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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.General Election In January-End Brings No Cheers To Pakistani Citizens
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Pakistan’s next general election to elect new members to its National Assembly will be conducted in the last week of January 2024, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) said Thursday. The preliminary list of constituencies will be out on September 27 while the final list...
Four Weeks Ahead Of Durga Puja Festival In Bengal, Potters Are Busy Giving Shape To The Idol
By Devasis Chattopadhyay At this time of year, all roads in Kolkata lead to Kumartuli in the northern part of the city’s old quarters. It’s where Bengal’s most beloved goddess, Durga, is taking on her earthly avatar as potters work round the clock to bring her to life. In...
Food Price Inflation Remains A Serious Problem To The Indian Policy Makers
By Prabhat Patnaik The current upsurge in prices in India is led by food prices. In July 2023 while retail inflation was 7.44 per cent (over July of the previous year), food price inflation, which covers all food items including foodgrains, vegetables, milk products and such like, was 11.5...
Hindus Settled In Canada Are Feeling The Heat In The Wake Of Nijjar’s Killing
By Girish Linganna Canada’s position in the midst of tensions linked to the Khalistan movement, which advocates an ‘independent Sikh state in Punjab’, became highly prominent during the current week. This came to light after allegations that India might have played a role in the assassination of a prominent...
Biden-Lula Joint Partnership On Workers’ Rights Assumes Big Significance
By Mark Gruenberg and John Wojcik NEW YORK: When Brazil’s President LuízInacio “Lula” da Silva, replaced Jair Bolsinaro, the “Donald Trump of the Global South,” as president of his country, the Biden administration had high hopes of being able to work with the newly-elected president. It has turned out...
Havana Declaration Of G77+China Summit Is A Charter Of Global South In This Decade
By Satyaki Chakraborty Just four days after the holding of the G 20 summit in New Delhi on September 9 and 10 this year, the G77+ China held its historic summit in Havana on September 15 and 16 and came out with its Havana Declaration which was an unequivocal...
It Was CPI Lok Sabha Member Geeta Mukherjee Who Pioneered Women’s Bill
By Binoy Viswam After a very long wait, the Women’s Reservation Bill has been passed by the Parliament. Everyone who knows about the history of the struggle for the enactment of the Women’s Reservation Bill would think about Comrade Geeta Mukherjee at this moment of victory. She was the...
India-Canada Battle Over Nijjar Killing Threatens To Hit New Delhi’s Diplomacy
By Sushil Kutty The international gunning for Narendra Modi is back in fashion. Western media has found in Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau the man to repaint Modi into a corner after 10 years of being in the global spotlight. Many in the West media are convinced this time...
Push For Global Approach To Crypto Fizzles Out, Legislation Is A Must Now
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Recently, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) put out a job opportunity on LinkedIn and invited applications from senior blockchain executives with a proven track record of implementing blockchain projects. NPCI offers various instant payment solutions in collaboration with nearly 250 banking institutions in...
Women’s Reservation Bill Adopted But Deliberately Delayed Indefinitely
By Subhashini Ali The long-awaited passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill after a long wait of 27 years has not been an occasion for rejoicing as it should have been. For all these years, successive governments have done all they could to kill it and consign it to oblivion...
Generative AI Could Revolutionize Industries And Societies, Generate $4.4 Trillion Yearly
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Generative AI could revolutionize industries and societies, and generate as much as $4.4 trillion yearly, but it also runs significant risks. It poses critical societal and policy challenges that policymakers must confront are: potential shifts in labour markets, copyright uncertainties, and risk associated with the...
India-Canada Bilateral Relations Have A Long History Of Tensions
By Tirthankar Mitra Years nay decades after the shadow of Khalistan has departed from Punjab, it came calling again from Canada. It needs no great political understanding to realise that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is playing to the Sikh diaspora’s extremist fringe when he accused India from the...
Prime Minister’s Vishwakarma Yojana Is Varnashrama Dharma In A New Bottle
By T. Mayura Priyan The Prime Minister of India recently announced the PM Vishwakarma Yojana, a scheme purported to benefit traditional artisans and craftspeople. The Union cabinet has given its approval for this whopping ₹13,000 crore scheme which is to be jointly implemented by the Ministry of Micro Small...
PIO Nikki Haley Storms To Number One As US Presidential Candidate In Latest Opinion Poll
By Sushil Kutty Here in India, women are in all sorts of emotional quandaries including wondering if women’s reservation isn’t humiliation of sorts for women who think they’re already empowered and, therefore, what’s this euphoria for, forgetting that it’s not just women in the third world who need a...
INDIA Alliance Can Promise And Showcase Healthcare For All
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The first Lok Sabha election in India after the unprecedented COVID-19 health crisis of 2020 and 2021 will be held in 2024, which will provide a great opportunity to INDIA alliance not only one of the most important campaign issues to promise enough healthcare access...
Nijjar Murder Has Similarities With Assassination Of Saudi Journo Khashoggi
By K Raveendran The pace at which the India-Canada diplomatic row is deteriorating, manifesting in tit for tat diplomatic expulsions, suggests that Khalistan activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s killing may be an action replay of the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi-born critic of the Saudi royal...
CPI(ML)–L Is Ready To Align With Mamata In Bengal To Fight The BJP In Lok Sabha Polls
By Arun Srivastava Fighting RSS fascism and saffron authoritarianism has been the major task before the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)-Liberation and for achieving this mission, the party would continue to work for strengthening the INDIA block. Like the CPI(M), the CPI(ML-Liberation) does not suffer with any ambiguity. The...
Great Tagore Songs Singer Suchitra Mitra Mesmerised Bengalees For Decades
By Tirthankar Mitra Rendition of any Rabindra Sangeet in Suchitra Mitra’s powerful yet melodious voice has always left her audience asking for more. More often than not, the singer extraordinary of Bengal obliged. On the occasion of her birth centenary this month, one once again feels the appeal of...
