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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.World Goes Against Its Pledges, Doubling Fossil Fuel Production
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Despite pledges by 151 national governments to achieve net-zero emission by phasing out fossil fuels production, the world is set to double its production by 2030. A new report from the UN environment agency (UNEP) has warned that global coal production would continue to increase...
Stretching Working Period To 70 Hours A Week Contradicts Global Practices
By Krishna Jha Looking at the data and studies done across the world, it appears that the Infosys founder N Narayana Murthy when he said that in India youth should work for seventy hours a week, he was ignoring a reality: working hours in India are amongst the longest...
High Onion And Potato Prices Are Now Major Issues In Bangladesh Poll Campaign
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The national elections in Bangladesh are scheduled to be held in January 2024. The Shiekh Hasina-led Awami League will try to continue its uninterrupted stint in power since 2009. The united opposition led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, whose top leader, Khaleda Zia, is serving...
Nitish Trumps RSS, Modi With Caste-Based Socio-Economic Report
By Arun Srivastava Once again, the Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has proved that his bête noire Narendra Modi could not match his political craftsmanship and administrative acumen. Though the middle class bhakts of Modi claim that he has perfect understanding of the time, when to strike and how...
Congress Emerging Stronger In Madhya Pradesh, Closer To Power
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha Election campaigns reach its mid-way, with only a week left for campaigning, Congress seems to have emerged even stronger than previously expected just one week ago, or even likely to perform better than in the last election held in 2018....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Is Playing The OBC Card In Telangana Polls
By Sushil Kutty The Bharatiya Janata Party despairs that the opposition INDI-Alliance is dividing Hindus into caste to rob the BJP a chance at victory in the five states’ assembly elections. The moral high-ground the saffron party took by championing a casteless Hindu society, however, does not fetch votes...
Israel Will Be Doing A Terrible Blunder If It Extends The War To Iran And Lebanon
By Girish Linganna As Israel grieved in the aftermath of the October 7 tragedy, where more than 1,400 citizens lost their lives due to the actions of Hamas terrorists, US President Joe Biden visited Tel-Aviv to pledge American support. However, during an appearance with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,...
Portugal May Face Elections Again As Prime Minister Antonia Costa Resigns
By Satyaki Chakraborty Portugal may face another national elections early next year as the Prime Minister of the ruling Socialist Party government Antonio Costa resigned on Tuesday November 7 after the police arrested the PM’s chief of staff and allegations were galore about the involvement of the PM office...
V K Pandian, A Bureaucrat Of Extraordinary Calibre Is Assisting Naveen Patnaik
By Harihar Swarup Former bureaucrat Wajahat Habibullah, while serving as director of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie, called up his school friend, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, saying that he was sending to him a freshly-minted IAS officer, who also writes movies script, an...
Gaza War Drowns Out Sane Voices On Both Sides Of Palestinian Divide
By James M Dorsey Gershon Baskin may be one of the few sane voices left on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide. Baskin speaks with authority when he denounces the Israeli assault on Gaza as a war crime and Hamas for its brutal October 7 attack on Israel that...
American Presidential Election In November 2024 Promises To Be A Tumultuous One
By Kalyani Shankar A hypothetical President Joe Biden versus his predecessor, Donald Trump, contest in the 2024 U.S. presidential race is too close to call. Elections will be held on November 5, 2024, just a year away. News agency Reuters says this election promises to be like no other...
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Is Reconciled To His Term In Tihar Jail
By Sushil Kutty Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal is bound for prison. The Delhi Chief Minister is reconciled to his fate. The enforcement directorate will question him, arrest him and put him behind bars, period. There are no two ways about it. Kejriwal has convinced himself and he...
Bigger Challenges Lying Ahead For Congress In Rajasthan
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Contestants arrayed in the electoral battlefield of Rajasthan is almost clear. The Congress and the BJP are engaged in a bitter, closer, no holds barred contest than expected earlier. Hitherto sidelined BJP leader and former CM Vasundhara Raje has come back to the centrestage, while...
Egoistic Akhilesh Yadav Is Emboldening Anti-Secular Organisations
By Arun Srivastava The problem with Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has been his own overblown ego. He treats himself as the most astute politician possessing the highest order of intellect and wisdom. He also nurtures the feeling that no other politician could read his mind and make out...
Trinamool Congress Leadership Preparing For Lok Sabha Polls With Confidence
By Tirthankar Mitra Feeling the heat from a slew of corruption charges and more than 10 of its leaders behind the bars, a brainstorming session is on within the Trinamool Congress to reboot it’s election game plan for next year’s Lok Sabha polls. The strategy will be two pronged...
Narayana Murthy’s 70 Hour A Week Working Hour Proposal Is A Health Hazard
By Dr Arun Mitra The Chairman of Infosys Shri N R Narayana Murthy seems to have forgotten the popular poem that was taught to us during school days ‘The Cry of the Children’, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, dedicated to the condition of children in England who were made to...
Call For Immediate Ceasefire Gets Positive Response In US Democratic Party
By John Bachtell NEW YORK: Calls for an immediate ceasefire are accelerating worldwide as the horrific death toll among Palestinians rises and the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza deteriorates by the minute. The extreme-right Israeli government is ignoring those pleas as it continues its ground assault and aerial bombardment of...
Anonymous Political Donations Are Harming India’s Democratic System
By Nantoo Banerjee Increasing secret business donations to political parties to help fight state and general elections threaten to harm India’s democratic system. The practice protects the anonymity of contributors. If France, one of the world’s most vibrant democracies, can ban political donations by business corporations, why do political...
