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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.Opposition Talks On Seat Sharing In Assam For Lok Sabha Polls Not Progressing
By Ashis Biswas In Assam, bad news continues for the opposition: little tangible progress has been made in pre-election seat sharing talks among major parties opposing the ruling Bharatiya Janata party(BJP), as they desperately struggle to build a united anti-Saffron front, in recent weeks. Unless major opposition parties including...
Myanmar Junta Losing More Areas To Rebels As The Coup Completes Three Years
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav On the third anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar, a joint statement from the European Union, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, South Korea, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States condemned the ongoing violence and human rights abuses perpetrated by the military regime....
Iran Facilitates Biden’s Support For Israel, But Tel Aviv Makes It Increasingly Difficult
By James M Dorsey The irony of Middle Eastern geopolitics is that Israel makes it increasingly difficult for US President Joe Biden to support it, while Iran strengthens domestic US anti-Iranian and pro-Israeli hardliners. The hardliners are emboldened by the failure of calibrated US strikes in response to numerous...
Workforce, Women, And Youth Met A Raw Deal In The Interim Union Budget
By Dr. Gyan Pathak “Our Prime Minister firmly believes, we need to focus on four major castes,” said Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her Interim Union Budget 2024-25 speech – Garib (poor), Mahilayen (women), Yuva (youth), and Annadata (Farmer). Their needs, their aspirations, and their welfare are our...
Europe Acts As Lackey Of Washington As Gaza Killings Cross 27,000
By Satyaki Chakraborty The European Union nations which talk of liberty and democracy and consider themselves as superior to others including the US in terms of protection of human rights have shown their true colour in the current Israel-Hamas war which is continuing for nearly four months. More than...
Will Arvind Kejriwal Be The Next On The Pattern Of Hemant Soren?
By Sushil Kutty After Hemant Soren, will it be the turn of Arvind Kejriwal. Both of them Chief Ministers who became targets of the Enforcement Directorate. The Jharkhand Chief Minister got arrested and had to resign. Hemant Soren says he will fight to win; fighting words, but the writing...
2024-25 Budget Is Silent On India’s Maritime Preparedness To Deal With Red Sea Crisis
By Girish Linganna The interim Budget 2024 has not made mention of any measure or recommendation to address the very serious bottleneck that has been gripping India’s maritime trade for weeks now—the Red Sea crisis! This crisis is also known as the United States-Iran proxy war that began on...
Ex-CM Soren Is New Face Of Peoples’ Resistance Against Modi’s Tyranny
By Arun Srivastava The Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the request of former Chief Minister of Jharkhand, Hemant Soren, and directing his lawyers Kapil Sibal and Abhishek Manu Singhvi to approach the Jharkhand High Court for bail, has certainly not come as a big shock. What was still surprising...
In India, Official GDP Calculation Method Has A Large Number Of Flaws
By Prabhat Patnaik There are well-known problems associated with the concept of gross domestic product as well as with its measurement. The inclusion of the service sector within GDP is something that Adam Smith would have objected to on the conceptual grounds that those employed in this sector constituted...
Kharge Warns 2024 Polls Could Be India’s Last If Modi Wins Again
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge in Bhubaneswar voiced his opinion that the forthcoming general election is going to be the last election in India if Prime Minister Narendra Modi is re-elected. Uttar Pradesh Congress leaders and workers are of the view that Kharge should contest...
Tech Companies Plan To Spend More Than US$ 200 Billion On Cybersecurity In 2024
By Girish Linganna In the 1964 James Bond movie, ‘Goldfinger’, the bad guy, Auric Goldfinger, realized he could not just steal the huge amount of gold in Fort Knox, a famous US Army post in Kentucky, known primarily for housing a large portion of the USA’s gold reserves. So,...
Sitharaman’s Interim Budget 2024-25 Is Focused And Future-Centric
By Anjan Roy The interim budget presented on February 1 is a hopeful document, pinning its faith on the continued buoyancy of the Indian economy. At the outset, the finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, should be complimented for presenting the shortest and a crisp budget speech, instead of a meandering...
Nirmala Sitharaman’s ‘Swan Song’ Budget Speech Is Virtually An Ode To Modi
By K Raveendran Finance Nirmala Sitharaman’s interim budget speech sounded like a well-crafted compendium of compliments to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It was as though she was singing her swan song, and an ode to the greatness of her mentor, rather than on what the government planned to do...
Pre-Election Interim Budget 2024-25 Smacks Of Confidence Of Modi Govt
By K R Sudhaman The interim budget 2024-25 presented ahead of the General elections in April-May is slightly different from previous interim budgets in the sense it made no major tax announcements keeping in line with the convention. What is significant is that the budget speech was short, less...
Interim Budget 2024-25 Does Not Generate Much Hope For Railways
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Interim Union Budget 2024-25 for railways neither generated much hope for betterment of railways operations nor services to its commuters, though Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced three major economic railway corridor programmes to be implemented, and 40,000 normal bogies to be converted to...
Sitharaman’s Budget Speech Is A Balance Sheet On Modi Govt’s Ten Years
By Sushil Kutty Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s sixth budget turned out to be an out and out election and political document. But it has still not sunk in fully that this could be Sitharaman’s last budget unless her “I’ll be back in July” is like Arnold Schwarzenegger in the...
Tribals Of Jharkhand Are Raring To Avenge Hemant’s Humiliation
By Arun Srivastava In the middle class residential areas of Kolkata and people are seen animatedly discussing the strained relation between Mamata Banerjee and Rahul Gandhi and also trying to decode the reasons for Mamata’s obstinacy towards Congress, especially her intransigent attitude towards Rahul. Her outright denial of the...
Bihar Operation Of BJP Signifies The Saffron Camp’s Insecurity About Poll Prospects
By P. Sudhir Bihar chief minister and JD(U) leader, Nitish Kumar, has somersaulted again. After leaving the BJP and forming a Mahagathbandhan government with the RJD in August 2022, Nitish has now defected back to the side of the BJP. In India’s parliamentary history, Nitish Kumar has created a...
