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.India’s Export Woes Continue Unabated
By K R Sudhaman Widening trade deficit to a 65-month high at $16.3 billion in January this year has raised eyebrows, that too at a time when India’s exports have started looking up somewhat in recent quarters after a poor showing last couple of years. This is because...
Electorally Defeated Left Needs Image Makeover
By Amulya Ganguli Behind the defeat of the Left in Tripura lies the failure of the communists to realize that capitalism is no longer regarded by the ordinary people as an ogre as envisaged by Marx when he said that “capital comes into the world soiled with mire...
Khattar In ‘Sewa’ Of Cows, Neglects Human Rights
By Aditya Aamir Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar is a man the cows love and human beings love to dislike. In Khattar’s world, cows have more rights than human beings. And that is a fact he displays with word and deed. All 16 posts in the...
CPI-M’s Failure Is Bjp’s Success In Tripura
By Barun Das Gupta The fall of the CPI-M citadel of Tripura is the most remarkable outcome of the results of the three states that went to assembly polls last month. Everyone including the CPI-M knew that the electoral battle in Tripura this time will be fiercely fought,...
Banking Crisis Fails Financial Inclusion Programmes
By Gyan Pathak Prime Minister Narendra Modi is right in his insistence on implementing universal financial inclusion programmes in the country to improve the living conditions of our people, but has proved himself ignorant of the brewing crisis in India’s financial sector, particularly the banking sector. He should...
Effectiveness Of Economic Offenders Bill In Doubt
By Amritananda Chakravorty The fall out of the gigantic fraud allegedly masterminded by Nirav Modi and his uncle, Mehul Choksi, is still to be fully comprehended. One major fall out as been that the Union Cabinet cleared the Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill on March 1, 2018. Though the...
CPI Will Continue To Play The Vigilant Watchdog
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: No straying from the Left Democratic Front’s election manifesto; criticism against any wrong-doing and policy deviations would be unsparing and any attempt to weaken the anti-corruption campaign would be opposed tooth and nail. This is the clear and unambiguous message emanating from the CPI’s...
North East Setback Is A Big Blow To Congress Party’s Morale
By Kalyani Shankar Is the Congress sliding further after its poor performance in the northeast though as a saving grace, it emerged as the single largest party in Meghalaya? The BJP and its allies are in the process of forming the government in all the three states –...
BJP’s Kerala Hawa-Hawai Gives The Blushes To Mr India
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah, the two so-called non-dynasts, want to saffron India from crook to cranny. And the one cranny left is the sliver of God’s Own Country called Kerala, on Modi’s tongue ‘Keral’. In the flush of the Tripura...
Tripura Verdict: Kerala CPI(M) Under Greater Pressure
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The stunning defeat of the Left Front in the Tripura Assembly elections has badly rattled the CPI(M) in Kerala. Needless to say, the spectacular victory scored by the BJP in the state will, in all probability, induce a rethink in the State CPI(M)...
Congress Leaders Reluctant To Credit Scindia For MP Success
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: There is sharp division in the Congress over who should be given credit for the victory in the two MP assemblies by elections. Barring senior leader Kamal Nath and to some extent Satyavrat Chaturvedi, no other Congress leader of significance has cared to shower...
Rogue Private Enterprises Failed Banks, Investors And Economy
By Nantoo Banerjee It is difficult to understand why is the government so hell-bent to privatise the assets of some of the country’s most reliable and best performing central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) at such a difficult time when a very large section of its private companies...
Indian Economy Is On A Growth Path
By Anjan Roy What was until recently esoteric has become mainline now. Nobody earlier would have bothered about some figures regarding national income, which were left best to some eccentric economists. But now? It is followed with fervor like cricket scores. Rivals are the countries and national income...
After Darwin, It’s Newton’s Turn
By Aditya Aamir Remember Dr Satyapal Singh? He is our Minister of State for Human Resource Development, IPS-turned-politician with a Masters in Chemistry. The top cop who has Science on his finger-tips and a mastery of putting his foot in the mouth, a feat not even Yoga guru...
Growth Recovery Feeble So Far In Current Fiscal
By S. Sethuraman India’s stagnant economy will be entering fiscal 2019 on the back of relatively poorer performance for two successive years (FY16-18), and well below 7 per cent growth in real terms in fiscal 18, amid global headwinds of market volatility, rising inflation and interest rate hikes...
Early Lok Sabha Polls May Not Help PM Modi
By Harihar Swarup Will Prime Minister Narendra Modi go in for an early Lok Sabha poll? There have been growing speculation in political circles that he may dissolve the Lok Sabha in November or December and prefer to hold the general elections along with Assembly elections in Madhya...
BJP’s Success In Tripura Is Not Foolproof
By Amulya Ganguli It will be a mistake to regard the BJP’s success in Tripura as a harbinger of its future prospects elsewhere in the country because it is based on the quicksand of opportunistic politics. What the BJP has been able to do in Tripura is...
Karti chidambaram ‘should not have returned’
Sushil Kutty PC’s son Karti is right. He should have remained in his London digs. Not spend time in a CBI cell. Now, he has given the BJP an electoral strategy. Agreed, the alternative would have given Shah-Modi much the same. It’s a throw, however, whether electoral strategies...
