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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.As RJD’s ‘Peoples’ Man’, Tejashvi Yadav Dazzles In Bihar Assembly
By Arun Srivastava In his political career spanning half a century, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, must not have on any other occasion looked like a dwarf, as he was made to appear by the political youngster in the RJD leader Tejashvi Yadav. The Nitish-sponsored confidence motion in Bihar assembly...
India Is Now A Key Centre For Illegal Drug Trade And Trafficking
By Girish Linganna According to the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), supported by the United Nations (UN), India has emerged as a key centre for illegal drug trade and trafficking, contributing significantly to the global drug trade, valued at over $650 billion. The World Drug Report, 2022, by the...
Iran And USA Are Engaged In A Proxy War In West Asia Through Militias
By Tirthankar Mitra There has not been much love lost between Iran and America ever since the last monarch of the Pahlavi dynasty fled his country which passed to governance of the followers of Ayotollah Khomeini. With politicians like elephants having long memories, the clashes between Iran-backed militia and...
France’s Far Right Is Gaining In Working Class Areas At The Cost Of Left
By Julian Mischi For decades, France’s left was dominated by the French Communist Party (PCF), an organization that built up strong networks of support in working-class France over the twentieth century. Yet from the 1980s onward this mighty organization declined, leaving a vacuum to be filled. The Front National...
India Must Double Up Its Defence Production To Grow GDP, Employment
By Nantoo Banerjee With China rapidly developing and deploying potent anti-satellite (A-Sat) weapons, India’s defence industry must work on manufacturing similar defence equipment to bolster the country’s counter space capabilities. The issue has been taken up at the highest level of India’s defence management. Last week, the country’s Chief...
Tamil Superstar Vijay’s New Party Has Thrown Up A Challenge To Both DMK And AIADMK
By Kalyani Shankar Tamil superstar Thalapathy Vijay launched his political party, Thamizhaga Vetri Kazhagam, last week. He declared that his party will only contest the 2026 Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu, not the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. The question is whether he will succeed. After the launch of his...
India’s Workforce To Face Bigger Threat Of Modern Slavery
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Walk Free Foundation had mentioned in its report released in May 2023 that India topped in the list of the countries of the world with incidence of 11 million in modern slavery, with prevalence rate of 8 per 1000 people and rate of vulnerability...
Farmers Are Again Heading For Delhi Demanding Fulfilment Of Promises
By Sushil Kutty In the next few days, lakhs of farmers unhappy with the Modi government will be making banner headlines in national and international media all over again and the Modi government’s Bharat Ratna for kisan leader, the former Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh, will be taken as...
US Policy Makers Are In Dilemma Over How To Deal With Imran Khan
By Arun Srivastava Notwithstanding making use of best efforts to hide behind the façade of not being partisan, the USA administration could not conceal its shock and aversion to Imran Khan, chief of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), emerging as the leader of the single largest group of PTI backed independents...
Russia And Iran Are The Two Countries Suffering Maximum Sanctions In The World
By Girish Linganna Sunday (February 11, 2024) marks the 45th anniversary of the overthrow of US-supported Iranian King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (commonly referred to in the Western world as Mohammed Reza Shah) by public revolt, leading to the creation of the Islamic Republic of Iran. This event greatly changed...
Pakistani Voters Have Proclaimed Their Faith In Democracy, Election Commission Has To Reciprocate
By Tirthankar Mitra Pakistan is left sans an announced victor after its recently held elections. It is time for the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to take call. In doing so, the ECP will have to look the army in the eye. For it is the army which has...
Vietnam Is Doing A Fine Balancing Between Us And China To Attract Investment
By Kunal Bose who recently visited Vietnam KOLKATA: South-east Asian countries led by Vietnam and India for hi-tech industries and Sri Lanka for the more traditional kind like clothing are engaged in a competition to be recipient of foreign funded capacity being decoupled from China by a growing number...
Cryptocurrency Market Is Once Again Booming With Bitcoin Crossing $48,000
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The world of cryptocurrency is once again grabbing attention, with Bitcoin (BTC) crossing past the $ 48,000 mark last week and sustaining the level over the last two days. In the last seven days, BTC has gained 13.3%, and its fully diluted market cap is...
President Vladimir Putin’s Interview With Tucker Carlson Is A Geopolitical Milestone
By Annie Domini At the moment of writing this column, over 160 million views have been garnered on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) in a span of 24 hours by what’s now being touted as the most definitive interview of the decade, that of Russian President Vladimir...
Bharat Ratna, P V Narasimha Rao Carried Out A Surgical Operation On Indian Economy In 1991
By Nitya Chakraborty On June 21, 1991, the 70-year-old Congress veteran P V Narasimha Rao took oath as the Prime Minister of a minority government amidst massive political uncertainty over its longevity. The Congress had got only 232 seats as against the usual majority of 272 in the Lok...
Showering Bharat Ratna On Charan Singh May Not Bring Jat Votes To The Coffers Of BJP
By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi has shown his nervousness in announcing the Bharat Ratna awards in a haste to two former Prime Ministers Choudhury Charan Singh and P V Narasimha Rao While choosing Charan Singh from western Uttar Pradesh, a Jat dominated region, Modi showered praise; “He...
The Uneasy Relationship Between Narendra Modi And Manmohan Singh Is Known All Over
By Sushil Kutty Two-time Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is wheelchair-bound though mentally alert, will no longer be an active politician even if it’s a cinch that he will be sought out on occasion to get a quip on issues and people. Like, for example, on Prime Minister Narendra...
Supreme Court Nixes Widely Accepted Norm To Deny Bail To Accused Under UAPA
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court has issued a rather contrarian ruling on the grant of bail, by proclaiming that people accused under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) do not deserve bail as a rule. Such people must be granted only in exceptional cases, the court clarified. The...
