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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.Is Nikki Haley A Favourite Of Leftwing Democrats To Defeat Trump?
By Sushil Kutty US Presidential hopeful Nikki Haley’s third place finish in Iowa means she should be out of the race. But the Indian-origin Republican’s Democrat voters are not ready for her to call it quits, as yet. Her dollar-donors also have skin in the game. Nikki Haley spent...
Historical Perspective And Contemporary Dynamics Of Extremism In Pakistan
By M A Hossain In the year 2023, Pakistan found itself grappling with an unprecedented surge in terrorist incidents. The Taliban’s triumph in Afghanistan has catalyzed the surge, which in turn emboldened and strengthened the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Over the past two years, the TTP underwent a transformative series...
Why ISRO’s Collaboration With Russia For Gaganyaan Mission Is Crucial?
By Girish Linganna The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is considering sending its astronauts on the highly ambitious Gaganyaan mission with spacesuits made in Russia, according to a document reviewed by Hindustan Times. There are signs that Russian spacesuits will be used for the Gaganyaan mission, although Vikram Sarabhai...
India’s Road Safety Crisis Calls For Prioritizing Drivers Training
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Recent transporters’ strike against the newly-introduced legal provisions that provide for a 10-year jail term for drivers who don’t take accident victims to the hospital, leading to the death of the victims, throws the spotlight on an issue of immense significance. India has a vast...
Donald Trump’s Victory In Iowa Should Be A Wake-Up Call For Joe Biden
By Branko Marcetic For the past three years, the Democratic Party has carried out a full-court press with the singular goal of undermining Donald Trump’s chances of being renominated: the yearslong media and congressional spectacles around January 6, the series of criminal indictments against Trump, even the recent attempts...
Story Behind Martin Luther King Jr’s Iconic ‘I Have A Dream’ Speech
By Gary Younge The night before the March on Washington in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr asked his aides for advice about the speech he was due to make the next day. “Don’t use the lines about ‘I have a dream,’” Wyatt Tee Walker told him. “It’s trite, it’s...
Congress Is More Accommodative This Time In Seat Sharing Talks With Allies
By Kalyani Shankar Congress Party’s responsibilities have increased with the decision of the I.N.D.I.A. bloc Opposition coalition to name Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge as the President. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has declined the post of convenor. Forming partnerships before elections is relatively easy, but the real challenge lies...
Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ Rekindles Fresh Hope
By Sushil Kutty Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ is going ahead with its goal to bring peace to all the places through which it passes. Also fight for justice to people of all colour, creed and caste. It started in the violence-hit Manipur where both the Kuki and...
Mayawati’s Somersault Aims At Boosting Poll Prospects Of BJP
By Arun Srivastava BSP chief Mayawati continues to be an enigma. Till Monday morning, she was sending out signal to the leaders of INDIA bloc, especially to SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, that she was ready to ride the bandwagon of INDIA. But by noon she made a volte-face and...
India Faces Rising Industrial Concentration In Just Five Hands: Oxfam
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India is facing rising industrial concentration in just five hands, and is enriching billionaires, private equity funds, and crony capitalists driving unprecedented level of inequalities and poverty among people. Dalits are facing high and unaffordable out-of-pocket fees in the private healthcare sector, financial exclusion in...
A New Beginning, Or Is Taiwan Sitting At Cusp Of Tsai 3.0?
By Girish Linganna Once dubbed ‘troublemaker’ and a ‘dangerous separatist’ by Beijing for his views on Taiwan’s sovereignty, 64-year-old vice-president, son of a miner and doctor-politician William Lai Ching-te has now been chosen Taiwan’s next president. His immediate task on hand is to navigate Taiwan’s testy relationship with China...
BJP, SP Happy With Mayawati’s Decision To Go Solo In Lok Sabha
By Pradeep Kapoor BSP national President Mayawati’s decision to fight Lok Sabha independently without joining either NDA or INDIA has made BJP and the main opposition in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party, happy. The recent statements of Mayawati that gave the impression that she could join INDIA unnerved the BJP...
Culture’s Big Role In West Bengal During Lok Sabha 2024 Elections
By Tirthankar Mitra Even as battle lines are being drawn up for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections all over the country, culture is poised to play a significant role in this polls in West Bengal. Though the state is no longer in the preeminent position it once occupied in...
Increasing Indo-Bangla Connectivity Only Way Forward In South Asia
By Ashis Biswas Specific bilateral connectivity projects linking India with Bangladesh have emerged as the most effective means to ensure future industrial and infrastructural growth in South Asia. Dhaka-based analysts are stressing the growing importance of India accessing its Northeastern states by using the Tripura rail/ road /river linkage...
Wagenknecht’s New Left Party Can Help In Combating The Far Right In Germany
By Sebastian Friedrich / Ingar Solty As 2024 begins, it is nearly impossible to predict how Germany’s political landscape will look in twelve months’ time. 2024 will not only see June’s European elections, but also decisive contests this fall in the Eastern states of Thuringia, Saxony, and Brandenburg. Much...
Lower Global Oil Demand And Price Will Benefit India In 2024
By Nantoo Banerjee The new year’s best news for India, is that the Saudi Arabia-led Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is fast losing its grip on the market with a number of countries willing to offer prices even lower than those fixed for Russian crude. Saudi Arabia itself...
Maldives Crisis Exposes India’s Lack Of Diplomatic Wisdom, Wider Vision
By Arun Srivastava In October last year at the Group of 20 summit in New Delhi, Narendra Modi had projected India under his rule as a rising diplomatic powerhouse and elicited sycophantic commentary on its growing confidence. While boasting of his image of a ‘Vishwa Guru’, Modi often ignores...
Artificial Intelligence Has To Be Adapted Selectively To Protect Jobs
By Nitya Chakraborty The World Economic Forum (WEF), the organization of big global CEO’s and neo liberal think tanks has expressed its concern at the impact of the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) indiscriminately in the industries of the countries, both developed and developing. The random use of the...
