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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.Congress Maintains Its Lead In Second Phase Of Election Campaign
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Election campaigns are at peak in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh going to polls on November 17 in the second phase, and only five days are left for the chief contestants – the Congress and the BJP. As of now, Congress seems to be maintaining its...
Bihar Caste Survey Impact Could Be Mandal 2.0; Nitish Eyeing PM’s Post
By Rahil Nora Chopra The empowerment of OBCs came through the acceptance of the Mandal Commission report in 1990. Since then, the battle to keep implementing Mandal recommendations has been continued and led by the likes of Lalu Prasad Yadav, who have stood guard against the forces of Kamandal,...
National TV Channels Are Gung Ho About Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Win
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been campaigning against the Opposition’s INDI-Alliance for as long as the alliance has been in existence, i.e., since July of this year. That should answer the question, is the ruling BJP worried about what the INDI-Alliance could do to it in...
Centre Should Opt For Long Term Agro-Economic Solution To Deal With Air Pollution
By Dr. Soma Marla On November 3, 2023, New Delhi woke up to a thick layer of toxic smog, as IQ Air a Swiss-based air quality technology company, specializing in pollution and monitoring natural resources put the city’s air quality index (AQI) at611 in the ‘hazardous’ category. A reading...
Bengal Congress Awaits Delhi’s Signal For Pre-Lok Sabha Polls Tie-Up
By Tirthankar Mitra INDIA, the anti-BJP alliance, seems to be going downhill in West Bengal even as next year’s Lok Sabha elections are inching closer. It is difficult nay a well nigh impossible political proposition now for the three INDIA alliance partners namely Congress, CPI(M) and Trinamool Congress to...
Israel-Hamas War Enters Second Month With No Indication Of Ceasefire
By Girish Linganna The world was awakened a month ago to the deadliest attack Israel has ever faced. Operationally, Israel was responding to an attack by Hamas, the organisation that governs the Gaza Strip, by conducting operations within the Palestinian territory. The second month of the Israeli-Hamas confrontation is...
Lok Sabha Ethics Committee Functions Without Code Of Conduct For Members
By Nantoo Banerjee It is difficult to believe that there has been no listed ‘code-of-conduct’ for the directly elected representatives of Lok Sabha since the country held its first general elections between October 21, 1951 and February 21, 1952. Paradoxically though, Lok Sabha has an ethics committee with the...
Arbitrary Powers Of The State Governors Must Be Ended
By P. Sudhir One of the ways federalism and the powers of the elected state legislatures are being undermined, is by governors sitting over the bills passed by the legislatures without taking any decision regarding them. According to the constitution, bills passed by the state legislatures have to be...
Remembering D N Ghosh, The Architect Of Bank Nationalisation In 1969
By Nitya Chakraborty Dhruba Narayan Ghosh, known as D N Ghosh, the young official who played the leading role in preparing the draft of the ordinance on bank nationalisation issued on July19, 1969, passed away in Kolkata on November 6. He was 95. Originally, a member of the Indian...
Court Observations Against Agencies Set A Trend Ahead Of Upcoming Review Petitions
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court’s displeasure with the way the Centre is using its agencies to suppress criticism or force adversaries into submission is finding expression at increasing frequency. “It can’t be a State that is run only through its agencies,” Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul said while hearing...
The Saffron Ecosystem Is Getting Ready To Launch Sub-Caste Census
By Arun Srivastava Frightened of the tremendous impact of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s state caste census on the impending Lok Sabha polls, the saffron ecosystem has come up with a plan to launch a sub-caste census well before the general election starts. This arrangement, according to a think-tank...
BJP Leaders Are Needlessly Creating Furore Over Nitish’s Remarks
By Sushil Kutty Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was the wrong guy at the wrong place. He should have been an American speaking to a house of US legislators. And to think that modern-day Indians make such a hue and cry about free speech. What about Nitish Kumar’s right...
Death Of A Horse Of Kolkata Mounted Police By Sheer Noise Should Serve As A Warning
By Anjan Roy The death of a horse, ironically named Voice of Reason, has erupted into widespread bemoaning what we humans are doing to the environment and our insensitivity to nature and other sentient beings. A horse belonging to the Calcutta Mounted Police died of fright from loud noise...
World Goes Against Its Pledges, Doubling Fossil Fuel Production
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Despite pledges by 151 national governments to achieve net-zero emission by phasing out fossil fuels production, the world is set to double its production by 2030. A new report from the UN environment agency (UNEP) has warned that global coal production would continue to increase...
Stretching Working Period To 70 Hours A Week Contradicts Global Practices
By Krishna Jha Looking at the data and studies done across the world, it appears that the Infosys founder N Narayana Murthy when he said that in India youth should work for seventy hours a week, he was ignoring a reality: working hours in India are amongst the longest...
High Onion And Potato Prices Are Now Major Issues In Bangladesh Poll Campaign
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The national elections in Bangladesh are scheduled to be held in January 2024. The Shiekh Hasina-led Awami League will try to continue its uninterrupted stint in power since 2009. The united opposition led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, whose top leader, Khaleda Zia, is serving...
Nitish Trumps RSS, Modi With Caste-Based Socio-Economic Report
By Arun Srivastava Once again, the Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has proved that his bête noire Narendra Modi could not match his political craftsmanship and administrative acumen. Though the middle class bhakts of Modi claim that he has perfect understanding of the time, when to strike and how...
Congress Emerging Stronger In Madhya Pradesh, Closer To Power
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha Election campaigns reach its mid-way, with only a week left for campaigning, Congress seems to have emerged even stronger than previously expected just one week ago, or even likely to perform better than in the last election held in 2018....
