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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.Planning For Life In The Midst Of Deaths And Destruction In War
By Anjan Roy Like the proverbial sphinx, life is springing afresh from the destruction of October 7 when scores of young people were killed by|1militants|1of Hamas in the Israeli kibbutz and a musical concert. Unbelievable as it is, but Israeli doctors have been busy extracting sperm from the dead...
Decoding Bengal’s Literary Icon Samaresh Bose In His Centenary Year
By Tirthankar Mitra Among the stars of the Bengali literary firmament, Samaresh Bose stands out occupying a place of honour. On his birth , centenary day on December 11, pundits and plebians will find it difficult to categorise his vast work of novels, short stories and travelogues. The point...
Delaying Selection Of Chief Ministers Does Not Speak Well Of BJP Leadership
By Sushil Kutty Delay in picking Chief Ministers for Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan is telling on the mental agility of claimants for the post in all three states. Look at outgoing Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Chouhan who can’t stand in one spot for more than an hour...
Former Prime Minister V P Singh Who Mandalised Politics, Has Become Relevant Again
By Harihar Swarup Finally, somebody has politically owned him—Vishwanath Pratap Singh, the 7th Prime Minister of India. Though he changed the course of Indian politics, and unleashed forces leading irreversibly to the rise and rise of OBCs, a process that is likely to influence the 2024 elections, the Mandal...
Human Rights And Labour Advocacy Need To Be Intensified To Protect Workforce
By Dr. Gyan Pathak December 10, 2023 is the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and ILO Convention 87, yet we are far from achieving human dignity, freedom, and social justice for all, especially for the entire workforce. Intensified efforts to promote and protect the human...
Mahua’s Unethical Expulsion From Lok Sabha Is Going To Strengthen INDIA Bloc
By Arun Srivastava The cat phrase “Modi Hai to Mumkin Hai” was proved correct by none else but Narendra Modi himself when he succeeded in his mission to have Mahua Moitra of TMC expelled from Lok Sabha by manipulating the parliamentary procedures and practices. In the history of the...
Master Of Roster Controversy: History Repeats Itself After A Gap Of Six Years
By K Raveendran It may not have been as high-profile as the ‘call of national duty’ press conference by the four senior most judges of the Supreme Court about six years ago. But the renewed controversy about the master of the roster, prompting two senior advocates of the apex...
Kanam: A Communist To The Core, A Pillar Of Left Unity In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The left movement in the country in general and in Kerala in particular suffered a grievous loss in the passing away of Communist Party of India (CPI) state secretary Kanam Rajendran. Kanam had been admitted to hospital on October 25 with multiple ailments, including a...
Old Versus Young Debate In Bengal Trinamool Congress On Lok Sabha Polls Eve
By Tirthankar Mitra Trinamool Congress has found itself in a political whirlpool ever since the cash for teaching jobs case unfolded in West Bengal leading to several senior Trinamool Congress ministers and leaders marking time behind the bars and CBI and ED grilling some others. As the cup of...
Hectic Work Is On In ISRO To Send First Indian Astronaut To Moon By 2040
By Girish Linganna In October this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi led a significant meeting to evaluate the advancement of India’s Gaganyaan Mission and to define the future of the nation’s space exploration efforts. Expanding on the achievements of such previous space missions as Chandrayan-3 and Aditya L-1, the...
UAE Walks An Ever-Tightening Geopolitical Tightrope Of Big Power Rivalries
By James M Dorsey The United Arab Emirates walks a geopolitical tightrope, juggling big power rivalries and mounting regional instability fuelled by the Gaza war. Putin’s movements beyond the confines of Russia are restricted. Signatories of the Rome Statute that established the International Criminal Court are obliged to arrest...
No Trace Of ‘Team Spirit’ In BJP, Only Modi Eulogy And Hindutva
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the BJP victories in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh were because of ‘team spirit’ in the Bharatiya Janata Party. Is that so, who is the Prime Minister fooling? Team spirit is the last thing in the saffron party. Team spirit goes...
Nitish, Mamata, Uddhav In Race For INDIA Bloc’s Pm Candidate Face
By Rahil Nora Chopra The race has begun on who will be chosen as the I.N.D.I.A. bloc’s joint Prime Ministerial candidate. The JD(U) has repeated its demand to project Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as the PM face of the INDIA bloc against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the...
BJP And TMC Competing In Bengal Over Gita Path And Chandi Path Before Lok Sabha Polls
By Tirthankar Mitra Making no secret of any love being lost for each other, Trinamool Congress seeks to upstage BJP on what the saffron camp considers to be its sole preserve – religion. An outfit stated to be close to the ruling dispensation of West Bengal has planned to...
Seat Sharing Talks Among India Parties In Uttar Pradesh Will Face Many Hurdles
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Being the main opposition party in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav is on the driving seat of INDIA bloc. Much significance is being attached to the statement of Akhilesh Yadav that INDIA got more strength after recent assembly polls. Irrespective of poor...
COP28 At Midway Relapses More Into Politics Than The Required Solution
By Dr. Gyan Pathak UN Climate Change Conference – United Arab Emirates (COP28) (November 30 – December 12, 2023), that began with first major milestone on the day-one, relapsed midway into politics, that prompted a disheartening comment by UN climate chief Simon Stiell that COP28 delegates are not in...
The Export Led Growth Model Has Been Discredited In Global Economy In Recent Years
By Prabhat Patnaik The wisdom of pursuing a strategy of export-led growth has been discussed among development economists for at least half a century, ever since the so-called East Asian “miracle” started to be contrasted with the comparatively sluggish growth experience of countries like India that were pursuing, in...
Boost In Manufacturing In Q2 Of 2023-24 Paving Way For More Foreign Investment
By Subrata Majumder Robust growth in 2nd quarter GDP of 2023-24 (July-September) vindicates that India is resilient to global sanction, protecting its strong economic fundamentals. India pinned continuous growth in GDP in all quarters since January 2023, despite global sanction was imposed on Russia in December 2022 and India...
