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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.BJP Scores A Self-Goal On Uniform Civil Code Move And Manipur Clashes
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Union Government’s failure to control the riots raging in Manipur and the move to bring in a uniform civil code in the country have evoked strong protests from the opposition parties not only in Kerala but also across the nation. At one stroke, the...
Possibility Of Cabinet Reshuffle Gives Modi Ministers The Jitters
By Rahil Nora Chopra Prime Minster Narendra Modi, just after returning from his first State visits to the US and Egypt, met with President Droupadi Murmu at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. While it is standard practice that the prime minister briefs the President on foreign visits, the fact his meeting...
BrahMos Aerospace To Produce World’s Fastest Supersonic Cruise Missile
By Girish Linganna BrahMos Aerospace, The Indo-Russian missile maker, recently announced that they had concluded the initial design of a new generation of BrahMos-NG missiles. The export director of the missile producer has stated to Russian news agency Sputnik that the design of the forthcoming BrahMos-NG missiles has been...
Centre’s Announced Minimum Support Price For Current Kharif Season Is Inadequate
By Dr. Soma Marla In the initial days of June, the Indian agriculture sector witnessed three important events. Farmers in Kurukshetra waged a two-week agitation as the state government refused to procure Sunflower seeds at the minimum support price (MSP) announced by the government. Second incident the union government...
Looking Back At Stonewall Rebellion By Gays Fifty Four Years Ago
By C.J. Atkins Fifty four years ago, on June 28, 1969, when a bar named the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village became ground zero for the modern gay rights movement, there were, of course, no corporate sponsors. No political allies in positions of power. And rather than keeping people...
Dilemma And Desperation Plague BJP Top Brass Before Lok Sabha Polls
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Karnataka loss in May this year despite the twin strategy of BJP – high decibel election campaign focussing on polarisation of Hindu votes and harping on PM Modi’s charisma – that shocked the top brass of the party, has now finding itself into a deep...
Big Power Rivalry Influencing Bangladesh Polls Due In January 2024
By Ashis Biswas In South Asia, East Pakistan used to receive international media attention only during its natural calamities. Major powers remained mostly fixated on the tensions and conflicts involving India and West Pakistan. Even after breaking away from Pakistan, Bangladesh had to wait patiently for nearly three decades...
With UCC, RSS And Modi Press Nuclear Button Of Communal Divisiveness
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi is not known for speaking rationally. This time he has faulted in the matter of raking up Uniform Civil Code. While justifying his stand, he said that the country cannot have two laws: one for Hindu and a second one for the ‘other’. By...
Congress Leadership Truce At Chhattisgarh Bodes Well For Assembly Polls
By Sushil Kutty Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, two states ruled by the Congress are scheduled to go polls before the year is out. Also, both with a leadership problem at the state level! Those were the similarities till a couple of days ago when the Congress high command, after years...
India Seems To Have Lost Its Strategic Autonomy In Global Diplomacy After PM Visit To USA
By P. Sudhir The outcome of the Modi visit to the United States has made one thing clear – India has become more cemented to the United States in a strategic and military relationship. Whatever the rhetoric “of the partnership between two democracies” and shared values, the compulsions for...
