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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.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...
India’s First National Trade Union AITUC Approaches Its Foundation Day On October 31
By Amarjeet Kaur October 31 is approaching, the day of foundation of the first national level organization of trade unions in India. A collective of trade unions from all sectors, formal and informal, gathered at Bombay and AITUC was founded with Lala Lajpat Rai, a tall leader of the...
Continuing Hostilities To Evidence Based Studies Mark Nine Years Of Modi Regime
By Prabhat Patnaik All fascistic outfits have one common characteristic: they reject outright all evidence that goes against the narrative they spin; and the Hindutva elements in power in India are no exception. Their narrative presents India as the fastest growing economy in the world where the people never...
Narendra Modi Is In Contest Against The Congress In All Five Assemblies Polls
By Sushil Kutty How the Bharatiya Janata Party has transformed the upcoming assembly polls into Modi Vs. Congress by sidelining state-level leaders is the flavour of this election season running up to and right into general elections 2024. The fact of the matter is there’s no doubt that it...
RSS Takes Over Total Command Of Large Number Of Constituencies In Madhya Pradesh
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: As the electioneering picks up heat, political parties are using abusing language against each other. The BJP calls Congress leaders Ravana, the Congress too pays in the same coin. The position is worst at local level. Meanwhile finding BJP propaganda somewhat weak RSS has...
Congress Leans Towards BSP After Seat-Sharing With SP Goes Awry
By Rahil Nora Chopra After tensions between the Congress and Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party over seat-sharing for Madhya Pradesh, Congress has been looking for an option and exploring the possibilities for an alliance with the BSP in UP for the crucial 2024 Lok Sabha elections. According to sources, both...
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...
