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.India-China Border Issue Is Sensitive, Will Take Long Time For An Agreement
By Ashok B Sharma The relationship between India and China is a contentious issue. The boundary issue between the two nations is a longstanding problem. China has the concept of expansionism. It does not follow the Mac-Mahan Line and Johnson Line drawn by the erstwhile British colonial rulers in...
Iran And Israel’s Love-Hate Relationship: From Shah To Ayatollahs
By Divya Malhotra Middle East has turned into a ticking time bomb as Iran and Israel stand on the verge of a full-blown war. A lot has transpired between the two countries since the October 2023 Hamas attack on Israel and the ensuing Gaza war. Israel is more than...
Turkey’s Closeness With BRICS Shows NATO Alliance Is On Shaky Grounds
By Nitya Chakraborty The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), the security alliance of the western nations led by the USA is having an uneasy period after celebrating its 75th year of founding in July this year with big fanfare. The recent summit of the BRICS in Kazan of Russia...
RSS Engaged In A Cold War With Narendra Modi Over The New Face Of Hindutva
By Arun Srivastava For RSS blowing hot and cold in the same breath is not the sign of its irresoluteness, instead it reflects the highest form of its duplicity; when its right face is not aware of the message its left face was sending. Only a week back the...
Political Uncertainty Looms Large Over Japan As Ruling LDP Faces Defeat In Elections
By Anjan Roy Japan’s election results last Sunday demonstrate once again that good economics often fail to get political gains. That does not of course necessarily mean that bad economics gets good political revenues. As the results of the election became apparent this Monday, it was clear that Prime...
Seat-Sharing Blues Chase MVA And Mahayuti To The Brink In Maharashtra
By Sushil Kutty On Tuesday, the last day for filing nominations for the November 20 Maharashtra assembly elections, both the Mahayuti and the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliances were still looking for closure to their seat-sharing blues. Nobody in either grouping could provide clarity to the goings on, the protracted...
Bihar School Education Gets A Digital Makeover With E-Service Books
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Bihar often creates contrasting images about itself. On the one hand, it produces many IAS, IPS, and professionals in other fields. On the other hand, school education with mass copying in the exams and malpractices in evaluating the copies are too familiar to be talked...
Trump’s Madison Square Garden Rally Echoes Nazi Event There In 1939
By John Wojcik NEW YORK: Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday more than lived up to predictions that it would echo the Nazi rally held there in 1939. It was filled with vitriol and profanity-laced racist attacks against people the convicted criminal ex-president sees as political enemies...
India, China Are Looking At Possible Gains And Losses With Change Of Guards In The US
By Nantoo Banerjee Domestic issues often override international commitments in diplomacy. China’s preference of Kamala Harris to Donald Trump as the next US president may look unusual but not entirely illogical from the world’s second largest economy’s business point of view. China may not mind if such a possibility...
BRICS Bloc’s Move To Boost Alternative Payment System Should Worry U.S.
By Asad Mirza BRICS nations concluded their annual summit in the Russian city of Kazan on October 24 resolving to deepen economic ties. Plans to deepen financial cooperation and develop alternatives to Western-dominated payment systems were also discussed, besides offering African nations a bigger say in the changing global...
Left Parties Make Their Major Presence In Jharkhand Poll Nominations
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: A development in the ultra-Left politics that happened on September 9 this year in Jharkhand, to be more specific in the Dhanbad coalfields, gets cemented as elections for the sixth state Assembly knock at the door and revive memories of the role that the...
Faster Civil Trials In India Through Tech Reforms And Innovations Are Imperative
By Harsh Mahaseth and Sadqua Khatoon Indian judiciary faces a significant backlog of civil cases, with around 11.1 million cases pending, of which 22 percent are older than five years. These prolonged delays erode public trust in the legal system and leave many in a prolonged state of uncertainty...
SEBI Chief’s Refusal To Appear Before PAC And BJP’s Stout Defence Reveal A Sinister Plot
By K Raveendran The desperation shown by BJP members of the parliamentary accounts committee to shield SEBI chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch from criticism for her failure to appear before the panel shows how her acts of commission and omission were not just a reflection of certain deficit in personal...
‘Success’ Of India-China Agreement On LAC Is Being Overblown
By Anjan Roy Although ice has apparently been broken between India and China over conflicts and confrontations in Demchok and Depsang areas in eastern Ladakh, tensions have not been eliminated fully. The hurriedly announced agreement, in the hours before BRICS summit in Russia’s Kazan on October 22-24, was directed...
Conditions Of Employment For Women In India Gradually Worsening
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Due to declining scope of job opportunity in the organised and formal sector, women workers in India have been increasingly trying hard even to find a place in the unorganised and informal sectors sans social security. Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2023-24 for the period...
With Congress Out Of Bypolls, It Is Yogi Vs. Akhilesh In Uttar Pradesh
By Sushil Kutty The Congress has left the Uttar Pradesh bypolls, leaving the field open for the Samajwadi Party Supremo Akhilesh Yadav against the state-BJP led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who has sole responsibility of redeeming BJP after Akhilesh Yadav took the saffron party to the cleaners in...
Austrian President Finally Keeps Far Right FPO Out Of New Government
By Tirthankar Mitra Austrian President Alexander van Der Bellen has decided to sidestep the far right Freedom Party (FPO) in government formation sending an unambiguous signal about the future. At the heart of the decision lies the question that should a party having won the largest share of votes...
Left Wing Die Linke Of Germany Is In A Renewal Mood After National Party Congress
By Marc Martorell Junyent BERLIN: “There is hope.” This was one of the most repeated sentences when talking to delegates at Germany’s Die Linke’s national congress last weekend, as the left-wing party convened in Halle, in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. This hope clearly isn’t inspired by polling data,...
