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.CAG Questions Decision To Do Away With Revenue Deficit Target
By K R Sudhaman Comptroller and Auditor General has pulled up the government for doing away with revenue deficit targets from this financial year, which did not augur well for macro-economic stability and fiscal situation as it could lead to revenue expenditure like subsidies being met through debt....
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Notice issued on MHA notification on snooping computers – The Supreme Court issued notice in the petitions against the notification by the Ministry of Home Affairs’ order, which allows ten agencies to gather information stored on any computer. The Chief Justice though asked why no petition had been filed...
Maharashtra Govt Still Reluctant To Allow Dance Bars
By Amritananda Chakravorty The issue of the operation of dance bars in Maharashtra has been in the news again, wherein the Supreme Court struck down some of the conditions of license to run dance bars as arbitrary and violative of the fundamental freedom of trade guaranteed under Articles...
Strike Against Handing Over Defence Production To Ambanis And Adanis
By B. Sivaraman The labour arena in India has suddenly become a happening place. After a successful telecom strike by 2 lakh BSNL workers on 3 December 2018 and two successive bank strikes on 21 and 26 December 2018 involving a million bank employees, 4 lakh defence sector...
Bot, Troll And Moron On The Fence
By Sushil Kutty India’s electoral democracy is a spectacle. A political circus. What goes on under the big-top is quite literally a display worth the presentation: A visually striking performance, decibel-rich. Parade. Pageant, Extravaganza! Amidst all this, a five-year-long display of barely concealed hate spewed on Social Media....
Bengali refugees to be granted Indian citizenship: Amit Shah
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah said all the refugees in West Bengali will be considered a part of official Indian population and to be given citizenship with the passage of Citizenship Bill. The chief was addressing to the people in Malda on Tuesday and added upcoming Lok...
Electing Victor Modi (EVM) From The Cave
By Aditya Aamir The way it is made, EVM is electing victors machine, not electronic voting machine: Sit in a cave and hack into the EVM and deliver votes to elect the government of the cave-hack’s choice. The guy obviously is hacking for a party, definitely the party...
Pro-Wall Street Democrats Want Sanders Out
By C.J. Atkins Bernie Sanders has a sexism problem. Bernie Sanders doesn’t get black voters. Bernie Sanders is becoming unlikable. Bernie Sanders is too old. Bernie Sanders is too white. The television talk circuit, newspaper op-ed pages, and Twitter are all filled these days with analysts eagerly...
Opposition Front Has Many Hurdles To Cross Before Poll
By Kalyani Shankar Can the Opposition unite and pose a challenge to the BJP in the coming months? There are so many ifs and buts. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had organised a mammoth rally in Kolkata’s Brigade grounds on Saturday. A who’s who of the opposition...
The Optimization of Electronics and Technology Application with Collaborative Robots
As the robotic automation continues to grow more modern robots such as the game changing collaborative robots from Universal Robots are entering the realm that was meant for humans. A ‘cobot’ is a robot, which works in harmony with a human worker hence the name collaborative. The cobot and...
Government planning to transfer cash to farmers: Source
Though it is not yet final and ready for public announcement, but an insider reveals the Narendra Modi-led government is planning to transfer cash to farmers instead of subsidies. The fund will club all farm subsidies including fertilizer costs. Following losing three key state elections lately the Bharatiya Janata...
Impeachment Calls For Trump Are Getting Louder
By John Wojcik Demands that President Donald Trump be impeached grew after revelations Thursday that he ordered his lawyer, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress. The deceptions Trump allegedly ordered were designed to hide talks Trump and his family held with people in Moscow regarding the building of...
May’s Inspirational Leadership Facing Perpetual Crisis
By Arun Srivastava It is too premature to predict that Theresa May’s career is over. Nothing is impossible in the game of politics. The latest development has not come as surprise. Things followed the dotted line. May’s friends had warned of the disastrous effect on her moves, but...
Opposition Parties Have To Focus On Big Picture
By Amulya Ganguli Even if the rally of the national opposition leaders in Kolkata last Saturday was a fairly impressive affair, it was nowhere near what the people of the city had seen earlier, notably during the Left Front’s heyday. Perhaps the opportunity provided by television to...
Shrinking Jobs Are Bad News For Education Loan
By Nantoo Banerjee The shrinking job market is becoming an increasing concern for the country’s millions of students studying at home and abroad with education loans. Also concerned are those unemployed youth who had finished education with the support of bank loans that they are unable to return....
Mamata’s Kolkata Rally Has Set The Right Tone For Opposition Unity
By Nitya Chakraborty The massive rally organized in Kolkata’s Brigade Parade Ground on Saturday by the West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee to demonstrate the unity of the opposition parties for unseating Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government in the coming Lok Sabha poll,...
Who Is MGB’s PM Face Will Decide GE-2019
By Sushil Kutty The ‘mahagathbandhan’ is in place. There is also the ‘gathbandhan’. And don’t forget the ‘federal front’. The first and third overlap, they say. The question then is ‘What now?’ Mamata Banerjee and Mayawati, if one is ambition, the other is Mayavi. The day Brigade Ground...
Confessions of a nervous sterling bull in Dubai!
Confessions of a nervous sterling bull in Dubai! Matein Khalid The epic political dramas of last week (Aunty Theresa’s Brexit plan was rejected by the House of Commons but she managed to survive a no-confidence vote by a narrow margin) strengthened the British pound, exactly as I had expected....
