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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.Biden And Hamas Tie Up Israeli Prime Minister In Knots
By James M Dorsey Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is tying himself up in knots as he grudgingly, and only to a limited degree, bows to US President Joe Biden’s demands. In doing so, Netanyahu is puncturing Swiss-cheese size holes into Israel’s Gaza narrative, making it easier for Mr....
Supreme Court Must Intervene To Restrain Central Agencies Operations Against Opposition Till June 1
By Nitya Chakraborty It may be a bit late as only six days are left for the beginning of the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections on April 19, but still it is high time that the Supreme Court intervenes to ensure level playing field for the opposition...
Narendra Modi’s Communal Campaigning Violates Model Code Of Conduct
By P. Sudhir The election campaign of the BJP led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is resorting to open appeals based on religion. It has made the Ram temple an election issue and dubbed some of the opposition parties as being against the temple and Lord Ram. This is...
Rahul’s Nyay Yatra Paying Dividend To Congress In North East
By Dr. Gyan Pathak All the eight states in the North Eastern part of the country will go for poll in the first phase of Lok Sabha Election 2024 on April 19, covering 14 Lok Sabha Constituencies out of 25 in the region.BJP seems to have upper hand in...
Narendra Modi Will Resort To Any Means To Win Lok Sabha Election
By Arun Srivastava In the drawing room of a famous Bengali writer, who is certainly not known to have a strong anti-system views, in the posh locality of politically sensitive South Calcutta on Sunday, a group of academics, filmmakers, retired IPS and army officers, in a pensive mood, are...
AAP’s Door-To-Door Drive, Congress Candidates Soon For May 25 LS Polls
By Rahil Nora Chopra The AAP on 9 April initiated a door-to-door drive in Delhi’s Shahdara as part of its “Jail ka Jawab Vote se” campaign to seek support for Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is currently lodged in Tihar jail. Under the campaign, AAP leaders will visit every...
Bengal Govt-BSF Spat Over Guarding Of Borders Helps Smugglers
By Ashis Biswas In India, it would be hard to name any political party that attacks the Border Security Force (BSF) organisation more viciously than the Mamata Banerjee-led Bengal-based Trinamool Congress (TMC), through its statements and allegations. This being a general election year, the political ramifications of the TMC’s...
Israel-Iran Confrontation May Help Netanyahu To Appease President Biden
By Girish Linganna Recently, tensions have surged between Iran and Israel. On Twitter, Iran’s top leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, stated that Israel’s reported attack on a site within an Iranian embassy area in Damascus— capital of Syria and one of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited cities—was tantamount to aggression...
Workers Rise Up Against Finland’s Right-Wing Pro-NATO Government
By Mark Gruenberg HELSINKI: Shades of the far-right British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher more than 40 years ago: After just over a year in office, Finland’s right-wing, pro-NATO Prime Minister Petteri Orpo, a supporter of sending weapons to Ukraine, is trying to bust Finnish unions through wide curbs on...
The Great Oil Price Game Is On; Be Ready To Be Rattled By Post-Election ‘Adjustments’
By K Raveendran The stage is again set for the great deception game. With oil already on the boil, there is a task on the hands of the Modi government and its faithful oil companies to enact another episode of the pe-election drama, which has by now become a...
Political Equation In Western Uttar Pradesh Is Changing Before Polls
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Political equation in Western Uttar Pradesh is changing fast with several social groups changing their political loyalties. The 26 Lok Sabha Constituencies in the region are going to poll in the first three phases on April 19, 26, and May 7, 2024. BJP had won...
Arvind Kejriwal’s Fate Now Depends On The Stand Of Supreme Court
By Sushil Kutty Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal knocked on the Supreme Court’s door Wednesday and sought “urgent listening”. Senior Advocate A M Singhvi, Kejriwal’s counsel, asserted that the Delhi Chief Minister’s arrest was based on an” unrelied document” and “suppressed from us”. Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud...
NCERT Is Revising School Text Books Distorting History Of The Country
By Krishna Jha NCERT has suggested revision in the book ‘Politics in India since Independence’, taught in schools. The book has been in the syllabus since 2006-07 and the text that faces change has a four-page section (pages 148-151) on the Ayodhya dispute which details the sequence of events:...
Rise And Rise Of Trinamool Congress ‘Senapati’ Abhisekh Banerjee
By Tirthankar Mitra Abhishek Banerjee is the first among equals in Trinamool Congress being considered to be the political heir of his aunt and party supremo Mamata Banerjee. In this respect he stands head above shoulders above young and veteran leaders of the ruling dispensation of West Bengal. Growing...
A Resurgent Congress Is Imperative To Challenge BJP’s Domination In Politics
By Girish Linganna The revival of the Congress party is regarded as crucial, as stated by The Diplomat. The article mentions that any substantial pan-India challenge to the political dominance of the BJP in Indian national elections would require the participation of the Congress party. In other words, The...
Former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh Retires From Politics After 33 Years
By Harihar Swarup The Congress Parliamentary Party was meeting in Central Hall after 2004 Lok Sabha poll results, to elect a leader who will be Prime Minister. The Congress had secured majority under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi and all expectations were that she will be PM. Newly elected...
Greater Middle East Is A Ticking Time Bomb Waiting To Explode Any Time
By James M Dorsey The Greater Middle East is a ticking time bomb. Generations in war-wracked Palestine, Syria, and Yemen have little, if anything, to look forward to. Moreover, discontent is mounting and could explode anytime in countries like Jordan, Egypt, and Iran. Palestine is a pressure cooker. Gazan...
Independent Candidate Robert Kennedy May Act As A Spoiler To Biden’s Victory
By John Bachtell In the highly polarized Presidential elections in America scheduled in November this year, the announcement by Robert Kennedy Jr. has caused a slight jolt to the prospects of the Democratic Party nominee President Joe Biden. If the anti-MAGA majority is united and votes strategically in the...
