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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.Election Takeaways That One Can Count As Significant
By Tirthankar Mitra Challenging long-standing narratives and sometimes setting them aside, 2024 Lok Sabha elections marked a pivotal moment in Indian politics. In sum, it is time for political pundits and pollsters to look at things they claim to know all about with an open mind. The common people...
BJP Looking For Scapegoats To Blame For Uttar Pradesh Debacle
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Shocked by the humiliating performance of the party in UP in the Lok Sabha polls, the BJP leadership has decided to assign 40 teams of two important leaders each to study the voting patterns. Each team will visit two constituencies and meet local leaders and...
A Verdict Against Chiquita’s Impunity In Colombia
By Carlos Cruz Mosquera Chiquita, one of the United States’ and the world’s biggest fruit companies, has finally been charged in a Florida court for its links to a terrorist organization. In 2007, following a similar trial in New York, the company admitted to financing one of Colombia’s most...
Murlidhar C. Bhandare, The ‘Senior In The Chamber’ Who We All Miss
By Mohan V Katarki For a lawyer, when his chamber senior passes away, he naturally feels a loss. I am feeling a terrible loss on the passing away of senior advocate Murlidhar C. Bhandare, who lived a long and meaningful life into the mid-nineties. The autobiography of Bhandare tells...
Now Is The Time For A ‘NEET’ Overhaul Of Admissions To Medical Colleges
By Dr Arun Mitra Irregularities in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), an examination conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) for admissions to medical courses, has raised many serious questions. A record number of 67 students obtained the perfect score of 720 out of 23,33,297 who appeared...
Left Rout In Polls: Can Communists Chalk A Return To Relevance?
By Tirthankar Mitra The CPI(M) and its partners in the Left Front have been almost completely wiped out from the electoral map of West Bengal. Except for a single seat in the Rajya Sabha from this state, it has been a dry run for the Left since the 2021...
Hanging In Balance, Fates Of Naidu’s Amaravati And Narendra Modi
By Sushil Kutty Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu has five years to create a capital city out of Amaravati. This is because elections play funny games and one of them is dashing the hopes of sitting governments dreaming of continuity. Who knows Jagan Mohan Reddy might be back...
Modi’s Language May Have Changed, But Not His Body Language
By K Raveendran Assessments by the RSS leaders attribute the BJP’s setback in the Lok Sabha elections to the pervasive issue of arrogance among its leaders. This critique points to a critical introspection within the party, suggesting that overconfidence and hubris have significantly contributed to electoral losses. Arrogance, as...
NDA Government’s Ministry Of Labour Has A Difficult Time Going Forward
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Union Ministry of Labour and Employment has two tough tasks in hand – employment generation and roll-out of four labour codes that the Modi 2:0 government had been keeping in abeyance for the last four years due to stiff resistance from the joint platform...
Nobel Laureate Mohammad Yunus Set To Enter Bangladesh Politics
By Tajul Islam On June 11, 2024, Reuters published an interview with Mohammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace laureate and founder of Grameen Bank, which has stirred significant political discourse in Bangladesh. Mohammad Yunus, globally renowned for his contributions to microfinance and poverty alleviation, hinted at his imminent entry into...
Humble, Humbler, Humblest — Has Arrogant Modi Learned His Lesson?
By Harihar Swarup This time, the voter has asked for a humbler government and a more robust Opposition. One of the great joys of watching a blockbuster movie is the intermission which comes just when the plot is reaching a dramatic crescendo. It is during the interval that you...
Madras HC Asks For ‘Sustainable’ Minimum Stipend To Junior Lawyers
The Leaflet In a significant ruling, the Madras High Court has directed the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry to ensure that an advocate or senior advocate employing the services of junior advocates in major cities of Chennai, Coimbatore and Madurai pay them a minimum stipend of ₹20,000...
Israeli Parliamentarian, Journalist Slam Government For Gaza War
By Mark Gruenberg An Israeli parliamentarian and an Israeli journalist slammed their nation’s far-right-wing Benjamin Netanyahu government for conducting a brutal war against Gazans and for censoring the information that reaches the Israeli public and the wider world. Speaking to the CPUSA’s 32nd Convention in Chicago, Ofer Cassiff, the...
Prime Minister Modi’s Clay Feet Has A Name: Rural Distress
By Dr. Soma Marla Rural India limited the Bharatiya Janata Party to 240 seats in the Lok Sabha. And but for the “NDA allies”, Narendra Modi wouldn’t have become Prime Minister for a third time. The BJP now depends on its partners for the simple majority in Parliament. The...
Huge Water Shortage In India’s National Capital Turning Worse
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s National Capital Territory Delhi is running a shortage of water to the tune of 50 MGD (million gallon) per day. The Water and Tanker Mafia are minting money. People are undergoing unprecedented suffering. Political parties are trying to derive political mileage by indulging in...
Bangladeshis Worry Mamata’s TMC Will Block Teesta Water Treaty Again
By Ashis Biswas In normal circumstances, except for a few specifically Bangladesh-related issues, Dhaka-based leaders/analysts do not always delve deep into Indian political developments. However, the outcome and trends of Indian general elections naturally generate considerable public interest and media-sponsored debates in Dhaka and other Bangladeshi cities. Now, after...
BJP Cannot Escape Facing An Alliance Test Going Forward
By Rahil Nora Chopra The BJP is bound to face a stiff alliance test in its third term. The signs were evident after ally Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) said it would demand a review of the Agnipath/Agniveer recruitment scheme for the Army and reiterated his support for caste-based census, besides...
Nepali PM Dahal’s Daughter At Modi Swearing-In Event: Heir In Line?
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav This might be stretching it a bit, but the presence of two daughters of note at the swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi as India’s Prime Minister for the third time in a row led to talk that their attendance must have been more than what...
