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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.Deepika Padukone Is Now A Leading Female Actress In Indian Film Industry
By Harihar Swarup When you have an incredible face, an incredible figure and incredible talent, you really have it all. Film star Deepika Padukone works harder than anyone. She has inherited from her parents a lot of discipline. Deepika, 37, is India’s highest paid film female actress. She reportedly...
Khalistan Movement Is Weak In India But Its Influence Is Quite Strong In Sikh Diaspora
By Girish Linganna After India gained freedom from Britain in 1947, some people didn’t think a country with so many different regions could stay together. India has managed to stay united, but there have been challenges to its unity. One significant challenge is the Khalistan movement, which wants to...
Significance Of Putin-Kim Summit For Rest Of The World And Global Power Balance
By M A Hossain On September 13, North Korean leader Chairman Kim Jong-un embarked on his first foreign visit, following the global public health crisis. His arrival was marked by disembarkation from his bullet-proof train at the Vostochny Cosmodrome spaceport, located in the Amur Oblast in the Russian Far...
United Auto Workers Indefinite Strike Is Impacting 2024 US Presidential Polls
By Satyaki Chakraborty The United States is witnessing one of the biggest working class actions in its history as the United Auto Workers (UAW) affiliated workers are on an indefinite strike action from September 15 after the talks with the three top automakers General Motors, Ford and Stellantis failed...
Ukraine Adviser’s Racist Remark On India And China Creates A Big Row
By Girish Linganna In a recent interview, Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, mentioned that he believed countries such as India and China might not have strong intellectual capabilities and might not fully think through the outcomes of their actions. Podolyak’s remarks followed just...
The Miss Universe From Pakistan Brings Cheers To Countrymen At Last
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Finally, there is news from Pakistan not about looming bankruptcy or anarchy. It’s about one of those beautiful things that Pakistan has in abundance. Indian people have been following Sachin Meena and Seema Haider’s love story, gasping at the beauty and lean figure of Seema...
At Current Pace World To Take 197 To 430 Years To Close Gender Gap
By Dr. Gyan Pathak On the current pace of reforms, the world may take between 197 to 430 years to close the global gender gap, which means misallocation of women’s talents and abilities would remain a major issue to the detriment of societies for a long time. The estimate...
India Is Behind Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka In Gender Pay Parity
By Rejimon Kuttappan On March 10, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a post-budget webinar on Economic Empowerment of Women that, “India can move forward only by raising the levels of the respect for women and the sense of equality.” On August 15, in his Independence Day speech at...
Presenting Women Reservation Bill In Special Session Is A Milestone In Indian Democracy
By Sushil Kutty For the misogynist, waking up on Ganesh Chaturthi morning was disappointing. Overnight the Modi Cabinet had, during the course of an unscheduled meeting, cleared the Women’s Reservation Bill, which had been lying dormant for years much to the giddy happiness of male chauvinists, who deep down...
Seabed Warfare Has Been Accentuating In Europe Impacting Indian Ocean
By Girish Linganna The use of seabed warfare is growing in Europe and could extend to the Indian Ocean. The recent Ukraine conflict highlights the vulnerability of crucial seabed infrastructure. Australia and India should get ready for the possibility of seabed warfare and its implications and work together to...
Decoding The Legend Of Bengali Theatre Sova Sen On Her Birth Centenary
By Tirthankar Mitra Many present day patrons of the stage together with a large group of film goers in Bengal would balk at referring to Sova Sen as a thespian. The roles she had essayed on stage and screen, they feel did not rise to such heights to dub...
Columbian President Petro Has Done Commendable Job In His First Year In Office
By Carlos Cruz Mosquera Just over a year ago, no one would have thought Colombia could provide an example of a leftist governing model. The nation has long been the bastion of what supporters see as liberal-democratic rule in South America — falling to neither left-wing revolution nor the...
Congress Leadership Confident Of Taking On BJP In 2024 Under INDIA Banner
By Kalyani Shankar The Congress leaders are upbeat after the weekend Congress Working Committee meeting in Hyderabad. They are ready to plunge into poll mode. The C.W.C., the Party’s highest policy-making body agreed on several contentious and sensitive topics and planned its future course. The meeting was the first...
Foreign Tech Firms Find India An Attractive Manufacturing Destination
By Nantoo Banerjee The United States Trade Representative, Ms. Katherine Chi Tai, may not be fully aware that most of the high-tech mass market electronics gadgets such as laptops, tablets and personal computers under global US brands exported to India are not manufactured in the US. They are built...
PM’s Bid To Rouse Passions On The Issue Of Sanatan Dharma Failing In Poll Bound Five States
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Hindutva brand politics seems to be in trouble in all the five poll bound states – Telangana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Mizoram – for which election schedule are to be announce within few weeks from now. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has come on the...
Two Term Prime Minister Narendra Modi Is Still At His Peak On Turning 74
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned 74 on Sunday, September 17. Who cares is what one set of people say. The other set’s cloying sycophancy was on full display. That said, successful people have charisma. What about Prime Minister Narendra Modi? Hundreds of millions hang on to...
RSS Conclave At Pune Charts Out Roadmap For Bringing BJP To Power Again
By Arun Srivastava Reminiscent of Atal Behari Vajpayee advice to Narendra Modi, within a month of the Gujarat pogrom, that he should follow Rajdharma, the RSS Joint General Secretary Manmohan Vaidya told the three-day RSS coordination meet at Pune that situation in Manipur continues to be “worrisome” but the...
Samajwadi Party Is Still Waiting For Signal From The Congress For Talks
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Ghosi assembly by-election victory has boosted the morale of leaders and workers of INDIA partners Samajwadi Party, Congress and RLD to take on BJP in 2024 Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh. Samajwadi Party is a bigger partner with more than 100 MLAs in UP...
