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.Unemployment Likely To Become A Major Political Issue In 2019
By Gyan Pathak Unemployment in India is likely to become a major political issue in the months to come. It is bound to happen this time because our educated youths are now a frustrated lot as they were hoping something for themselves under the Modi-led NDA rule. It...
Bank Frauds Puncture Modi’s No-Scam Claims
By K. Raveendran Congress and the BJP are playing hide and seek with the people of India by blaming each other for the massive banking fraud by Nirav Modi, the diamond dealer to the world’s glitterati. Originally estimated to cost Rs 12,300 crore, the value of the plunder...
Northeast States Brace For High-Stakes Polls
Harihar Swarup The election scenario in three Northeastern states – Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya – is extremely complex and the poll equations have been changing fast. Tripura is the first to have assembly election on February 18, followed by Nagaland and Meghalaya on February 27. Incumbents in the...
Yogi On Collision Course With Upper House
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The Yogi Adityanath government seems to be set on a collision course with the UP Legislative Council on the issue of fake encounters. It so happened that Legislative Council chairman Ramesh Yadav directed the Yogi government to recommend a CBI probe into three alleged...
Our Mani Is On Their Haqqani Any Day
Sushil Kutty What suspended Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar is to Indians, former Pakistan ambassador Husain Haqqani is to Pakistanis – fierce opponents of their home countries and routinely branded ‘traitors’ and anti-nationals. But while Aiyar gets away with his diatribes against India from Pakistani soil, Haqqani cannot...
Privatization Key Issue In Medical Education
By Dr. Arun Mitra The standing committee on health headed by Ram Gopal Yadav had called various stake holders to put forward their viewpoints on National Medical Commission (NMC). Since health is an issue of concern to all, such consultative process is a welcome step. The process to...
CPI(M) Under Severe Pressure Over Murder Of YC Worker
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The murder of Youth Congress worker, Shuhaib, in the violence-prone Kannur district, allegedly by CPI(M) cadres, has put the party and the Government headed by it under severe pressure. The murder could not have come at a worse time for the CPI(M), which...
Zuma Is Gone But ANC’s Future Is Far From Secure
By John Haylett South Africa’s African National Congress has, in giving Jacob Zuma his marching orders on February 15 and replacing him with Cyril Ramaphosa, shown a capacity for decisive action that many feared beyond it. Ramaphosa’s narrow victory over Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma for the ANC presidency, his supporters’...
Mayawati Keeps Everyone Guessing
By Rahil Nora Chopra Adding a surprise element to the bid for Opposition unity, BSP leader Mayawati, who has resigned from her Rajya Sabha seat, has been conspicuously absent from the Opposition meetings. The Congress and Samajwadi Party are hoping that the Opposition parties will fight jointly against BJP...
‘Offensive’ Song Sung In Muslim Marriages For Ages
By Sushil Kutty The song ‘Manikya Malaraya Poovi’ of Oru Adaar Love, which went viral because Priya Prakash Varrier, the overnight Internet sensation, raised a couple of eyebrows with a wink, has landed in a police station in Hyderabad because it contains an ‘objectionable’ reference to Prophet Muhammad’s...
CPI Differs From CPI(M), Keeps Option Open For Alliance With Congress
By Nitya Chakraborty The Communist Party of India(CPI), the second most important Left Party in the country after the CPI(M) has given a call for widest possible mobilization of all secular, political and mass organizations to counter the neo liberal and the fascistic offensive of the Modi government...
BJP Deploying Massive Resources In Tripura Elections
By Barun Das Gupta Will the CPI-M be able to retain its twenty-five years of uninterrupted rule in Tripura or will the BJP upset all calculations and prove every electoral arithmetic wrong by dislodging Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and his party? The answer will be diametrically opposite depending...
Pakistan Is Mani Shankar Aiyar’s Mahbooba
By Sushil Kutty There are things we want to talk about but cannot talk about. That does not apply to Mani Shankar Aiyar and Mehbooba Mufti, the two Valentines of Pakistan. Both have been talking way out of the boundaries of India. In Aiyar’s case, literally. Aiyar and...
Oil Price Spike To Upset Fiscal Stability And Consumers
By G. Srinivasan The apex bank, while unveiling the sixth bi-monthly annual monetary policy statement for the current fiscal on February 7 in Mumbai, justified its neutral policy stance for the present, contending that crude oil prices have firmed up sharply since August 2017, driven by both demand...
Medieval Owaisi Gets A Firing From The Army
By Aditya Amir Asauddin Owaisi is delusional speaking with the Cosmos. The only Member of Parliament who likes to be called Barrister-at-Law is not loathe to step over laws he deems don’t help take forward his religious agenda, which again is more political. Owaisi’s modus vivendi –...
RSS Is Serious In Turning Taj Mahal Into A Temple
By Amulya Ganguli It will be unwise to dismiss BJP M.P VinayKatiyar’s warning about converting the Taj Mahal to “our temple”, the Tejo mandir, as the hate rant of a well-known rabble-rouser. It has to be acknowledged that the Sangh parivar generally gives advance notice of its...
Another Valentine’s Day, And It’s Still Alien
By Aditya Aamir Another Valentine’s Day and love will take a beating – a beating of hearts, that is. News will, however, veer to beatings at the hands of the moral police, as it has already. Valentine’s Day has to be seen in the background of globalisation,...
Vigilance Dept: Anything But Vigilant
By P. Sreekumaran The Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front(LDF) Government came to power with a firm commitment to eradicate corruption from public life. As part of the anti-corruption campaign, it had also promised to strengthen the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau(VACB). Two years into its rule, that promise...
