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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.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...
India’s Total GDP Growth Is Not Taking Care Of Rising Inequality Among People
By K R Sudhaman India may not have crossed the US$4 trillion economy mark as some of the Narendra Modi fans tried to propagate in the recent days in social media but certainly the total GDP is approaching that level. However some economists fear that GDP growth in the...
Both India And China Giving Covert And Overt Support To Army Junta Of Myanmar
By Girish Linganna The latest intensification in rebel attacks on the ruling military junta. In Myanmar has posed security issues in the north eastern states of India. This has made people in India’s northeast more worried that the tensions will spread to the border areas. India has been keeping...
Bengal BJP Organisation Remains In Doldrums Despite Strong Warning From High Command
By Tirthankar Mitra Throwing a scare in Trinamool Congress camp after pulling off victories in 18 Lok Sabha seats in 2019 Lok Sabha, the BJP is uncertain whether it can do a repeat in 2024 elections to prove that its poll performance five years ago was not a fluke....
Germany’s Main Left Party Die LINKE Splits Into Two, New Party To Be Launched In January
By Victor Grossman Germany’s Left Party Die LINKE is splitting into two. Is it a tragedy or a new hope? After months, in fact years of inner-party squabbling in Germany’s LINKE party (The Left), the die has been cast, the Rubicon crossed, and Sahra Wagenknecht, with nine other Bundestag...
US Weapons Shipments To Israel Are Enabling War Crimes In Gaza Strip
By Stephen Semler Earlier this month, Human Rights Watch called for an arms embargo on Israel and armed groups in Palestine, “given the real risk that they will be used to commit grave abuses,” an organizational statement said. “Providing weapons that knowingly and significantly would contribute to unlawful attacks...
Congress And Rahul Gandhi Now PM Narendra Modi’s Chief Target
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Direction in which politics in India is moving, we may witness much more surprises than the one which Enforcement Directorate’s seizure action worth Rs 752 crore property on November 21 has brought. The properties are linked to years old National Herald case which is already...
Modi’s Machinations Have Deepened Mistrust Amongst RSS Leaders
By Arun Srivastava Senior RSS leaders have conveyed their annoyance in no uncertain terms to their chief Mohan Bhagwat about the functioning of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and urged him to look for a replacement in the greater interest of the BJP and the philosophical and political mission of...
Yogi Govt’s Ban On Halal Certification Is Aimed At Attracting Hindu Votes
By Sushil Kutty Mohammad All Jinnah got his wish and Pakistan was created at the expense of India, which lost territory. Jinnah won Pakistan on the back of the two-nation theory. But the trifurcation of India did not put an end to the two-nations within India. The point is,...
