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.Missing The Bus To Right To Schooling Election After Election
By Aditya Aamir Education. Lack of skills. Jobs. Unemployment. Start thinking of these and the picture of a banana republic emerges. How much does India allocate for education? Compared to developed countries, hardly enough to cover the population. The US Department of Education got discretionary funding of $70.7 billion...
Kotler Awardee At Kollam Bypass
Sushil Kutty “It came by the Kollam Bypass,” the man on the telephone whispered. “It’s very confidential. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been awarded the first-ever Philip Kotler Presidential Award. Don’t spread the word to all his Mitron just yet. It came down to the wire, the selection you...
Big Expectations From Jaitley’s Interim Budget
By K R Sudhaman Come January, rent-seeking starts from various pressure groups for tax sops and other concessions in the budget and it is always a tight rope walk for any finance minister as lobbyists, industrialists, agriculturists, exporters and so on seek relief but none will advice the...
Modi Govt Saved Daasault From Financial Crisis Through Rafale Order
By Nitya Chakraborty The Narendra Modi government has saved the French company Dassault from a serious financial crisis in 2016 by giving orders for 36 Rafale jets at the cost of sacrificing the viability of its own public sector enterprise Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd(HAL) by denying its offset partnership, according...
Government announces extension of 7th Pay Commission to teachers
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has come up with one another offer to lure voters in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. He announced extension of the 7th Central Pay Commission to the government teachers. The Ministry of Human Resource Development approved Tuesday the recommendations to academic staff of government with...
Bua–Bhatija Alliance Not Enough To Defeat BJP
By Arun Srivastava BSP chief Mayawati is brimming with generosity. Like her entering into alliance with Samajwadi Party after nearly a quarter century of nursing animosity, her leaving two seats to the Congress president Rahul Gandhi and for his mother Sonia Gandhi is an exceptional political act. By...
‘Political Finance’ Threatens European Polity
By Sankar Ray The price of a vote is estimated at € 6 for the legislative elections, and € 32 for the municipal polls in France, according to a working paper ‘The Price of a Vote: Evidence from France 1993-2014’, scheduled to be published in February 2019 and,...
Congress, BJP Launch MP Poll Campaign In Right Earnest
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Both BJP and Congress have started preparations for the Lok Sabha elections in Madhya Pradesh. At present Congress holds only three seats while the BJP’s tally is 26. The Congress won only two seats in the 2014 general elections. The victorious candidates were Kamal Nath...
Looking for the grand alliance: whither opposition unity?
By Kalyani Shankar While the Opposition has been touting a Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance), what is happening on the ground is quite different. It is quite clear now that a Grand Alliance is unlikely and instead the parties are inclined to go for state-specific alliances. This is because the...
‘Waka Waka’ For The Prime Minister
By Sushil Kutty Behen Mayawati marked her birthday, January 15, with a presser and for millions of BSP supporters, it is ‘Waka Waka’, which translates to ‘this time’, and this election season it’s ‘this one for Prime Minister’. Never before in Indian electoral history have so many set...
Immunisation Campaign To Target 100% Children In MP
By Raju Kumar BHOPAL: The Measles and Rubella immunisation campaign is going to be rolled out from tomorrow. The campaign will be run for one month. This is part of the nationwide Measles and Rubella immunisation campaign, under which all children from 9 months to 15 years will be...
Berlin Pays Its Respects To Rosa Luxemburg And Karl Liebknecht
By Ben Chacko Thousands marched through Berlin on January 13 to pay their respects 100 years after the brutal murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht on January 15, 1919. Socialists from all corners of Germany and many foreign countries laid red flowers at the tombs of...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Civil Court cannot interfere in matters in which powers have been granted to the NCLT –The Supreme Court reaffirmed the jurisdiction of the NCLT in the matters for which powers have been granted to it. The case raised the question as to a dispute of title to shares should...
Ten Per Cent Quota Decision Violates Constitution
By Amritananda Chakravorty The Parliament has passed the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Fourth) Amendment Bill, 2019, which sought to amend Articles 15 and 16 of the Constitution, by providing 10 per cent reservation in the public employment and higher education for the economically weaker sections. The economically weaker...
New Ideas On Assam’s Future Have Merit
By Ashis Biswas Even as Assam and parts of the Northeast remain embroiled in vigorous protests against the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2016, one hopeful sign is that new ideas to arrive at a balanced solution have been put forward. The fact that there has been no major outbreak...
Congress Must Not See SP-BSP As An Enemy
By Amulya Ganguli As the humiliating treatment of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh by the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in the matter of seat distribution for the parliamentary polls, and the party’s defiant response show, the 134-year political patriarch is currently battling both...
Gathbandhan rocks U.P., mocks BJP
By Aditya Aamir The day after Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav sealed the SP-BSP gathbandhan for Uttar Pradesh, several you-tubers went to different parts of UP to test the impact of the gathbandhan. Impact it did, and how? ‘It rocked’, is one way to put it, sent shock waves...
Data Protection Must For EU, Russia, China And Others
By Nantoo Banerjee It is most surprising that India’s bid to enforce data localisation should be strongly contested by the European Union, which boasts one of the world’s toughest personal privacy regimes. The EU, US, Russia and China all have their ways to strongly and legally protect their...
