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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.Narendra Modi Has Added Muscle Power To Foreign Intelligence Operations During His Rule
By Girish Linganna India’s Spy agency, the Research and Analysis Wing, is facing more scrutiny due to growing claims of its international operations, including alleged assassinations and meddling in foreign affairs during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second term in office. Experts believe that, during Modi’s decade in office, India’s...
Maharashtra Lok Sabha Election At Its Maximum Pitch In Its Final Phase
By Sushil Kutty The Maharashtra elections for the Lok Sabha is at its zenith. The INDI-Alliance is banking on Maharashtra to give the BJP-led NDA a run for its money. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is banking on his name and face for winning Maharashtra and making it “abki baar...
INDIA Bloc Intensifies Outreach To Non-Yadav OBC, Non-Jatav Dalits In UP
By Rahil Nora Chopra With the elections taking course towards Avadh, Doab and Bundelkhand regions of central Uttar Pradesh, the INDIA bloc leaders from Congress and Samajwadi Party have magnified their joint outreach towards non-Yadav OBCs and non-Jatav Dalit vote bank of the BJP. The SP has pushed the...
Lull In Real Estate Market In China Is Restraining Demand For Steel In 2024
By Kunal Bose WorldSteel in its latest short-term global outlook report says about China: “The outlook for 2024 is uncertain. The real estate market and exports will continue to exert negative pressure on steel demand and it might contract in the absence of additional government support measures.” Steelmakers in...
Tussle For Supremacy In Congress In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Congress leaders in Kerala are back at their bickering game again. That is the unmistakable message emanating from the sordid goings on witnessed during the campaign for the Lok Sabha elections. Adding insult to injury is the ‘decision’ of Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president...
Joe Biden Has Continued Donald Trump’s Policy Of Crippling Cuban Economy
By Antoni Kapcia WASHINGTON: In early 2021, Cubans faced a triple crisis. Since 2017, Donald Trump had decreed 243 presidential measures to make the long-standing US embargo tighter than at any time since the mid 1960s. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the problem by closing Cuba’s borders to tourism, a...
Labour Party’s First Six Steps For New Govt Fall Below The Real Demands
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Labour’s “six first steps,” the priority actions it will take when in government, are testimony to the shrivelled state of the party’s ambitions as well as of it’s long post-Corbyn march to the right. Voters looking for determined action to improve their circumstances and address...
Purkayastha Arrest: There Is More Than Technicalities At Stake
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court decision to declare the arrest of Prabir Purkayastha, founder of news website NewsClick as illegal has reignited the debate on the delicate balance between national security concerns and individual liberty. While Purkayastha’s release is a positive development, the court’s reasoning raises questions about...
Modi Back To Polarising Hindus Ahead Of Last Three Phases Of Polling
By Arun Srivastava Within twenty hours of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s much-hyped public assertion, saying “if I do Hindu-Muslim, would not be fit for public life”, he made a classic somersault and declared: “Congress wanted to allocate 15 per cent budget to Muslims”. On Tuesday, while filing his nomination...
The Post-Bail Behaviour Of Arvind Kejriwal Is Becoming Curiouser And Curiouser
By Sushil Kutty If the Bharatiya Janata Party wins June 4, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will become Prime Minister and Yogi Adityanath will be removed from his post of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister in three months and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will join LK Advani in the ‘Marg-darshak...
