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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.India Set To Clock Highest Growth Rate In 2024 Among Major Economies
By K Raveendran It is election year for the Indian economy and the footnote to the robust economic performance would pinpoint the risks of freebies and subsidy politics impacting growth. The pressures are expected to pinch hard from mid-year onwards as the drivers of growth would shift gears down...
INDIA Bloc Must Protect Democracy With Bharat Nyay Yatra
By Arun Srivastava The catchline “Phir Aayega Modi” of the saffron ecosystem needs correction. It portrays him as a visionary who will return to usher India to a new and affluent ecosphere — purely as a device to strengthen the perception that Modi is the only saviour. Therefore, people...
Bank Frauds In Modi Regime Continues At Record High
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Number of Bank frauds in 2022-23 in India reached 13,576 as against just 4306 in 2013-14, and has even broken the record of the last year in only first six months of the current financial year 2023-24 when the fraud cases have already risen to...
Growth Challenges For India’s Defence Manufacturing Sector
By Girish Linganna The Indian defence manufacturing sector has advanced significantly, largely due to the government’s ‘Make in India’ policy and emphasis on self-sufficiency. But difficulties that can hinder development in 2024 need to be addressed. So like all significant nations, India has an Army, Navy and Air Force...
Raj Who Played ‘Raju’ Would Have Been ‘100’ This Month
By Tirthankar Mitra Famous as the first ‘Showman’ of Indian cinema, had Raj Kapoor been alive today, he would have celebrated in grand style his turning 100 this month. Facing the movie cameras after putting on the grease-paint and an attire which was a take on that of the...
Enforcement Directorate Suffers Twin Setbacks In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The central investigating agency, the enforcement Directorate (ED), which is on a rampage against the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government in Kerala, suffered a highly embarrassing double defeat in the Kerala High Court. In the latest rebuff to the ED, the Kerala High...
Israel And Hamas Grapple With Egypt’s Gaza Roadmap
By James M Dorsey Ziyad al-Nakhalah, the leader of Palestine Islamic Jihad, the second most significant militant Gazan group, arrived in Cairo this week for carefully timed talks with Egyptian intelligence chief General Abbas Kamel. A Palestinian source said Al-Nakhalah was discussing an end to the Gaza war that...
Private Sector Sees Expanding Role In India’s Defence Production Arena
By Girish Linganna India has one of the largest defence industrial bases (DIB) on the planet; an extensive network of research and development (R&D); as well as, production entities. The DIBs employ scientists, engineers and other professionals. But the dominance of the public sector has resulted in lacklustre performance....
2024 Will Be The Year Of Reckoning For Indian Trade Unions
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The trade union movement in India may be heading for a year of reckoning in 2024. The first half of the year will see much intensified, aggressive, and confrontational protests against the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led ruling establishment, especially till the Lok Sabha General elections...
Modi’s New Education Policy: Colonising Minds, Curb Critical Thinking
By Prabhat Patnaik Imperialist hegemony over the third world is exercised not just through arms and economic might but also through the hegemony of ideas, by making the victims see the world the way imperialism wants them to see it. A prerequisite for freedom in the third world therefore...
Whatever Happened To Palestine Protests Worldwide?
By Sushil Kutty Israeli defence forces continue bombing Gaza and blasting Hamas terror tunnel complexes, but what about the plan to flood underground tunnels with seawater? Nobody knows other than land weary Israeli ground forces who are religiously targeting tunnel networks, believing Hamas Chieftains still live in them and...
The Captain Departs, Leaving DMDK Headless
By Tirthankar Mitra Never having led a sporting side to a playing field, no eyebrows were raised among the fans of actor-turned-politician Vijaykanth when he became better known as “Captain” in the worlds of films and politics in Tamil Nadu. The honorific has stuck to him since 1991 on...
Who Will Be INDIA Bloc’s Prime Ministerial Face?
By Rahil Nora Chopra The fourth meeting of the INDIA Bloc saw high drama as West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee proposed the name of Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge for INDIA bloc’s PM candidate against PM Narendra Modi. Now, Nationalist Congress Party supremo Sharad Pawar says no prime ministerial...
Age Of Consent: Marriage In The Era Of Intolerance
By Gursimran Kaur Bakshi On January 23, Chief Minister of Assam Himanta Biswa Sarma announced a decision of the state cabinet to begin a major statewide drive to curb child marriages in the state. Under the drive, persons who married a girl child under the age of 14 years...
Israeli Draft Resister Tal Mitnick Is A Hero For Saying No To Genocide
By Ben Burgis On Monday, an eighteen-year-old Israeli named Tal Mitnick quoted on Twitter/X a particularly striking verse of “Have You Been to Jail for Justice?”, written by the late folk singer Anne Feeney. The song starts with a blunt statement that “laws are made by people” and “people...
INDIA Bloc Must Be In Step With Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Nyay Yatra’
By Arun Srivastava Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is embarking on his second walkathon, ‘Bharat Nyay Yatra’, from Manipur in the north-east to Mumbai in western India, covering 14 states and 85 districts, beginning January 14. Rahul is undertaking this gruelling mission just after a year of the culmination of...
Even Priyanka Gandhi Is Not Spared By Modi’s ED-Driven Witch-Hunt
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Priyanka Gandhi, a severe critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is the latest political personality to be brought under the yoke of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a case of, what else, money laundering under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). It is for...
Almost A Century-Old CPI Still Fighting Exploitative System
By Krishna Jha The Communist Party of India will be a century old in another year. The party was formed on December 26, 1925. In 1920, the All India Trade Union Congress was formed with strikes and struggles of working masses, in the textile mills in Bombay, jute mills...
