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.Junior Doctors Strike And Unprecedented Civil Society Upsurge In Bengal
By Satyaki Chakraborty The junior doctors’ movement in West Bengal partially ended on its 41st day on September 20 Friday. The striking doctors joined their duties on September 21 in emergency services only in the state government run medical colleges and hospitals still keeping the OPD work and surgical...
PMLA Review Has The Potential To Establish New Benchmarks In Judicial Oversight
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court of India is finds itself at the threshold of a unique opportunity to create history when a bench headed by chief justice D Y Chandrachud takes up next month a clutch of petitions seeking a review of the 2022 verdict concerning the Prevention...
BJP Facing Double Anti-Incumbency In Haryana Assembly Elections
By Sushil Kutty “No power on earth can bring back Article 370,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi roared in Jammu & Kashmir, apparently having regained some of his vitality after the “half defeat” on June 4. We hope to hear more of his return to form after he returns from...
Congress And NC Making Big Impact In Election Campaign In Jammu & Kashmir
By Harihar Swarup What makes the upcoming assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir different from previous ones is the altered constitutional framework. The reorganization post the scrapping of Article 370 brought Jammu and Kashmir under full purview of the constitution. Thus, the new government will have to operate without...
Trudeau Faces Opposition Challenge By Cutting Number Of New Immigrants
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Canadian Prime Minister Justine Trudeau is facing one of the toughest challenges in his nine years in power so far. Early this month, Jagmeet Singh’s New Democratic Party (NDP) withdrew support to Trudeau’s minority government. Now, Trudeau is likely going to face a no confidence...
Pager, Walkie-Talkie Blasts Signal New Technological Warfare In Middle East
By M A Hossain The recent explosion of thousands of pagers across Lebanon is an alarming development that bears the hallmarks of Israeli involvement, potentially signalling an imminent military escalation between Israel and Hezbollah. This tension has been mounting since Hezbollah’s recent engagement with Israeli forces, a direct response...
Keir Starmer Is Aligning With Far Right Italian PM Meloni On Immigration Issue
By Nathan Akehurst / Kristina Millona LONDON: When Keir Starmer scrapped the Tories’ disastrous Rwanda deportations deal within days of assuming office, there was a sigh of relief. Many welcomed what seemed to be a decisive shift away from the previous government’s strategy of using relentless cruelty toward people...
Dr. Md. Yunus May Mention Hasina’s Extradition At His Un Address On Sept 27
By Nitya Chakraborty The interim Government of Bangladesh headed by Dr. Muhammad Yunus is doing all the preparatory work for officially demanding the extradition from India of the ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as early as possible. Indications suggest that Dr. Yunus may mention of this demand at his...
Women, Farmers, And Unemployed May Affect Haryana Poll Outcome
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Almost all political parties in the fray in Haryana Vidhan Sabha Election scheduled for October 5 have focused on women, farmers, and unemployed, which is nothing but the revelation of their assessments that they may affect the poll outcome. Political parties have also played OBC...
Innocuous Battle Between TDP And YSRCP Over Ladoo Turns Bizarre
By Sushil Kutty Former YSRCP Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy left a ‘ladoo’ for TDP Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and now there’s ‘big bawal’ in Andhra Pradesh with epicentre at the temple town of Tirupati, where Lord Venkateswara has been cynosure for forever. The ‘ladoo’ is prasadam, offerings to...
Time To Fight Myths And Obscurantist Ideas About Treatment Through Medical Education
By Dr Arun Mitra Unaware of the reasons of various happenings around, the ancient man attributed celestial causes to various natural events like rain, fire, earthquake etc. Thus they thought diseases to be a result of anger displayed by some super natural divine power. The remedy too was primitive...
Nitish’s Land Survey: Corruption Allegations From Tejashwi, Manjhi
By Rahil Nora Chopra Political temperature is in Bihar soaring high, as the Revenue and Land Reforms Department of the Nitish Kumar-led government conducts a land survey, covering 45,000 villages across the state. Former Deputy CM and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav is trying to draw political capital out of...
Elephant Culling In Zimbabwe Has Posed Many Ethical And Economic Questions
By Tirthankar Mitra Once dubbed a royal sport and then s decision of banning hunting in several countries seems to have rebounded if the decision of Zimbabwean government to cull it’s elephant population is anything to go by. It is in response to a severe draught highlighting the intersection...
Remembering Dramatist Sean O’Casey On The 60th Anniversary Of His Death
By Jenny Farrell NEW YORK: Sean O’Casey was the first English-speaking dramatist of international significance to emerge from the proletariat. His proletarian consciousness made his plays a significant part of Irish and international theatre history, securing their enduring relevance. O’Casey was not only a talented playwright but also a...
India Isolates Itself Completely From BRIC Partners On Israel Occupation Issue
By Nitya Chakraborty What is happening to Indian foreign policy during the third term of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi? Is India a vassal state to the United States in 2024 disconnecting all its political links with the country’s BRICS partners? On September 18, a day after our PM’s...
US Federal Reserves’ Jumbo Cut Is Having Global Impact On Stock Markets
By Anjan Roy September 19 is a big day for financial markets worldwide. The US Federal Reserve has at long last acted how the markets expected it to act. It cut interest rates. This is having global impact and already the stock markets are adjusting, as we have seen...
Largescale Killings Through Pagers Across Lebanon Signal A Big Danger To Humanity
By Sushil Kutty Since Wednesday India’s rightwing YouTubers are having a blast (no pun intended) making reels on pagers exploding on the persons of Hezbollah cadre, killing scores of them and maiming more of them, generally seen as a terror group but cast as an army of self-righteous “freedom...
Remembering Suchitra Mitra, Thespian Of Rabindra Sangeet, On Her Birth Centenary
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Time and place cease to exist when one hears any Rabindra Sangeet of Suchitra Mitra, even as her birth centenary is being observed. For she was not only an exponent, but also an interpreter of Rabindra Sangeet, which was manifest in her enchanting voice. The...
