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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.Sterlite Plant Episode Is A Clear Case Of Violation Of Laws
By Amritananda Chakravorty Last week witnessed the violent face of the State machinery that is often reserved for the disturbed or conflict-ridden areas like Chattisgarh, Assam, North-Eastern States or even Jammu and Kashmir. On 22nd May, 2018, thirteen protestors were gunned down in cold blood by the...
Anti-BJP Front Has To Avoid Janata Party’s Fate In 1979
By Amulya Ganguli It is rather unusual for the BJP president, Amit Shah, to concede that his party is not as favourably placed as he normally suggests because his is an uncompromising “win at all costs and take no prisoners” approach. It was somewhat uncharacteristic of the...
Unpredictable Trump Puts World Diplomacy In Disarray
By Nantoo Banerjee Capricious US trade and diplomatic policies seem to have dumped world diplomacy into disorder. Countries in Europe and Asia are getting increasingly confused and uncertain about staying ‘allied’ with the US. With President Donald Trump appearing as a highly unpredictable ‘ally’ even to traditionally close...
Jokihat by-election a referendum for Nitish
From Arun Srivastava PATNA: Nothing could be more humiliating for Nitish Kumar than to be compared with the amateur young Tejashvi, the emerging RJD leader on the political horizon of Bihar. Till two year ago he was taking the first lessons in politics from his “uncle” Nitish, but...
Mayawati’s tough posturing on alliance
From Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The euphoria following the grand unity show in Bengaluru, where BSP national president Mayawati was a star presence, has already been tempered by the compulsions of electoral politics. Mayawati had made it clear that she was willing to forge an anti-BJP alliance at the national...
The dog always wags the tail
Sushil Kutty Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy is a square block of a man. And HDK is head honcho of Karnataka because of ‘combination’ rather than ‘permutation’. By definition, ‘order’ matters in permutation. But ‘order’ doesn’t matter for combination. Rahul Gandhi’s party has double the seats of HDK’s Janata...
ESI Model A Better Alternative To Ayushman Bharat
By Dr Arun Mitra It is an irony that healthcare has always been given a back seat in the priority list of successive governments. It has not been a public agenda either. Elections have many a times been fought on trivial issues. Therefore, there is hardly a public...
Marxism Is More Relevant Now To Tackle World’s Ills
By John Bachtell Marxism is the world’s most influential body of thought and has changed the course of human history. It is more relevant than ever for addressing humanity’s urgent challenges despite the desperate efforts by the capitalist class to bury it. Among their many discoveries, Marx...
Intricacies Of Supreme Court Decision On Karnataka
By K. Raveendran With the ‘murder of democracy’ in the Karnataka Assembly having been averted, thanks to a midnight intervention of the Supreme Court, and a joint JDS-Congress government under H D Kumaraswamy duly installed in place of BJP, it may now be time to revisit the developments...
Who will win chengannur sweepstakes?
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Chengannur assembly by-election, campaign for which ended on May 26, is all set for a thrilling finish. The by-election, which was necessitated by the death of CPI(M) MLA K K Ramachandran Nair, saw a no-holds-barred and high-voltage campaign by the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic...
In Four Years, Modi Has Transformed Despair Into Hope
By Arun Jaitley The NDA Government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has completed four years in office. Today it enters its fifth year in office. The preceding ten years of the UPA rule had unquestionably witnessed the most corrupt Government since Independence. Prime Minister Narendra Modi created...
Karnataka Developments Have Made BJP Morally Weak
By Harihar Swarup The outcome of Karnataka elections is loud and clear. It’s emergence of a grand anti-BJP front before next year’s Lok Sabha’s elections which otherwise looked an impossible task. An error, a mighty miscalculation or call it political opportunism in inviting BJP leader B S Yeddurappa...
AIBEA Calls For 48-Hour Strike On May 30 And 31
By C H Venkatachalam Ten Lakh bank employees are to go on 48-hour continued strike on May 30 and 31, 2018, against the meagre offer of wage hike for the bank employees. Bank employees and officers’ wage revision is due since November 11, 2017. Finance Ministry had...
Neither Khaki-Knicker Nor Coloured Boxers Fit
By Aditya Aamir Sports minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore’s #HumFitTohIndiaFit challenge to cricketer Virat Kohli has landed Prime Minister Narendra Modi looking remarkably unfit! Rathore tagged Kohli to the challenge and Anushka Sharma’s husband promptly tagged PM Modi to #HumFitTohIndiaFit. Within the hour, Modi was target of a 101...
Modi’s Four Years Not A Bad Bargain For Economy
By Anjan Roy It is four years since the Modi government had come to power and already the next general election is on the horizon. People will have to judge in whom to put their confidence in the forthcoming election. Stock taking is in order. The Modi...
German Industry Divided On Links With Iran
By Victor Grossman In these weeks Germany, like the world, is on a tight rope where the walker seems to be teetering above Niagara Falls or, worse yet, the fiery crater of the Kilauea volcano. A Trump-Netanyahu drama is being staged; each is playing his part on cue....
Cop And Copper Are The Villains Of Thoothukudi
By Sushil Kutty Who are the bad guys in Thoothukudi? There must be an underworld of sorts in the port city, which was called Tuticorin by the Brits when they ruled India. Today, Thoothukudi is a favourite location for Tamil cinema. In many of them, scenes ofaruva-waving villains...
When Economics Morphs Into Politics And Diplomacy
By Anjan Roy Prime minister Narendra Modi has travelled to the Russian resort of Sochi to meet Russian President Putin. He is not alone. A galaxy of world leaders is heading towards Russia and its annual economic platform at St Petersburg. Sochi and St Petersburg have...
