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.Enough Is Enough: Opposition Has To Function Normally Now
By Nitya Chakraborty A week has passed since the suicide bomber attack on the CRPF convoy at Pulwama on February 14 resulting in the tragic death of more than 40 jawans. For more than seven days, the grieved Indians are expressing their heartfelt condolences to the families of the...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Issue of minority status of AMU referred to a larger bench – The Supreme Court referred the issue of the minority status of the Aligarh Muslim University to a bench of 7 justices. The bench will essentially define the parameters of a minority institution. An earlier judgment had held...
Congress Ministers Take U-Turn On Two Crucial Issues
By L.S Herdenia BHOPAL: Answers given by the Ministers on the floor of the Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha have created highly embarrassing situation both for the state Government and the state Congress. The position was so much embarrassing that senior leader and former Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh had to...
Stalemate Over Delhi Govt’s Powers Continues
By Amritananda Chakravorty The tussle between the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi and the Central Government looks unlikely to end, with a recent Supreme Court decision rendered on the power sharing arrangment between the two. This judgment came in the backdrop of the Constitution Bench decision in...
Time For New Delhi To Seriously Focus On Kashmir
By Sagarneel Sinha The recent deadly attack by a suicide bomber from the Pakistan based terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammad in Pulwama of South Kashmir which killed 49 Indian paramilitary forces, the worst terrorist attack in decades since the start of insurgency in the valley, has once again brought the...
BJP’s Poll Pact With AIADMK Is A Good News For NDA
By B. Sivaraman Two different announcements on a single day—the AIADMK-PMK deal announced in the morning and the AIADMK-BJP deal declared the same evening—brought to light the dramatic shift of electoral fortunes in Tamil Nadu. The PMK would contest 7 seats—six out of the total 39 seats in Tamil...
Sanders Decision Galvanises American Left And Liberals
By Nitya Chakraborty At long last, Bernie Sanders has announced his decision to seek the Democratic Party nomination for the second time to fight against the incumbent United States President Donald Trump and in the process he has galvanized the movement of the forwarding looking masses of America who...
Pramila Jayapal outlines progressive programme for U.S. Congress
By Mark Gruenberg Pro-worker legislation, including equal pay for equal work and an updated stronger version of the Employee Free Choice Act, are part of the progressive platform lawmakers will try to push through the Democratic-run House in the 116th Congress, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chair,...
CPI(M) Pushed Into A Political Bind
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Two setbacks within a fortnight. That has been the lot of the CPI(M), which heads the Left Democratic Front Government in the kerala. The double blow came even as the formidable electoral juggernaut of the CPI(M) had just started rolling out. The LDF had taken...
Kashmir Needs A Political Solution, Not More Guns
By Kalyani Shankar While the neighboring Pakistan needs to be taught a lesson for sponsoring terrorist attacks in Kashmir, there is also need to address the Kashmir problem internally. There is no doubt that there are many things, which needs attention including the radicalisation of the youth in the...
Pulwama Attack Is A Failure Of Security Architecture
By Sanjiv Krishan Sood My heart goes out to the families of all the CRPF personnel who lost their lives in one of the most audacious attack by militants on security forces. The suicide attack which occurred on February 14 in Pulwama in South Kashmir killed more than 40...
Delay In Irrigation Projects Costing Indian Agriculture Dearly
By K R Sudhaman Project delays are a common phenomenon in India unlike in China where cost and time over-runs are rare. In fact in 1990s and early 2000, China had a record in no delay in implementation of World Bank’s development projects. Cost over-runs occur because of delay...
Modi Has To Give A Relook At His Pak Strategy
By Amulya Ganguli Every act of terrorism carries the threat of war. The Pakistani attacks on parliament in 2001 and on Mumbai in 2008 were followed by the possibility of a major conflict between the two nuclear-armed neighbours. It was undoubtedly the menace of the ultimate, Holocaust weapons which...
India’s ‘Working Poor’ Are Fast Rising
By Nantoo Banerjee With the growing trend of a more assorted part of the less-organised services sector emerging as India’s biggest source of employment, the job quality is becoming not only poor but also more vulnerable. Interestingly, the trend is noted with concern by the International Labour Organisation (ILO)...
Terrorist Attacks Lead To Violent Deaths
By Dr. Arun Mitra Terrorist violence in Pulwama which killed our brave young soldiers fighting to save the sovereignty of the country has shaken the whole nation. Each citizen is aghast at this violent act. There is natural wide spread anger and feeling of revenge. Life is the...
Democrats move to stop trump’s “national emergency”
By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik Donald Trump wants to use the pretext of a “national emergency” to grab billions of federal dollars to build his Mexican Wall. Xavier Becerra, California’s attorney general, and Sens. Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders were among those who immediately came out to say...
Is Modi taking Rahul for a Ride?
By Aditya Aamir Congress President Rahul Gandhi alone kept his word and did not extract political mileage from the deaths of the 41 CRPF martyrs whose mortal remains started reaching homes across India Friday morning. The bodies will be barely recognizable, missing as they will body parts. Rahul Gandhi...
Congress Is A Rejuvenated Party Before Lok Sabha Poll
By Harihar Swarup What India needs after 2019 general election is stability. One wonders if the Opposition with all efforts to unite, even if they come on one platform, can provide a stable government. Our experience with the era of coalition has not been happy. The country’s eyes are...
