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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.Qatar Is Playing A Key Role In Facilitating The Release Of Hostages
By Girish Linganna In a significant development toward easing the ongoing conflict in Gaza, a meeting took place on Thursday at an elegant white-domed palace in Qatar. The Prime Minister of Qatar, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani, hosted the spy chiefs of the United States and Israel, namely...
Turkey-Based Rebel Groups Pose Significant Threat To Region
By Manish Rai The Syrian Democratic Council is the political wing of the Syrian Democratic Forces in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. SDF controls roughly 25% of Syrian territory and has established an autonomous administration in northeast Syria. Currently, areas controlled by the SDF are being...
American And Western Diplomats Are Openly Supporting Opposition In Bangladesh
By Ashis Biswas For Bangladesh, an inexorable decline of its economy during the last couple of years has added to the present tensions it faces in its uneasy relationship with the US. This has rendered the position of the ruling Awami League (AL) politically more vulnerable as it continues...
BJP Ecosystem Using All Its Might To End Mahua Moitra’s Political Career
By Arun Srivastava The Lok Sabha Ethics committee has made Mahua Moitra a martyr. The indiscreet decision proves beyond doubt that the personal and political life of an individual daring to raise an accusing finger towards Narendra Modi and his tycoon friend Gautam Adani would have to face the...
India’s Working Force Has Remained Stagnant Over The Last Five Years
By Prabhat Patnaik In an economy like ours where the work-force is not neatly divided into “the employed” and “the unemployed”, and instead there is massive and growing casualisation of work, measuring unemployment is a tricky business. It necessarily means asking a person how much work that person got...
Congress Maintains Its Lead In Second Phase Of Election Campaign
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Election campaigns are at peak in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh going to polls on November 17 in the second phase, and only five days are left for the chief contestants – the Congress and the BJP. As of now, Congress seems to be maintaining its...
Bihar Caste Survey Impact Could Be Mandal 2.0; Nitish Eyeing PM’s Post
By Rahil Nora Chopra The empowerment of OBCs came through the acceptance of the Mandal Commission report in 1990. Since then, the battle to keep implementing Mandal recommendations has been continued and led by the likes of Lalu Prasad Yadav, who have stood guard against the forces of Kamandal,...
National TV Channels Are Gung Ho About Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Win
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been campaigning against the Opposition’s INDI-Alliance for as long as the alliance has been in existence, i.e., since July of this year. That should answer the question, is the ruling BJP worried about what the INDI-Alliance could do to it in...
Centre Should Opt For Long Term Agro-Economic Solution To Deal With Air Pollution
By Dr. Soma Marla On November 3, 2023, New Delhi woke up to a thick layer of toxic smog, as IQ Air a Swiss-based air quality technology company, specializing in pollution and monitoring natural resources put the city’s air quality index (AQI) at611 in the ‘hazardous’ category. A reading...
Bengal Congress Awaits Delhi’s Signal For Pre-Lok Sabha Polls Tie-Up
By Tirthankar Mitra INDIA, the anti-BJP alliance, seems to be going downhill in West Bengal even as next year’s Lok Sabha elections are inching closer. It is difficult nay a well nigh impossible political proposition now for the three INDIA alliance partners namely Congress, CPI(M) and Trinamool Congress to...
Israel-Hamas War Enters Second Month With No Indication Of Ceasefire
By Girish Linganna The world was awakened a month ago to the deadliest attack Israel has ever faced. Operationally, Israel was responding to an attack by Hamas, the organisation that governs the Gaza Strip, by conducting operations within the Palestinian territory. The second month of the Israeli-Hamas confrontation is...
Lok Sabha Ethics Committee Functions Without Code Of Conduct For Members
By Nantoo Banerjee It is difficult to believe that there has been no listed ‘code-of-conduct’ for the directly elected representatives of Lok Sabha since the country held its first general elections between October 21, 1951 and February 21, 1952. Paradoxically though, Lok Sabha has an ethics committee with the...
Arbitrary Powers Of The State Governors Must Be Ended
By P. Sudhir One of the ways federalism and the powers of the elected state legislatures are being undermined, is by governors sitting over the bills passed by the legislatures without taking any decision regarding them. According to the constitution, bills passed by the state legislatures have to be...
Remembering D N Ghosh, The Architect Of Bank Nationalisation In 1969
By Nitya Chakraborty Dhruba Narayan Ghosh, known as D N Ghosh, the young official who played the leading role in preparing the draft of the ordinance on bank nationalisation issued on July19, 1969, passed away in Kolkata on November 6. He was 95. Originally, a member of the Indian...
Court Observations Against Agencies Set A Trend Ahead Of Upcoming Review Petitions
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court’s displeasure with the way the Centre is using its agencies to suppress criticism or force adversaries into submission is finding expression at increasing frequency. “It can’t be a State that is run only through its agencies,” Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul said while hearing...
The Saffron Ecosystem Is Getting Ready To Launch Sub-Caste Census
By Arun Srivastava Frightened of the tremendous impact of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s state caste census on the impending Lok Sabha polls, the saffron ecosystem has come up with a plan to launch a sub-caste census well before the general election starts. This arrangement, according to a think-tank...
BJP Leaders Are Needlessly Creating Furore Over Nitish’s Remarks
By Sushil Kutty Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was the wrong guy at the wrong place. He should have been an American speaking to a house of US legislators. And to think that modern-day Indians make such a hue and cry about free speech. What about Nitish Kumar’s right...
Death Of A Horse Of Kolkata Mounted Police By Sheer Noise Should Serve As A Warning
By Anjan Roy The death of a horse, ironically named Voice of Reason, has erupted into widespread bemoaning what we humans are doing to the environment and our insensitivity to nature and other sentient beings. A horse belonging to the Calcutta Mounted Police died of fright from loud noise...
