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.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...
Javadekar’s Wayanad Jibe On Rahul Gandhi Distasteful
By Sagarneel Sinha Vote bank politics has become a common practice for the political parties of the country — cutting across ideologies. In India, secularism means that everyone has the right to practice and follow his/her religious principles — unlike the European version which means separation between the...
Socialist Left Can Lead The Fight Against Boris Johnson
By Ben Chacko Protests and rallies being planned with admirable speed by the People’s Assembly and allies will see significant turnouts up and down the United Kingdom in coming days. Line-ups such as that of London’s September 3 demonstration, with firebrand socialist MPs Laura Smith, Richard Burgon,...
Bolton Excluded From Afghan Policy Decisions After Irritating Trump
WASHINGTON: White House National Security Adviser John Bolton has been kept out of any discussions related to the ongoing US-Taliban negotiations because his opposition to diplomacy has irritated President Donald Trump, US media reported. Bolton has called for an expanded military presence in Afghanistan and also opposed...
Indian Air Force Seeks Russian Jets To Bring Fighter Squadrons
NEW DELHI: The Indian Air Force (IAF) is examining a proposal to purchase at least 33 Russian fighter jets to replace aircraft either damaged in accidents or taken out of service in recent years Plans to buy the Russian fighter aircraft will be discussed during a high-level meeting...
Kashmir: Where Is The Option To Return To Normalcy?
By Nitya Chakrabory Jammu & Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik in an interview to the Hindustan Times published on Friday has totally ruled out any dialogue with the mainstream political parties of Kashmir for bringing about an early solution of the lockdown in the valley which began on...
A Major Policy Shift Vital To Spur Growth
By S. Sudhakar Reddy The only positive aspect about the initiatives announced by the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is that the government has finally acknowledged that the economy is in crisis. However, the directionlessness of the initiatives shows that the government still does not understand what ails...
