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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.Nationwide Energy Crisis Grips Afghanistan
By Sankar Ray The ambitious 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development — adopted by world leaders in September 2015 at a historic UN Summit — has hit the road block due to the nationwide energy crisis in land-locked Afghanistan, caused by the...
Indians Stay Top Buyers Of Dubai Properties
By Saifur Rahman DUBAI: Indians bought property worth Rs42,000 crore in Dubai from January 2016 to June 2017, making them yet again the top foreign property investors in the emirate, statistics released by the Dubai Land Department revealed. “For years, Indians have consistently been the most prolific...
‘Appropriate’ Moves To Get Out Of An Inappropriate Fix
By Sushil Kutty The word “appropriate” is in the eye of speculation after an order passed by a bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra on the PIL seeking an independent probe into the death of special CBI judge B H Loya said documents be “put up before an...
With Docket In His Pocket, Chief Justice Is Winning
By Sushil Kutty When you take on the chief, empirical data shows the chief wins, always. And Tuesday morning A-G K K Venugopal made a U-turn and confessed that despite the morning tea, “differences” remain and the SC dispute has not been “laid to rest” as the Bar...
Judicial Tremors Herald Worrying Time For BJP
By Amulya Ganguli The revolt of the four senior Supreme Court judges, which targets the chief justice, DipakMisra, has been a bolt from the blue for the BJP. The political scene has darkened even further for the party with the possibility of not faring too well in the...
Supreme Court Crisis Yet To Be Solved
12th January, 2018 would go down as one of the most significant days in the history of judiciary in independent India. Never before the four senior most judges of the highest court of this country, Justice J. Chelameshwar (second senior most judge), Justice Ranjan Gogoi (next in line to...
Tackling Farm Distress Is Now Core Of 2018-19 Budget Strategy
By Nitya Chakraborty With the presentation of the fifth budget of the NarendraModi government now only a fortnight away, the policy option at the highest level of the Government has zeroed in on giving a big stress on the removal of farm distress in the 2018-19 budget proposals.Prime...
Uneasy truce as the third pillar straightens up
Sushil Kutty The benches in the Supreme Court are all in an array. How orderly nobody knows. But the Bar Council of India (BCI) said on Monday warring Supreme Court judges are back to being best friends and that the country can heave a sigh of relief after three days in...
100 Per Cent FDI Retail Is A Big Positive For India
By Nilanjan Banik Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the retail sector has been at the epicentre of national debate. India, by allowing 100 percent FDI in single brand retail, has sent out a strong signal that reforms is picking up. Consumers are happy as they will now have...
Atheists Out To Finish God Central To Kendriya Vidyalaya
By Aditya Aamir Atheists have no business poking their nose in the affairs of god and his flock of whatever religious denomination. But a couple of the agnostic have done just that – they have mounted an attack on Kendriya Vidyalayas for starting the day by singing the...
Madhya Pradesh By-Elections Are Rehearsal For Assembly Poll
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Both Congress and BJP are treating two Vidhan Sabha bye-elections as semi-finals for the Vidhan Sabha elections, which are scheduled to be held at the end of this year.. The two seats – Kolaras and Mungawali – fell vacant due to the death of...
600 New Medical Colleges, 1,000 Hospitals Needed In Next Decade
By Nantoo Banerjee India is facing a gigantic task of producing over 2.07 million medical doctors in the next 12 years if the country has to achieve a modest doctor-to-population ratio of 1:1,000 by 2030. Though, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the union health ministry,...
NRC Revision In Assam: Possible Long Term Fallout
By Ashis Biswas By opposing the Central Government’s efforts to update the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam on Supreme Court orders, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is merely doing what she does best — pandering to the Muslim vote bank. This may be the broad...
Supreme Court Judges Are Now Men With Clay Feet
By Sushil Kutty On second thoughts, it was not mutiny. It was not a conspiracy. It was not rebellion. It was airing of grievances on differences with the Chief Justice of India. Justices J. Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan Lokur and Kurein Joseph sought to correct administrative weaknesses plaguing...
UIDAI’s Ugly Face Still Sticks Out
By K. Raveendran The Unique Identity Authority of India (UIDAI) never had a smart face. The babujis in charge of managing its affairs applied 18th century logic to the age of artificial intelligence; so the match between what they did and what they intended to do was as...
Governance In India Needs Immediate Overhauling
By Gyan Pathak All the three wings of governance in India – the executive, the legislature, and the judiciary – suffer from a general disbelief of their being neutral and honest. People are helpless against the irregularities and injustices done by the legislators, top officials and ministers in...
Modi Government’s High-Handedness Continues
By Harihar Swarup Soon after a massive Aadhaar expose by a reporter from The Tribune, another shocking incident, involving the Press Association, an organization of accredited journalists and photographers, has come to light. For decades the Press Association had been provided a room in the PIB’s first floor...
Kerala’s Changing Political Landscape
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The decision of the Janata Dal(United) to part ways with the Congress-led United Democratic Front(UDF) and join the CPI(M)-headed Left Democratic Frot(LDF) will drastically alter Kerala’s political profile. The LDF camp is understandably jubilant over the politically significant development. As for the JD(U),...
