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.Mayawati’s Rise No Good News For Both Congress And BJP
By Sagarneel Sinha Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati has managed to emerge as a probable opposition candidate pushing other regional leaders like West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu, NCP chief Sharad Pawar and Telangana chief minister Chandrasekhar Rao behind for the post...
Coping With India’s Automation Assault
By B. Sivaraman The final version of the World Development Report (WDR) 2019 of the World Bank released at the end of November 2018 landed like a bombshell. It was a powerful refutation of World Bank’s own 2016 WDR, which declared that the proportion of jobs threatened by...
Sedition Charge Meant To Divert Focus From Real Issues
By Shameem Faizee After having failed in setting agenda of choice by raising various emotional and sectarian issues, this week the Narendra Modi government is back on using old cases and filing new cases on the charges of sedition against those who had dared to speak against the...
NDA Govt Disrupting Self-Reliance In Defence Industry
By C Srikumar The defence industry is under serious threat. The right to pension of the government employees is also under attack. The present government with the sole intention of supporting the private corporate houses has decided to handover the strategic defence production and related activities like Research...
Amit Shah to hold five public meetings in West Bengal
Bharatiya Janata Party now has a different plan for West Bengal following ruling of Supreme Court against the party’s proposed Rath Yatra in the state citing possible law and order situation issue. It is learned BJP President Amit Shah to hold five public meetings starting January 20 in Malda...
SP, BSP Form Alliance To Overcome Weakness
By Rahil Nora Chopra There is no doubt that SP and BSP know the strength of unity, but what forced the issue of alliance for the Lok Sabha elections is a sense of weakness by both parties over erosion in their ranks. Mayawati could not have easily overcome the...
It’s BJP Which Is Holding Kerala To Ransom
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: He came. He saw. But he failed to conquer. That broadly sums up Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Kerala, despite the claims by state BJP leaders to the contrary. The ostensible purpose of the PM’s Mission Kerala was to inaugurate the Kollam bypass...
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...
