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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.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...
COP28 Fails To Take Cognizance Of Impact Of Militarization On Climate Change
By Dr. Arun Mitra It is welcome that over 80000 participants from around the globe have gathered in Dubai to deliberate on the strategies to mitigate the climate crisis which if not checked would be catastrophic. The event is happening at a time when just at a distance of...
INDIA Bloc Has Still The Potential To Take On BJP In Lok Sabha Polls
By Nitya Chakraborty Four days after the declaration of the state assembly poll results, a close analysis shows that the Congress has not done so badly in the three Hindi heartland states- Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh as is being presented in the national media. In fact compared to...
INDIA Constituents Have To Offer An Alternative Programme To Take On BJP In 2024
By P. Sudhir The results of the five state assembly elections are striking for the way the BJP has won in the three heartland states of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. A major victory is the coming back to power in Madhya Pradesh, a state where it has ruled...
New Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy Has To Deliver In Lok Sabha Polls For Congress
By Sushil Kutty Anumula Revanth Reddy is the new Telangana Chief Minister. Also known as ‘Tiger’ Revanth, he took Bharat Rashtra Samithi supremo K Chandrashekar Rao’s place. Reddy is the first Congress Chief Minister of Telangana and faces the daunting task of reviving Telangana’s financial fortunes. For those who...
Madhya Pradesh Results Hide Disturbing Ground Reality For Both BJP And Congress
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The impressive win of the BJP in Madhya Pradesh and humiliating loss of the Congress conceals a disturbing ground reality for both the political parties, since the results hide a disturbing ground reality that they will have to face in the months to come during...
Assembly Poll Results Will Have No Impact In Kerala: Congress
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Congress in Kerala thinks that the huge electoral setback the party suffered in the Hindi heartland will have no impact on next year’s parliamentary polls in the State. Well, the ground reality is, however, entirely different. Congress leaders in the State are pinning their...
Muslims At Crossroads In India Increasingly Under The Grip Of Hindutva
By Arun Srivastava Even before Congress leader Rahul Gandhi or his sister Priyanka Gandhi could reach out to the Muslims, console them and erase the image of uncertainty from their mind, the Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee cautioned them against the design of the saffron ecosystem and asked them...
Narendra Modi’s Meeting With New Maldives President In Dubai Is Significant
By Girish Linganna India has, finally, agreed to withdraw its troops from the Maldives, the president of the strategically located archipelago has said, fulfilling a promise he had made to the country’s electorate ahead of the recent presidential election in the archipelagic nation. Indian government sources said the two...
Infosys Founder N R Narayan Murthy’s ‘Compassionate Capitalism’ Will Not Work
By Krishna Jha It was Narayan Murthy, the software icon who had said in 2020 that working hours for the toilers should be stretched up to sixty hours. In 2023, he went further and said the working hours must be taken to seventy hours. And now he has come...
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 –...
