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.Electricity To All Villages, But Issues Remain
By K R Sudhaman It is really sad that India had taken 70 years after Independence to provide electricity to all its villages. It is not that the previous governments had not done anything and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had come with a magic wand to accomplish...
Modi-Shah’s Lust For Power Brings Ignominy
By Arun Srivastava The night before B S Yeddyurappa was to take oath as the BJP chief minister of Karnataka, reopening the gate to southern India for his party, some senior RSS ideologues and leaders called the RSS chief and expressed their serious reservation on the means resorted...
Kairana Should Act As Opposition Model For Next Lok Sabha Poll
By Nitya Chakraborty After the formation of the JD(S)-Congress coalition government in Karnataka on May 23 defeating all the machinations of the BJP, the way has opened up for forming a solid platform of the non-BJP parties who do not want the saffrons to take over power again ...
Indian Economy On A Slippery Oil Slope
By G. Srinivasan The relentless spurt in global crude prices breaching 80 dollars per barrel in recent days and the concomitant inexorable increase in domestic petrol and diesel prices have once again highlighted how brittle is India’s energy security and how precious little the authorities had done to...
More Rhetoric Than Action In US-China Trade Negotiations
By Subrata Majumder After China clamoured for retaliation against USA’s tariff imposition, almost threatening of a global trade war, it decided to import substantially more from USA. The trade negotiations between the two countriesended last week, with China declaring its honest intent to increase US imports and the...
RAW, ISI and the Nipah Spooked
Sushil Kutty There will be no memorial for Lini Puthussery. The 31-year-old nurse succumbed to the Nipah virus knowing she would die and knowing that there was no time for her to mourn her impending death. But just enough time left to prevent others from catching death. She smothered...
Artificial Intelligence To Trigger Second Industrial Revolution
By Gyan Pathak We may be on the cusp of a “second industrial revolution”, says an IMF working paper released recently. It has been predicted on the basis of advances in artificial intelligence and robotics. The authors have concluded, “automation is good for growth and bad for equality”....
Chinese Designs On Arunachal Heighten India’s Worries
By Barun Das Gupta A Hong Kong-based English daily reported last week that the Chinese are digging for gold and other minerals at Lhunze, which is right on the border of Arunachal Pradesh that the Chinese call ‘South Tibet’. Nobody can object to the Chinese prospecting for minerals...
Redesigning Indo-Russian Strategic Friendship
By Arun Srivastava Both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin badly needed the informal summit. If India needed a positive move towards strengthening bilateral relations, Russia desired a clear assurance about firming up of cooperation, including in defence,as well as global issues of common concern....
Christians Dressed In Crusade Mail
By Sushil Kutty With Muslims fasting and generally comatose during the month of Ramzan, authorities in China have told mosques in China to raise the national flag to promote the spirit of patriotism. There are 20 million Muslims in China and they are, apart from the Uyghur, the...
Nipah The Virus On A Killing Spree In Kerala
By Aditya Aamir It is rare. It is deadly. It’s called the Nipah Virus! The fruit-bat borne virus has already killed 11 in Kerala’s Kozhikode and Malapuram districts after the first three deaths in a family were diagnosed as Nipah, the name that spells panic. One of the...
Maduro Re-Elected President Of Venezuela
By Emile Schepers Venezuela’s incumbent president, Nicolás Maduro, of the United Socialist Party, won a new six-year term, according to preliminary results announced Sunday night by the National Election Council (CNE). Most of the right-wing opposition to the leftist government had boycotted the election, but some oppositionists broke...
Indian Stability Innovations Get Global Recognition
By Nitya Chakraborty In the last decade, India has emerged as the world’s most dynamic lab for stability-enhancing innovations that support a more inclusive economy, according to The Atlas of Innovation for Economic Stability published today by international NGO FHI 360 with support from The Rockefeller Foundation. The...
Worry For NDA As Modi-Shah Duo No Longer Unassailable
By Amulya Ganguli What the Karnataka election has shown is that neither Narendra Modi’s oratory nor Amit Shah’s organizational micromanagement is enough at a time of an ebbing tide for the BJP. The exposure of the inadequacies of these two seemingly invulnerable weapons cannot but be of concern...
New Kerala Labour Policy To Make State Investor-Friendly
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The new labour policy, which has been approved by the Kerala Cabinet, has a lot to commend itself. The most significant feature of the new policy is the commendable attempt to make the state labour-friendly. A refreshing effort which is in glaring contrast...
Ominous Silence Of Advani On Karnataka Crisis
By Arun Srivastava BJP’s only “Hindu Hridaya Samrat” (emperor of Hindu hearts) Lal Krishna Advani whose Rath Yatra blazed a bloody trail across India and who took BJP from a two-MP party to forming the first NDA government, is to be blamed for the current constitutional and democratic...
Constitutional Crisis Post-Karnataka Election Results
By Amritananda Chakravorty The last week in the Indian politics has witnessed tectonic shifts, in terms of political alliances, increased questioning of the Governor’s independence, and the role of the Courts in ensuring that the legislative institutions do not lose their sanctity, and all happened in the backdrop...
BJP Seeks To Take India Towards A One-Party State
By S. Sethuraman Apparently, the Bharatiya Janata Party, in command and control of the Centre and most of the States. has been working on ideas of reaching out to the panchayats, rural and urban, as well, with a single electoral roll enabling simultaneous elections at all levels –...
