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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.China’s National People’s Congress Ends With High Confidence But Less Exuberance
By Satyaki Chakraborty The seven day session of the China’s National People’s Congress ended on Monday in Beijing with a call for mobilizing the resources of the country for the building of a robust economy based on high tech and AI. There was the customary declaration about the more...
CAA Notification Can Help BJP In Fifteen Lok Sabha Constituencies In Bengal
By Girish Linganna The Citizenship (Amendment) Act seeks to put on a fast-track Indian citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians—but not Muslims—who migrated to India on or before December 31, 2014, because of religious persecution in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. The law was passed by the...
Bengal Is Poised For A Fierce Battle Between Trinamool Congress And BJP In Lok Sabha Polls
By Tirthankar Mitra The gloves are off. Overruling possibilities of a poll tie up with Congress, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee announced the names of all the 42 candidates of her party for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections thereby stealing a march on BJP, CPI(M) and Congress, political rivals...
Bihar INDIA Bloc Will Announce Seat Sharing After NDA List Is Out
By Arun Srivastava While the disintegration of the INDIA bloc in Bengal has enthused the rightist forces, the delay in announcing the final silhouette of seat-sharing in Bihar has disheartened the centrist and secular forces. It is the unpleasant development in Bengal that has turned them sceptical. However, the...
Lok Sabha Polls 2024 May Witness Most Intensive Campaign On Communal Lines
By Sushil Kutty The run-up to General Elections 2024 has moved into its final lap with the rules of engagement largely undemarcated. Excepting one that India’s largest “minority” will have little room for even random acts of defiance. The Modi government has played its ace-in-the-hole and will not retract....
India Has Done Well At WTO Meeting At Abu Dhabi To Protect Trade Interests
By K R Sudhaman There are reasons for India to be satisfied with the outcome of the just concluded World Trade Organisation ministerial, the 13th ministerial conference that ended in Abu Dhabi last week. India was represented by its Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal. Though there was no...
The 18th Lok Sabha Election May Witness Record Cash Spending By Candidates, Political Parties
By Nantoo Banerjee The Election Commission of India (ECI) may be trying hard to control questionable electioneering practices which have been increasingly corrupting the process of free and fair election over the years, but it is unlikely to find it easy to influence or direct the behaviour of ruling...
Congratulations To Supreme Court Again For Exposing The Political Game Of Modi Regime
By Nitya Chakraborty Congratulations to the Supreme Court bench headed by the CJI Dr. D Y Chandrachud once again for exposing the political game of the Narendra Modi Government on the disclosure of the electoral bonds details. The CJI showed his firmness on Monday by asking the SBI to...
Election Commission Itself Suffered A Casualty, More Challenges Ahead
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Election Commission of India (ECI) itself suffered a serious casualty on the eve of Lok Sabha election with resignation of election commissioner Arun Goel, just a couple of days before announcement of the General Election 2024. Obviously, it needs to heal itself first, in absence...
American Voters Lacking Enthusiasm About November Presidential Polls
By Kalyani Shankar Who will be the next President of the United States? Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the current and former Presidents, are competing for the White House. They won most of the seats in the Super Tuesday primary. This is the first time in almost 70 years...
Ruling Socialists Concede Defeat In Portugal Elections As Far Right Gains
By Satyaki Chakraborty The far right trends in the elections in European countries continued as Portugal voters gave the centre-right Democratic Alliance(AD) and the far right Chega Party a clear mandate to rule the country of 10.2 million people for the next term defeating the ruling Socialist Party and...
Confusion Galore Over Real Reason Of Arun Goel’s Sudden Resignation
By Sushil Kutty Why would an election commissioner abruptly resign on the eve of a general election? Prime Minister Narendra Modi is bereft of an answer. Could be he doesn’t want to provide one. As it is, the Modi-Shah duo is loath to answer “naughty” questions and it has...
Congress In Kerala Shell-Shocked By Padmaja Venugopal’s Joining BJP
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Murphy’s Law is operating in full cry in the case of the Congress party in Kerala. Nothing seems to be going right for the benighted party, which is struggling to get its act together, with the Lok Sabha elections just two months away. The...
Exit Of Brahmin Leaders From Congress In Madhya Pradesh Is A Boost To BJP
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: The Congress, particularly Madhya Pradesh Congress suffered a rude shock when one of the senior most leaders, Suresh Pachauri, severing his almost fifty year old ties joined the BJP. Reacting the state leadership felt that his departure will not affect the party organisation because...
Russian President Vladimir Putin Is Set To Secure His Fifth Term In March 17 Elections
By Girish Linganna Present Russian President Vladimir Putin is poised to secure his fifth presidential term in the March 17 elections, extending his leadership to over 25 years, the most prolonged tenure since Joseph Stalin’s. With the Kremlin managing the electoral process with an iron grip, Putin encounters no...
BJP’s Seat-Sharing Exercise With Former NDA Allies Exposes Its Faultlines
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As the BJP inches forward with its seat-sharing exercise with current and potential allies, including its estranged former partners in the NDA, its faultlines, till now given cover by PM Narendra Modi’s authoritarianism, have started coming out into the open. The BJP-BJD alliance talks took...
Commotion And Confusion As 2024 General Elections Nears
By Harihar Swarup The Rajya Sabha elections have stirred a political commotion, not only because of cross-voting, as has often taken place in the past, but also because the BJP is out to get every seat it can and the defeat of the official Congress candidate in Himachal Pradesh...
SBI’s Vulgar Ploy To Use Secrecy To Fight Transparency Gives Itself Away
By K Raveendran It is the height of irony that a scheme touted as a beacon of transparency in political funding now shrouds itself in secrecy. The electoral bond scheme, which the Bharatiya Janata Party claimed was a tool to bring clarity to political funding, stands accused of obfuscation....
