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.Pakistan’s Veteran Communist Leader Jam Saqi Is No More
By Sankar Ray Jam Saqi, former general secretary of the Communist Party of Pakistan passed away on March 5. Suffering from multiple ailments, he died of renal failure. He was 73. Saqi led the CPP delegation at the 12th Congress (Calcutta, 1989) of the Communist Party of...
Ensuring Dignity In Life And Death Selectively
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court has upheld the right to die in dignity, saying such right must be considered inherent in one’s right to life. It naturally follows that if a person has the right to die in dignity, it also implies the right to live with...
Dismantling Of Statues Is Cultural Anarchy
By Harihar Swarup Two important events happened last week; a rash of statue vandalism has broken all over the country after Lenin statues were toppled in Tripura following the Left Front’s defeat. Secondly two arch rivals—Mulayam Singh’s Samajwadi party and Mayawati’s BSP decided to join hands in by polls...
Tripura Setback Has Led To Churning In CPI(M) Central Leadership
By Nitya Chakraborty The resounding success of the BJP in the assembly elections in Tripura by trouncing the CPI(M) which ruled the state for the last twenty five years, has led to an unprecedented churning in the top echelons of the CPI(M) leadership. The magnitude of the success...
JAPAN’S MESSAGE TO FINANCE MINISTER
JAPAN’S MESSAGE TO ARUN JAITLEY: REMOVE $3-BN RETROSPECTIVE DEMAND NEW DELHI: Japan has asked the Narendra Modi-led government to drop a $3-billion retrospective tax bill raised on Japanese companies operating in India, calling those “unreasonable” and “discriminatory”. It has said the demand could impact future Japanese investments in...
NO PASS-THROUGH STATUS FOR I F.
NO PASS-THROUGH STATUS FOR ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENT FUNDS New Delhi: The income tax department might turn down the demand of alternative investment funds (AIF) such as hedge funds, private equity funds and infrastructure funds to exempt them from tax and impose it at the hands of investors. Such an...
Why Pharmaceutical Marketing Code Must Be Mandatory
By Dr. Arun Mitra The transfer of Bhupendra Singh, Chairman National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), has evoked strong reaction from the medical fraternity as well as civil society groups working for affordable healthcare to all. This reaction has come in the wake of several positive steps taken by...
‘Takla’ Who Knows Dawood’s Bald Truths
By Aditya Aamir Farooq ‘Takla’. Hear the name and a picture flashes: Of barren landscape where nothing grows. Farooq’s mother could not have nicknamed him better: Pat to the pate, ‘Takla’ is Mumbaiya Hindi for bald. And Dawood aide Farooq ‘Takla’ fits the name to the last...
Despite Modi’s Tall Talk, India Still In “Most Corrupt” Group
By Gyan Pathak Corruption in India is still rampant. The so called steps taken in the name of ending corruption have failed. These steps brought only harassment for the common people, while the corrupt seem to escape easily. The Corruption Perception Indices for the last four years released...
Pre-Poll Line-Ups Emerge To Modi’s Chagrin
By S. Sethuraman The majoritarian BJP led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is now embroiled in the complicated power games playing out in the South, where it still remains a Party of the North, until it gains a beach-head, wielding power of some sort either by itself or...
Xi Moots Greater Bay Plan To Link Hk-Macau With Mainland
By Anand Vardhan HONG KONG: President XI Jingpin has called for “full opening up “of the Chinese economy towards the realisation of his vision of making China strong, including the ambition to take a global lead on technological and industrial change. Addressing delegates from the southern province...
KCR To Visit State Capitals For Third Front Talks
By Rahil Nora Chopra Telangana Chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao is set to visit Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai and Bengaluru as part of his effort to forge a third front against BJP and Congress to strive for .qualitative changes in Indian politics. He is also meeting retired...
Fifty Years After The Tet Offensive
By C.J. Atkins On the bustling streets of Ho Chi Minh City, for at least a moment, it’s possible to forget that this was once the center of a war zone. Just over fifty years ago, on January 30, 1968, the grounds of the American embassy in Saigon...
Naidu Has No Option But To Fight For Special Status
By Sushil Kutty Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu braved the freezing Davos cold in a safari suit and then returned home with a special chill reserved for the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who he met 29 times in four years but could not convince to...
Trump’s Tariff Hikes Unlikely To Trigger Trade War
By Subrata Majumder Fears of a trade war loomed large after Trump administration decided to impose high tariffs on steel, aluminum, solar panels and washing machines. The immediate impact was reflected in BSE Sensex, which dipped sharply by over 1,000 points within two days of working in...
BJP Gets A Black Eye In Statue War
By Aditya Aamir Statues are sitting ducks. Lenin, Periyar, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee… Toppled, battered, blackened, statues can do nothing. Statues everywhere are game for pigeon, crow, and vandal. And if a BJP office in Coimbatore gets petrol-bombed, that is not enough retaliation for the statue in the...
Big Boss Kamal And Dark Horse Rajini
By Aditya Aamir Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth. Comparisons must be in order. Especially after Monday’s Rajini-address. The two are so dissimilar it needs no description. At the same time the two are so dissimilar it begs explanation! The paradox must have struck people after Monday’s Rajini-speak. Haasan himself must have wondered....
Govt Stand On Primary Health Care Still Unclear
By G. Srinivasan After the Union Budget 2018-19 unveiled the twin initiatives on the country’s proverbially rickety health segment—reinforcing the wobbly primary health center (PHC) edifice through a network of 1.5 lakh health and wellness centers and extending an annual hospitalisation cover of five lakh of rupees for...
