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.Chandrababu And Pawan Are Starting A New Kind Of Rath Yatra Over Laddus
By Sushil Kutty The Tirupati laddus are in the maw of a hybrid team of investigators appointed on the orders of the Supreme Court. The team includes two CBI officers. Will that speed up delivery of justice for Lord Venkateswara of Tirupati-Tirumala? Any unresolved case handed to the CBI...
States Want Focussed Approach For Creating Quality Jobs
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With the culmination of Centre’s six regional meetings on October 4, 2024 on employment generation and labour reforms with states and Union Territories of India, it has clearly emerged that the states want focused approach for creating quality jobs in the country as well as...
Bihar Sees Angry Protests Over Smart Meter Pitch, Poor Flood Relief
By Rahil Nora Chopra The political temperature is soaring in Bihar as the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government has set a deadline of 2025 for the ongoing installation of pre-paid smart electricity meters across the state, which, in turn, has led to a massive row, causing protests from the Opposition...
Kolkata Is Set To Bid Goodbye To Tram Services As A Part Of Transport
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA; Remember a close shot of a tram’s trolley pole snug against the overhead line sparking at every joint in the film ‘Mahanagar’. It was the opening shot of the 1963 film directed by Satyajit Ray in which the tram track identifies this metropolis. West Bengal...
World Economy Has Slowed Down, Inequality Is Widening In Capitalist Countries
By Prabhat Patnaik The fact that the world economy has slowed down since the financial crisis of 2008 is beyond dispute. In fact even conservative American economists have started using the term “secular stagnation” to describe the current situation (though they have their own peculiar definition for it). The...
Huge Concentration Of Digital Content Ownership Diminishes Its Democratic Potential
By Sanjay Roy The value of creative labour has always been very context specific and dependent on subjective appreciation of the buyer of the products of such labour. The importance of aesthetic value of products has increased particularly with increased possibility of customisation of products. This has also increased...
SEBI Meeting: A Missed Opportunity Amid Vice-Like Grip Of A Chief Without Credibility
By K Raveendran The outcome of the much-anticipated SEBI board meeting on Monday showed beyond doubt that the board has become a captive in the hands of chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch, who is facing serious allegations of misconduct. The toxic work culture and unprofessionalism that the SEBI employees have...
Israel Is Pushing West Asia Into A Destructive Regional War
By P. Sudhir This October 7 marks a year since Israeli aggression on Gaza. Israel used Hamas attack as an excuse to carry out its genocidal war on Gaza, Palestine. It declared the elimination of Hamas as its objective in attacking Gaza. Far from achieving its objective, Israel has...
Adivasi Vs Anti-Adivasi Will Be Chief Component In Jharkhand Electoral Battle
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Jharkhand is once again heading for an Adivasi and anti-Adivasi electoral battle, just within a couple of months since Lok Sabha election 2024 result was out on June 4, in which BJP had lost all the five seats reserved for Scheduled Tribes (STs). There are...
SP MLA Mehboob Ali Sends Some Warning Signals To Yogi Adityanath
By Sushil Kutty Amroha’s Samajwadi Party MLA Mehboob Ali jumped the gun. Ahead of Gandhi Jayanti, Ali said “population of Muslims is increasing” and predicted that “your rule” will come to an end. It sounded like “Hindu rule” but the vigilant print media of India read Ali’s lips correctly....
Continuing Ethnic Clashes In Manipur Show The Collapse Of Governance
By Krishna Jha Tragic situation in Manipur has been continuing without any respite. To resolve the crisis the efforts made are almost half hearted. The peace stands fragmented. Responsibility to restrain the violence has been left with the forces of violence itself. Security forces are expected to restore peace....
Deadlock Over Refugees Continues Between Centre And Mizoram Govt
By Ashis Biswas With more tribal migrants from Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh fleeing to India in the wake of political turmoil, the cost of maintaining nearly 40,000 refugees is rising for both Indian government and Mizoram state authorities. During the last few weeks, many more tribals from...
Removal Of 35-A Enables Many Groups To Vote In J&K Assembly Elections
By Sant Kumar Sharma JAMMU: There were celebrations at Labba Ram Gandhi’s house in Samba district as dozens of his supporters raised slogans in favour of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday. For them, voting in assembly elections for the first time in decades was a novel experience. Gandhi...
Narendra Modi Did Not Ask Netanyahu To Stop Strikes Against Lebanon
By Dr Arun Mitra Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is without any outcome, commitment or even hope of ending war in the Middle East. In his quote on X Modi has said that he told to the Israeli Prime Minister “Terrorism has no...
Pakistan’s Ailing Economy Gets Some Relief After Getting US$7 Billion IMF Facility
By Tirthankar Mitra It is no secret that Pakistan economy is in doldrums and International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved $ 7 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) for the beleaguered country following a staff level meeting with Islamabad. A United Nations report stated that Pakistan’s economy is to face...
Leftist Claudia Sheinbaum Takes Oath As President Of Mexico On October 1
By Kurt Hackbarth MEXICO CITY: Following her landslide victory in Mexico’s June 2 presidential election, Claudia Sheinbaum was officially inaugurated as president on Tuesday October 1. The first woman president in Mexican history, Sheinbaum will be the second president in a row from MORENA, the party founded by her...
Dr. Muhammad Yunus Emerged A Winner In Perception Battle Against India In New York
By Nitya Chakraborty In the first battle between the interim Government of Bangladesh and India in the international forum — that is the United Nations, Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Dr. Muhammad Yunus had a clear victory over Prime Minister Narendra Modi without having any one on one meeting...
PM Narendra Modi’s Political Worth Is Once Again At Stake
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Lok Sabha Election 2024 results have shown a drastically declined political worth of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, that has quantified it with a BJP’s win of only 240 seats, much less than 303 it had won in 2019. Public opinions differ on the question if...
