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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.Is Rahul Gandhi Finally Emerging As INDIA Candidate To Take On Narendra Modi?
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the front-runner though INDIA’s Rahul Gandhi could be ahead. Ask random Congress leaders and their faith in the Gandhi scion is unwavering. They are adamant Modi has slid behind Rahul Gandhi in people’s reckoning and that the Wayanad MP has left...
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Firm On No Caste Census In West Bengal
By Tirthankar Mitra Having built Trinamool Congress from the scratch and weeding out those who might question her style of functioning, West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee is long accustomed to having her ways. But a dilemma confronts her whether to be tagged with imploding...
Inequality Emerging As A Major Election Issue For 2024 Polls
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As India is heading closer to the Lok Sabha election 2024, two sets of issues are being brought forward before the people of the country. BJP and AIMIM are harping on Hindu and Muslim communalism respectively, the former seems pushing the corruption issue against the...
China’s Low Growth Level Impacting Rejuvenation Of ASEAN Economies
By Subrata Majumder Notwithstanding political rift, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor lauded New Delhi declaration of G-20 a diplomatic triumph for India. It pushed India to the leadership for Global South, leveraging its political clout in the world. Eventually, induction of 55 members of AU (African Union) as permanent members...
Political Outsider Stefanos Kasselakis Wins Race To Head Greece’s Left Wing Syriza
By Satyaki Chakraborty In an event of huge political significance for Greece as also Europe, an outsider Stephanos Kasselakis, with no previous experience in the politics of Greece was elected as the President of the Syriza, the main leftwing opposition party in the Greece which ruled the country from...
BRICS Expansion Creates A Global Super Power In Renewable Energy
By K Raveendran The planned expansion of the BRICS bloc, through the addition of new members Saudi Arabia, Iran, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt, Ethiopia and Argentina, will transform the grouping into a global leader in renewable energy in the coming decades. The six new members will join the...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Has Emerged As A Global Leader
By Harihar Swarup With the success of the G20 summit in Delhi, is Narendra Modi, making a mark globally as Jawaharlal Nehru did on the world stage after Independence? India’s first Prime Minister had carved out a niche for the country as the leader of the non-aligned movement even...
Lok Sabha Member From Delhi Ramesh Bidhuri Was Speaking The Language Of The RSS
By Sushil Kutty After the high of the ‘Naari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam’, the BJP is battling getting a bad name because one of its Members of Parliament could not hold his tongue in the Lok Sabha and flung invectives like they are BJP’s lingua franca. BJP’s South Delhi MP...
US Supporting Canadian Position On Nijjar Killing Poses A Big Threat To India
By Arun Srivastava India’s denial of its involvement in the killing of Khalistan separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada has bitterly strained the relation between two countries, but more importantly, it has failed to convince its strategic partner USA of its stated position on the issue. If what the...
Pace Of Regular Job Creation Substantially Decreasing Since 2019
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Era of Joblessness that begun with Prime Minister Narendra Modi assuming second term in 2019, has been worsening with pace of regular job creation substantially decreasing. Coupled with high prices and inflation, the situation pushed people in unprecedented economic distress that led rise in...
The Proposed India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor Is Yet A Concept
By Girish Linganna Prime Minister Narendra Modi is really hopeful about the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), which he introduced at the G20 summit in New Delhi recently. However, some people think that not all countries in this project see it as something against China’s Belt and Road Initiative....
The ‘Global Enduring Disorder’ In An Increasingly Polarised World
By James M Dorsey It’s a no-brainer to suggest that we live in an increasingly polarised world. Geopolitics are polarised, so are societies. Polarisation marks the transition from a unipolar world dominated by the United States to a bipolar world with China, or more likely a tripolar world that...
A Classic Case Of Caste Discrimination In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An incident of caste discrimination in the most progressive state in the country! Unbelievable? But it is true. The execrable act occurred in Kerala, “God’s Own Country’, in January this year. The horrendous details of the abomination first. The shocking incident took place at a...
President Elect Of Guatemala Arevalo Facing Resistance Before Swearing In On January 14
By Satyaki Chakraborty One month has passed since the Bernardo Alevaro, the Leftwing supremo of Semilla coalition was elected as the President of the South American nation in the general elections held on August 20. The President-elect is to take over on January 14,2024 as per the constitution but...
RSS Pushed Modi Govt To Pass Women’s Reservation Bill Before 2024 Polls
By Arun Srivastava Former Congress President Sonia Gandhi has every reason to feel elated at the introduction of the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, or Women’s Reservation Bill in parliament by Narendra Modi government, but the truth is the bill would not have seen the day-light if the Joint general...
BJP Could Land In Trouble In 2024 Election On Women’s Reservation
By Dr. Gyan Pathak “Women’s Reservation” has become the most politically correct terminology of the day, as we have seen within the Parliament of India, and have been seeing outside in the public. However, the question is which political party or alliance will derive maximum benefit out of the...
Historic Women’s Bill Clears Parliament, Opposition Wants Caste Sub-Quota
By Rahil Nora Chopra Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Amendment) Bill, 2023, which ought to provide 33 per cent reservation to women in Lok Sabha and state Legislative Assemblies, unanimously. 454 Lok Sabha MPs voted in favour of ‘The Narishakti Vandan Adhiniyam’ Bill,...
BJP’s Duplicity On Women’s Bill Will Be Apparent At The Time Of Giving Tickets For LS Polls
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement that only a strong government made possible 33 percent women’s reservation has few takers. The reality is, but for the fact that the Bharatiya Janata Party and the RSS wanted another Modi term to fulfill the Sangh Parivar agenda, the Modi...
