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.Going Beyond Ayushman Bharat
By Philip Stevens and Nilanjan Banik India, like many middle-income countries, is committed to providing Universal Health Coverage and has made significant progress through the Ayushman Bharat (AB) programme, targeting the bottom 40 per cent of the population. Under the AB programme, as of September 2019, the government...
Save The Planet Or Save Capitalism: We Can’t Do Both
By Jimmy Doran The world in which we live is finite. It does not possess infinite, everlasting resources. And it is fast approaching the point of no return as we face imminent climate catastrophe. If we are to save humanity and protect the world for future generations,...
Democrats Considering Trump Impeachment Once Again
By Morning Star Correspondent Democrats on September 23 indicated a move towards impeaching US President Donald Trump, after he admitted to phoning Ukrainan President Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss former vice president Joe Biden and his son in July. Mr Trump denies allegations that he pressed Ukraine...
High Global Oil Prices Will Impact Economic Growth
By Nantoo Banerjee After the economic slowdown comes the oil shock. The multiple drone strikes on Saudi Aramco’s two major oil facilities have already cut down Saudi Arabia’s oil production by 5.7 million barrels a day, accounting for nearly five percent of the world crude oil supply...
Howdy, Kashmir! Modi’s Biggest Challenge Remains Unaddressed
By Amulya Ganguli Narendra Modi began his stint with the achhe din promise about the impending favourable days, which swept the electorate of its feet. The expectation was that it wouldn’t take long before a buoyant economy ensured jobs for all. But the hope remained a pipe...
Will the Protest Strategy Help the Left to Revive in Bengal?
By Sagarneel Sinha The Left Front led by CPM, which ruled the state for 34 continuous years, is presently trying to revive itself after being caught between TMC and BJP. After the disastrous performance in the recent Lok Sabha polls, where the Left failed to win any seat...
Jeremy Corbyn Needs To Redefine His Brexit Strategy
By Arun Srivastava More than deciding the fate of the future UK government, the annual conference of the Labour Party being held in Brighton would untie the destiny of its leader Jeremy Corbyn. He became the leader of Labour in 2015, but this is the first conference...
Opposition Rejects Claims Of Yogi Government
By Pradeep Kapoor Opposition has rejected claims made by the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh claiming ‘good performance during the last 30 months’. The Opposition has charged the Yogi government of being very slow in the field of development. Despite two high profile investors meets...
After The Floods, Madhya Pradesh Hit By Massive Sex Scandal
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh has yet to recover from the calamity caused by unprecedented rains and floods — it has been hit by a veritable tsunami caused by what is being described as “honey trap”. It is being claimed that “honey trap” involved top VVIPs including...
Alliance Games On In Poll-Bound Maharashtra, Haryana & Jharkhand
By Harihar Swarup The coming elections in Maharashtra, Haryana and Jharkhand, expected to be held next month (October), are considered politically significant because they will reveal the popular rating of the BJP; how much it fell after Lok Sabha election or went up. The elections to Rajasthan, Madhya...
Oil Market Correcting Itself Is Great News For India
By Arjavi Indraneesh Analysts are noticing a new kind of dynamism in the oil market, which seems to have set off a mechanism of internal management of the demand-supply situation, anchoring it on the overall state of the global economy. This is a welcome development for countries...
India Needs A New Idea To Tackle Economic Slowdown
By Arun Srivastava India is passing through the time of newness: whether it is new culture, new economy, new education, new labour or New India everything is being projected as the archetypal of novelty. This novelty is the innovation of the creator of modern BJP, Narendra Modi...
Will Pala upset the UDF applecart?
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Will the Pala assembly constituency spring an ugly surprise on the Congress-led United Democratic Front? Or, will the CPI(M)-headed Left Democratic Front (LDF)create history by wresting the seat after 54 years? These are the questions uppermost in the minds of Pala voters even...
Ban On E-Cigarettes Indicts Tobacco Industry For Promoting Cancer
By Indira Jaising In a history-making decision, the Government of India has prohibited electronic cigarettes by the promulgation of the Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes (Production, Manufacture, Import, Export, Transport, Sale, Distribution, Storage and Advertisement) Ordinance, 2019 on September 18.The effect of the ordinance is to ban production,...
Communist Bhagat Singh Would Have Loathed RSS
By R S Yadav Bhagat Singh was born on September 27, 1907. At a very young age he involved himself in the freedom struggle. He was only 23, when he was hanged on March 23, 1931. But even by that time, he had spoken and written so much...
Deepening Slowdown And Job Loss Cause Grave Concerns
By Chidambaram N The Left parties — CPI, CPI(M) CPI(ML), Forward Bloc and RSP — are holding a joint convention on September 20, 2019 in the national capital to chart out a protest action programme against the deepening slowdown and huge loss of jobs in almost all...
We Feel Like Strangers In Our Own Homeland
By Gulzar Bhat A few days before BJP government did away with the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and stripped it of statehood, I spoke to 15odd people comprising journalists, academics and intellectuals from both within and outside the state, now Union Territory, about the central...
E-Cigarettes And E-Hookahs Have No Medicinal Benefits
By Dr Pankaj Chaturvedi Smoking tobacco is the single largest cause of preventable death around the world. With more than 7 million premature deaths due to smoking including second-hand smoke yearly, the menace of smoking is far away from being tamed and is estimated to reach a massive...
