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.Loan Waivers Can’t Solve Mp Farmers’ Woes
By Raju Kumar BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh government has started the process of receiving applications for farm loan waiver and Chief Minister Kamal Nath says that by the end of February the amount of loan waiver up to Rs. 2 lakh will be deposited in the accounts of eligible...
Rahul’s Promise Of ‘Surprises’ Excites Up Congress
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Snubbed by SP-BSP alliance leaders Akhilesh Yadav and Mayawati, Congress is preparing to contest all the 80 Lok Sabha seats with the cooperation of smaller parties. And this means that UP is set to witness a three-cornered contest involving three alliances. BJP won 73...
Bad Blood In Lunatic Asylum
By Sushil Kutty The Supreme Court will Friday hear a plea from Ayyappa celibacy-busters Kanaka Durga and Bindu Ammini for police protection. The two want protection in the aftermath of the image-shifting feat they conjured up in the Kerala chaos they are in part responsible for, along with the...
Making money in a potential CBS-Viacom merger deal!
By Matein Khalid Merger mania in Wall Street media shares was a profitable theme for me in 2018, particularly since I owned 21st Century Fox shares well before Walt Disney made its epic bid for the Murdoch clan’s flagship brand, the parent of President Trump’s beloved news channel. The...
Union Health Minister claims BJP to win 74 seats in Uttar Pradesh
Downplaying the alliance of BSP and SP in Uttar Pradesh state the Union Health Minister JP Nadda said Wednesday his Bharatiya Janata Party will win 74 seats out of eighty in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Nadda is the party’s election in-charge for UP and was addressing to senior...
Police Leadership Has Failed In India
By Sanjiv Krishan Sood It was disconcerting to see a Minister of Uttar Pradesh Government claim that the law and order situation in the State had improved after the Adityanath government took over. The statement, coming a couple of days after the brutal killing of a policeman in Gazipur...
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...
