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.Ghosts And Vultures Wait In The Wings
By Sushil Kutty So far no ghosts! But that’s standard ghost-behaviour. The first “sightings” of ghosts in Charki-Dadri, where two aircraft fell after colliding midair, killing over 300, were reported nearly two-and-a-half months after the horrific mishap. The ‘House of Horror’ deaths are not even a week...
India May Not Impact Global Agriculture Market Until 2027
By Gyan Pathak While India’s policy may impact domestic production more than the global agricultural market, China’s policies, in particular regarding cereals, are likely to affect global markets in the next ten years through price movements, stock releases and import regulations. It will be mainly because India will...
LIC Set To Buy The IDBI Bank With IRDAI Approval
By Chidambaram N Modi the reformer on appearances is in practice a looter and usurper. The latest example is the hurried, illegal and forced buy out of ailing IDBI Bank by the Life Insurance Corporation of India. The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) had...
Nitish Kumar Lands Himself In A Precarious Situation
By Harihar Swarup Can Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar really go back to the Mahagathbandhan? And, can his return really make much of difference in 2019 Lok Sabha polls? In May this year, speculation began in political circles about his return to the Grand Alliance, giving the opposition...
BJP Is Desperate To Keep Opposition Parties Divided In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Scared by possible opposition alliance of Samajwadi Party, BSP and Congress and other smaller and regional parties, BJP leadership is adopting multi-dimensional strategy to retain 73 seats won by party in alliance with Apna Dal in Uttar Pradesh in 2014 Lok Sabha elections.. ...
Sops Fail To Prop Up Chouhan Govt Popularity
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is almost daily announcing new schemes and projects to win over support of the electorate. But to everybody’s surprise, reports reaching Bhopal indicate a sharp decline in the popularity of the ruling party. Besides that, factional feuds...
Isolated Talibans: Desperate And In Disarray
By Sankar Ray Killing of 30 security jawans in an ambush at two checkpoints in the western province of Badghis of Afghanistan within three days of bilateral ceasefire a short while back, preceded by the death of over 50 civilians and security forces through blasts in Nangarhar province...
Jharkhand Govt Out To Destroy Tribal Identity
By Arun Srivastava With Jharkhand chief minister Raghubar Das continuing to ignore the demand of the tribals not to grab their land and transfer the same to the corporate houses, they have decided to launch a sustained movement to force him to concede to their demand. On...
Swiss Bank Spills On Black Money Of Rich Indians
By Krishna Jha The spilling over of information, from a major chink in Swiss deposits about the huge illegitimate stash amounting Rs 7,000 crore, has proved to be beginning of a sharp decline in the support base for the ruling regime. The BJP led government had got...
BJP Hoping For A Nitish Act By Kumaraswamy
By Rahil Nora Chopra The BJP is convinced that the chemistry between Karnataka CM H.D. Kumaraswamy and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is proving to be good. The PM has already met him twice and has been rather affectionate towards Gowda Jr. With the Karnataka Congress camp, particularly Siddaramaiah,...
Kerala Blazes Another Trail
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala has, once again, lived up to its reputation for blazing new trails in various fields. The latest feather in its capacious cap is the Bill for amending certain provisions in the Kerala Shops and Commercial Establishments Act to usher in changes aimed at...
Trade War Opens New Chapter In India-China Ties
By Subrata Majumder Trade war is not a short term tussle. It will linger. Nobody knows when it reaches the end game. It is an indirect sanction against export based economies, given that US is the biggest buyer in the world. Amidst this turbulence, a new pattern of...
SC Cure For Kejriwal’s Chik-Chik
By Aditya Aamir A good end of story for Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. But the big story behind Delhi’s July 4 story is that Justice Chelameswar & Co. had no business alluding to ‘democracy in peril’ and there was no reason for top lawyers, sections of the media...
The Hound Of The Bhatiavilles
Sushil Kutty The Crime Branch (CB) of Delhi Police is waddling from one theory to another to get to the bottom of the death of the ‘11’. So far, the CB sleuths haven’t yet, but they’ll scrape bottom if they don’t do a ‘Hound of Baskervilles’ and close...
Opposition Needs A Two-Pronged Strategy To Defeat Modi In 2019 Poll
By Nitya Chakraborty With less than ten months left for the holding of the scheduled general elections to the Lok Sabha, the opposition parties led by the Congress have to frame its electoral strategy with insight and pragmatism so that there is a common candidate of the opposition...
AITUC Intensifies Struggle To End RSS-BJP Rule
By Amarjeet Kaur AITUC has decided to intensify its struggle against the anti-working class and anti-people policies of the Narendra Modi led RSS-controlled BJP government at the Centre. As part of the main programme the AITUC working committee has decided to carry out a 40-day nation-wide campaign with...
Whatsapp Mobocracy And Modicracy Whataboutery
By Aditya Aamir Finally, after messages on Whatsapp triggered one too many mob lynching, the government has bitten the bullet, asking the messaging app to prevent the circulation of false texts and provocative videos. Facebook–owned Whatsapp wouldn’t do anything on its own, that’s for sure, but Whatsapp’s biggest...
Narendra Modi’s Backhanded Compliments To Congress
By Amulya Ganguli It is odd that a party with an absolute majority in the Lok Sabha should be as much preoccupied with an adversary who was seen to be down in the dumps only four years ago as the BJP is with the Congress. Yet, on...
