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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.Ukraine War Has Reached A Dead End With No Country In A Position To Win
By Ben Chacko All through 2023 the conflict in Ukraine has been drifting towards deadlock. As the year draws to a close the military positions remain very much where they were at its start. The much-hyped Ukrainian spring-summer offensive has made little difference beyond the waste of further lives...
RSS’s Tribal Connect Helped BJP Score Hat-Trick In 3 Heartland States
By Arun Srivastava Hyperbole is one of the chief traits of Narendra Modi. For this reason his latest boast that BJP’s “hat-trick” of victories in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Chhattisgarh “is a guarantee for a hat-trick in 2024” and that he would get a third consecutive term in power...
Moody’s Downgrading China’s Economic Outlook Has Big Significance
By Anjan Roy One of the most powerful global credit agencies, Moody’s, has downgraded China’s economic outlook to negative from stable. This has major implications for a country in the financial markets and as a reliable destination for global investors. Immediately, this change might not affect China’s investments or...
Rajasthan Makes Political Uncertainty Wider For Lok Sabha Polls 2024
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Celebrations in the BJP rank and file after sweeping the Rajasthan polls by winning 115 seats out of election held in 199 constituencies in a 200-seat Legislative Assembly has a hidden discomfort for the party leadership, while the loss of power has greatly shocked the...
Regional Congress Leaders Defending The Poll Debacle In Their Own Ways
By Ashis Biswas In an ironic reversal of their assigned roles, regional Congress leaders are currently handling a scathing political attack on their party by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with greater confidence than their supposedly exalted High command Delhi-based leadership, post recent Assembly elections. Its recent drubbing in...
It Is Height Of Stupidity To See State Poll Results As North-South Divide
By Sushil Kutty Musk’s ‘X’, which used to be Dorsey’s ‘Twitter’, is aiding the sharpening of the south-north divide in Hindustan, which is now ‘Bharat’ north of the Vindhyas, and ‘INDIA’ south of the Vindhyas. And plenty of barbs keep the pot boiling. One user tweeted, “Hence proved –...
Large Presence Of Fossil Fuel Lobbyists At COP28 Dubai Summit Raises Eyebrows
By K Raveendran Lobbying by the fossil fuel industry has become the most spotlighted aspect of Dubai COP28, which otherwise is having a highly successful run that is typical of the high-profile city. Dubai makes a celebration of even the most mundane event and the remarkable success with one...
How Outcome Of Gaza War Has Implications For Domestic Indonesian Politics
By James M Dorsey A recent clash between pro-Palestinian Muslims and pro-Israeli Christians in the North Sulawesi coastal town of Bitung raised the spectre of Indonesia’s worst nightmare, inter-communal violence. In a country that prides itself on a culture of inter-communal harmony, the death of a protester set off...
Lalduhoma, The Chief Minister-Elect Of Mizoram, Is A Veteran Politician
By Harihar Swarup In 1997, Lalduhoma quit the Mizo National Front after he lost to Zoramthanga in the race for party President. On Monday, the 74-year-old Lalduhoma was set to replace Zoramthanga as chief minister of Mizoram. Lalduhoma, who comes from a poor family, excelled in academics and began...
Congress Has Performed Much Better In State Polls Compared To 2019
By Dipankar Bhattacharya The outcome of the five Assembly elections held in November has proved almost all opinion polls and ground reports wrong. Even the few exit polls that predicted a thumping BJP victory in Madhya Pradesh gave the Congress a comfortable majority in neighbouring Chhattisgarh. The clean BJP...
Chhattisgarh Poll Results Drive Congress And BJP For A Stiff Contest In 2024
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Election result for Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly reveals that the electorates in Chhattisgarh have driven the Congress and the BJP towards a tougher contest for Lok Sabha election 2024 by reducing the difference in their shares in total votes polled to merely 4.04 per cent from...
Are The Uniforms Of Indian Navy Personnel Being Changed To Suit The BJP
By Sushil Kutty The first thing Prime Minister Narendra Modi did after cornering three states in the ‘Hindi heartland’ was to address Indian Navy personnel on Navy Day and proclaim that ranks in the Indian Navy will be renamed so that the ranks reflected Indian culture. The uniforms of...
Israel And Hamas Have Different Objectives About What To Achieve During Truce
By Girish Linganna Israel has conflicting goals of neutralizing Hamas and rescuing its civilians kidnapped during the October 7 storming of its territory in a surprise—and vicious—attack after they broke through the heavily guarded perimeter fence, landing by sea and using paragliders, killing about 1,200 people and taking 240...
Brazilian President Lula Is Facing Big Challenge From Right Wing Farm Lobby
By Tyler Antonio Lynch This September, Brazil — the world’s largest net exporter of agricultural commodities — announced the biggest grain harvest in its history. Farmers brought in a staggering 322 million tons of corn, soy, and wheat, said the government’s head of agricultural statistics — 50.1 million tons...
ZPM Sweeping Assembly Polls In Mizoram Is A Verdict Against Corruption Under MNF
By Tirthankar Mitra Zoram People’s Movement (ZPM)’s sweeping victory in Mizoram bins the proverbial belief that Indian politics has little space for the young gun. Of course, there are exceptions when mint-fresh political parties are known to end the regime of an established political outfit. Indeed recent election results...
Assembly Elections To The Five States Have A Set Of Winners And Losers
By Harihar Swarup The results of the assembly elections to the five states announced on December 3 and 4 led to many winners and losers for the time being. All of them will be getting another chance to prove their mettle in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Narendra Modi:...
For Congress And Its Allies, The Signals For 2024 Lok Sabha Polls Are Ominous
By Nitya Chakraborty Let us call the spade a spade. The results of the five state assemblies announced on December 3 and 4 are sending ominous signals to the anti-BJP opposition just four months before the Lok Sabha elections due in April/May 2024. To be frank, the final results...
India Needs A Strong Resolution To Protect Its Currency
By Nantoo Banerjee In his recent Mann Ki Baat radio broadcast, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was troubled by the trend of some “big families” conducting weddings abroad, and urged people to hold such celebrations on Indian soil so that the country’s money does not leave its shores....
