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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.Confusion Over New Health Protection Scheme
By Nantoo Banerjee Is the government really serious about the newly proposed insurance-backed national health protection scheme (NHPS) in the budget? Probably not. It may protect insurance firms and private healthcare outfits, but not the common man’s health. Only public hospitals, well-equipped public medical centres, dedicated physicians and...
A Damp Squib Budget That Is Neither Prudent Nor Populist
By G. Srinivasan The interminable debate over the final full-fledged General Budget of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) headed by Narendra Modi apart, the 2018-19 budget belied the credo of the Modi government as market-friendly and growth-focused. This is palpably obvious as the feisty Finance Minister Arun Jaitley,...
Supreme Court Upholds Daughter’s Property Rights
In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court has upheld the right of daughters to be entitled to equal shares in the ancestral property as the sons, including those daughters who were born before 17th June, 1956 when the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 came into force. The case pertained to...
Left Should Work For Three Stage Unity Of Opposition
By Nitya Chakraborty The stage is set for the next Lok Sabha elections in India within 2018. The way the country’s economic and political situation is developing, Prime Minister Narendra Modi cannot take the risk of waiting till the scheduled period of April/May 2019 for holding the Lok...
Confusion Over New Health Protection Scheme
By Nantoo Banerjee Is the government really serious about the newly proposed insurance-backed national health protection scheme (NHPS) in the budget? Probably not. It may protect insurance firms and private healthcare outfits, but not the common man’s health. Only public hospitals, well-equipped public medical centres, dedicated physicians and...
Akhilesh May Come To Rajya Sabha
By Rahil Nora Chopra Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav may enter Rajya Sabha as the party’s nominee when elections are held to the Upper House in April. Six senior Rajya Sabha MPs belonging to the party are retiring in April. Prominent among them include party Vice President Kironmony...
Kasganj Violence: Yogi Govt Fails To Act Decisively
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Communal violence in Kasganj area, which is only 100kms away from New Delhi, is continuing. This clearly shows a lack of will on the part of administration of the Yogi government. Daily shops are being set on fire, vehicles damaged and even religious places...
BOTH INDIA AND PAKISTAN HAVE RAPE CAPITALS
By Aditya Aamir The rape of an eight-month-old baby in Delhi by her 27-year-old cousin was picked up by Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper within minutes of it being reported in India. And the outrage in India was matched by the outrage expressed in Dawn if only because it gave...
Modi Pushes Globalization Overseas And Protectionism At Home
By Subrata Majumder Prime Minister Narendra Modi placed himself in a paradoxical situation in the World Economic Forum at Davos. While he was assertive for protection of globalisation in the summit, he is toeing protectionism at home with the hope that it will give fresh life to the...
Dividing South Indian Cutlet: The Final Frontier
By Sushil Kutty On Wednesday, pictures of hundreds of youth protesting in a college campus in Cochin, Kerala filled television screens. The young protestors were angry at being served ‘beef cutlet’ at a college get-together. They were apparently “fooled” into eating beef by the college administration. Somewhere in...
Budgetary Rural Push Not Enough To Deal With Farm Distress
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi has played a gamble with his Government’s last full budget for 2018-19 by staking the BJP’s political future with the response from the country’s distressed farming community to his budget proposals for reviving the rural sector. The Finance Minister Arun Jaitley...
Moral Values In Politics Declining
By Arun Srivastava It was extremely shocking to read Minister of State for External Affairs VK Singh’s thought on Karni Sena and the Rajput members’ protests against ‘Padmavat’. Singh is not known to possess a high degree of intellect. But his opinion that ‘protests are inevitable if anything...
Congress’s Cup Of Humiliation Full To The Brim
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The efforts of the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) to woo the Kerala Congress(M) back to the UDF camp have come a cropper. The stinging KC(M) snub has come in an article published by the party’s mouthpiece, “Ptathichhaya” entitled “Why Kerala Congress Is...
Disgruntled Sinha & Sinha form a forum to score a home run
Aditya Aamir The disgruntled are a tribe not notified. Now, disgruntled BJP leaders Yashwant Sinha and Shatrugun Sinha have formed a forum, the Rashtra Manch (RM), to notify to the Modi government that it is under notice and that the RM will see to it that this government at...
Performance Anxiety Despite Portrayal Of Rosy Picture
By Gyan Pathak The performance anxiety stemming from the four years of dismal performance of the Indian economy will continue to haunt the government and the people of the country, irrespective of the rosy picture portrayed for 2018-19 by the Economic Survey, the Modi government’s fifth and final....
Karat Policy Helps Saffrons
By Amulya Ganguli When in 2008 the CPI(M)’s general secretary of the time, Prakash Karat, was opposing the nuclear deal with the US, it used to be said jocularly that if Manmohan Singh was batting for India, Karat was doing so for China. It was a jibe...
Mehbooba Is The ‘Black Sheep’, Not 10 Garhwal
By Sushil Kutty First the press should stop calling a stone-pelter ‘civilian’. Second, J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti should correct herself; the soldiers who were forced to fire on the lynching mob of stone-throwers are not ‘black sheep’. Third, the FIR against 10 Garhwal unit should be withdrawn...
Economic Survey Rings Warning Bells
By K R Sudhaman Economic Survey, presented to Parliament ahead of budget every year is seen as a report card of Government’s performance on the Indian economy. This year too it is no different but there is one change: its presentation and production have improved. As Economic Survey...
