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.Assembly Polls A Dress Rehearsal For 2019
By Harihar Swarup Local issues have been dominating the poll rhetoric in the five poll-bound states, but the results will have major national implications for both the Congress and the BJP. Inability to win, at least, two major states by the Congress could seriously handicap its preparations...
RSS Men Dominate BJP Rebels In Madhya Pradesh
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Rebels are continuing to pose serious challenge to BJP as they have refused to withdraw nominations despite the efforts by the top national and state leaders of the party. According to estimates, more than 62 rebels are still in the field after the...
RCEP Paves The Way For China To Offset Trade Loss
By Subrata Majumder Never before has any trade block felt heat as RCEP warrants. Trade blocks are always created to reduce trade costs by removing tariff and reducing logistic costs. But in the case of RCEP the reverse seems to be true. High tariff imposed by Trump administration...
Chhattisgarh Election Results To Spring Surprises
By Gyan Pathak Chhattisgarh Vidhan Sabha election result is all set to spring up surprises, though most of the poll surveys have predicted that BJP will eventually emerge as the largest political party in the state but may not cross the half-way mark — 45 seats out of...
Trupti Becomes Terminal Desai In Kochi
By Aditya Aamir Rights activist Trupti Desai might as well be a hanger at the Kochi Nedumbaserry Airport. She’s been hanging there at the airport like a terminal patient in ‘recovery’ since Friday 4.45 am and cannot get out because the climate outside is not fair weather for...
State Repression Of Labour Activists On The Rise
By B. Sivaraman Under the BJP rule, labour issues are also increasingly becoming human rights issues. Is it conceivable that the Indian state in the 21st century could go back exactly a hundred years to usher an industrial relations scenario based on the principles of British Common Law...
Rafale Deal Had No Sovereign Guarantee From French Govt
By Nitya Chakraborty The cat is finally out of the bag. The French Government did not agree to give any sovereign guarantee to the Rafale deal and its offer of a Letter of Comfort(LoC) does not in any way help in meeting the obligations of the French...
Modi Govt Has No Option But To Cancel Rafale Deal
By Shameem Faizee Though much more will be revealed in the coming days about the dirty game that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the crony capitalist Anil Ambani have played in finalising the Rafale deal, whatever has come to light so far is enough to outright cancel...
Renaming Places, Reviving Ram Mandir Issue
By S. Sudhakar Reddy BJP governments in states and Centre is now busy in renaming cities, towns, railway stations etc. Gurgaon is renamed as Gurugram, supposed to be dedicated to Dronacharya, a cruel Acharya who insisted that Ekalavya must cut his thumb and offer as Guru Dakshina...
How To Ensure Your CMM Probe Is As Accurate As Possible
If your production line relies on a coordinate measuring machine (CMM) for quality control purposes, then you probably understand how important a regular stream of high-quality metrological data is for ensuring that the parts you are producing match blueprint specifications as closely as possible. Without a functional CMM, it...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Election of KM Shaji declared void – The Kerala High Court has declared the election of K M Shaji in 2016, candidate from the Indian Union Muslim League, as void on the grounds that he had indulged in corrupt practices during the assembly elections by using religion to appeal...
Sabarimala Review Is A Big Challenge To Supreme Court
By Amritananda Chakravorty The controversy around the entry to Sabarimala temple refuses to die down. Parallel proceedings are going on in the Supreme Court and in the Kerala High Court. On 13th November, 2018, the Supreme Court heard the slew of review petitions filed against its very own...
Mayawati Throws Spanner In Unity Works
By Rahil Nora Chopra Opposition parties are meeting on November 22 to discuss the anti-BJP alliance and Ashok Gehlot will meet with Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on behalf of Congress president Rahul Gandhi. But a major question that remains unsolved is whether Mayawati will go...
Democrats Have To Fight Harder Battles In 2020
By John Bachtell The outcome of the 2018 midterm elections was a big victory for the American people, Democrats, and allied movements, despite GOP gains in the U.S. Senate. Republican monopoly of government has been broken and the political terrain significantly reshaped for battles ahead, including the 2020...
BJP Rebels Harden Their Positions
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: For the first time BJP rebels are not only posing serious difficulty for the party leadership but giving vent to their feelings in such language that is alien to this party which has been claiming it was a party with a difference. ...
SC Order Deepens Kerala Government’s Dilemma
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Tuesday’s Supreme Court order on the Sabarimala issue has only deepened the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) government’s dilemma. True, the apex court has agreed to hear the raft of review petitions on January 22, 2019. But, significantly, the court has refused to...
Congress’cow Politics, Sabarimala Stand Will Upset Liberals
By Amulya Ganguli The Congress’s manifesto for the Madhya Pradesh elections would have made Jawaharlal Nehru squirm with embarrassment, especially the portion about the commercial utilisation of gaumutra (cow’s urine). Nothing defines the antediluvian, unenlightened mindset of the Hindutva brigade more graphically than its obsession with...
Chopper-lifting Trupti Desai To The Tiger’s Lair
Aditya Aamir That sense of déjà vu. Tuck it in the front pocket. What else? Ask, is there a streak of sadism in the Supreme Court? Can it explain “hearing of 49 review petitions in open court on January 22, 2019” while “make it clear there is no stay...
