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.One Year Of GST Is A Saga Of Failure
By Anil Rajimwale It is more than a year since the inauguration of the GST on 1 July last year. Much has been made of this step to achieve ‘uniformity’ of tax in the country: ‘one country, one tax’ is touted as a great slogan by the BJP. There...
Modi Govt’s Policies Have Virtually Crippled BSNL
By Sukumar Damle It all started in 1990s with the advent of ‘Structural Adjustment’ agreed to by the then Congress government at the Centre. Sukhram, the then telecom minister, presented a Bill in Parliament, to turn the department of telecommunications into a corporate body. BJP, whose strength had gone...
TRAI Revamps Regulations To Control Pesky Calls, Spam Messages
TRAI has once again revamped its regulations on spam messages and pesky calls for the benefit of customers. It has asked the telcos to further ensure commercial communications are only made through registered senders. Releasing a statement Thursday the authority writes, “…a complete overhaul of the regulation had become...
Locking up immigrant children is now a billion-dollar industry in U.S.
By Martha Mendoza And Larry Fenn Detaining immigrant children has morphed into a surging industry in the United States that now reaps $1 billion annually—a tenfold increase over the past decade, an Associated Press analysis finds. Health and Human Services grants for shelters, foster care, and other child welfare...
In Sabarimala It’s Faith Versus Belief
By Aditya Aamir Even the most careless and dated ones among us know that the world and the word have been reduced to a bunch of hashtags. But it is like the Universe. Ever-expanding. From #TalkToAMuslim to #RightToPray. It goes on and on with gay abandon though ‘gay abandon’...
Resort To Mobocracy To Checkmate Tribal Resistance
By Arun Srivastava It is a strange coincidence that on a day Supreme Court ordered the Union and state governments to come up with a law against “the horrendous acts of mobocracy”, the Hindu vigilantes were busy thrashing Swami Agnivesh and making him immobile in Jharkhand’s Litipara. This was...
Nitish Still Keeping RJD Bridge Open
By Rahil Nora Chopra Although Amit Shah declared after the dinner diplomacy with Nitish Kumar in Patna last week that the two parties will fight the coming Lok Sabha election jointly and win all the 40 Lok Sabha seats, the JD(U) leaders are still not confident of getting 25...
Mayawati Preparing To Announce Prime Ministerial Ambitions
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BSP national president and former chief minister Mayawati is preparing to launch herself as a potential Opposition candidate for the prime ministerial post for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. BSP has given a clear indication that Mayawati will contest the Lok Sabha election from any...
Missing Link In Kerala Lynchings
By Sushil Kutty Thiruvananthapuram Congress MP Shashi Tharoor survived a lynching in his constituency the other day when vandals attacked his office. He was not present when BJP youth-wing cadre ransacked and threw black oil all over the place. Activist Swami Agnivesh was not as lucky. He was set...
China Flexes Its Muscle At WTO Review Meeting
By G. Srinivasan The seventh review of China’s trade policies and practices held under the umbrella of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva on July 11 to 13 highlighted the Middle Kingdom’s growing clout and heft in the global economy ever since it became a member of the...
Rahul Gandhi Mustn’t Make His Mother’s Mistakes
By Amulya Ganguli Indications are that the Congress may once again return to the days of economic populism and an anti-American foreign policy favoured by Sonia Gandhi when the party was in power. Such policies did not help the Congress. Instead, its various rights-based programmes along with the charges...
Jovial Comrade Who Devoted Entire Life To A Crusade
By Shameem Faizee While writing on the occasion of the 75th birth anniversary of Dr. Raj Bahadur Gour, famous Urdu satirist Mujtaba Hussain wondered how Dr. Gour had turned to be 75 and was much senior to him. He thought somebody must be joking as Dr. Gour himself never...
Prime Minister Modi’s London Visit, Bharat Ki Baat, Other Highlights
Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with people disguised to be the world on Wednesday at Westminister’s Central Hall in London, United Kingdom, in the ‘Bharat Ki Baat, Sabke Sath’ (India with discussion with the world). Modi is in a five-day three-nation tour and earlier during the day met British...
Pillar Inside Taj Mahal Complex Destroyed Due To Thunderstorm
Taj Mahal saw a certain pillar collapse Wednesday night due to thunderstorm. The wind speed was more than 100 kmph and the region received about 40 minutes of rainfall too. According to news report the 12-foot metal pillar at the Darwaza-e-Rauza gate, which is the royal gate and offers...
India-Nepal Agrees Building Rail Line Between Raxaul and Kathmandu: KP Oli
People-to-people contact and cargo movement will get a boost between India and Nepal as the two neighboring nations have agreed to build a strategic railway link between Raxaul, Indian state of Bihar, and Kathmandu, the Napalese capital city. Nepalese President KP Sharma Oli is on a three-day visit to...
Maldives-India Relation Deteriorates Further; Returns Gifted Helicopter
Maldives does not need Dhruv Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) that India had earlier gifted. A top government source from the island is learned by way of The Times of India that a Dornier maritime surveillance aircraft is being looked for. Male has returned one of the two such naval...
OnePlus 6 Launching On May 17: Official Teaser
Mark the date May 17 on your calendar if you have been waiting to buy OnePlus 6, the falgship smartphone from the stable of a Chinese company. The earlier speculated dates for the launching were May 16 and May 21, but lately an official teaser from OnePlus reveals the...
How to Choose the Right Wedding Photographer in Jaipur
Everyone looks towards their wedding day with nostalgia. They plan make it a bash and have every bit captured in photographs that naturally tell the story. Photographs once taken cannot be altered. For this reason, choosing a wedding photographer in Jaipur can be stressful. Should it be? Photographs afford...
