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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.CAA’s Implementation Just Before National Election Looks Purely Political
By Nantoo Banerjee On the face of it the controversial citizenship amendment act of 2019 may appear to be purely humanitarian. It provides the government with a special provision to expedite the citizenship process for non-Muslim migrants – including Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Christians, and Parsis — to India...
Curbing Money And Muscle Power Imperative For Smoother Holding Of Lok Sabha Polls
By Kalyani Shankar The Chief Election Commissioner, Rajiv Kumar, has announced the 18th Lok Sabha election schedule, starting on April 19. He has identified four major problems that affect India’s free and fair elections. These are the 4Ms: Muscle power, Money power, Misinformation, and violations of the Model Code...
Once Crypto’s Poster Boy, Sam Bankman-Fried Faces Jail Upto 50 Years
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, could be looking at a lengthy prison sentence. US prosecutors have recommended that he be sentenced to 40-50 years behind bars, along with a hefty fine of $11 billion. Bankman-Fried was convicted in November...
Defending Democracy Against Authoritarianism Has Become The Main Task In Britain
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Scores of Tory MPs are announcing in advance they will throw in the towel at the general election, which Labour is expected to win. Work to shape the political landscape the next government will confront is now essential, particularly because Labour is determined not to...
Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra Places Rahul Gandhi At The Top Of INDIA Block
By Sushil Kutty When the INDI-Alliance prepared for the Mumbai Shivaji Park public meeting to congratulate Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for completing the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in the set time, there were folks who said Rahul’s 2nd Yatra was a “flop” going by the standards set by the...
Electoral Bonds Scheme Conspiracy Must Be Fully Revealed
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Initial disclosure of the names of purchaser of electoral bonds has established beyond doubt that PM Narendra Modi’s Electoral Bonds Scheme was just a conspiracy to sell government favours. Modi government had also a strategy to intimidate people to purchase electoral bonds or else face...
In ‘Haven Of Democracy’ Voters Are Most Unhappy About The Two Presidential Choices
By Tirthankar Mitra America has always been a land of plenty leaving the US citizens spoilt for choice. Strangely enough, the US voters have little option when their country goes to polls to choose its President. It is an election whose effects will be felt both at home and...
Bansuri Sounds Odd In Bharatiya Janata Party’s Delhi Lok Sabha Candidates List
By Harihar Swarup Among the most unexpected entrants in the BJP’s first list of Lok Sabha nominees is Bansuri Swaraj, the 40-year-old daughter of the BJP’s Sushma Swaraj, for whom the late BJP leader was known to leave meetings at times, to rush to be at the bus-stop when...
Electoral Bonds In His Troubled Mind, Modi’s Stock Goes South
By Sushil Kutty BJP-hating southerners identify Prime Minister Narendra Modi with everything they believe Indians can live without. With Electoral Bonds. With the Ayodhya Ram Mandir. With the Citizen’s Amendment Rules. With the overbearing nature of BJP leaders. With the breakdown of Rule of Law. With bulldozers running amok....
Governments Must Ensure Early Implementation Of Living Wage Pact
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The International Labour Organization’s (ILO’s) endorsement of the agreement on living wage has opened the door to new work to be accomplished to advance social justice. All stakeholders in the labour market, including governments and trade unions, must ensure the early implementation of the agreement...
Techno-Turbulence: Role Of AI, Deepfakes In India’s Election Dynamics
By Girish Linganna As India prepares for its upcoming general election, artificial intelligence has become a battleground for political parties. Experts caution that current regulations are falling behind rapidly advancing technologies like deepfakes. The move from conventional campaigning methods to utilizing AI for gaining votes was evident during the...
World Consumer Rights Day: Behaviour, Technology And Law
By Mahima Garg The term ‘consumer’ has not been given an exhaustive legal definition in international law, but the US President, John F. Kennedy’s statement that “consumers, by definition, include us all”, while introducing a draft Bill on consumer rights on March 15, 1962 (now celebrated as World Consumer...
Biden May Not Have Enough Rope To Push His Vision Of The Middle East
By James M Dorsey This year’s US presidential elections are not the only potential hurdle confronting President Joe Biden’s multi-pronged vision for a Middle East peace once the Gaza war ends. So is Israeli intransigence, the prospect of a long-term insurgency in post-war Gaza, and increasing Saudi Chinese technological...
With Indian Missiles Also On MIRV Diet, Will It Be A Nuclear Arms Race?
By Girish Linganna An observer on Abdul Kalam Island may have seen a missile launch on March 11, which may have appeared similar to previous launches. If the observer had paid closer attention, she would have noticed it was actually the tenth test of the Agni V missile, India’s...
Modi Government’s Election-Eve Manoeuvres Smell To Kingdom Come
By P. Sudhir Three developments in one week – one positive and the other two, negative. The first was the Supreme Court order directing the State Bank of India to submit to the Election Commission by March 12 the details of electoral bonds for the Election Commission to put...
Electoral Bond: SC’s Worst Fears Of Quid Pro Quo Proven Right
By K Raveendran The worst fears of quid pro quo between purchasers of electoral bonds and beneficiary political parties in power, which the Supreme Court expressed elaborately in its judgment on the electoral bond scheme, have come true. It turns out that some of the largest bond purchases had...
BJP Goes To Town With The ‘Winnability’ Hype In Madhya Pradesh
By Dr. Gyan Pathak By announcing candidates for all 29 Lok Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh, the BJP has taken the lead over the INDIA bloc, which is yet to declare all its candidates. The BJP leadership is taking advantage of the situation and is creating a hype over...
NDA To Get ‘411’, Mega Opinion Poll Crosses All Boundaries
By Sushil Kutty India’s “biggest such survey”, unrolled on March 14, gave the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA ‘411’ seats, keeping Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “400 paar” in mind. The “mega opinion poll” says the BJP alone will bag 350, 20 short of Modi’s ‘370’ brag. And, just so that...
