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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.Curious Case Of Italian Prime Minister Ending Her Relationship With TV Host Partner
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Italy’s Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, has announced the end of her nearly 10-year relationship with her partner, Andrea Giambruno, following explicit off-air remarks he made on a TV show. Giambruno, a TV host, faced controversy after his comments, including flirtatious remarks to a female colleague...
After 142 Years, Pablo Picasso Still Stands As A Colossus In World Of Art
By Tirthankar Mitra Pablo Ruiz Picasso cannot be pinned down. Even as his 142nd birth anniversary passed by early this week, legions of his critics, detractors and of course his fans have been unable to categorise him. The reason is not difficult to see. There is so much of...
Israel-Hamas War In Gaza Has Exposed President Putin’s Duplicity In Geopolitics
By Alexey Sakhnin Last week, the Financial Times quoted a “senior European Union official” calling the escalating war in the Middle East “a gift from heaven” for Vladimir Putin. He suggested that Western governments’ support for Israel is turning Global South countries into Moscow’s allies. As an unnamed Arab...
Congress Working Hard To Retain Its Support Base In Chhattisgarh
By Dr. Gyan Pathak “All farm loans will be waived, as we have done in the past, immediately after the Congress returns to power,” promised CM Bhupesh Baghel in Chhattisgarh in a repeat of 2018 election promise. It was among the four key promises made by the Congress on...
Future Prospect Of JD(S)-BJP Alliance In Karnataka Looks Grim
By Arun Srivastava This is not the first time that the JD(S) has entered into an alliance with the BJP. In 2006, with the tacit blessing of the senior JD(S) leader, the former prime minister H D Deve Gowda, the JD(S) had brokered an alliance and his son HD...
RSS Supremo’s Vijayadashami Speech Is Aimed At Establishing A Hindu Authoritarian State
By P. Sudhir The speech of the RSS chief at the annual Vijayadashami rally in Nagpur is supposed to contain the authoritative pronouncements of the Sangh. In the rally last Tuesday, Mohan Bhagwat’s speech continued with the theme of the last few Vijayadashami speeches, where the Sangh totally identified...
Aparna Sen Is Still Enthralling Bengali Viewers With Issue-Based Cinema
By Tirthankar Mitra Her acting is a combination of vivacity which gels completely with her natural acting style. This has earned Aparna Sen a place of honour among the greats of Bengali cinema. Here is a heroine turned director whose co-actors have ranged from Uttam Kumar, Soumitra Chattopadhyay to...
Congress Attempt To Dent CPI(M)’s Muslim Support In Kerala Fails
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A concerted attempt by the Congress in Kerala to drive a wedge between the CPI(M) and the Muslim community has come a cropper. The Congress saw a chance to weaken the Muslim community’s support to the CPI(M) in a statement purportedly made by former Prime...
Chinese Govt Crackdown On Tech Entrepreneurs Adversely Affecting Investment
By Anjan Roy India has been seeking to attract foreign investment, particularly in the manufacturing industries. As such, India is growing robustly and this in itself is attracting the attention of major multinational corporations. But then, the actions of the Chinese authorities could be a pusher of investments into...
Christian Voters Of North Eastern States Are Angry With BJP After Recent Attacks
By Ashis Biswas In Mizoram, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) faces its most difficult political battle in the coming Assembly elections because of its irrefutable failure to control the worst ethnic riots in neighbouring Manipur state. Its main political backers in the state, the Mizo National Front (MNF) will...
Health Services In Gaza Strip Are Near Collapse As Thousands Of Injured Need Treatment
By Dr Arun Mitra As per the statement emanating from the Palestinian Health Ministry in its update on October 24 , the number of children killed in Gaza rose to more than 2360 out of 5791 total number killed due to Israel’s bombardment and dropping of 12000 tonnes of...
European Union Solidly Supporting The War Crimes Of Israel In Gaza Strip
By Jouke Huijzer In October 2012, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the Nobel Peace Prize would be awarded to the European Union since it had “for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.” A decade later, a new...
Worst Humanitarian Disaster Is Happening In Gaza Strip As Israel Gets Free Hand
By Debabrata Biswas from Boston, USA After eighteen days of the surprise attack by Hamas on Israel, the return onslaught against Gaza strip continues. The Hamas attack resulted in the killing of 1400 Israelis and abducting of more than 200 others, leading the Israeli govt. to declare war on...
RSS Supremo Blames Foreign Forces For Manipur Violence
By Arun Srivastava RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat does not enjoy the dubious reputation of speaking lies. But on Dussehra, in his annual sermon, when he tried to dig out the ghost of the “foreign powers” for putting the blame for the unabated six-month-long violence in Manipur, one could not...
CJI Takes Reservation Debate To New Level With Call For Empowerment
By K Raveendran Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud has added a new dimension to the current debate on caste-based reservation by stressing the need to advance from the accommodative aspect of the reservation policy as it is practised today to one where reservation would be a tool...
PM Narendra Modi’s Diagnosis On Social Disharmony Is Flawed
By Dr. Gyan Pathak On a sacred religious occasion of Dussehra, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, played a vicious game of communal politics, when he expressed his diagnosis on social disharmony alleging ‘casteism’ and ‘regionalism’ as the causes, but not even mentioning the hate speeches based on religious bias and...
Telangana Congress Chief Revanth Reddy Keeping KCR On Tenterhooks
By Sushil Kutty Telangana Congress chief A Revanth Reddy’s tactic of remaining on top of the news cycle by challenging Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao week after week since July of this year has been working fine. Revanth Reddy has virtually driven the BJP out of the headlines...
Hamas Puts Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim In A Bind
By James M Dorsey Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is in a bind. He is caught between public support for the Palestinians, and for Hamas in significant quarters, opponents painting him as a Western and Israeli lackey, and the need to not be seen as enabling a militant organization...
