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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.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....
Major Legal-Political Victory For Cash-Strapped Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran Cash-strapped Kerala scored a significant legal-political victory when the Supreme Court directed the Union Government to allow the State additional market borrowing to the tune of Rs 13,608 crore. The apex court’s ruling has come as a big relief for Kerala, which has been struggling to...
President Joe Biden Plans A Temporary Food Port For Hungry Gazans
By Sushil Kutty The United States in its latest “let’s alleviate Gazans’ condition” will build a port on the Gaza coastline for easing the movement of relief into the war-torn city of the dead and a few living. This isn’t President Joe Biden’s brainwave, but the POTUS mentioned it...
Gaza War Turns Palestine Into A Potential Middle Eastern Lightning Rod
By James M Dorsey The Gaza war has turned Palestine into a lightning rod for mounting frustration and discontent in Arab autocracies such as Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. Concerned that the war could mobilise segments of civil society, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates where any...
President Biden Opts For Economic Populism At Home, Imperialism Abroad
By Mark Gruenberg President Joe Biden’s last State of the Union address before the 2024 elections laid out an agenda of sharp contrasts, with economic populism dominating domestic policy and Cold War confrontation and militarism defining his international strategy. At home, Biden pledged to impose higher taxes on billionaires...
Russia And China To Set Up A Nuclear Power Plant On The Moon
By Tirthankar Mitra Asking for the moon ceased to denote seeking the impossible ever since the first man landed on earth’s sole god-made satellite in the year 1969, it didn’t matter whether it was a “blue moon” or a “hunter’s moon.” What had been a giant leap for mankind...
In Mexico, Leftwing Morena Looks Poised To Win The Presidency Again
By Kurt Hackbarth On Friday, March 1, Mexico’s left-wing Morena party marked the beginning of the country’s official presidential campaign season with a kickoff event in Mexico City’s central square, or Zócalo. Before a maximum-capacity crowd and following an introduction by the party’s mayoral candidate for the city, Clara...
BJP-TDP-JSP Alliance To Make Andhra Pradesh Polls Competitive
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) have agreed in principle for an alliance on the eve of Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha election 2024 in Andhra Pradesh. Both the BJP and the TDP are in urgent need to ally to protect...
BJP Opens Up To Its Estranged Allies To Score High In Lok Sabha Polls
By Arun Srivastava Just 13 months back, precisely on February 10, 2023, Narendra Modi had made an audacious boast on the floor of Rajya Sabha “ek akela sab par bhari” (he alone was overpowering for all). He had even said “one person is proving too much for so many”....
Sweden Joining NATO As A New Member Poses No Fresh Threat To Russia
By Sushil Kutty Sweden joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and Europe is more secure. Finland joined and it wasn’t similar hype. Finland is Sweden’s neighbour. Both added muscle to NATO. The feeling runs deep — deeper than the Atlantic Ocean — that the more European countries join NATO,...
Congress Seeks Votes On Right To Employment, Minimum Wage Guarantee
By Rahil Nora Chopra Seeking to woo the country’s youth, the Congress has promised the “right to employment” as well as Rs.1 lakh a year apprenticeship for youths after graduation as part of its poll promise for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, besides mulling stringent punishment to those responsible...
