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.North East Heading Towards Bitter Political Battle
By Gyan Pathak Following the main election manifesto 2014, the BJP had come out with a supplementary promise about the North East, which said that the party “will take initiatives for the permanent solution of the long pending issues of the Bodos and other tribals of Assam, the...
ILO’S India Wage Report: Some Hits, Many Misses
By B. Sivaraman How do you rate a report released in August 2018 by an authoritative UN agency like ILO exclusively on the wage scenario in India that makes no scrutiny of the Code of Wages, 2017 that was tabled in parliament in August 2017 itself and...
Mamata Creates A Silicon Valley For Bengalis
By Rahil Nora Chopra Mamata Banerjee wants Bengal to have technology hubs on the pattern of Bengaluru and Hyderabad. She has just inaugurated the Silicon Valley in Rajrahat area near Kolkata in which Infosys and Reliance Jio have already announced huge investments. The technology hub is expected to...
Beef Over $100 Million From The Empty Quarter
By Sushil Kutty ‘Strings attached’ is what Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government wanted to avoid while making it a policy in 2004 not to accept foreign government aid at times of disasters. Several small and big disasters have hit India since then and Kerala floods 2018 is a...
Imran Gets Sidhu To Bat For Pakistan
By Aditya Aamir Congress is like ‘Get off my lawn’ since May 2014. Congress without power is like jail without parole. Jailbreak, the only option. Overpower the jail superintendent. That is Mani Shankar Aiyar and Salman Khurshid in 2015. They crossed the border to lay out the plan...
Meaning Of Being Atal Behari Vajpayee
By Arun Srivastava While India grieves the demise of its beloved statesman-leader Atal Behari Vajpayee, political leaders, ruling elites and the corporate board rooms are weighing its implications for the electoral prospects of BJP and Modi in the 2019Lok Sabha polls. This is particularly in view of the...
Why ‘Make In India’ Suddenly Sounds Jarring To Modi Ears
By Subrata Majumder Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech surreptitiously missed the Make in India story, while he was exuberant about all other major schemes. Make in India was supposed to be his flagship scheme, as it was projected as the main driver of job creation in...
IMF Prescribes New Medicines To Improve Macro Economy
By G. Srinivasan The Modi government is heading to seek a renewal of mandate before long to implement its triple credo of perform, reform and transform for another five years beginning the summer of 2019, having subjected the economy to disruptive demonetization of high denomination currencies in 2016...
Delhi High Court To Hear Plea Against Aadhaar Over Data Leak
Following a petition filed by a law professor against Aadhaar the Delhi High Court has agreed to hear a plea and the next hearing is scheduled to be on November 19. Meanwhile, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), body behind the digital ID providing to more than a...
Why Indians Must Introspect Secular Twisters
Sushil Kutty Studies and reports supported with empirical and other data can be interpreted in whichever way ideologues want. Give the interpretations a meaning and slant that mirrors theirs. Data-driven IndiaSpend, in the opposite ideological camp to that of the party currently ruling at the Centre, has put...
Pullout From China’s Regional Partnership A Bad Move
By Subrata Majumder Amidst a media buzz about India withdrawing from the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), eyebrows are raised over the timing of the withdrawal and its impact on the country. It is an irony that while RCEP – the largest trade block comprising 16 nations –...
Supreme Court Verdict On Confession Of Accused Is Controversial
By Amritananda Chakravorty In a surprising judgment with wide ramifications, the Supreme Court, in a two judge bench decision, has overturned its longstanding jurisprudence on the issue of inadmissibility of confession of accused in the police custody. In a recent case of criminal appeal, the Supreme Court...
Rain-Battered Kerala Picking Up The Pieces
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The worst, hopefully, is over. Rain-ravaged Kerala is getting its breath back. Petrified people are picking up the pieces of their lives shattered by the deluge of death and destruction. With the raging waters receding and rain easing, the focus has shifted to...
Vajpayee Leaves Behind Challenge Of Good Governance
By S Sethuraman Whatever successes the Modi Government claims for its first four years, here and there, its major failures start with its brand of “Maximum Governance and Minimum Government”, which primarily did not ensure the “achhe din” promised in 2014. Nor, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi Government...
Simultaneous Polls May Not Be A Reality By 2019
By Kalyani Shankar With the BJP leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi advocating ardently ‘One Nation, One Poll,’ there are questions in the political circles whether it is possible or feasible before the next Lok Sabha polls, and if not, why are they talking about it. Senior BJP...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
NRC Co-ordinator to submit district wise data of exclusions – Continuing its supervision of the NRC process, the Supreme Court has directed the Assam State Co-ordinator for the NRC to submit a district wise data of the persons excluded from the list, in a sealed cover. While the Union...
When Floods Divide Jana Gana
By Aditya Aamir The ‘North India-South India’ binary has started bothering a big bunch of people. You cannot blame them. The Centre’s stingy response to the flood-fury in Kerala is partly responsible. Rs 100 crore and then Rs 500 crore. Misers rule India. Is it because the Bharatiya...
Bangladesh Weighing Impact Of Assam NRC
By Barun Das Gupta The publication of the National Register of Citizens in Assam has caused concern in Bangladesh for obvious reasons. Names of some 40 lakh people did not find place in the NRC and concerns were naturally raised about their future status as citizens. Although...
