Opinion
Appeal
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.Phased Lifting Of Lockdown In Kashmir Is Immediate Need
By Ashok B Sharma India, after winning a series of diplomatic battles against Pakistan, now needs to gradually lift the lockdown imposed on the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. So far the diplomatic success scored by India has been to foil Pakistan’s attempt to internationalise the...
Flood Devastation In Bihar Gives Nitesh Kumar A Jolt
By Arun Srivastava With the floods situation continuously getting grim, the future of Nitish Kumar as the chief minister of Bihar is at the stake. Even his close aides and friends interpret the intensity of floods as a warning sign for Nitish Kumar The Congress lost...
Who really threatens world oil supplies?
By Art Perlo The U.S. response to the Mideast crisis is not about protecting the world’s oil supply. It is to tighten control of the world’s oil supply, to protect profits for the U.S. oil monopolies, and to further control by U.S. global financial, military, and other corporations....
Using Failure As Excuse To Continue Failed Policy
By K Raveendran A three-member bench of the Supreme Court has allowed the Modi government’s review petition against the dilution of powers of arrest under the controversial SC-ST Act, which had caused disquiet across a wide spectrum, including the affected class. This had even led to a certain...
LDF, UDF, BJP Square Up For The Electoral Battle
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the candidates of the three major political fronts filing their nominations, the state is set for an absorbing contest for the five Assembly by-elections from the State. Like in Pala, the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) has had a head-start in the...
Mystery Shrouds Frequent Changes In SIT
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Mystery shrouds the reasons behind frequent changes in the Special Investigation Team (SIT), constituted by the Madhya Pradesh Government to probe, what has come to be know as the ‘Honey trap case’. Within less than a week, the government has changed the head of...
Shiv Sena Projects Aditya Thackeray As Cm Candidate
By Rahil Nora Chopra Shiv Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray has recalled the promise he had made to his late father, Bal Thackeray, to install a Shiv Sainik Chief Minister of Maharashtra, even as the BJP is projecting the present Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis as the next CM. The...
National Convention Calls For General Strike On January 8
By Amarjeet Kaur The National Open Mass Convention of Workers held in New Delhi on September 30, 2019, decided to conduct extensive campaign for next three months amongst working people in all sectors of our economy formal & informal to make the call given from this convention for...
Over 700 Homeless People Died On Britain’s Streets In One Year
By Marcus Barnett Charities have called on the British government to take urgent action on the homelessness crisis after a record number of people died on Britain’s streets last year. Figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Wednesday show that 726 homeless people died...
Understanding Communist China On Its 70th Anniversary
By G Venkat Raman Since my first visit to China as a student nearly two decades ago, I have had several opportunities to go back and observe the remarkable changes occurring within that country. Recently, I supervised an educational tour of student-participants to Shanghai, which is referred by...
Festival Season Economy Hit By Slowdown
By B. Sivaraman Great Indian Festival…Big Billion Days…No, these don’t refer to Diwali and Dussehra or Eid and Christmas. They are the special festival season sales melas by e-commerce majors Amazon and Flipkart. As the names aptly capture, these sales festivals earn big billions for these mega...
Battle For Gaining Control Of Hong Kong Intensifies
By Arun Srivastava While China is celebrating its birthday with a massive parade in Beijing, with new weapons unveiled in a show of force and unity, Hong Kong witnessed huge violent protest, both economic and political, challenging the supremacy of China. Haunted by the dynamics and dimension...
Corbyn Prepares To Head An Alternative Govt
By Al Neal British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a record-breaking seventh House of Commons defeat last Thursday when Members of Parliament voted, 306-289, against his request to allow a short recess of Parliament during the Conservative Party’s annual conference. Earlier in the week, opposition Labour Party...
Total U.S. Control of middle east may be slipping
By Conn Hallinan In many ways, it doesn’t really matter who—Houthis in Yemen? Iranians? Shiites in Iraq?—launched those missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia. Whoever did it changed the rules of the game, and not just in the Middle East. “It’s a moment when offense laps defense, when...
India May Soon Start Export Of Rockets And Missiles
By Nantoo Banerjee India, in recent years, might have acquired the dubious distinction as the world’s biggest arms importer, but times seem to be changing. The country may soon become an exporter of high-tech rockets and missiles and join the small distinguished league of missile manufacturers, strictly following...
Judiciary Must Avoid Revisiting Emergency-Era Lapses
By Amulya Ganguli The period from June, 1975, to March, 1977, was undoubtedly the darkest in independent India’s history. Till the midnight of June 26, 1975, Indians could take pride in being the citizens of a free country in spite of the prevailing poverty. However, when they...
Boris Johnson Using Trump’s Language And Tactics
By Arun Srivastava The rightist political and social forces are out to extinguish the democracy and democratic ethos from the world map. They are intolerant and averse to listening to decent counselling and advice. The words and speeches of the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson explicitly manifest this....
Impeachment Probe Against Trump Getting Majority Support
BY C.J. Atkins and John Wojcik According to a new poll released early Friday morning, public support for the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump has now hit a majority. The milestone comes amidst the explosive revelation of a White House cover-up aimed at hiding the details...
