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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.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...
Russian Economy Exhibited Surprising Resilience Despite Sanctions In 2023
By Girish Linganna The year 2023 was a challenging one for Russia. It was marked by major events with mixed repercussions across multiple spheres. The war remained the most defining feature for Russia throughout the year. The two most crucial factors that Western sanctions were designed to influence must...
Finally BSP Supremo Mayawati Gives Her Condition For Joining India Bloc
By Sushil Kutty There is a chance – a realistic one to deny Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party a general elections hat-trick and Modi his third prime ministerial term. All it requires is a leap of faith. Name ‘Behan’ Mayawati – the original ‘Dalit face’...
BJP Has Narrative Advantage Against Combined Opposition
By Harihar Swarup The INDIA alliance meeting in Delhi is broadly an effort at political resuscitation. For three months, the opposition formation had virtually suspended such strategic level dialogue, as the Congress prioritised the assembly elections. Talk of crucial loss of momentum. INDIA’s leading partner Congress stands devastated after...
New Year 2024 May Witness Far More Turmoil In Global Economy
By Anjan Roy Economic forecasting is always hazardous. It is more so in the current scenario. There are always any number of uncertainties about the future. But currently these are multifarious. No one really knows, including the dramatis personae, what will happen in the next week, let alone in...
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...
