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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.Unemployment At 6.9 Per Cent As Modi Government Completes 11 Years
By Dr. Gyan Pathak On June 9, this year, as BJP celebrates 11 years of PM Narendra Modi led government in India as golden period of the country, unemployment rated stood at 6.9 per cent as per Centre of Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) data based on 30-day moving average...
The Curious Case Of Honeymoon Murder Of A Indore Husband In Meghalaya
By Sushil Kutty Indore’s Raja Raghuvanshi didn’t want to honeymoon in Meghalaya. But Indore’s Sonam Raghuvanshi was adamant and Meghalaya they went. And Meghalaya is wishing this wasn’t how it should have been! Why bring murder to Meghalaya, there was already talk of Meghalaya as a crime-high state? Now,...
Election Commission Has Much Explaining To Do In Countering Rahul Gandhi’s Allegations
By Arun Srivastava A scrutiny is a careful and exhaustive examination of the facts and the ground realities. The interpretations may have the element of personal bias but it ought not to be used for setting political agenda. Nevertheless the scrutiny of Rahul Gandhi’s criticism of the role of...
Building Jagannath Temple At Digha, Mamata Has Scored Political Gains Over State BJP
By Kunal Bose Religion as long as it remains confined to individuals and there is civilised tolerance of different faiths, peace prevails. But once it spills into public space and attempts are made to assert dominance of a particular religion as we are witnessing here and in some neighbouring...
Chirag Paswan Seeks To Steal Nitish Kumar’s Thunder In Bihar Assembly Polls
By Tirthankar Mitra Bihar seems to have a penchant for being in the news be it owing to JP’s call of total revolution or the Bhagalpur blindings or the fodder scam. The state finds itself in the news again as a new leader whose political party is part of...
Green Signal For Sabari Rail Project In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A long-standing dream of Keralites is set to become a resounding reality soon with the Union Government giving the green signal for the Sabari rail project. According to Kerala’s Railway Minister V Abdurahiman, all hurdles in the way of the 111-km-long Angamaly-Erumeli Sabari project, which...
RBI’s Latest Monetary Policy Exudes Over Confidence And High Optimism
By Anjan Roy The new governor of the Reserve Bank, Sanjay Malhotra, has taken to monetary policy formulation and the world of finance like fish to water. Within a short period of his taking over, Malhotra has got into his charge with a refreshing confidence. RBI’s monetary policy, announced...
President Donald Trump Finally Gives Up His Initial Musk As A Global Peace Maker
By Indrani Chakraborty U.S. President Donald Trump has finally given up his initial musk as the global peace maker after taking over presidency on January 20 this year. After 135 days of acting as a fake peace maker, under his direction, the United States vetoed a United Nations Security...
Prime Minister’s Boasting About India Being Fourth Largest Economy Has Many Gaps
By D Raja India is being paraded on global and national platforms as the world’s fourth-largest economy. With a nominal GDP of nearly 3.9 trillion dollars, the government claims it has scripted an economic miracle. The Prime Minister thunders from every stage about India’s rise under his watch, and...
Big Beautiful Break-Up Between Trump And Musk Has All The Thrills Of A Hollywood Film
By Sushil Kutty The headlines are topping the Trump-Musk fallout. The best was “I hate my X”, straight out of a divorce playbook and so true of Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the two are like a divorced couple carrying the thrill and bitterness of divorce into the public...
Strategically Delayed Central Census Raises Several Concerns
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Only a day after announcement of the Census 2027, the Union Ministry of Home said on June 5, that the census was put off due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its “aftershock”. How can the Centre say this when it went on conducting many other...
Chirag’s Aggressive Pitch For Bihar Top Job Rattles Allies, RJD Alike
By Rahil Nora Chopra Political activity in Bihar is intensifying, with Union Minister for Food Processing Chirag Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) readies to flex its muscle and likely to stake claim in at least 35 to 40 seats in the forthcoming Bihar assembly elections due in October-November...
Veteran Congress Leader Sankar Malakar’s Defection To TMC Is A Big Boost For Ruling Party
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Electoral prospects of Trinamool Congress seem brighter in north Bengal post veteran Congress leader Sankar Malakar switching loyalty to the ruling dispensation. For such a decision has been taken after weighing the pros and cons as desertion of this veteran leader is certainly an indication...
As The US Economy Wobbles, European Union Targets Dollar Supremacy
By Nick Wright LONDON: The damage Donald Trump has done to the architecture of imperial power is not an accidental feature of an unusually repugnant personality. It has its roots in the real, material conditions of the recurrent crisis in the accumulation of capital and in the projection of...
How Post Operation Sindoor Modi Doctrine Stifling India’s Diplomatic Outreach?
By Nitya Chakraborty 26 days have passed since the temporary truce in the limited four day war between India and Pakistan taking effect on May 10 this year. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been talking of his three point doctrine since then, the most important of which is no...
Parliament, Not Propaganda, Must Lead India’s Response To Kashmir Attacks
By P. Sudhir ‘NOT blood: But Sindoor Flows Through My Veins’ – these exact words by Prime Minister Modi defined his signature style in launching the post-Sindoor campaign blitzkrieg. What else could he or his government have done in response to the grave challenges the country was faced with....
Elon Musk’s Vicious Attack Against Trump’s Economic Policies Has Stunned MAGA Supporters
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The differences between US President Donald Trump and his first buddy tech billionaire Elon Musk, who sunk $288 million of his personal fortunes to get the mercurial Trump re-elected, has now exploded in the public domain with a spat. The bitter attack by...
Little Known BIS Is An Important Cog In The Wheel Of Global Finance Now
By Anjan Roy If you happen to have transferred money from your bank account to another, you would in possibility have used the RTGS system. This is known but little is known about the RTGS platform and its evolution. The RealTime Gross Settlement mechanism was primarily developed by the...
