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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.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...
Uncertainty In Labour Market To Continue, Unemployment To Rise In 2024
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Uncertainty in Global labour market is likely to continue while unemployment is set to rise in 2024. Growing inequality and stagnant productivity will also be cause of concern on the economic front, especially at a time when the global economy is on track for the...
Congress Must Start Immediate Damage Control Following Milind Deora’s Exit
By Sushil Kutty Milind Deora s/o Murli Deora on Sunday joined the Shiv Sena of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, the first casualty of seat-sharing in Maharashtra thanks to the Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray Shiv Sena which laid claim to the Mumbai South parliamentary constituency from which Milind Deora used...
BJP Leadership Confident Of Getting Political Mileage From Ram Mandir
By Harihar Swarup Idol of Ram as a child will be installed in the sanctum sanctorum on January 22, in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s presence. The consecration will mark an epochal change in India’s history. The infrastructure development has been rapid. An international airport, a world class railway station...
Darjeeling Tea Production Declined By Nine Percent In 2023 Hitting Exports
By Kunal Bose In more than one way, the past year would go down in the annals of the famed Darjeeling tea industry, which though infinitely smaller in terms of production than its counterparts elsewhere in the country and abroad as annushorribilis. Production of tea in the hills of...
Space Missions By Western Countries Have Become Too Expensive
By Girish Linganna Moon mission records suggest that reaching the moon’s surface is still not easy. The Vulcan Centaur rocket launched perfectly early Monday ,8th of January, morning from Cape Canaveral. It quickly left the solid rocket boosters behind and set the Peregrine spacecraft on the right path for...
Mumbai’s Affordable Housing Scheme Is Giving A Big Jolt To Ecology
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Mumbai is facing a severe housing crisis, with a growing population and a dire need for affordable homes. In the midst of this crisis lies approximately 5500 acres of salt pan land, the subject of intense debate between proponents of affordable housing and environmentalists concerned...
INDIA Bloc Parties Should Do Their Best To Raise The Voting Percentage In Their Favour
By Sushil Kutty The opposition INDI-Alliance is confident that unity among opposition parties will fetch easy victories against the Bharatiya Janata Party in the majority of the 543 constituencies in 2024 because in 2019, Modi’s victorious party could get only 38 percent of the total votes polled, while the...
RSS To Usurp Shankaracharyas As Flagbearers Of Sanatan Hinduism
By Arun Srivastava Now there is no more ambiguity. For almost a week, the four Shankaracharyas, the symbols of the Sanatan Dharma, are being ridiculed and humiliated at every public forum. The situation certainly did not acquire a nasty dimension all of a sudden. The manner in which the...
