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.Red Star Flutters Radiantly In Kathmandu
By Sankar Ray The spectre of Pushpa Lal Shrestha seemed to have been stalking where Khagda Prasad Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka ‘Prachanda’, chairpersons of Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist) and Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Center) were jointly planting a party unification plant called...
When Indira Gandhi Could Have Eliminated Defections
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Defection is the cancer of Indian politics. It is the brutal murder of our system of parliamentary democracy. The first defection took place in 1967. Through defection elected governments of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh were overthrown. After the general elections Congress...
Challenges In Indian Economy This Fiscal
By K R Sudhaman The International Monetary Fund has forecast bullish GDP growth for India at 7.4 per cent in 2018 as against 6.7 per cent in the previous year. It forecast a better 7.8 per cent GDP growth for 2019, making India the fastest growing economy again...
Democracy is dead; long live democracy!
By K. Raveendran Tonnes of crocodile tears have been shed in the past one week over the murder of democracy; as though it has occurred for the first time. The truth is that democracy is being murdered in this country every day. No party has the moral right,...
U.S. Left brace up in a big way for mid-term elections in november
By Nitya Chakraborty The mid-term elections in the United States of America, scheduled for November this year, have assumed crucial importance as the Left wing of the Democratic Party led by Bernie Sanders, has launched a massive campaign in a planned manner to get the candidates with faith...
Adieu sweet yeddy, 112 times!
By Sushil Kutty Movement is an anxiety-buster. Husbands stalking corridors outside labour-rooms! The mobile rings and people are up on their feet, walking, talking! It’s therapeutic movement. So, the Congress-JD(S) alliance moved their MLAs from resort/hotel in Bengaluru to Taj and Hyatt in Hyderabad. But, no sooner did...
Taste Of Victory In Karnataka Emboldens Mayawati
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BSP national president Mayawati is now more confident about entering into alliances with other regional parties after the successful experiment in Karnataka with JD(S). She hopes that after winning one assembly seat out of 17 seats it contested in Karnataka in alliance with...
Opposition To Blamed For Its Own Woes
By Arun Srivastava According to the Sarkaria Commission, the largest single party can stake a claim to form the government only with the support of others, including “independents”. But in Karnataka as well as the other states of Goa, Manipur and Meghalaya, the BJP did not have the...
Health Is Always The Biggest Victim Of Conflicts
By Dr Arun Mitra It is perplexing to know that the main entrance gate of UN office in Geneva is called the Broken Chair Gate. Only when one sees with own eyes a large broken chair on the Palais des Nations in Geneva that one comes to...
Supreme Court Has Prevented Horse Trading By Preponing Floor Test
By Harihar Swarup Finally the Supreme Court has pronounced its verdict; the one-day Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa has to prove his majority in a floor test on May 19 at 4 PM. The pro-tem speaker will conduct the floor test. The apex court’s verdict has closed the...
Consolidation Of Anti-BJP Forces Is The Need Of The Hour
By S. Sudhakar Reddy The five-day 23rd Congress of Communist Party of India held at Kollam, Kerala, from April 25, 2018 will be by generations to come for the historic decision of the Congress to take all measures to unite and consolidate the growing consensus among political parties...
Trump Desperate To End Mueller’s Investigations
By John Wojcik Rudy Giuliani, the newest addition to President Trump’s legal defense team, has added his voice to the list of Republicans demanding that Special Counsel Robert Mueller wrap up his investigations of the president and those around him, claiming, as did Vice President Pence last week,...
Keeping India Awake For ‘Height Of Trivialisation’?
By Sushil Kutty The arguments finally grind to a halt at 4.56 am and the three-judge bench of Justices Sikri, SA Bobde and Ashok Bhushan rule at around 5.30 am that the governor’s actions can be “injuncted against” but that his orders cannot be restrained. “Are the governor’s...
Ramadan Peace Is All A Bloody Hoax
By Aditya Aamir The Government of India order on cessation of army operations in Kashmir during Ramadan is a farce. Ramadan was never an addendum to peace throughout Islamic history. And security forces in Kashmir have been dealing with year-round no breaks in terror for decades. In 2014...
Petro Product Prices At Historic High
By Anjan Roy Oil prices have started pinching as these touch the highs of some six years ago. With the Karnataka state elections out of the way, prices for petrol and diesel have today reached the highest level ever. Depending on the metropolis where you are buying,...
Karnataka Governor Vala Has Acted Like A RSS Pracharak
By Nitya Chakraborty By inviting the BJP leader B S Yeddyurappa to form the new Karnataka government despite his inability to prove majority support among the elected legislators, Governor Vajubhai Vala has acted like a RSS pracharak rather than a custodian of the Indian constitution. The most sordid...
Great Chilean Musician Max Berru Passes Away
By Barbara Russum Max Berrú Carrión was born in Cariamanga, Ecuador, June 5, 1942. He died May 1 at the age of 75 in Santiago de Chile of bone marrow cancer diagnosed last year. Despite not being born in Chile, Berrú became Chilean by choice and lived five...
Sugar Industry’s Bitter Cup Of Woes
By G. Srinivasan In the run-up to the Karnataka assembly polls, with the State being one of the few largest producers of sugarcane in the country, the Union Cabinet approved financial assistance of Rs 5.50 per quintal (100 kg) for cane crushed by sugar mills in the extant...
