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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.Selective Political Witch-Hunting In India Nearing Its Climax
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The game of political hunting, which is typically characterised in India by cases, raids, seizures, and arrests, which generally do not lead to conviction, but enable the government to pin its adversaries down for years without trial in cases registered by the Enforcement Directorate (ED),...
Stalin’s Autonomy Panel Move May Harm The Gains Of Supreme Court Verdict
By K Raveendran The euphoria surrounding the enactment of ten Tamil Nadu legislations without presidential assent may be short-lived. What initially seemed like a landmark assertion of state rights has now been complicated by Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s subsequent decision to form a three-member panel under the chairmanship of...
The Global Trade War Has Given A Big Opportunity To India But The Govt Is Not Ready
By Anjan Roy India’s stock markets recovered smartly on Tuesday, emerging from the turmoil post Trump tariffs. The unprecedented tariffs declared by Donald Trump had roiled the global financial markets from which the major global centres have yet to recover. On Wednesday till the time of writing, the Indian...
ED Charge-Sheeting Rahul, Sonia Reeks Of Pure Political Vendetta
By Arun Srivastava With Rahul Gandhi tightening his proverbial grip on the political neck of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the latter in his desperation has directed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to pounce upon Rahul and Sonia Gandhi and implicate them afresh in the long-drawn National Herald case. The case...
Trump Refashions The Working Of White House Media Room To The Ire Of Correspondents
By Sushil Kutty The novelty of Karoline Leavitt, White House Press Secretary, is wearing off. For no fault of the White House Correspondents’ Corps which hangs on to Leavitt’s every word and the odd Leavitt gesture. But with time running its scam, too many White House correspondents are beginning...
SC Verdict Against TN Governor A Booster Shot For Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Supreme Court’s order fixing a time-frame for the President and the Governors to act in the case of bills passed by the State Legislatures in Tamil Nadu’s case has given Kerala a booster shot. Buoyed by the apex court’s historic order, Kerala is all...
BJP Worried At Akash Anand’s Induction Into BSP Leadership By Mayawati Again
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Is BJP unhappy with former chief minister and BSP national president Mayawati’s decision relating to induction of her nephew Akash Anand back in party fold? The manner in which security cover of Y plus of Akash Anand was removed within 24 hours of Mayawati’s decision...
China Comes Up With A Shock And Awe Strategy Of Its Own To Counter Trump
By Dr Imran Khalid Donald Trump’s latest economic fusillade against China – a staggering up to 145% tariff on Chinese imports, paired with a temporary 90-day reprieve for other trading partners – is less a coherent strategy than a theatrical flourish. The move, announced with typical bluster, appears calibrated...
Two Recent Interim Orders Of Supreme Court Have Affected People With Rare Diseases
By K. M. Gopakumar Two recent interim orders of the Supreme Court have pushed the lives of people living with rare diseases to the edge. These two orders were passed in two separate special leave petitions (‘SLP’) filed by the Union challenging the High Court orders of Delhi and...
Trump Leads U.S. To Another Constitutional Crisis On The Issue Of Illegal Deportation
By John Wojcik WASHINGTON D.C: The Trump administration said Monday, in defiance of a 9-0 Supreme Court order, that it is not required to return a U.S. resident it illegally sent to a Salvadoran concentration camp last month. El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, backed up Trump at a White...
China Effectively Playing Global Diplomacy To Isolate Trump On Tariff War Issue
By Nitya Chakraborty Though there is a 90 day pause in Trump’s latest unilateral imposition of reciprocal tariffs on most of the countries, the trade war between the USA and China, the two largest economies of the world is in full steam imparting tremors in global trade and economy....
A New Phase Of Dalit Politics In India Has Just Begun
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With quota within quota notification for Scheduled Caste (SC) reservation in Telangana, a new phase of Dalit politics in India has just begun. The gazette notification has made Telangana, the first State in India to implement sub-categorization of Scheduled Caste reservation which coincided with Dr...
Both U.S. And Chinese Economies Are Feeling The Pinch As Trade War Intensifies
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: President Donald Trump needs to de-escalate his trade war with China ASAP, US economists feel, as it has reached a point where it could hurt each other’s economy so very badly, that recovering lost ground is going to be unreachable, because both economies...
Murshidabad Violence Marks Gross Failure Of Both Bengal Police As Also Central BSF
By Arun Srivastava Sermons like “One shouldn’t play games with religion. Dharma means devotion, affection, humanity, peace, amity, culture, harmony, and unity” are taught to the school children. It is just reverse in the real life. In realpolitik these amiable words have no relevance. These were the words articulated...
Donald Trump-Barack Obama Spat On Harvard Funding Has Caught Global Attention
By Sushil Kutty The President Donald Trump is going after Harvard University with a vengeance after Harvard chose to reject Trump’s “reforms”. In the process, Harvard is losing loads of dollars but is also drawing admiration and encouragement from Trump’s bete noire, former President Barack Hussein Obama. Trump and...
Why We Need A Nuanced Reading Of Dr Ambedkar’s Views On Judicial Appointments?
By Sushovan Patnaik Today, as we remember Babasaheb Ambedkar on his 135th birth anniversary, there is a certain crisis of identity that the Indian judiciary seems to be confronting. On this exact day, a month ago, members of the fire department allegedly discovered piles of burnt currency in the...
Senator Bernie Sanders Leading The Anti-Trump Campaign From The Front
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON: Socialist senator Bernie Sanders is out on the stump again, helping lead, in a big way, the opposition to Donald Trump where other Democratic Party lawmakers have not. And people—tens of thousands of them coast to coast—are responding. The latest proof occurred on April 12...
US Import Tariffs On China Raise India’s Trade Vulnerability
By Nantoo Banerjee It is good to know that the government is already cautious about the possible increase in Chinese export trade and investment to India to exploit both the local market as well as to push exports to the USA taking advantage of the massive US import tariff...
