Opinion
Appeal
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.Gaming Banking System Through Process Shortcomings
By G. Srinivasan At a time when the country’s ailing banking industry, particularly the proverbial public sector banks (PSBs) suffering from balance sheet woes, is being bandaged by the first tranche of a capital infusion of Rs 88.139 crore as part of a jumbo Rs 2.11 lakh crore...
Scams Again For Poll Battle As In 2014
By S. Sethuraman The biggest scandal in India’s banking sector – an alleged 11,400 crore fraud involving Punjab National Bank and diamond merchant Nirav Modi and associates — coming to light in January 2018 — will pep up the state poll campaigns, leading to Lok Sabha elections 2019....
Modi Government Planning To Abolish Nrega
By Arun Srivastava The Narendra Modi government is discreetly moving ahead to abolish the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). The idea had dominated the drawing room discussions of important BJP leaders just ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Almost all the leaders were in favour of...
BJP’s Uphill Battle In Left Bastion Tripura
By Amulya Ganguli The enormous effort which the BJP has put in for what many will regard as a lost cause, viz. that of winning the Tripura elections, holds a lesson for other parties. In fact, the prime minister might have mentioned his party’s determined chase of a...
Baby Face Bank Robbers: Nelson And Nirav
By Sushil Kutty Nirav Modi – Baby Face Nirav! He reminds us of the American gangster of the 1930s, Public Enemy No.1 ‘Baby Face Nelson’. Both small guys with big dreams, banks their weakness. George ‘Baby Face’ Nelson robbed banks with loaded guns. ‘Baby Face Nirav’ fraudulently unloaded...
India Ought To Adopt Pragmatic Approach Towards Neighbours
By Arun Srivastava “More than China… India should play a better role in Maldives than any other countries because we are neighbours. And we have been friends”. This is a simple sentence but diplomatically this remark from Ahmed Mohamed, Maldives’ ambassador to India, has wider ramifications. Through his...
Taxation And Monetary Reforms Pull Growth Downwards
By Gyan Pathak Economic growth in Asia is estimated to continue at a steady pace in 2017 in comparison to 2016, but India’s growth is expected to nudge downwards as a result of taxation and monetary reforms, but expected to stay brisk, says the latest OECD bi-annual publication...
Government Must Stand Behind Tottering Banking System
By Anjan Roy It is rather irritatingly repetitive that borrowers jump their loans with banks. More so, large borrowers, who are themselves hugely rich, are making away with bank money. Details are now emerging, which show the ultimate hit on the banking system could top Rs20,000 crore. Maybe...
‘Chotta Modi’ Makes A Charm Offensive
By Aditya Amir Fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi has written a letter to Punjab National Bank. In a jilted lover’s tone. Nirav is unhappy PNB came too soon, put him out to dry; for Republic TV to harangue and Times Now to maul. You’ve ruined my brand in...
CPI(M)’S Draft Political Resolution Is A Bundle Of Contradictions
By Nitya Chakraborty The draft political resolution released by the CPI(M) for debate among its members on the eve of the 22nd Congress of the Party at Hyderabad on April 18 to 22 this year, is full of contradictory positions. The document prepared by former general secretary of...
Kashmiri Journalists, Real And Unreal
By Sushil Kutty Kamran Yusuf is a Kashmiri photo-journalist. The other day, the National Investigative Agency (NIA) while branding him a ‘stone-pelter’, claimed that he is not a ‘real journalist’ because he never covered developmental projects as genuine journalists do! The “hard-working” freelance photo-journalist has been in...
Digvijay, Uma Keep Party Supporters Guessing
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Two former chief ministers of Madhya Pradesh by their actions and utterances are keeping their colleagues and party men in suspense. They are Digvijay Singh and Uma Bharti, two rivals. It was Uma Bharti who through her massive and stormy campaign ended the ten...
Arrests Put CPI(M) Under Greater Pressure
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Communist Party of India(Marxist) has come under greater pressure with the arrest of two party workers in connection with the murder of Youth Congress activist Shuhaib. The arrests have come after Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan broke his silence over the murder seven...
Scam Has The Makings Of A Political Thriller
By Aditya Amir So who should hang from the rafters for the massive PNB Nirav Modi Scam – the UPA or the NDA? That is apart from nephew Nirav Modi and uncle Choksi and the one or two or scores of PNB officials who enacted the scam for...
Centre Appoints New Prosecutor For 2G Spectrum Case
By Amritananda Chakravorty The Government of India, in a surprising development, appointed Tushar Mehta, Additional Solicitor General of India, as the Special Public Prosecutor (‘SPP’)conducting “prosecution, appeals/revisions or other proceedings” arising out of the cases relating to 2G spectrum investigated by the CBI before the Special 2G court...
Nepal To Keep Both China And India In Good Humour
By Sankar Ray The 38th prime minister of Nepal Khadga Prasad (KP) Sharma Oli, the chairman of Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist Leninist), will ‘balance between India and China’, believes editor of Nepal Times, despite his pro-Beijing propensity (a compulsion due to the Madhesi blockade of Nepal...
Wronged Family Of Slain Jawan Declines Govt Cheque
By Arun Srivastava No conscientious citizen can gloss over the ill treatment meted to the CRPF jawan Mujahid Khan, who died fighting militants in Jammu on Monday. He was offered an ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh by the NDA government of Bihar, but intriguingly, gunner Kishore Kumar...
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...
