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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.Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao Has A Formidable Team For Assembly Poll
By Harihar Swarup As Telangana goes to polls, on November 30, the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi took inspiration from Team India’s performance at the just concluded the ODI World Cup. Hoping to emulate the cricket team, the party launched a campaign asserting that, just as India will lift its...
Gujarat Govt’s Choice Of Ghol As A The State Fish Leads To Murmurs In Bengal
By Tirthankar Mitra A fish curry is a meal while macherjhol is a emotion that will find widespread support in West Bengal. Its residents who swear by the taste of hilsa would in all likelihood be foxed by Gujarat’s choice of Ghol as the state fish. Black spotted croaker...
Pleas Against SEBI’s Adani Probe: Greater Focus On Investor Loss Than Market Efficiency
By K Raveendran Irrespective of the outcome of the batch of petitions in the Supreme Court against the SEBI investigations into the charges levelled by US-based short-selling firm Hindenburg Research against the Adani group of companies regarding violations of stock market regulation, it is most likely that short selling...
Congress In Kerala Caught In Row Over YC Chief’s Election
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Nothing seems to be going right for the Congress in Kerala. As if the plethora of problems already plaguing the party were not enough, the Congress is caught in a major controversy over the election of the Youth Congress state president. The charge against the...
Odisha Under Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Has Achieved Success In Wooing Investors
By Kunal Bose Holding conferences of investors with attempts made to induct representation of as many foreign countries as possible have become an annual or biennial ritual with states in this country. Closing ceremonies will be marked by state chief ministers proudly announcing promised investments, in most cases of...
Gaza Conflict Ends Up Separating Wheat From Chaff Among Religious Leaders
By James M Dorsey Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel has not just divided Muslim political leaders. It’s also solicited diverse responses from religious figures and institutions, reflecting deeper divisions about what Islam stands for in the 21st century. At the core of the differences is the ability and...
Rahul Gandhi Should Be Careful In Calling Prime Minister Names During Poll Campaign
By Sushil Kutty Who is ‘Panauti’ for which political party will be known on December 3 when votes are counted and the results of the assembly elections are out. And if the 2024 general election favours the INDI-Alliance, the Election Commission, which has issued a show cause notice to...
Telangana State Polls: BRS, Congress, BJP Wage Battle Of Freebies
By Rahil Nora Chopra Telangana gears up for the assembly polls on November 30, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), the Congress, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are rigorously campaigning. The Congress in Telangana has vouched a chain of commitments, including conducting a caste census and raising reservations for...
Congress Wants Decision Of Its Committee On Alliance In Assam Binding On Others
By Ashis Biswas As in neighbouring West Bengal, efforts to ensure a one-on-one contest by the INDIA constituents against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls are not going well in Assam , the biggest state in the Northeast with 14 seats. At the national...
India Need To Move With Caution In Dealing With The Muizzu Govt In Maldives
By Girish Linganna After being sworn in as the new president of the Maldives, Mohamed Muizzu, 45, has formally asked India to withdraw its military personnel from the Indian Ocean archipelago. This request was made during a meeting between Muizzu and India’s Minister for Earth Sciences, Kiren Rijiju, who...
GDP Growth In Indian Economy Does Not Automatically Lead To Poverty Reduction
By Prabhat Patnaik One of the striking findings of the Bihar Caste Survey, which bears out what the Left has been asserting for a long time, is that absolute poverty in the country is far more pervasive than what successive governments in India have been claiming. It shows that...
Didi’s Masterstroke: Sourav Ganguly As West Bengal Brand Ambassador
By Tirthankar Mitra With a knack of hitting the headlines, be it by scoring a century or taking off his shirt and standing bare-chested at Lords cricket ground or becoming BCCI president, Sourav Ganguly is in the news again. This time as the brand ambassador of West Bengal, the...
Sam Altman’s Return At OpenAI Means Profit Won In Its Fight With Safety
By Leif Weatherby On Friday, OpenAI, the Microsoft-funded operator of ChatGPT, fired its CEO, Sam Altman. Then, after five days of popcorn-emoji chaos, they hired him back. The sudden move, which billion-dollar investor Microsoft only learned about moments before it was released to the public, seems to have come...
Four Days Truce Is Not Enough-Convert It To Permanent Ceasefire In Gaza
By C.J. Atkins Don’t call it a ceasefire. That’s the word from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office even as the Israeli government announced it will pause its destruction and ethnic cleansing in Gaza for at least four days, with the possibility of further extensions as conditions develop. “We...
Modi Indulges In Shameful Historical Distortion For Electoral Gains
By Arun Srivastava Trying to arouse the sub regional feeling, exploit the sensibilities of the local people towards Sachin Pilot and more than this to feast on the factional differences at the top in Rajasthan Congress, Vishwaguru Narendra Modi came up with the most nonsensical lie. A master of...
Centre Should Immediately Convene All Party Meeting To Discuss Pollution Crisis
By Binoy Viswam The greed of the capital along with its market-controlled path of development is making the lives of people more and more miserable. The people are being denied even their basic rights of safe air, water, and landmass. The capitalistic rulers everywhere are doing only lip service...
In Telangana Poll Campaign, Congress Has Advanced But Yet To Catch On With BRS
By Sushil Kutty Headlines like ‘People ready to defeat BRS’ do not reveal the whole truth. There is a media narrative against Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao and the man is media-meat. If the media pronouncements are taken at face value, the BRS has been scalped and laid...
On Israel’s Gaza War, Hindutva Forces In India Are In Cahoots With Zionists
By P. Sudhir It has become a crime in New India to observe Children’s Day by remembering the Palestinian children killed in Israel’s war on Gaza. This is what happened on November 14 in Mumbai when a few score people, including minor girls, held a silent prayer in Juhu...
