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.Muslim Collective Demands Tickets For Maharashtra Assembly Polls
By Sushil Kutty Rahul Gandhi, Sharad Pawar and Uddhav Thackeray can’t escape the noose now. The Muslim community of Maharashtra want from the Maha Vikas Aghadi their “hissedaari” in the Maharashtra Assembly, which will be possible only if Muslims are given their share of tickets to contest the upcoming...
Unilateral Sanctions Imposed By West Are Nothing But Criminal Acts
By Prabhat Patnaik During Narendra Modi’s visit to Ukraine (why he visited Ukraine at all at the present time remains a mystery), Zelensky asked India not to purchase fuel from Russia in violation of western sanctions, that is, to fall in line with the “unilateral” western sanctions. Let us...
Suspension Of Army Operations In Manipur May Finally Take Effect Soon
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: In recent weeks Manipur has not seen any escalation in the ethnic conflict between the Meiteis and the Kuki-Zo tribal communities that broke out on May 3, 2023 on the issue of tribal status for the majority Meitei community concentrated in the valley. However,...
Hema Committee Report Follow-Up Gathers Momentum
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government headed by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has swung into action by initiating steps to implement the Hema Committee report on the problems plaguing the Malayalam film industry. A Special Investigation Team (SIT) consisting of senior women police officers has...
Congress Not To Declare Any CM Candidate In Haryana Before Assembly Polls
By Rahil Nora Chopra Both the Sirsa MP, Kumari Selja, and Rajya Sabha MP Randeep Surjewala of the Congress Party have expressed their strong desire to contest the assembly election’s from Haryana but state in-charge Deepak Babaria has gone on record to say that no MP will be taken...
Transition To Electric Vehicles As A Part Of Greener Future Has Led To Huge Lithium Extraction
By Tirthankar Mitra Demand for electric vehicle batteries is on the rise as the world shifts towards a greener future. Together with it, the requirement for lithium, a key component in electricity vehicle batteries and renewable energy storage has skyrocketed. A piquant situation has arisen from this elliptical rise...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Is Now Clueless, Losing His Earlier Strong Moorings
By Nitya Chakraborty Former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson once said that a week is too long a time in politics. This was in the context of post-war turmoil in British politics. As regards India, it seems that the post 2024 Lok Sabha elections scenario is changing fast and...
Narendra Modi’s Visit To Ukraine Was Primarily Meant To Mollify US
By P. Sudhir Narendra Modi’s brief visit to Ukraine has been hailed by the pro-American circles and the corporate media as a big success. According to this version, here is an Indian leader whose international stature has been heightened by the holding of the G20 summit in Delhi and...
Enriching Corporates In The Name Of Employment Generation Is Wrong
By Dr. Gyan Pathak What emerged from the meeting held by the Union Minister of Labour and Employment Mansukh Mandaviya with Central Trade Unions (CTUs) on August 28 is quite disconcerting, since the government is bent upon implementing the newly announced Employment Linked Incentive (ELI) in the Budget 2024-25...
Mamata’s ‘I’ll Topple Modi’ Is Open Dare To Prime Minister And NDA Govt
By Sushil Kutty West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is in all sorts of moods. She is “deeply sad”. She is boiling mad. And she’s not in a forgiving mood. But in a generous mood, she was dedicating a Trinamool event to the memory of the Kolkata rape-cum-murder victim,...
India Losing Its Demographic Dividend Due To Absence Of Proper Job Strategy For Youth
By Krishna Jha Growing Unemployment rate is not only a challenge to the economic fabric of the country, it occupies the basic tenet on which a county is assessed. Our country is one of the most populous nations and hence its needs are also different, in both size and...
Census Operations Are Starting In September But The Data Collection Process Must Improve
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: India’s population census was initially due for completion in 2024 but was delayed by COVID-19 pandemic. It’s resumption scheduled to begin in September this year will be a pivotal moment. The history of Indian census can be traced back to 1800 during the British colonial...
Nuclear Power Plants Are Emerging As A Big Threat To The Humanity
By Dr Arun Mitra First the Zaporizhzhia and now the nuclear power plant in Kursk under threat are issues of extreme concern. UN nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi on August27 warned during a visit to Russia’s Kursk nuclear plant that situation is very grave...
Tragic Nepal Bus Accident Highlights The Dangers Of Monsoon Travel In The Himalayas
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The Nepal bus accident on August 23, in which a tourist bus with 40-odd Indian tourists fell into the Marsyangdi river, killing 26 people on the spot and one at the hospital, comes across as a grim reminder of how dangerous Himalayan mountain roads can...
Fred Halliday’s 2024 Edition Of 1979 Book On Iran Is A Marxist Classic
By Afshin Matin-Asgari Appearing at the triumphant moment of the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Fred Halliday’s book Iran: Dictatorship and Development immediately became an iconic text to Middle East readers and the international left. The book’s appeal to a generation of leftists, particularly Iranians, was phenomenal. In December 1978,...
Governors As Constitutional Head Must Not Degenerate To Ruling Party’s Agents
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Democratic compact between chief minister and Lieutenant Governor of Delhi has broken in the last ten years, LG VK Saxena has admitted in his opinion piece published in Indian Express on August 28, which is just an expression of the fact existing in all states...
Quotas In Beauty Is No Longer A Skin-Deep Affair, And Could Turn Into Decisive Strategy
By K Raveendran The squabble between Rahul Gandhi and Union minister Kiren Rijiju over the lack of representation of backward classes and tribals in beauty pageants has accorded a bit of glamour to the debate surrounding castes. Rahul’s remark, might seem trivial at first glance, but on closer scrutiny,...
BJP’s Attempts In Bengal To Unseat Mamata From Power Backfire
By Arun Srivastava The BJP’s plan to hijack the mass upsurge of the common people in Kolkata, especially women seeking justice for the rape and murder of the young doctor of R G Kar Medical College, has finally failed. The 12 hour bandh in Bengal called by the BJP...
