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.Pakistani Army Has Only Limited Options Left In Balochistan
By Manish Rai Recent bold attacks carried out by Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) rocked Pakistan. A large number of people and security personnel were killed in the province of Balochistan when separatist insurgents attacked police stations, railway lines and highways, and security forces camps. The assaults were the most...
Narendra Modi Faces Another Political Test In Assembly Polls
By Sushil Kutty The Maharashtra assembly polls are slated later this year along with Jharkhand. Also the bypolls in 10 UP assembly seats, which will put Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to test, are due. The thing to watch, however, is whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi will come...
Trump’s Scandalous Jabs Drag Trudeau’s Mom Into Canada’s Election
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The US Presidential election is scheduled for 5 November 2024 while the Canadian elections to elect a new Prime Minister is expected to take place in October 2025. After Kamala Harris became Democratic Party nominee for the President in the upcoming election, Republican Party’s Donald...
US Administration Moves To Help Crisis Ridden Bangladesh Economy
By Nitya Chakraborty The interim Government in Bangladesh led by Dr. Muhammad Yunus has achieved big success in the last few days in persuading the Biden administration to help in bailing out the country’s ailing economy to meet the immediate challenges of the post-Hasina administration. Interim Government head Dr....
Gau-Rakshaks On A Killing Rampage In Poll-Bound Haryana
By Sushil Kutty Lynching over the ‘gaumata’ is back in currency and poll-bound Haryana is where it has returned with a vengeance. In one incident, a Class 12 student was mistaken for a cow-smuggler and shot dead by a group of gau-rakshaks. In another incident a Muslim migrant from...
Pakistan Govt Deeply Worried At Balochistan Rebels Gaining Strength With Young Recruits
By Tirthankar Mitra Balochistan, the biggest province of Pakistan is on the boil. Ever since August 25, Majeed Brigade, a guerrilla group of Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) launched attacks at six different spots, it marked the end of the lull before the storm. Suicide attacks, setting vehicles on fire...
Transfer Of Dormant Commercial Bank Accounts To The RBI Is Unprincipled
By Romar Correa A basic concept in monetary economics is the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR). Commercial banks must park a certain portion of their deposits with the Central bank of the country. As interest is not payable on the funds so deposited with it, the Central bank could be...
How To Confront The Far Right In Germany, Britain And France?
By Ben Chacko LONDON: German regional elections amplify a message we’ve heard loud and clear from Britain and France already this summer: the far right is a rising danger. The Alternative for Germany (AfD’s) first place in Thuringia (it came a close second in Saxony) is especially alarming given...
Lying In Politics Is Posing ‘Existential Threat’ To Democracy
By Nantoo Banerjee Democratically elected governments often think their electors are idiots. They may have good reasons to build such a notion as a good number of them don’t deserve to be there in terms of their personal background and characteristic traits. Many of them are booked for even...
Redevelopment Of Ayodhya Has No Place For The Poor, May Ram Save Them
By Dr. Gyan Pathak BJP’s attachment to Ayodhya is not emotional, but land and profit related greed, said Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav. The allegation can’t be simply brushed aside, given the way land in around Ayodhya is being acquired and transferred by the government to their own...
BJP Plans To Recruit 100 Million New Members In Its Fresh Recruitment Drive
By Kalyani Shankar The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is working to expand on a two-track basis. The first is by recruiting influential leaders from other parties, particularly Congress. Although this may involve a small number of leaders, their influence is significant. Second, the party is focusing on enrolling a...
Scared Of Rahul Gandhi’s Emergence, RSS Conclave Draws Up Containment Strategy
By Arun Srivastava In its hundred years of long journey, the RSS leadership did not appear to be so scared and insecured as it is feeling now, in the post Lok Sabha electoral verdict of 2024. Rahul Gandhi is the nightmare. His politico-ideological agenda challenging the philosophical base of...
The President Of The Republic Must Remain Above Partisan Politics In Her Comments
By S.N. Sahu Recently, President of India Droupadi Murmu expressed her anger and anguish on the issue of the alleged rape and murder of a young lady doctor in Kolkata. But she hardly referred to the numerous criminal assaults on women and girls who also became victims of the...
China Observes Deng Xiaoping’s 120th Birth Anniversary On A Low Key
By Anjan Roy China has just celebrated the 120th birth anniversary of Deng Xiaoping, the man who is the creator of modern China. Mao Zhe Dong had founded the Communist Party of China —ubiquitously the CPC— and swept away centuries of cobwebs in the country. He was the maker...
Supreme Court Increasingly Convinced About Abuse Of Anti-Money Laundering Law
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court’s recent judgments granting bail to Delhi minister Manish Sisodia and others in the Delhi excise and similar cases mark a significant shift in how the judiciary approaches money laundering charges, particularly those pressed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The rulings not only highlight...
Akal Takht Declaring Sad President A Tankhaiya May Reset Punjab Politics
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Akal Takht’s declaring Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal a ‘tankhaiya’ on August 30 is most likely to reset the Punjab politics in general and Sikh politics in particular. In the tumultuous history of Punjab, this development is significant. Punjab may be...
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma Takes Control Of Muslim Marriages
By Sushil Kutty Among all Chief Ministers, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is having the most fun. He does what he feels like and Sarma struck a rich vein of support from Assam’s indigenous people when he insisted that he was “CM only of some (people)”. The “some”...
JNPT Faces Delays, Labour Dispute Amid New Infrastructure Initiatives
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav India’s busiest container port, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) is grappling with operational challenges that have resulted in long truck queues and delays for cargo. These disruptions are primarily attributed to a berth upgrade project at APM Terminals Mumbai, which has temporarily reduced capacity. The...
