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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.What Has Ramlala In Ayodhya To Do With Mumtaz Khan In Purulia?
By Dr. Gyan Pathak What has Ramlala in Ayodhya to do with Mumtaz Khan in Purulia? The question seems to be absurd and ridiculous on the surface, but when the Chief Priest of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Pujya Acharya Satyendra Das, recalls Mumtaz Khan while consecration rituals are under...
No Relief For Export-Import Trade As Shipping Costs Expected To Further Shoot Up
By K Raveendran Shipping rates have already gone up by more than three times in a week after the January 9 attack by Houthis on the Red Sea. But supply chain professionals are warning that the rates are going to further shoot up in the coming weeks. This is...
Russia’s Powerful Cluster Bomb Drel May Be In Military Operations Soon
By Girish Linganna The serial production of Russia’s new glide cluster bomb, Drel, is expected to commence before the year’s end. In light of this, it’s important to understand the characteristics of the Drel and assess whether it will be utilized in Russia’s ongoing special military operation. In Ukraine...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party Launches ‘India Out’ Movement
By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury After failing to stop the January 7, 2024 general elections in Bangladesh by spending millions of dollars towards lobbyists and PR agencies in the United States, Britain and other Western nations, India and Hindu hating ultra-Islamist and pro-Pakistan Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has launched...
I Am Sad I Will Not Find My Childhood Ramchandra In The New Ayodhya Temple
By Devasis Chattopadhyay On 22 January 2024, India will change forever. It’s a misstep we may never recover from, a change triggered by a temple. In our country, regardless of religion, we consecrate shrines all the time. In a multi-faith and primarily agrarian society, home to 140 crore population,...
Failure Of United Nations To Stop Israeli Killings Has Led To Major Humanitarian Crisis
By Dr Arun Mitra War is the most serious threat to public health with catastrophic effects on infrastructure and environment and accounts for more deaths & disability than many major diseases combined. It destroys families, communities and sometimes whole cultures. It channels limited resources away from health and other...
India Govt Should Deal With Maldives With Caution And Perspective
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav A lot has happened over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s blissful walk on the sandy pristine beach of one of India’s least explored tourism destinations – Lakshadweep. Living among 1.40 billion people has its share of joys and perils. One of the most irritating problems that...
US Communist Party Daily People’s World Has Completed 100 Years
By C.J. Atkins The strongest weapon the ruling class possesses is its control of the press—its domination of the sources through which people get their information. A hundred years ago, a group of radical workers and Marxist writers launched a publication in the United States of America they hoped...
South Africa’s Genocide Case Against Israel Is Getting Big Support
By Chip Gibbons “No one is spared, not even newborn babies.”This is how Adila Hassim, speaking at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague, Netherlands on January 11 described the deliberate destruction of Palestinian life taking place in Gaza. Hassim was one of six lawyers who represented...
Lok Sabha Election 2024 To Carry Executive Bias Under New Law
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Supreme Court’s refusal to stay implementation of Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term of Office) Act, 2023 has shattered the dream of the people for a free and fair Lok Sabha Election 2024, though the court has agreed...
Who Are BJP And RSS To Ask The Congress For Loyalty Test On Hindutva?
By Arun Srivastava Economics and culture could be mixed but certainly not the politics. It could be either centrist, liberal or rightist, but definitely not mixed. Ever since its birth in 1885, Congress has been a congregation of all shades of people, from rightists, centrists to leftists, but it...
Nitish, Or Kharge? Jury Still Out On INDIA Bloc’s PM Face
By Rahil Nora Chopra Who will be the I.N.D.I.A. bloc’s prime ministerial face, Mallikarjun Kharge or Nitish Kumar? Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has emerged as the new champion of the cause of social justice, holding an unprecedented caste survey in the state. Nitish has always fancied and is seen...
Maestro Ustad Rashid Khan Was A Phenomenon In Indian Classical Music
By Tirthankar Mitra The legendary Kolkata based music maestro Ustad Rashid Khan’s untimely departure to the way of all flesh is not only an occasion for mourning for all those who love music and life. It cuts a link between the traditional and modern space; style was the man...
Indian Government May Consider A Contributory Pension Scheme For All
By Prabhat Patnaik We observe a strange phenomenon everyday, so strange that its strangeness goes generally unnoticed. Government spokespersons from the prime minister downwards go on repeating ad nauseam that India is the most rapidly growing major economy in the world today, that it will soon become a 5...
In Assam, Congress And AIUDF Are Itching Towards A Seat Sharing Formula For Lok Sabha Polls
By Ashis Biswas With pre Lok Sabha poll campaigning yet to begin all over India, divisive religious polarisation has already reached unforeseen levels in Assam. Initially, state Chief Minister Mr Himanta Biswa Sarma set the pace in his public speeches , aggressively announcing the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP)...
Despite US Sanctions Against Financiers, Hamas Is Comfortable With Funds
By Girish Linganna From a fancy restaurant in Istanbul with a view of the Bosporus, a man, sanctioned by America for allegedly funding Hamas, discusses his business roles. The Bosporus is a narrow water channel in Turkey, separating Europe and Asia, linking the Black Sea with the Sea of...
President Biden Is Under Big Pressure From Congressmen To Remove Cuba From ’Terrorist’ List
By W. T. Whitney Jr. WASHINGTON: The Massachusetts congressional delegation was furious. The Biden administration had early on promised to remove Cuba from the U.S. list of State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT). Massachusetts Rep. Jim McGovern took comfort from Congress having been told the process was underway. But at...
RSS-BJP Clan Must Not Defile Ramlala Consecration With Hate Politics
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Hinduism is a religion, but Hindutva is politics. Former is rooted in religiosity, but the later in hate politics as practiced by RSS-BJP clan. ‘Jai Sri Ram’ had been a religious and pious expression in Hinduism, but RSS-BJP clan has been misusing this as a...
