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.Why Ayushman Bharat Will Fail
By Dr. Arun Mitra A ‘senior citizen’ means any person being a citizen of India who has attained the age of sixty years or above. Population Census 2011 revealed that there are nearly 104 million elderly persons (aged 60 years or above) in India; the number of...
Staff Angry Over Impasse In Bank Wage Revision Talks
By B. Sivaraman Nearly five lakh employees were stunned early this year when the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) responded to their demand of 25 percent wage increase with a counter offer of a mere 2 percent. It took a two-day strike on 30 & 31 May 2018 to...
Imponderables Impede Imran’s Innovatives
By Sankar Ray There is no denying that Pakistan’s charismatic Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi will leave no nerve unstrained to carve a niche to prove that he is not just another premier while it will be naïve to speculate that he plans to get out of the...
Why GDP Growth Failed To Create More Jobs
By Subrata Majumder Dichotomy looms on the bounce back in GDP growth in 2018-19 and its impact on job creation. Critics are puzzled that while the upturn was on account of growth in manufacturing, it has not made any proportional impact in terms of job creation. During...
South Opening Up Slowly For Poll Games
By S. Sethuraman Telangana Chief Minister, Mr K Chandrasekara Rao, a showman to claim unparalleled but untested achievements for his young State, has broken the ice for impending battles for 2019 in the South, where the Modi-led BJP has planned a major foray to earn a pan Indian...
Day After, Victors Warn Against Vanquished
By Sushil Kutty On September, the Supreme Court read down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code and people with placards saying ‘Love is genderless’ took over the streets. Today, as sure as Tuesday follows Monday and Sunday precedes Monday, ‘what will happen?’ has become the tone...
Vasundhara Faces A Dilemma Over Yatra
By Rahil Nora Chopra Vasundhara Raje’s statewide yatra was greeted with black flags and stones when it reached Jodhpur. Upset by the reception from the people of Jodhpur, the chief minister broke the yatra citing the death of Atal Behari Vajpayee. But the next phase of the yatra...
‘We-Won’t-Learn’ Tribe Makes A Come Back In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The heart-warming unity shown by both the government and the opposition in getting the Kerala Assembly to pass a unanimous resolution promising unflinching support for rehabilitation on a war footing in the wake of the state’s devastating floods came as a breath of...
It Is Game-Changing Moment In American Politics Now
By Chauncey K. Robinson History continues to be made across the United States of America as an unprecedented number of women of color, particularly Black women, are running for and winning public office. Ayanna Pressley has added her story to this game-changing moment in time, with her victory...
Attacks, Counter Attacks Vitiate MP Politics
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: From the manner in which incidents of political nature are being reported from various areas of Madhya Pradesh there is every reason to apprehend that November Vidhan Sabha elections may not be entirely peaceful affair. Things are taking such a serious turn that...
Left May Collaborate With RJD In Bihar In Lok Sabha Poll
By Arun Srivastava Even a motley alliance of RJD and Congress is sufficient to wreck the electoral prospect of the JD(U) chief and chief executive of Bihar, Nitish Kumar, the person who barely a year back was perceived and projected as the political face of the anti-BJP...
Supreme Court Go-Ahead For Gay To Go Gaga
By Aditya Aamir By the time laws are placed, excised and strengthened to satisfy every minority group in the assembly line, it will be the end of humankind. The LGBTIQ community has been fortunate gaining acceptance in most parts of the world and now in India, too, with...
Brazilian Left Nominates Haddad As Presidential Candidate
By Emile Schepers On Saturday, September 1, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of Brazil voted six to one that former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the presidential candidate of the Workers’ Party (Partido do Trabalho) in the October elections this year, must be barred from running because...
Ok, Dalit Let It Continue To Be
By Aditya Aamir The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is only the messenger boy. The order to media to stop using ‘Dalit’ for people categorized as Scheduled Castes came from a high court. The British had coined ‘Scheduled Castes’ in 1935 to sum up a bunch of humankind...
Rising Petroleum Prices Test People’s Patience
By Anjan Roy The country’s patience is being tried by the rising price of petroleum and diesel. As the prices are scaling higher, the one question almost on every lip is: what is the government doing? Can’t the price be brought down? The rising prices are being encashed...
Unhealthy Signs In Health Sector Cry For Action
By G. Srinivasan If health is wealth, are we spending sufficiently to maintain the basic health needs of millions of our citizens in the world’s fifth biggest economy as our politicos make braggadocio with little qualms? In his Independence day speech delivered with fervent zest Prime Minister Narendra...
Akhilesh Suspects BJP Behind Shivpal’s New Party
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav is facing threat from uncle Shivpal Yadav, who is now working to cause a split in the crucial Yadav and Muslim votes ahead of the crucial 2019 general elections. Akhilesh Yadav, who has said he is willing...
Unusual Spurt In Fuel Prices Cause For Concern
By K R Sudhaman The unusual spurt in diesel and petrol prices as a result of deadly cocktail of surging global oil prices and falling rupee value signals danger to the economy, now on the path to recovery clocking 8 per cent GDP in the first quarter of...
