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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 Personal Law Board To Stage Protests Against Waqf Amendment Bill On Thursday
By Sushil Kutty Thursday and Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, just this side of Parliament Street and a kilometre from Parliament House, which was not long ago claimed as “Waqf Property”, will see a massive protest against the Modi Government’s Waqf Board Amendment Bill, 2024, spearheaded by the All-India...
Canadian PM Designate Mark Carney Has The Toughest Task In Dealing With Trump
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Mark Carney has been elected leader of Canada’s Liberal Party in months-long, high stake race to replace the present Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Now the question that follows is twofold – can he repair the deteriorating relations between Canada and USA as the...
CPI-M Meet Endorses Blueprint For Kerala’s Future Development
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The 24th State Conference of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) concluded with a ringing reiteration of its intent to build on the spectacular gains the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government has made during the nine years it has been in power. The...
How India’s Regulatory Crackdown Is Silencing Feminist Organisations?
By Sudarsana Kundu / Arundhati Sridhar We are at a critical juncture in the relationship between the citizen and the State in India. The concept of individuals as rights-bearing citizens has been overshadowed by the State’s authority in every sphere, effectively reshaping the very foundation of democracy. Since 2014,...
Trump’s Tariff Threats Have Made Mexican President Sheinbaum More Stronger
By Kurt Hackbarth TORONTO: Last Sunday, a rally led by President Claudia Sheinbaum filled Mexico City’s central square, the Zócalo. It was not, however, a political party event, a historical commemoration, or a state of the union address. It was a national unity rally called in the face of...
Joker Zelensky Should Return To His Old Job, Playing Piano With Penis
By Nantoo Banerjee Returning empty-handed and crestfallen from his meeting with United States President Donald Trump, popular satirical comedian turned Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky looks more like a totally confused person now. He doesn’t know whom to trust — highly peeved US President Donald Trump or the leaders of...
India Must Be Ready With Its Alternate Plan To Meet Damage To Exports Due To U.S. Tariff Hike
By Kalyani Shankar U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement of reciprocal tariffs on India starting April 2 has caused serious concern in New Delhi. India’s high import taxes on American goods have long been contentious, now affecting trade partners. This move is not without its consequences. It puts exports like...
Are Money Laundering Cases Linked To Chhattisgarh Liquor Scam Political?
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday. March 10 raided several premises of former Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh Bhupesh Baghel as part of probe into a money laundering case involving his son Chaitanya Baghel, which Congress has alleged a part of BJP’s political conspiracy. Bhupesh Baghel’s...
BJP and RSS Have Revived The Hindi Imposition Issue With An Eye On 2029 Lok Sabha Polls
By Arun Srivastava Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin’s protest against imposition of Hindi and his assertion that the state is “ready for another language war” is not merely politics, it is rather manifestation of assertion of Tamilian sub nationality. For him the move of Modi government to impose...
Narendra Modi Has Put All His Focus On Winning Assembly Polls In Bihar By Year End
By Sushil Kutty The Bihar assembly elections are still months ahead but why waste time? The Bharatiya Janata Party is in a hurry much before the elections. And it doesn’t matter if Prime Minister Narendra Modi continues to cultivate his ‘Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas’ narrative, there is little evidence...
Trump’s Reciprocal Tariff Policy Will Hit India’s Agriculture And Food Products
By Subrata Majumder United States President Donald Trump’s abusing global trade by tariff retaliation with countries having trade deficit has raised much hue and cry. However the magnitude of trade deficit with India is insignificant due to low stake (5 percent), as compared to Vietnam and China. USA is...
China Is Preparing For A Fight At Equal Level With Trump On Tariff War
By Asad Mirza As if the tariff war against almost the whole world, leading among them China, Mexico, Canada, and India, hots up, it portrays the leading hero, Trump in this case, frothing at the mouth and cursing and cussing everyone, if he does not get what he wants,...
I’m Still Here ‘Film Of Brazil Is An Incredibly Deserving Oscar Winner
By Charlie Prado NEW YORK: Last week on March 2, ordinary Brazilians have been jubilant at the news that I’m Still Here pocketed an Oscar — the first ever Brazilian film to do so. Walter Salles’s work, which stars Fernanda Torres and Selton Mello, is a powerful exposition of...
Crude Oil’s Downward Spiral Has Just Begun; Tariffs Take Time To Sink In
By K Raveendran Oil prices have hit their lowest since October and by all indications the downward move is far from over. Brent has already dipped below 70 dollars per barrel as the market is feeling the weight of a supply overhang, with OPEC+ barrels set to flood an...
Women’s Employment Will Take 200 Years To Attain Gender Equality
By Dr. Gyan Pathak On a business-as-usual basis, achieving gender equality in employment rate will take another two centuries, says the new brief given by the International Labour Organization, which was released on March 8, International Women’s Day. The brief, which also marks the 30th anniversary of the Beijing...
Mysterious Mathematics Of Prime Minister Modi’s ‘Viksit Bharat’ By 2047
By Sanjay Roy A huge campaign is going on across the country about India aspiring to become a developed country in 2047. There is nothing wrong in targeting something big with the hope that even if it fails, we could still reach somewhere near to what had been the...
Economics At The Crossroads: Two Alternative Growth Paradigms
By Prabhat Patnaik Nobody can claim that the rate of growth of agricultural production, especially of foodgrain, has been higher in the neoliberal period than during the years of dirigiste development that preceded it. It may have been somewhat lower but let us agree that it was certainly not...
Saving Prime Minister Modi’s Guarantee Mahila Samriddhi Yojana
By Sushil Kutty Just in the nick of time! Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta saved Prime Minister Narendra Modi more than embarrassment. She didn’t let “Modi’s Guarantee” go waste like it has occasionally before. Prime Minister Modi had underwritten the BJP’s ‘Mahila Samriddhi Yojana’, which it had promised for...
