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.Rafale Does Not Give India Air Superiority Over China
By Barun Das Gupta Defence Minister Rajnath Singh received the first Rafale Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) in Paris on October 8, the foundation day of the Indian Air Force. The loyal mass media is eulogizing it as a “game changer” as Pakistan has no fighter aircraft comparable...
Magistrate Order Has Modi Govt Discredited Completely
By K Raveendran For the man on the street, the lowest-rung government official often proves to be the highest governmental authority that he comes across. The average street vendor considers cop who comes to collect the hafta represents the law of the land, its systems and sometimes the...
Corporate Lobby Sees Opportunity In Slowdown
By Dr. B.K. Kango Economic slowdown is affecting all sections of society. But corporate lobby and the rich are taking advantage of the slowdown to extract benefits and press for favourable structural changes from the government that they have helped to come to power. The government is either...
India-Bangladesh Friendship To Go Beyond Strategic Partnership
By Ashok B Sharma At a time when collective cooperation in the South Asian body, SAARC, is stalled due to the indifference of Pakistan, the bonhomie between India and Bangladesh has become necessary not only for the region but also for cooperation in the Indian Ocean rim and...
Antonia Costa Poised To Rule Portugal Again
By John Wojcik Results of Portugal’s general elections on October 6 in indicate that the center-left Socialist Party has collected the most votes and is poised to continue in government for another four years, but the party will likely have to rely on the Left Bloc and...
Will Modi-Xi Meet Exchange Quiet On Kashmir For Hong Kong?
By Kalyani Shankar Mamallapuram, the ancient port town near Chennai, is getting ready to host the Chinese President XI Jinping for an informal summit with Prime Minister Narenda Modi this weekend (October 11-13). After winning his second term, Modi formally extended an invitation to Xi in June at...
Congress Must Undertake An Introspection For Revival
By Arun Srivastava After former chief of Mumbai Pradesh Congress Committee Sanjay Nirupam, it was ex chief of Haryana PCC Ashok Tanwar who levelled serious charges against the party leadership. Both the leaders, at two separate places, one in Mumbai and other in Haryana, ventilated the same feeling;...
Cuba Prepares To Indict U.S. Blockade At United Nations
By W. T. Whitney Jr. For the 28th consecutive year, Cuba will be asking the United Nations General Assembly on November 7 to approve a resolution calling for an end to the U.S. economic, commercial, and financial blockade of Cuba. Every year, in preparation for this vote, Cuba’s...
Access To Clean Cooking Energy Remains A Dream For Millions
By Gyan Pathak Majority of Indian kitchens do not have access to clean cooking energy. We have been worst in the world, and are still so. There are many programmes to trumpet, but government fails to provide a full clean energy security cover to over half of...
Opposition Parties Are Paralysed In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: There is virtual no opposition to Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh. There is complete demoralisation in the rank and file of main opposition parties following near surrender by top leadership. Yogi Adityanath has completed more than half of his term in the...
Bypolls In Assembly Seats Will Test Bjp’s Winning Streak
By Harihar Swarup The upcoming by-elections assume special significance given the record number of 51 seats assembly seats across 16 states and one union territory going to polls around the same time. In Uttar Pradesh, chief minister, Yogi Adityanath-led BJP is aiming to snatch Rampur and Jalalpur...
Leon Wofsy Was A Great Orgniser Even At 97
By Conn Hallinan and Max Elbaum When Leon Wofsy died at age 97 on August 25 this year, progressive movements throughout the United States lost a champion. Leon accomplished many things in his long life. He was an innovative scientist, and a fine writer and teacher, but above...
Johnson’s “Fair And Reasonable” Brexit Compromise Falls On Deaf Ears
By Al Neal British Prime Minister Boris Johnson offered the European Union a proposed “best and final offer” Brexit deal Wednesday, saying it encapsulates a real compromise for both sides and urged EU leaders to hold “rapid negotiations towards a solution” after years of squabbling. The U.K....
India Should Seek Russia’s Help To Develop Hypersonic Missile
New Delhi: India can address its concerns over China’s growing hypersonic missile arsenal by seeking cooperation with Russia in developing similar missiles through the bilateral BrahMos cruise missile programme, a security analyst has said. As India and Russia’s most productive and beneficial joint venture defence programme, the Brahmos...
Judges Recusal In Gautam Navlakha Case Is Confusing
By Amritananda Chakravorty On 3rd October, 2019, the newly elevated Justice Ravindra Bhat became the fifth judge in the Supreme Court to recuse himself from hearing the appeal by Gautam Navlakha, a human rights activist, who has been implicated in the Bhima Koregaon case. Before Justice Bhat,...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Major decisions – SC Constitution Bench adjourns hearing on Article 370 for Centre’s reply – On 1 October 2019, the Supreme Court Constitution Bench adjourned hearing of the petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the repeal of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status and its reorganisation till 14 November...
India Well Prepared Now To Join RCEP
By Subrata Majumder Majority of industry associations, entrepreneurs and trade analysts rang alarm bell for India in joining RCEP – a new and the largest trade block consisting of ASEAN -10 and 6 countries. Before, India had several FTAs. But, none of them yielded any trade benefit. Instead,...
RBI Is Now Reconciled To Slowdown In Economy
By Anjan Roy While until now, the Reserve Bank has maintained a more nuanced view of the current slow-down and tended to attribute it to cyclical factors, the fine print of RBI’s policy statement on Friday betray its concerns about the future. The Reserve Bank’s monetary...
