foreign investment has been an important boost for Chinese economy. New FIL will replace existing three laws...
Corbyn To Rally Westminster To Bring Down Boris Johnson
By Marcus Barnett Jeremy Corbyn is rallying all available forces in Westminster to bring down Boris Johnson as he heads for crunch talks with other opposition party leaders at noon and demands a general election. The Labour leader will re-emphasise the need for an election as “the simplest...
