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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.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...
Iran And Hamas Are Having Differences On Many Of The Objectives Of War
By Girish Linganna The war on Gaza, which has been going on for nearly three months since ‘Operation Aqsa Deluge’, has revealed that the divisions that exist within the factions that sparked it will be the most prominent aspect of the scene when it is over, provided they continue...
Massive Mobilisation Of Pro-Peace Forces Is Needed In 2024 To Stop Gaza And Ukraine Wars
By Jeremy Corbyn It seems strange to routinely wish everyone a happy new year while there is so much pain and suffering in the world. For many of us, Christmas was a time of celebration. For those enduring the horrors of war, the past week has been a time...
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni Has Made The Far Right Mainstream
By Leonardo Clausi Giorgia Meloni, the former fascist and current prime minster of Italy, is a distant relative of the communist theorist Antonio Gramsci. On its face, this revelation, which Italian genealogists disclosed earlier this month, might seem like an interesting piece of trivia — funny but ultimately meaningless....
Global Politics May Witness Further Shift To Right And Authoritarianism In 2024
By Nitya Chakraborty The year 2023 has ended with two big wars and a few local conflicts including one in Myanmar bordering India. While the world was looking for the end of war in Ukraine during 2023, a new war with much severe death toll began in Gaza strip...
Surging Demand, Rising Investment Put India’s Economy On Top Gear
By Nantoo Banerjee The world is finally recognizing India’s economic strength and its fast-growing market size. Going by the overall development trend, the economy is capable of growing close to 10 percent annually over the next several years. In 2023-24, the economy may reach a growth rate of seven...
Congress Running Against Time On Seat-Sharing With India Alliance Partners
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Congress is running against time on seat-sharing arrangement with India alliance partners, which is likely to be delayed further. A crucial meeting has been scheduled by Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on January 4, in which presidents of its state units and the leaders of its...
Nitish Kumar Taking Over JD(U) Presidentship Will Help India Bloc In 2024 Polls
By Arun Srivastava Chasing Nazi spokesperson Joseph Goebbel’s famous maxim that people tend to believe a lie as a biblical truth if it is insistently repeated for hundred times, the RSS and BJP’s ecosystem have launched a psychological war against Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar. Saffron vilification campaign launched...
Trinamool Congress’s 26 Year Old Journey In Bengal Has Been Stormy
By Tirthankar Mitra A model of the comic strip character Spiderman has been strategically placed before Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s Harish Chatterjee Street residence as part of Christmas and New Year decorations this year. It is lit up after dark and its limbs...
