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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.Kerala Scientist’s Saga Of Tenacity And Determination
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It’s a stirring tale of conviction, commitment and confidence: a super star scientist’s 24-year battle to redeem a reputation tarnished by false allegations; a fair name besmirched by a frightening concatenation of circumstances. The legal victory connotes a glorious testament to a man’s courage of...
Jaitley Has Much Explaining To Do
By K Raveendran Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has curtly ruled out any cut in the high excise duty on fuel prices, saying the petrol and diesel price hikes are caused by volatile international prices an, therefore, due to external factors. To add insult to injury, he has criticised the...
Migrant Labour Issues Pose New Challenges To Labour Policy
By B. Sivaraman The flurry of news on migrant workers’ issues in August-September has implications for policy. First came the strike threat by 7–8 lakh migrant sugarcane workers in Maharashtra, who were demanding doubling of the wages from the present Rs.200 per tonne. Powerloom workers in Surat, including five...
Decoding Amit Shah’s 50-Year-BJP-Rule Quip
By Harihar Swarup The BJP President, Amit Shah, has claimed that the saffron party will not only increase his party’s tally in 2019 general elections — get more seats than it obtained in 2014 polls — and, thereafter, it will rule India for 50 years. The assertion was made...
Apple Cuts iPhone Prices | World News Portal,Technology News
Apple has just slashed down the prices of its most of the old iPhone versions globally. In India the iPhone 6s 32GB variant is retagged as Rs. 29,900. The iPhone 6s Plus starts at Rs. 34,900. The flagship phone of 2017, the iPhone X, now is priced tagged Rs....
Corruption A Major Election Issue For 2019
By Sushil Kutty It is confusing, this democracy so confusing. Take Vijay Mallya, he’s a fugitive. The case against him in the United Kingdom magistrate’s court is for extradition. But questions are asked on “settlement” and his response is always “I want to settle” but on his...
Brazil’s National Election Campaign Turns Bizarre
By Emile Schepers With less than three weeks to go until the October 7 national elections, the political situation in Brazil remains extremely unsettled. The jailing of the most popular candidate of the left Lula de Silva has been followed by the serious wounding of the most popular candidate...
Mass Anger Against Modi Regime Is Sweeping The Country
By Binoy Viswam The People of India have registered their anger over the most regressive policies of the RSS- BJP government in unequivocal terms. On September 10, the country witnessed it in the form of massive resistance organised by the left and other political parties including the Congress. Though...
Cost Of Replacing Clinical With Diagnostic Medicine
By Dr. Arun Mitra Medicine is not a profession but a passion. Patient-doctor relationship is one of mutual trust based on doctors’ devotion to the patient as a human being in totality. Doctor in the past was fully connected to the family of the patient and had continuous information...
New Regulatory Framework Coming for Skype, WhatsApp, Viber: TRAI
Regulatory framework for the over-the-top communication platforms will be reduced. Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is soon to announce it for companies like Skype, Viber and WhatsApp as they drive data consumption on networks. TRAI official said to a daily publication, “We have reduced the scope of that...
Who prevented Sbi from moving Court against Mallya on Feb 29, 2016?
By Nitya Chakraborty The controversy over the circumstances under which the bankrupt Kingfisher Airlines owner left for London on March 2, 2016, has now thickened following the fugitive telling newsmen in UK after the latest court hearing that he met the finance minister Arun Jaitley on March 1 and...
Rajasthan IAS, IPS Men Driven By Political Ambitions
By Rahil Nora Chopra There is a new trend of retired IAS and IPS officials of Rajasthan taking to politics and making a successful career of it. With an eye on the post-retirement prospects, many senior officials are said to be trying to get into the good...
Another Morality Test Awaits Supreme Court
By Aditya Aamir The apex court has held that morality under the Constitution is not public morality or the morality of the multitude. Constitutional morality aims for a pluralistic and inclusive society; that even a minuscule part of society may aspire and prefer different things. In the context...
Ten Years Since Collapse Of Lehman Brothers
By Anjan Roy This month ten years ago was one of the defining moments of modern day capitalism – In September 2008 the storied investment bank of United States Lehman Brothers went under. The liquidation of Lehman Brothers, virtually the icon of modern day American capitalism, rang the...
With Nun And Bishop Joke Is On The State
By Sushil Kutty Those who have read or heard of the ‘Nun and the Bus Driver’ joke will know it is impossible to get a nun to “lie down in bed” with anyone unless it’s with God ‘himself’. Now, we know those who claim proximity to god, like...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Petition seeking ban on Malayalam novel ‘Meesha’ dismissed – The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition seeking a ban on the Malayalam novel ‘Meesha’, which was being published in a magazine Mathrubhumi in a serialised fashion and was discontinued after the petition. The main challenge was regarding a passage...
Niti Aayog Vice Chairman’s Diatribe Against Ex-RBI Governor
By G. Srinivasan Niti Aayog vice chairman Rajiv Kumar caused a flutter early this month when he remarked that the former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan’s efforts to clean up the mess in the country’s banking system to prune the gargantuan non-performing assets (read loans) or what is ubiquitously...
RCEP May End Up As Chinese Trade Trap For India
By Subrata Majumder Concerns loom large on China’s backdoor entry through the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which is feared to be propitious of a Chinese trade trap after Trump entered into a shocking trade war against China. Currently, India is susceptible to Chinese dumping of goods, which...
