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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.Latest Russian Space Weapons Are A Growing Concern For Western Nations
By Girish Linganna Recent news about Russia testing new space technology has made countries all over the world worried. The future of warfare is expected to involve autonomous weapons, robots, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Another crucial aspect that has come up is the competition for control over space. Satellites...
Bolivia’s Ruling Leftwing Movement Vertically Split Before Prez Elections In 2025
By Olivia Arigho-Stiles Bolivia which elected the Left wing President Luis Arce in 2020 giving a big boost to the Left and progressive forces in Latin America, is facing a split in its political leadership with the present president fighting the former president and Arce’s mentor Evo Morales. Since...
Election Promises: Needed A Mechanism To Prevent Bluff Games By Political Parties
By K Raveendran The Indian election season is a vibrant spectacle. Rallies thrum with energy, multi-coloured flags flutter, and manifestos lay out grand visions for the future. Yet, beneath the celebratory veneer lies a troubling question: are these promises merely a game of rhetoric, with little chance of translation...
INDIA Bloc May Announce Seat-Sharing In Jharkhand Next Week
By Arun Srivastava With the mission to protect and sustain the Jharkhandi pride and its identity, the constituents of INDIA bloc have finalised the seat sharing and the draft proposal has been forwarded to the national coordination committee for its approval. The INDIA bloc is simply waiting for the...
Changing Political Landscape Since February 22 Going Against BJP
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The India TV-CNX survey, conducted between February 5 and 23, a period when BJP and PM Narendra Modi believed unprecedented gain after inauguration of Ram Temple in Ayodhya on January 22 and a prospect of INDIA alliance falling apart, revealed that their hope of winning...
Haley Blown Away As Trump, Biden Take Super Tuesday By Storm
By Sushil Kutty “Indian-American” Nikki Haley’s race against “American-American” Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination was belly up in all Super Tuesday states. The exception being Vermont, where even conservatives largely vote liberal. But after the votes were cast and the votes were counted, Trump hadn’t clinched the...
How Crowdfunding Concept Is Sweeping Hollywood Film Industry?
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav In a visionary move that reshapes the traditional Hollywood financing landscape, Paul Scanlan and Jeff Annison materialized their brainchild, Legion M, not merely as a production studio but as a thriving community. Breaking away from the conventional model, Legion M is part of a Hollywood...
Narendra Modi’s Gujarat Model Fails To Reduce Poverty In His Own State
By Subrata Majumder According to a NITI Aayog survey report, Gujarat is failing in reduction of poverty despite emerging as the fastest growing state in industrialization. The ranking of Gujarat in poverty alleviation is even lower than West Bengal – one of the poorest states in the country. Gujarat...
Closed Borders Along The Myanmar-India Line Having Humanitarian Issues
By Girish Linganna Gawa, originating from a Mizo village in Myanmar close to the Indian border, escaped in December after her village was destroyed by fire. Now, as a mother of two, she is among the numerous individuals seeking shelter along the border, attempting to escape the intensifying civil...
Durand Line: A Tool Of Deceit Employed Against Afghan People By The British Empire
By Manish Rai Last month the Taliban’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai while attending a public program said that there is an absence of an official border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. He further said that Afghanistan will never recognize the Durand Line as its official border with...
Supreme Court Must Reject SBI Plea For Granting Extension Of Deadline For Disclosure Of Bonds Details
By Nitya Chakraborty The State Bank of India’s plea to the Supreme Court seeking extension of time till June 30 this year to disclose details of electoral bonds encashed by political parties instead of March 6 as ordered by the apex court is nothing but a sordid attempt by...
China’s National People’s Congress Gives All Focus On Speedy Economic Growth
By Satyaki Chakraborty The seven day session of the National People’s Congress (NPC) of China began in Beijing on March 5 with the whole world, especially the international financial institutions like World Bank and IMF monitoring and analyzing every statement made by the Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang on...
Unemployment Declined To 3.1 Per Cent In 2023 In Government Data
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union government led by PM Narendra Modi has come out with “Key Employment Unemployment Indicators” for 2023 just on the eve of Lok Sabha election 2024, to present a rosy picture on “declining unemployment” since 2021 in India. Media headlines declared unemployment rate declined to...
The Controversy Over ‘Modi Ka Parivar’ Is Irrelevant, Not Desirable
By Sushil Kutty No family for Narendra Modi’ sounds innocuous enough. So why is the BJP making a hue and cry over Lalu Prasad Yadav pointing this out at the March 3 Patna INDI-Alliance Maharally? Lalu’s comment spawned ‘Modi Ka Parivar’, which the BJP says will be Prime Minister...
Houthi Aggression Suspected In India’s Undersea Internet Cable Damage
By Girish Linganna Internet connectivity across large parts of Asia, Europe, and the Middle East has experienced interruptions due to damages to the undersea cables serving these regions. Hong Kong’s HGC Global Communications has reported that up to 25% of internet traffic in the affected regions has been disrupted....
Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif Fails To Cheer The Common People Through His Maiden Speech
By Tirthankar Mitra Shehbaz Sharif, on taking charge as prime minister of a new Pakistani dispensation has raked up the Kashmir issue even as he finds himself presiding over a precarious economy with the country’s situation worsened by sharp polarisation and a fraught security system. Pakistan in so many...
The United Nations Has Failed To Keep Peace And Security In The World
By Nantoo Banerjee Two ongoing devastating wars – one in Ukraine and the other in the Gaza strip – have so far killed and injured tens of thousands of civilians since last year. The Ukraine-Russia war started in February 2022. As of February 15, this year, the Office of...
Why Global Tax On Super-Rich Is Imperative For Reducing Inequality In Society?
By Satyaki Chakraborty Brazil, as the president of G-20 has taken the move to place a proposal for the imposition of a global tax on super-rich in order to bring down the level of inequality between the rich and the poor in the current phase of the global economy....
