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.Kejriwal’s Apology To Arun Jaitley Has Significance
By Amritananda Chakravorty After months of protracted litigation faced by Arvind Kejriwal, the Chief Minister of Delhi, and prominent leader of Aam Aadmi Party (‘AAP’), pertaining to several defamation suits filed by various political rivals, including Arun Jaitley, Nitin Gadkari and Kapil Sibal, amongst others, Mr. Kejriwal has...
Amit Shah Diatribe Is A Sign Of Nerves
By Amulya Ganguli BJP president Amit Shah’s intemperate outburst against the opposition parties – calling them dogs, cats, snakes, etc. – was a sign more of nervousness about his own party than of disdain for its opponents. The reason for the uneasiness about the BJP’s prospects is...
Smriti Irani Is In Choppy Internet Seas
By Sushil Kutty Information & Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani is the talk of Online Town. From the wire to the scroll, she’s commanding attention and grabbing eyeballs. The lady minister wants to regulate online content. Especially, because there is an impression building that the Modi Government is dangerously...
Mamata’s One To One Strategy For 2019 Poll Is Workable
By Nitya Chakraborty West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has made major moves in forming a front of anti-BJP parties during her stay in Delhi last month. She has floated the idea of fielding a single opposition candidate against the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls so...
Equality Has To Be The Basis Of Future Indo-Nepal Relations
By Barun Das Gupta Nepal Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli came to New Delhi on a three-day visit last week. The tone for the talks he had with the Indian side was set by Oli himself. Three days before he left for Delhi, Oli told the Nepali...
Panchayat Polls In Bengal: Opposition Tries To Put Up A Fight
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: So far as the outbreak of violence in West Bengal prior to the panchayat polls is concerned, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) is apparently unable to exercise a total control on proceedings. Given the TMC’s overwhelming dominance at all levels of political activity, the...
Rahul Usurps SP-BSP’s Bragging Rights
By Sushil Kutty Congress President Rahul Gandhi has taken ownership of the die cast by the Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party combine and challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to contest and win the Varanasi constituency against a united opposition candidate in the next elections. “He will lose,” Rahul declared...
Anti-Trafficking Bill Is The Worst Victim Of Lok Sabha Logjam
By Nantoo Banerjee It is a matter of great concern that the country’s apex legislature, Parliament of India, is finding it increasingly difficult to legislate, if one goes by the outcome of the second part of the less-than-five- week-long budget session, 2018-19, that ended within minutes of its...
Chouhan’s Vote Bank Politics Misfires
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Whatever steps Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister takes to win over voters prove counterproductive. He decided to raise the retirement age of government servants from 60 to 62 years. He expected that this decision will add the votes of state government employees and their families...
Initiative Against Pneumonia And Brain Fever
By Raju Kumar Madhya Pradesh is one of the states in the country where infant mortality, child mortality and malnutrition are very high. Reducing infant mortality and child mortality has been a challenge for the government. Still expected success has not been achieved, although IMR (Infant Mortality Rate)...
Banana Republic Scenes Outside And Inside Jodhpur Jail
By Aditya Aamir With politicians calling each other names and behaving like alley cats, power shifted to Jodhpur Central Jail where “Mr. Compassionate” Salman Khan, restless and privileged, was counting bars. Overnight in a midnight drama over 200 judicial officers were transferred and the new magistrate in Jodhpur...
A Superhero’s Antiques Against The Arms Of Law
By K Raveendran One day of the gods is supposed to run into thousands of years of that of human beings, according to the Hindu scriptures. Salman Khan is no god, although for his fans he is nearly so. On the basis of the number of days he...
Smriti Irani Is A Perpetual Anti-Media Minister
By Harihar Swarup Smriti Irani has been media unfriendly since she took over the charge of the sensitive Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Her order a couple of months back was to cancel forthwith the allotment of a small room occupied by the Press Association, oldest organization of...
LDF Govt Courts Yet Another Controversy
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Courting controversies and scoring self-goals seem to have become a habit with the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) government. The latest issue in which the LDF government has shot itself in the foot relates to the ordinance by the Kerala Government which...
Qaidi No 106 In Jodhpur Central’s Waiting Room
By Aditya Aamir Salman Khan will have to stay at least one more night in the waiting room of Jodhpur Central… Jail! Bail decision reserved for Saturday, Bollywood is probably cursing the magistrate and that’s for sure. Salman fans and the film fraternity spent a sleepless night while...
Brazilian Right Determined To Keep Lula Out Of Poll
By Ben Chako Brazil’s Supreme Court decision to send former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to jail is a nakedly political act. The most popular president in Brazil’s history is also the front-runner in polls for elections due in October. His Workers’ Party government oversaw massive poverty...
NMC bill: a harbinger for change or an incomplete agenda?
By G. Srinivasan The changes incorporated in the National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill 2017 after a Parliamentary Committee made its recommendations that were mostly endorsed by the Union Cabinet on March 28 has still left many a serving doctor community sore and sullen. In a country of continental...
Power Struggle Peaks Up In Tamil Nadu With Its Fragile Governance
By S. Sethuraman Tamil Nadu has been in a state of political ferment since the demise of its most formidable AIADMK Chief Minister, Ms. J. Jayalalithaa in December 2016. First two rival factions, each claiming Amma’s legacy, patched up for power and are tenuously holding office without an...
