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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.Replacement Of All Combustion Cars By Electric Vehicles Turning Out To Be A Pipe Dream
By K Raveendran Despite the steady growth of the electric vehicles worldwide, the awareness that it is well-nigh impossible to replace over a billion combustion cars with EVs in the foreseeable future is increasing. This is leading to calls for ‘more realism and less ideology in energy policy’. Many...
Germany, Croatia And Israel Are Offering Jobs To Youth From South Asian Countries
By Ashis Biswas Suddenly it’s raining thousands of jobs for unemployed youths and not just in Russia/ Ukraine war zones or in Israel/West Asia: Germany and Croatia are also on a major hiring spree. The good news for South Asia is that these countries are looking to recruit substantially...
Pakistan Army Acts Against Imran Khan’s PTI On The Eve Of February 8 Polls
By Tirthankar Mitra The conviction of former Pakistani prime minister, Imran Khan Niazi together with his erstwhile Cabinet colleague Shah Mehmood Qureshi seems to be following a pattern quite familiar in the country of their birth. The decision of the court announced almost on the eve of the general...
Bharat Ratna Karpoori Thakur Worked For Social Justice Till His End
By Harihar Swarup Last week was the birth centenary of Jan Nayak Karpoori Thakur whose relentless pursuit of social justice created a positive impact on the lives of crores of people. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the Bharat Ratna award to him coinciding with his birth centenary. Modi said...
Qatar’s Mediation In Gaza War Threatens To Boomerang On A Possible Resolution
By James M Dorsey Qatari mediation in the Gaza war threatens to become a double-edged sword. Demonstrators gathered this week at Qatari diplomatic missions in Washington, New York, and Ottawa to express frustration with the Gulf state’s failure to achieve an Israeli-Hamas agreement on a second round of prisoner...
Leftwing Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders Is Again Trying To Stop US Aid To Israel
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON: This time Democratic senator Bernie Sanders is pulling no punches. The carnage the Israeli military has inflicted upon civilians in Gaza is so appalling that he wants to cut off all U.S. military aid to Israel—offensive and defensive. And that stand flies directly in the...
Opposition’s Points Raised During Debate On ‘Motion Of Thanks’ Unanswered
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Since the Presidential address in the Parliament is supposed to summarise the government’s achievements and intentions followed by meaningful debate, in which opposition raises points of concern, the Prime Minister is expected to address them during his reply to the ‘Motion of Thanks’. However, in...
CJI Chandrachud’s Observation On Chandigarh Mayoral Polls Exposes BJP
By Sushil Kutty Was the manner in which the Chandigarh mayoral election conducted a symptom or the disease itself, a crooked system at play? The country’s top court has spoken – the previous week’s mayoral poll in the Union Territory was openly tampered with by a seemingly biased Presiding...
Hemant Soren Exposed Modi Design To Pit Non-Adivasis Against Adivasis
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi’s lurid boast on the floor of Parliament that he would be the prime minister for the third time and his party would alone win 370 seats deserves attention. The question is why is he so confident? Are RSS and BJP leaders busy hacking the...
BJP May Substantially Gain In North Bengal If There Is No TMC-Congress Alliance
By Tirthankar Mitra At a time when Trinamool Congress supremo, Mamata Banerjee is announcing her intent of going alone in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, she seems to have overlooked that the company of Congress can help her regain some constituencies in north Bengal. The outfit she founded after...
Urgent Measures Needed To Tackle Widespread Stray Dog Menace In India
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav A 55-year-old teacher, Paresh Doshi, filed an FIR against himself after his wife lost her life in a car crash caused by an attempt to save a stray dog. Paresh Doshi and his wife Amita were returning from the Ambaji Temple in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district...
BJP Initiates Boothwise Intensive Campaign In Madhya Pradesh For Lok Sabha Polls
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Both BJP and Congress have intensified their campaign for the Lok Sabha elections. While the BJP held a series of meetings to formulate strategy for various issues connected with the elections, the Congress has decided to line-up equal mix of youths and veterans for...
Narendra Modi Govt Has Been Spreading Myths In The Last Ten Years
By Dr Arun Mitra No one believed when Copernicus proposed that the Sun was the centre of the solar system and the Earth and other planets revolved around it or when Galileo proposed the principle of the pendulum and the law of falling bodies. They were demonised and persecuted...
Red Sea Crisis Adds To World’s Reliance On India As Rice Supplier
By Girish Linganna Mounting stress in the Red Sea—the direct trade route for ships travelling from Asia to Europe—has hit India’s exports of marine products and also high-quality rice to buyers in the United States, Middle East and Europe as prices have skyrocketed. This very serious bottleneck that has...
Two Years Into The Ukraine War, Europe Has No Clue For Ceasefire
By Harrison Stetler After ratcheting up pressure on Hungary in recent weeks, European leaders have convinced premier Viktor Orbán to stop blocking a crucial extension of aid for Ukraine’s war effort. The deal emerged from a meeting of the European Council in Brussels this Thursday, where European Union (EU)...
Tackling Disinformation Is An Absolute Must To Protect Social Integrity
By Devasis Chattopadhyay In times when technology is constantly redefining reality as we know it, it is often hard to tell what’s real and what isn’t. So why troll Poonam Pandey for using social media to fake her death; popular FM radio channel Fever for faking its closure; and...
Houthi Pirates Bring Global Trade Through Red Sea To A Near Halt
By Nantoo Banerjee It is difficult to believe in the 21st century that some small groups of Yemeni Houthi pirates on the Red Sea can bring a $1-trillion-plus annual global trade using the sea route almost to a halt, forcing shipowners and shippers divert the trade through a several...
Champai Soren’s Convincing Win In Jharkhand Assembly Test Is A Victory For INDIA Bloc
By Kalyani Shankar The convincing victory of the JMM-Congress coalition in Jharkhand assembly on February 5 amidst allegations about BJP’s poaching reports, is a big boost to the INDIA bloc in the present political atmosphere in the country. Chief Minister Champai Soren has now the tough task to run...
