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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.Indian Navy Conducting Its Largest Ever Exercise In Gulf Of Eden
By Girish Linganna The Indian Navy is currently conducting its largest-ever deployment in the Gulf of Aden and Western Arabian Sea. This mission operates independently of the US-UK military campaign against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. An unprecedentedly large Indian Navy fleet of 12 warships is now operating in...
Modi Govt’s White Paper On UPA Regime Is Full Of Distortions And Cherry Picking Of Data
By Dr. Gyan Pathak ‘White Paper’ is a document containing information about pressing issues before the government explaining their plans before their introduction. It is therefore absurd and ridiculous for a government to issue a white paper, after a delay of 10 years while it slept, at a time...
BJP’s Success To Rope In New Allies Before Lok Sabha Polls Will Be Costly To INDIA Bloc
By Sushil Kutty The Bharatiya Janata Party’s hunt for new regional alliances for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls has taken it to Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party and the Badals’ Shiromani Akali Dal even as Jayant Chaudhary’s Rashtriya Lok Dal looks like the best bet, a likelihood that Akhilesh...
Nitish Meets, Modi, Shah, Nadda To Sort Out NDA Seat-Sharing
By Rahil Nora Chopra Ahead of the floor test of the NDA government in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in their first meeting since the Janata Dal (United) president dumped the Opposition INDIA bloc and joined the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) last month,...
RLD Negotiating With BJP For Lok Sabha Alliance Is A Bad Signal For INDIA Bloc
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Is RLD President Jayant Chaudhary under tremendous pressure to join NDA Or he wants to bargain with Akhilesh Yadav for a favourable seat sharing for Lok Sabha polls? On January 19 Akhilesh Yadav announced seat sharing with RLD while giving seven seats in Western UP...
Kerala’s Delhi Protest: A Booster Shot For INDIA Alliance
By P. Sreekumaran It indeed was a Red Letter Day in the history of Indian politics. Jantar Mantar in the National Capital saw on Thursday, February 8, a capital expression of anger against the Union Government’s attempts to undermine cooperative federalism and its “discriminatory fiscal policies”. The protest, organized...
Modi Govt’s Interim Budget 2024-25 Proposals Will Only Aggravate Distress Of Working People
By Prabhat Patnaik The BJP government holds that truth is what Modi says; if evidence points otherwise then evidence must be wrong and should be suppressed. Modi says that India never had it so good as during the last decade of his government; but since official statistics contradict him,...
Farmers Protests Sweeping Europe Demanding Remunerative Prices For Produce
By Dr. Soma Marla For the past two weeks, farmers in various European countries have been staging enraged protests against the denial of reasonable prices for their produce. In France, seven important motorways leading to Paris are under the blockade placed by the farmers. They camped around the capital...
Houthis Have Organised High Tech Plans To Hit At Western Ships In Red Sea
By Girish Linganna The Houthis in Yemen are very clear about wanting to get back at the West. This is because of the airstrikes led by the US that have been hitting their missile and drone launching areas. In return, these actions were a reaction to over 30 attacks...
Esports Has Become A Medal Sports In Asian Games
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The world of esports is rapidly turning numerous young players to millionaire status every month. Over the last five years, India’s online gaming sector has experienced substantial growth. Today, several esports players in India have achieved millionaire status, thanks to their extensive subscriber base and...
Kerala LDF Govt Is Fighting The Centre Against Its Discriminatory Policy To The State
By P. Sudhir The Kerala chief minister, Pinarayi Vijayan, the entire cabinet and all the MLAs and MPs of the Left Democratic Front sat in protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on February 8. The sit-in was to highlight the central government’s discriminatory attitude to Kerala and the...
States Rally Against Centre Protesting Against Financial Injustice
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s idea of a strong Centre had taken its toll. Opposition ruled states were kept fund starved that crippled the abilities of stated to do good for their people’. The opposition political parties labelled this as “breach” of federal principle of the...
Modi’s Electoral Mission Is To Divide The Dalits Along Class Lines
By Arun Srivastava Innumerable empty promises, lies and plagiarizing the ideas of others notwithstanding, Narendra Modi has now embarked on the boulevard to appropriate the phrases and idioms already in vogue and featuring prominently on the political agenda of other parties. This time, the phrase, which Modi has hijacked...
Rahul Gandhi’s Charge That Narendra Modi Is Not An OBC Has Serious Portent
By Sushil Kutty Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra Thursday, February 8, entered Chhattisgarh via Odisha where he had corrected the BJP’s propaganda that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was an OBC and let it out in the public domain that Modi was, in fact, a “Teli” of...
Indian Services Sector Is One Of The Most Restrictive Areas, Says OECD
By K R Sudhaman Renowned economist and former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan feels India’s strength is in services sector particularly IT and software and the country needs to capitalise on it, but latest OECD report suggests that services trade is one of the most restrictive in...
Indian Economy Is Marked By Low Wages, Falling Demand And Unemployment
By Krishna Jha On the claim that country’s manufacturing has a strong base, stands the structure that shambles down every time there is a quake. But then it is only a claim, reality is at the roots that keep facing continuous erosion. So far as claims are concerned or...
Russia Assures India To Deliver On Time Powerful S-400 Surface To Air Missiles
By Girish Linganna Russia has taken special steps to deliver the powerful S-400 system to Indian Air Force dismissing all allegations by the western sources that the supply will be inordinately delayed.. In line with the country’s initiatives to strengthen its air defence capabilities, the Indian government and Indian...
Vietnam Is Aiming To Emerge As A Developed Country In Two Decades
By Tirthankar Mitra Vietnam’s name was part of a slogan of a radical Left political outfit in Kolkata in the late ’60s and early ’70s.But the nation which was embattled with mighty America has now turned over a new leaf. It is making a steady progress towards prosperity whose...
