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.A Contrarian Oil Price Scenario Comes True
By K Raveendran When petrol and diesel prices were heading up to their historical heights in the middle of last year, this column had made a contrarian projection (Modi’s oil stars may be turning benevolent again, June 29) that by the time Prime Minister Modi would be about to...
Confusing Voters In The Name Of Reservation
By Dr C Sadasiva Reservations for SC and ST have been there since the Constitution of India came into force. Mandal Commission was constituted by Mrs Gandhi and V P Singh initiated its implementation. In 1990s, the question of back log came before the apex court and suggestions for...
West Bengal Showdown Was A Centre-Driven Constitutional Crisis
By Harihar Swarup Manner and timing of the CBI action in West Bengal reeks of political vendetta. The graceless spectacle in Kolkata captures a drama that officers, landing up allegedly unannounced and warrantless, at the residence of the state police chief. Leave the common man; if a top police...
Democrats Start New Congressional Probe Against Trump
By John Wojcik Just a day after President Donald Trump, speaking to a world audience, declared that there would be no legislation signed by him if Congress didn’t stop investigating him, the Congress of the United States opened broad new investigations into his affairs. The investigations, which go beyond...
Kamal Nath Takes Pro-People Measures
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: On the eve of Rahul Gandhi’s visit, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath announced several populist decisions. The decisions include stipend of Rs. 4,000 per month for unemployed urban youth, 100 days employment in a year for urban youth, 10 HP electricity at half rate...
Universal Health Care Has To Be The National Mission
By Dr Arun Mitra Despite advances in health care there persist gross inequalities as far as access to it is concerned. Even today the low socio economic groups have difficulty in getting modern healthcare. Inequalities also persist in terms of geography, caste, religion and gender. High out-of- pocket expenditures,...
Need For A Leftward Shift In The Indian Polity
By B. Sivaraman Narendra Modi’s five-year record in office shows that he has confused the wave of support to him in 2014 as mass support for authoritarianism. It is now time to pay dearly for that. There may not be a visible strong anti-Modi wave yet but an undercurrent...
Attacks Against Constitution Are Continuing Under Modi
By Shameem Faizee After getting assured that the Sangh Parivar has got what it wanted on the Ayodhya issue, the Narendra Modi government has intensified new attacks on the basic structure of the Indian Constitution. In the last fortnight, the government officially floated the idea of handing over the...
Prime Minister Has Now No Escape Route From Rafale Scam
By Nitya Chakraborty The die is cast. There is no escape route for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to come out unscathed from the Rs. 58,000 crore Rafale scam. The report in The Hindu newspaper of February 8 makes it abundantly clear that it was the Prime Minister’s Office...
Fallout Of Tdb’s Somersault On Sabarimala Issue
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In politics, as in life, what matters the most is perception. And the perception fast gaining ground in Kerala is that the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) has, once again, succumbed to the pressure of the Left Democratic Front(LDF) on the sensitive Sabarimala issue. The TDB’s...
Congress State Units Against Poll Alliance
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Congress high command has a problem convincing the party state units especially Delhi, Haryana and Punjab regarding tie-up with AAP for 2019 Lok Sabha election. The party high command feels that if the party does not tie-up with AAP the BJP stands to...
Mere Tall Claims Could Not Reverse The Decline Of Msmes
By Gyan Pathak Medium, Small and Micro Enterprises (MSMEs) are a major engine of growth and employment in the country, only next to Agriculture. However, lakhs of them have already closed due to cash crunch after demonetization order of November 2016. Majority of the units have been struggling for...
Congress To Hold Grand Show For Priyanka In Lucknow
Congress To Hold Grand Show For Priyanka In Lucknow By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee is all set to organise show of strength through road show as and when Priyanka Gandhi Vadra arrives Lucknow on February 10-11. Congress is preparing to organise grand reception of Priyanka Gandhi...
Trump Vows To Fight Socialism In His Message
By C.J. Atkins A specter is haunting Donald Trump—the specter of socialism. A century and a half ago, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels opened their Communist Manifesto with a similar line. In their time, it was the rising workers’ movement and communist groups of Europe that were putting the...
Importance Of Being Kolkata Police Chief Rajeev Kumar
By Arun Srivastava Why has the Commissioner of Kolkata police Rajeev Kumar suddenly acquired the importance in the political establishment of Delhi as well as Calcutta is really intriguing. Rajeev is supposed to be an intelligent and no-nonsense person. But this is certainly not the reason that everybody should...
Interim Budget’s Pension Scheme Is A Big Hoax
By B. Sivaraman In his Interim Budget presented on 1 February 2019, the stopgap Finance Minister Mr. Piyush Goyal announced a scheme for a monthly pension of Rs. 3000 for unorganised workers whose numbers he put at 42 crore. The workers in the age-group of 18 to 55 years...
Maduro Seeks Global Assistance Against Intervention
By Steve Sweeney Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro ruled out new presidential elections as he called on the international community to prevent a US-instigated civil war from erupting in the country. In a televised address, the president spoke of the strength of revolutionary heroes Che Guevara, Fidel Castro and Hugo...
Pentagon Is Reconciled To Taliban Rule In Kabul
By Sankar Ray None other than Gen. Austin Miller, the head of NATO’s Resolute Support Mission, stated ingenuously that in Afghanistan “this is not going to be won militarily… This is going to a political solution”. He put it bluntly that the USA and its armed collaborators had failed...
