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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.How To Bring Down BJP’s Present Lok Sabha Seats To 220 In 2024 Lok Sabha Polls?
By Nitya Chakraborty For the opposition INDIA bloc, after a chilling two months of despair and political setbacks following the desertion of Nitish Kumar led JD(U) and Jayant Choudhury led RLD to NDA, the last seven days of February have brought new optimism in the INDIA ranks. The period...
Claim That Poverty Has Gone Down Below 5 Per Cent In India Is Wrong
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Just after publication of Household Consumption Expenditure Survey(HCES: 2022-23) by Nation Sample Survey Office (NSSO), politics on poverty has been initiated on behalf of PM Narendra Modi on the eve of Lok Sabha election 2024 by the top official of the government think tank NITI...
Seat Sharing Talks Between INDIA Bloc Constituents Is Finally Going Well
By Kalyani Shankar The doomsayers had predicted the seat sharing between the partners of the I.N.D.I. A coalition would fail, but they had progressed slowly. The alliance was gradually shaping in some states like Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra. The coalition is striving hard to put...
Rahul Gandhi Is Focusing On Caste Census As A Major Plank Of INDIA Campaign
By Sushil Kutty Congress spearhead and INDI-Alliance’s only hope Rahul Gandhi’s hoarse voice is what’s giving hope to those praying Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not get a third term. The Wayanad MP is asking people lining up to receive his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra and listening to his...
India Can’t Afford Government’s Coercive Policies Against Critical Media
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The internet has many reports from all around the world proclaiming that journalism is dying or the business of journalism is dying. Those who are part of this industry already know the truth. For several years, journalists stopped getting promotions as newspapers would just do...
Europe Facing A Big Dilemma Over Its Strategic Relationship With Russia
By Girish Linganna After the completion of two years of Russia-Ukraine war, Europe is facing a series of strategic issues concerning its relationship with Russia under President Putin. America is becoming less dependable and Europe is not adequately prepared. The problem is clear, but a solution on such a...
Kumar Shahani Was An Uncompromising Film Maker Pursuing His Own Aesthetics
By Tirthankar Mitra Does austerity match with aesthetics? Art house cinema icon, Kumar Shahani who passed away on Sundayattheageof83placed these two unlikely attributes side by side in his works in celluloid. It was no square peg in round whole existence. A look at the films he directed underscored the...
Non-Tariff Import Barriers May Be Used As A Weapon To Protect National Security
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s defence secretary Giridhar Armane’s outburst at the INDUS-X defence summit against China, last week, on the continuing troop face-offs in the Ladakh region exposed, if anything, the ministry’s frustration in dealing with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). The...
BSP Is Facing An Existential Crisis Before 2024 Lok Sabha Elections
By Sushil Kutty Bahujan Samaj Party is like the sinking ship in countless high seas stories. Should anybody be bothered? BSP Supremo ‘Behan’ Mayawati gives the impression she doesn’t see the BSP floundering. If Bahujan Samaj Party MPs are leaving the BSP, that is because they might not get...
Emboldened INDIA Bloc Raring To Take Saffron Brigade Head On
By Arun Srivastava While Rahul Gandhi, joined by his sister Priyanka Gandhi, resumed Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra from Moradabad on February 25, TV news channels and even some YouTubers were articulating their anxiety on whether Rahul would turn the massive mass upsurge which had flooded the streets and lanes...
Tamil Nadu May Witness Three Cornered Contest In Lok Sabha Elections
By K R Sudhaman It is not yet a done deal with regard to political alliances in Tamil Nadu for the 2024 Lok sabha elections. As the saying goes there are no permanent friends and no permanent enemies in politics. In Tamil Nadu, politics revolves round two Dravidian parties...
Formal Job Generation In India Hit Hard In Last 10 Years
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The latest EPFO data released last week shows that formal job generation in India has been a casualty since 2018-19 when new EPF subscribers joining the EPF were 13.94 million but had fallen to13.85 million in the year 2022-23. During this period there were great...
Booster Shot For Kerala LDF In Local Body Byelections
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The prophets of doom have ended up with egg on their faces. The Cassandras do not know where to rush for cover. Belying all dire predictions, the Left Democratic Front (LDF) has scored a morale-boosting victory in the local body by-elections held in several districts...
Donald Trump Forging Ahead To Get Republican Nomination For November 5 Prez Poll
By Kalyani Shankar On Saturday, former US President Donald Trump’s win over his challenger, Nikki Haley, intensified the American presidential election race. With this win, Trump is moving toward a clear path to the Republican nomination. He dominated the primaries so far, in which voters select a party’s nominee...
India Is Top Globally In Internet Shutdown Overtaking Russia
By Girish Linganna For the past 10 days, Sonal Singh (name changed), a 20-year-old Engineering student from Ambala, located in the state of Haryana, India, has been overwhelmed with feelings of frustration and anxiety. She is anxiously waiting for news about the reinstatement of internet services in the northern...
Saudi Arabia Is Set For A Transformation In Its Economic Programme
By Tirthankar Mitra Saudi Arabia, a country in popular imagination of white caped sheikhs driving around in limousines in broad avenues lined with sky scraping condominiums is on the cusp of a change. It is grappling with the task of reinventing its economy. It is going to be an...
Coerced Donations To BJP May Be Mother Of All Scams Under Modi Government
By K Raveendran The accusation by the Congress party on how the Modi government used the central agencies such as the CBI and Enforcement Directorate to coerce donations, has the potential to become the biggest scandal of Modi’s rule, perhaps something with the dimensions of the 2G spectrum scandal...
Rahul Stoops To Conquer, Sacrifices Few Seats For INDIA Bloc’s Benefit
By Arun Srivastava Pursuing the famous Marxist doctrine, one step forward and two steps backward, the Congress has relented to the demands of the satraps of the regional parties like TMC, SP and is virtually pitching to play second fiddle to them. To be reckoned as less important or...
