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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.South Africa Heading For The Country’s Bitterest National Elections In Thirty Years
By Satyaki Chakraborty South Africa, the most politically important nation in the African continent, is heading towards its national elections by the end of 2024 which promises to be the fiercest polls since the establishment of democracy in the country in 1994 after the abolition of apartheid. The African...
India’s Space Industry Soars With Surge In Civil And Commercial Launches
By Girish Linganna India is gearing up for an ambitious schedule of up to 30 space missions over the next 15 months, highlighting its plans for a substantial increase in both civilian and commercial space endeavours. These missions, scheduled for the remaining days in the current fiscal as also...
First Qatar, Now Saudi Arabia: It Is Now Time For Activists To Don Their Thinking Caps
By James M Dorsey The realisation that Saudi Arabia is not Qatar may seem obvious, but it has significant meaning for the lessons rights activists and others draw from the Qatar World Cup as they prepare for a Saudi-hosted tournament in 2034. Understanding the differences will frame efforts to...
Elections Manipulated Since 2018 Using Unconstitutionally Collected Money
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The latest Supreme Court judgement declaring ‘Electoral Bond Scheme’ unconstitutional, has established beyond doubt that every election held since implementation of this scheme in 2018 was subject to manipulation by use of unconstitutionally collected money to distort level playing field for political parties and candidates...
RSS-Backed Capitalist Class Interests Threatened By Farmers
By Arun Srivastava The “Dilli Chalo” march by the farmers is not merely a long-walk to urge the Narendra Modi government to meet their demands, primary being law on minimum support price for crops and loan waivers. Instead, it personifies the biggest class conflict between the corporate sector embodying...
The Bizarre Debate Over Farmer Leader Jagjit Dallewal’s Comment On Modi’s Rising Graph
By Sushil Kutty Amidst the standoff at the many border crossings that open up the doors to Delhi, Punjab farmer leader Jagjit Dallewal spoke of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “rising graph” and the Congress defended him his right to air his political views and not be labelled “anti-national” for...
In Present Order Of Capitalism, Both Fascist And Non-Fascist Powers Suppressing Working Class
By Prabhat Patnaik In The Junius Pamphlet written from jail in 1915, Rosa Luxemburg had said that the choice before mankind was between barbarism and socialism. Liberal opinion would contest this, arguing that the barbarism that marked the two world wars and the period in between was unrelated to...
Breakthrough Eludes Kerala’s Talks With Centre On Financial Issues
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A protracted legal battle is in the offing between the Kerala Government and the Centre with Kerala’s talks with talks over the issues of fiscal federalism having failed to achieve a breakthrough. A four-member Kerala delegation led by State finance minister K N Balagopal held...
Post RLD Exit, New Equations Take Shape In Up To Confront Ruling BJP
By Rahil Nora Chopra After RLD snapped ties with the SP, Pallavi Patel, Swami Prasad Maurya are beyond any attempts to be pacified over their annoyance with Akhilesh Yadav. Whispers in the corridors of power that a new equation taking shape in Uttar Pradesh, with the Congress, BSP, Apna...
BJP High Command’s Choice Of Candidates To Rajya Sabha In Madhya Pradesh Surprises Members
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh witnessed about half a dozen dramatic developments during last three to four days. The developments included nominations to Rajya Sabha both by the BJP and Congress, sudden en-mass removal of about 46 Chairmen of Government corporations and Boards, emergent dinner party for...
OneCause Revolutionised Digital Fundraising Solutions For Nonprofits
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav OneCause, a leading digital fundraising technology provider, recently celebrated its fifteenth year. Since its beginning, nonprofit users of OneCause fundraising software have raised over $6.5 billion for their causes. In 2023 alone, OneCause customers raised $1.4 billion.”We consider it a privilege to partner with thousands...
Colombia’s Right Is Trying To “Soft Coup” President Gustavo Petro
By Carlos Cruz Mosquera It was expected that Colombia’s elites, who had enjoyed a monopoly over the state for two hundred consecutive years up until twenty months ago, would attempt to obstruct the left-wing President Gustavo Petro’s administration. This effort to undermine the process of change mandated by the...
Congratulations Supreme Court, Electoral Bond Order Has Strengthened Democracy
By Nitya Chakraborty Congratulations to the Supreme Court bench led by the Chief Justice of India Dr. D Y Chandrachud for finally declaring the electoral bond scheme of the Narendra Modi government as ‘unconstitutional’, since the bonds are violative of the right to information under Article 19(1)(a) of the...
Legal Guarantee For MSP That Modi Government Is Unwilling To Grant
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been distributing all sorts of “Modi’s Guarantees”, but perhaps without an iota of suspicion that farmers will come forward and demand “Legal Guarantees” for Minimum Support Price (MSP), and would not be satisfied with mere assurances, being committed to take...
Hindutva-Based Population Policy Is Fundamentally Discriminatory
By P. Sudhir The finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, in her interim budget speech announced the setting up of a high-powered committee “to study the challenges of fast population growth and demographic changes”. The announcement of such a committee in a budget speech was itself a curious one. If the...
Indonesian Presidential Polls: Nationalist Forces Gain Acceptability
By Arun Srivastava Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto, ex-general known for committing human rights atrocities in the past, who was once banned by the United States from entering for two decades for his human rights record, has claimed victory in Indonesia’s presidential election, getting more than 58 percent vote. Ever...
Wrestlers Back To Protesting Brij Bhushan Singh-Led Establishment
By Sushil Kutty Once top wrestlers, Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik and Vinesh Phogat are back protesting the undue influence of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on the wrestling establishment. People will remember Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, a BJP MP. For a very long time, he was the Chief of the...
Narendra Modi Government’s White Paper Is A Document Of White Lies
By Krishna Jha It is a reflection of a keen conflict between black and white papers released by two prominent political parties, one that is the ruling one and then the other, in the opposition. One is the present, beginning from 2014 and the other, the immediate past. The...
