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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.Amit Shah Facing Angry Crowds During Poll Campaign In Madhya Pradesh
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Minister of Home Affairs and the second most influential leader in the BJP, Amit Shah, only next to PM Narendra Modi, has perhaps rightly perceived the general voters’ annoyance in Madhya Pradesh against the ruling double engine government, both in the state and the...
Kerala Blasts Aftermath Show Global Politics At Local Crossroads
By Sushil Kutty The bomb blasts in Kerala are a reminder that war – anywhere in the world – is never far from politics. The Kerala blasts along with the conflagration it triggered has had a serious impact on politics in India. There is now a Centre-State battle on...
What Palestine Teaches The Western Teachers Of Politics And Law
By Afreen Faridi Liberal legal and political theory, morality and institutions which uphold the Westphalian human rights charter have dug their grave in Palestine. Magna Carta, Bill of Rights, Universal Declaration of Human Rights … are dead. They have time and again failed to be useful to the Global...
P Vijayan-Led Kerala Rejects NCERT’s Bid To Replace ‘India’ With ‘Bharat’
By P. Sreekumaran Kerala has said an emphatic “No” to the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)’s attempt to replace ‘India’ with ‘Bharat’ in the social sciences textbooks for schools. This is in response to the recommendation made by a panel set up by the NCERT that...
Tipra Motha Of Tripura Approaches BJP For Seat Sharing In Lok Sabha Polls
By Satyaki Chakraborty Tipra Motha (TM), the powerful tribal party of Tripura has approached the BJP for an alliance to share the seats in the Lok Sabha election in 2024. Tripura has two seats in Lok Sabha including one as reserved. TM wants to contest the reserved seat and...
Against Ruling BJP, Efforts Begin For Opposition Unity In Assam
By Ashis Biswas Opposition parties in Assam, showing a greater commitment to achieve an anti-BJP consolidation than the Congress, ignored the latter’s gamesmanship to begin their long-awaited seat-sharing talks for the Lok Sabha polls in 2024. However, despite a broad agreement among the 14 parties coming together under the...
President-Elect Arevalo Of Guatemala Facing Us Resistance Before Take Over
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Bernardo Arévalo’s victory in the first round of presidential voting on June 25 this year surprised Guatemalans, as did the emergence of his Seed (Semilla) political party. Roadblocks engineered by established political forces threatened his candidacy in the second round of voting, on Aug....
Indian Economy Will Be Seriously Impacted By War Only When Arab Nations Join
By Subrata Majumder The peculiarity of Hamas-Israel war is that unlike other wars or conflict, India do not succumb to the direct impact of the war. It is the spillover impact, which causes concern. Israel is not a major trading partner or major foreign investor in India. Neither, Palestine...
Emotional Response To Murthy’s Call For 70 Hours Work Disguises Real Problems
By K Raveendran Infosys founder Narayana Murthy’s call to the youth of the nation to declare ‘this is my country, I want to work for 70 hours a week’ has created such a storm that it has elicited response from every section of the society, including the veteran technocrat’s...
Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot Has A Commanding Influence In Poll Campaign In Rajasthan
By Harihar Swarup “Is not he a man”? Sonia Gandhi was said to have exclaimed at a meeting of the party’s Central Election Committee (CEC) earlier last week. There was a deathly silence in the room. “Aren’t there corruption charges against him? Sonia, according to the reports, was referring...
Employment Generation Remains Dismal Reveals PLFS 2022-23
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Centre’s big claims on employment generation under PM Narendra Modi regime since 2014 is once again exposed. The recently released government’s Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2022-23 has revealed that both the employment and unemployment situation in the country remains a matter of serious concern....
Prime Minister Has A Challenging Task In Ensuring Safe Return Of Navy Officers From Qatar
By Sushil Kutty The Modi establishment, which takes pride in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “muscular foreign policy”, recently took Canada to task and bent Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Modi’s will. Prime Minister Narendra Modi now has the challenging task of bringing home eight retired Indian Navy officers...
Indian Geopolitical Stakes In Maldives And Indian Ocean Region Nations Are Very High
By Girish Linganna In a recent political development that could potentially reshape the dynamics in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), the Maldives elected a new President, Mohamed Muizzu, 45, of the People’s National Congress (PNC) on September 30, 2023. Muizzu’s victory marked a significant shift in the nation’s foreign...
President Biden’s Bear Hug Of Israel’s Netanyahu Is A Double-Edged Sword
By James M Dorsey It took 11 days and the death of 256 Palestinians for US President Joe Biden’s preference for a bear hug rather than a sledgehammer approach to get Israel to halt the Gaza bombing in 2021. Even then, Biden needed to be blunt and go public...
How Hamas’ Militants Successfully Hoodwinked Israelis By Using Hardwired Phones?
By Girish Linganna Intelligence shared with the United States indicates that a group of Hamas operatives, over a span of two years, used a network of hardwired phones integrated into the tunnel system beneath Gaza to plan the unexpected and deadly attack on Israel, two reliable sources have revealed....
Donald Trump Ahead In Presidential Race For 2024 Polls As Rivals Falter
By Tirthankar Mitra Hardly covering himself with glory during his presidential tenure, Donald Trump seemed to be destined to political wilderness when he stepped down to make way for his Democrat rival Joe Bide after his defeat in 2020 Presidential elections.. His nomination after Joe Biden’s term was not...
Pro-Democracy Opposition Wins Elections In Poland After Eight Years Of Far Right Rule
By Roman Broszkowski Poland’s pro-democracy opposition has finally won a parliamentary election. With all votes counted, the center-right Civic Coalition, Christian-democratic Third Way, and left-wing Lewica, will together command 248 out of 460 seats in the lower house (Sejm) and sixty-five of one hundred in the Senate. Their October...
Resurgent Congress Is Confident Before Assembly Elections
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has finally broken his silence over seat-sharing in the five poll bound states going to polls in November, but only to express party’s confident mood. “We will see this. Let the 5-state election take place first,” Kharge has said implying that...
