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.World Health Organisation Is A Missing Goalpost
By Nilanjan Banik and Philip Stevens Come 21-26 May 2018, representatives from all over the world will gather at Geneva for the annual World Health Assembly meet. As one of the prominent members of the World Health Organization (WHO), India shares a pivotal role in setting the global...
The Whole Thing About The ‘Majority’
By Sushil Kutty Every word they speak is a lie, including the ‘and’ and ‘the’ in the sentence. That is the politician for you. Not to be trusted, or believed. But when the army chief says ‘azaadi’ is beyond the pale of the Kashmiri youth, that’s the end...
Oil Conundrum: India Insulated From Price Hike Impact
By Subrata Majumder India is an oil guzzling nation. It is the third biggest oil consuming country in the world. India is also an oil import dependent country. Over 85 percent of crude oil requirement is met by imports. Resultantly, any hike in global crude oil prices should...
Make National Health Programme A Public Agenda
By Dr Arun Mitra Since childhood we have been hearing ‘Health is wealth’. No wonder only a healthy person can work and contribute for her/his personal, family and society’s development. It is, therefore, important that our population has sound mind and fit body. For this we need clean...
India’s ‘Fastest Growing Economy’ Tag Is Deceptive
By Gyan Pathak Thanks to its strong economic fundamentals, India has finally earned the ‘the fastest growing economy’ of the world tag in spite of its being home to the largest number of illiterates and poor of the world, and the recent economic policy experiments and misadventures. It...
RJD Joining SP-BSP Alliance Big Threat To BJP
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The success of Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav’s efforts to consolidate Opposition unity by roping in Rashtriya Lok Dal of Ch. Ajit Singh to the SP-BSP combination has further added to the BJP fears of having to face a combined opposition in the...
Congress Reworking Caste Arithmetic In Uttar Pradesh
By Rahil Nora Chopra With the overhaul of Uttar Pradesh Congress in the works, PCC chief Raj Babbar has all but given up office and is said to be already busy with his other works. He is not at all keen to continue in the post. UP being a...
Karnataka Outcome Crucial For Both BJP And Congress
By Arun Srivastava Just a couple of days ahead of the Karnataka assembly polls the BJP and RSS leadership is keeping fingers crossed. Though publicly the leaders are exuding confidence of a clean sweep, getting around 110 seats, in private they seem to lack conviction. They agree...
Divisive Politics In Assam Creates New Rifts
By Barun Das Gupta BJP’s divisive politics in Assam is ripping open old wounds and creating new fissures – between Hindus and Muslims, between Assamese and Bengalis, between the Brahmaputra and the Barak Valleys. It all started during the Lok Sabha election campaign of 2014. The BJP’s...
Modi Officials Inflating Job Generation Figures
By Nitya Chakraborty The demonetization done by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 8, 2016, is still having its crippling impact on the informal sector of the Indian economy while the officials and economists close to the PM, are busy inflating the job generation figures in the...
Marxism Has To Be Scientifically Applied In India
By S. Sudhakar Reddy Karl Marx was an eminent philosopher, renowned economist, historian, journalist, political ideologue, revolutionary socialist, great intellectual and multilingual expert. His birthday bicentenary is being celebrated in a spectacular way all over the world from May 5, 2018 onwards throughout the year. Karl Marx obtained...
Mehbooba mufti is a darling, but whose?
By Sushil Kutty Year-round eat, drink and then for a month lay down fork and spoon. That is the month of Ramadan or Ramzan. Of course, ‘prayer’ and ‘fasting’ and the peace that comes with both are also Ramadan. But Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti wants...
BJP Worried About Negative Publicity Over Gram Swaraj Yojna
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Whatever Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath may claim during the election campaign in Karnataka, the Gram Swaraj Yojna for Dalit outreach in Uttar Pradesh has created a major embarrassment for BJP and the government. The programme was launched on Ambedkar Jayanti April 14 and...
Trump’s Actions Are Pushing For A Mideast War
By John Wojcik While President Donald Trump has pulled out of Iran nuke deal, a leader of the secular left in Iran says Trump is stepping up plans for an attack on that country which could trigger a devastating regional war with horrific implications for world peace. ...
Rahul Gandhi Takes A Bad Song To Make It Better
By Sushil Kutty The cat (Rahul Gandhi) is among the pigeons (BJP). The day after Rahul said he is ready to become “Prime Minister”, sitting PM Narendra Modi spoke of the “impudence of the immature”, of the “naamdar with the temerity to betray his own alliance”. Is the...
Jinnah Deserves Our Sympathy, Not Derision
By Amulya Ganguli Eighty years after Mohammed Ali Jinnah’s portrait was put up in Aligarh Muslim University, the BJP’s electoral compulsions in Karnataka have made the saffron apparatchiki call for its removal. The delayed reaction is typical of the Hindutva camp. Its devotion for Lord Ram, for...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Supreme Court refuses to stay the infamous SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act judgment– The Supreme Court refused to stay its March 20 judgment on diluting the stringency of the POA, on an application of recall of the judgment filed by the Union of India. The Attorney General argued that...
Petitions Seeking Live Streaming Of Court Proceedings Being Heard
By Amritananda Chakravorty The Supreme Court is currently hearing a bunch of petitions filed by lawyers and organisations seeking live streaming and recording of the proceedings of the Apex Court, thereby pushing for greater transparency in judicial proceedings as well as raising public awareness on important questions of...
