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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.Lull In Real Estate Market In China Is Restraining Demand For Steel In 2024
By Kunal Bose WorldSteel in its latest short-term global outlook report says about China: “The outlook for 2024 is uncertain. The real estate market and exports will continue to exert negative pressure on steel demand and it might contract in the absence of additional government support measures.” Steelmakers in...
Tussle For Supremacy In Congress In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Congress leaders in Kerala are back at their bickering game again. That is the unmistakable message emanating from the sordid goings on witnessed during the campaign for the Lok Sabha elections. Adding insult to injury is the ‘decision’ of Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president...
Joe Biden Has Continued Donald Trump’s Policy Of Crippling Cuban Economy
By Antoni Kapcia WASHINGTON: In early 2021, Cubans faced a triple crisis. Since 2017, Donald Trump had decreed 243 presidential measures to make the long-standing US embargo tighter than at any time since the mid 1960s. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the problem by closing Cuba’s borders to tourism, a...
Labour Party’s First Six Steps For New Govt Fall Below The Real Demands
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Labour’s “six first steps,” the priority actions it will take when in government, are testimony to the shrivelled state of the party’s ambitions as well as of it’s long post-Corbyn march to the right. Voters looking for determined action to improve their circumstances and address...
Purkayastha Arrest: There Is More Than Technicalities At Stake
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court decision to declare the arrest of Prabir Purkayastha, founder of news website NewsClick as illegal has reignited the debate on the delicate balance between national security concerns and individual liberty. While Purkayastha’s release is a positive development, the court’s reasoning raises questions about...
Modi Back To Polarising Hindus Ahead Of Last Three Phases Of Polling
By Arun Srivastava Within twenty hours of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s much-hyped public assertion, saying “if I do Hindu-Muslim, would not be fit for public life”, he made a classic somersault and declared: “Congress wanted to allocate 15 per cent budget to Muslims”. On Tuesday, while filing his nomination...
The Post-Bail Behaviour Of Arvind Kejriwal Is Becoming Curiouser And Curiouser
By Sushil Kutty If the Bharatiya Janata Party wins June 4, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will become Prime Minister and Yogi Adityanath will be removed from his post of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister in three months and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will join LK Advani in the ‘Marg-darshak...
BJP Led NDA’s Majority In 18th Lok Sabha Does Not Seem To Be A Done Thing
By Dr. Gyan Pathak By announcing outside support to INDIA bloc, Trinamool Congress Supremo Mamata Banerjee has just expressed the opposition’s belief at the pick of election campaign for the fifth phase that India is heading for a hung parliament. Election campaign for the fifth phase will end on...
Hiking Deposit Rates By SBI In The Midst Of Lok Sabha Polls Smacks Of Politics
By Anjan Roy In the context of the US presidential election, economists and political scientists are all wondering why the ground performance of the American economy is not boosting incumbent Joe Biden’s popularity. US unemployment rate is at rock bottom levels, the economy is growing steadily, there is no...
Preventing Muslims From Voting In Sambhal By Uttar Pradesh Police Was Inspired By PM
By P. Sudhir Narendra Modi cannot speak nowadays anything which even approximates the truth. His latest false utterance is in an interview after having filed his nomination in Varanasi. Modi said that when he talked of “those who have more children”, he had not meant Muslims. He further went...
Conviction Of The Killers Of Narendra Dhabolkar Was Long Overdue
By Krishna Jha In the early hours of August 20, 2013, Narendra Dabholkar was on his morning walk, part of his daily routine, when two bikers drove up to him and shot him dead. Dabholkar was a rationalist, believed in scientific thinking, and always tried to struggle against any...
India Has Planned To Triple Nuclear Capacity By 2030 With Russia’s Rosatom
By Girish Linganna India is set to triple its civilian nuclear power capacity by 2030 in collaboration with Russia. Rosatom is poised to significantly contribute to India’s objective of tripling its nuclear power production. Rosatom is a Russian state corporation specializing in nuclear energy and nuclear power plant construction...
What Is The Truth Behind Prime Minister Modi’s ‘Hindu-Muslim’ Clarification?
By Sushil Kutty Fact-checker Muhammed Zubair checked and declared Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not speak the truth. Modi did indeed do ‘Hindu-Muslim’ as he went about drumming support from Hindus. But Zubair stopped short of asking Modi to “quit public life” as Modi said he would if he...
Modi Gives Inheritance Tax A Spin To Create Communal Polarisation In Larger Agenda
By K Raveendran Narendra Modi has an uncanny knack for converting insults hurled at him into campaign rallying points, with verbal slips by Congress leaders ending up overturning Modi and his party’s s electoral fortunes. It was during the 2014 general elections, that Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar referred...
Narendra Modi Turns Defensive Before The Fifth Phase Of Elections
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the first prime minister of India alleged to have violated the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) on Hindu-Muslim communal lines during his campaigns for the Lok Sabha General Election, and a petition was filed in the Supreme Court of India...
Carrying The Long Family Tradition In Rae Bareli Lok Sabha Constituency
By Harihar Swarup Rahul Gandhi faces a tough battle in Rae Bareli where he locks horn with local strongman Dinesh Pratap Singh of the BJP. For every boundary that is breached in politics; there is a homecoming; for every leap into the unknown, a fallback into the comfort of...
In Many Constituencies Of Madhya Pradesh, Voters Apathy Led To Low Turn Out
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Concern is being expressed, both in political and official circles over the drop in voting percentage while final picture yet to emerge. It is estimated that polling was better in rural areas while there was marked apathy in urban areas. The apathy was so...
Turncoat Lok Sabha Member Arjun Singh Of BJP Fights Partha Bhoumik Of TMC
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA:A turncoat bahubali the present member of Lok Sabha Arjun Singh of BJP will take on an actor turned state minister Partha Bhoumik when Barrackpore constituency o West Bengal goes to the polls on May 20. Even as sitting MP Arjun switched loyalty from Trinamool Congress...
