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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.Assam BJP Counter Attacks Anti-CAA Leaders Before Lok Sabha Polls
By Ashis Biswas Political parties and leaders in Assam who had launched a violent anti-Centre agitation in December 2019 that led to the death of five youths must acknowledge their guilt and assume full responsibility. Assam Chief Minister Mr. Himanta Biswas Sarma has challenged prominent state leaders like Lurinjyoti...
$5-Trillon Target Missed, Goal Post Shifted By Another Parliament Term
By K Raveendran The BJP’s 2019 manifesto had envisaged Indian economy hitting the $5 trillion mark, an audacious goal, that was to be achieved on the strengths of tax reforms, infrastructure development, and job creation. As the nation approaches the deadline, the party has moved the goal posts further...
Migrant Workers Continue To Suffer, Now In The Name Of Election
By Dr. Gyan Pathak In March 2020, India and the World came to know for the first time the frightening reality of the migrant workers in the country, when PM Narendra Modi announced COVID-19 lockdown on the evening of March 24. Economy was put to grinding halt, and with...
From NASA To Walmart, VR Headsets Give New Dimension To Research
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Apple has released its first major product since the launch of the Apple Watch in 2015. Recently, Apple launched Vision Pro, a virtual reality headset priced at $3499. Apple CEO Tim Cook, who came to Apple’s Fifth Avenue store in New York for the release...
In West Bengal Poll Campaign, Finally It Is Narendra Modi Versus Mamata Banerjee
By Tirthankar Mitra Releasing the party manifesto in Sikkim recently, BJP’s national chief JP Nadda has given a call to end the dispensation of regional parties’ in the country. Though a regional outfit, Sikkim Krantikari Morcha, the ruling party in this hill state being a part of the BJP-led...
Prisoners In Delhi Jails Should Be Eligible For Getting Essential Needs
By Harihar Swarup Once again, the life of a prisoner is in the public eye. What they eat, when they get up, how they sleep—these are questions being asked on social media platform, news shows and in private conversations. Curious minds are constantly wondering what special privileges will be...
Elon Musk- Narendra Modi Meet Will Shape Tesla’s India Future
By Girish Linganna Elon Musk has announced that he is excited about his upcoming meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi later this month in the Indian capital. This news comes amid speculation that Tesla is exploring locations for a new manufacturing plant in India. Musk shared his enthusiasm on...
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...
