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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.Israel Military Regime Is Escalating The War To Target Friends Of Hamas
By Girish Linganna When drone-fired missiles hit an apartment in south Beirut, killing a prominent militant leader and his associates, it signalled a new direction in Israel’s conflict with Hamas. For three months, Israel has conducted an extensive military campaign in Gaza, destroying a large portion of the area...
Peter Magubane Will Be Remembered For Depicting The Horrors Of Apartheid
By Tirthankar Mitra Revolutionaries are seldom unarmed. Peter Magubane was no exception; but instead of a .machine gun or a machete, he carried a camera and clicked with it to fight his cause. Like a prophet, not honoured at home, but feted worldwide, Magubane was a Black South African...
Columbia President Gustavo Petro Wants To Lead The Global Green Transition
By Pablo Castaño During his first speech in August 2022, Colombian president Gustavo Petro put special emphasis on the environment — a novelty in a country where the security agenda has dominated the political conversation for decades. “There will only be a future if we balance our lives and...
Supreme Court’s Adani Case Verdict Fails To Inspire Confidence To Detractors
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court verdict in the keenly-awaited petitions against the adequacy of the SEBI probe into the charges against the Adani group is neither convincing nor conclusive. A bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud has given the market regulator another three months to complete...
Drivers’ Protest Shows The Three New Criminal Laws Are Pandora’s Box
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Narendra Modi government had successfully avoided any meaningful discussion on the three new criminal laws in the Lok Sabha by resorting to suspension of almost entire opposition members in the Lok Sabha, but had to face a serious roadblock even before their implementation enforcing the...
Soren Checkmates Modi-Shah’s Design To Dislodge Him From Office
By Arun Srivastava With their malicious design to engage Bihar chief minister, Nitish Kumar in a psychological war proving to be absolutely ineffective, the Narendra Modi and Amit Shah combine has tossed a new type of conceptual war against Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren. While the duo failed to...
Congress’s Bharat Nyay Yatra Will Clash With 2024 Poll Preparations At Ground Level
By Sushil Kutty It sounds odd calling Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Nyay Yatra’, “nationwide east-to-west yatra”. The yatra is east-to-west, but not nationwide. Cutting through 14 states and 85 districts is not the entirety of India. It is another matter if it has a nationwide impact. Also, the claim that...
Ahead Of Budget On February 1, Finance Minister Has To Work On Strategy For Debt Reduction
By K R Sudhaman Ahead of the general Budget on February one, International Monetary Fund has warned India to return to fiscal consolidation path and efficient spending implying mounting debt and rampant freebies culture are unsustainable. Finance Ministry might be dismissive of IMF observation saying any interpretation that the...
Ladakh’s First Female Surgeon Dr. Padma Deskit Is Saving Lives In Border Areas
By Harihar Swarup Padma Deskit, Ladakh’s first female surgeon, wanted to be a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, but her hopes were dashed after his father was diagnosed with cancer. As the eldest child Deskit prioritised family and returned to Ladakh. Deskit completed her MBBS...
Sued By Own Workers And Convicted, Nobel Laureate Yunus Plays The Victim Card
By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury On January 1, 2024, a labour court in Dhaka, Bangladesh sentenced Grameen Telecom chairman and controversial Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus and three others to six-month jail in a case filed against them for violating labour law. Judge Sheikh Merina Sultana of Dhaka’s 3rd...
War Of Words Between Old Guard And New Leaders In Trinamool Getting Louder
By Tirthankar Mitra Kolkata is no stranger to quizzical posters. But of late, the two adorning city walls and lamp posts have foxed Kolkatans; one announcing the need for an alternative politics is sans any mention of the name of organisation or individual putting it up while the other...
Pakistan Witnessed 70 Per Cent Rise In Fatal Attacks In 2023
By Girish Linganna As recently as on Tuesday, (December 12, 2023), fighters stormed a military outpost in northwestern Pakistan as they opened fire and rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the army base in the town of Daraban, about 60 kilometres (37 miles) from Dera Ismail Khan city, in the...
Housing Crisis, Inflation Posing Big Challenge To Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The electoral chances of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party have faced significant challenges. However, recent opinion polls indicate a resurgence in Liberal support ahead of July 1, 2024 election. According to analysts, Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative Party leader, appears to have played...
Left Forces Within Labour Party Must Assert Before Coming Elections In Britain
By Ben Chacko 2024 is almost certainly a general election year in United Kingdom.. Westminster rumours of a May poll are rife, but the autumn remains the more likely option for beleaguered premier Rishi Sunak. An essential function of a democratic election is to offer the possibility of a...
Ram Mandir Inauguration At Ayodhya On January 22 Is A Big Political Achievement For Narendra Modi
By Kalyani Shankar The grand Ram Temple in Ayodhya is all dressed up for the inauguration on January 22 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It is fulfilling a longstanding dream of the BJP and the Sangh Parivar. A Hindu mob destroyed the Babri Masjid in 1992, claiming it was...
EVM Concerns Crop Up Again, Votes Polled Must Match VVPAT Counting
By Dr. Gyan Pathak EVM concerns have cropped up again, because the older Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) are still in use in large numbers, newer EVMs that come with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trial (VVPAT) paper record are not comprehensive enough, and even all the VVPATs are not counted...
INDIA Bloc Has Lot Of Issues To Sort Out For Arriving At An Agreement In Maharashtra
By Sushil Kutty Watch out. Will Maharashtra Lok Sabha elections throw up surprises? The state dangles like a ripe fruit for the taking. Everybody is just waiting. The alliances, they seem they’re many. What happened to the Maha Vikas Aghadi, and did the BJP and the Shinde Shiv Sena...
Indian Women Continue To Remain Unsafe, Unfree Under Modi-Yogi Raj
By Arun Srivastava Like all his other jumlas, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pledge to ensure the women of their basic rights and protect them from oppression and torture has proved to be yet another empty promise. Had he really been concerned and committed to protect the honour and prestige...
