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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.Political Narrative For 2024 Polls Is Still Challenging For INDIA Block
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The ‘Sanatan Dharm’ controversy is the latest example of a leader of opposition unwittingly walking into RSS-BJP’s political turf made for PM Narendra Modi to play on with advantage over the opposition INDIA alliance, which they are projecting as anti-Hindu. PM Modi and his associates...
Narendra Modi’s Bragging About G20 Declaration Will Be Exposed Soon
By Binoy Viswam The year-long ‘celebrations’ that the Modi government built up around the G-20 Summit have ended. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, due to electoral ambitions chose to design it more like a festival than with socio-political and diplomatic content. G-20, because of its very nature and proclaimed objectives,...
Only Positive Step In G20 Summit Was The Admission Of African Union As A Permanent Member
By P. Sudhir The adoption of a joint declaration by the G20 summit in New Delhi with all member countries subscribing to it was an achievement, given the sharp divisions that exist on the issue of the Ukraine war. The eight paragraphs dealing with the Ukraine war were negotiated...
Narendra Modi Govt Is Giving A Big Push To Set Up High Tech Semiconductor System
By Girish Linganna The Indian government is capitalizing on the global push to reduce dependence on China by providing significant incentives, amounting to billions of dollars, to establish a complete semiconductor ecosystem on extensive, undeveloped land. In his New Delhi office, Ashwini Vaishnav, India’s Minister of Electronics and Information...
Fresh Killings Of Senior Officers In Kashmir Signal J&K Is Not Normal
By Sushil Kutty So, the terror in Jammu and Kashmir isn’t over as claimed by the Narendra Modi government. Just when the rest of India was starting to believe the Centre of having established “peace”, and only months after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi played a game of “snowball” with...
‘One Nation, One Election’ Will Test The Limits Of Democracy In India
By Mohammad Wasim ‘One nation, one election’ (ONOE) is often cited as a method of reducing electoral costs. But a holistic evaluation of any democratic institution or any change in it requires its examination with respect to the impact on other democratic institutions as well as on democracy as...
Feroze Gandhi Was The First Parliamentarian To Bring Bill For Press Freedom
By Tirthankar Mitra India has had a number of prime ministers over the past seven decades. They are remembered for their decisions which found expression in their government’s performance. Age-old social structure in India being what it is, their family members sometimes overtly or covertly participated in the exercise...
Supreme Court Bench Must Decide Early About Repealing Section 124A Of IPC
By Sushil Kutty For the umpteenth time in umpteen years, Section 124A or what is called the Sedition law could end up facing the guillotine though the Centre wants the process halted with the Supreme Court clearly not willing to acquiesce. The Modi government is no different from other...
Centre Refuses Fund To Punjab To Stop Stubble Burning
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As September begins, air quality in the National Capital Territory of Delhi starts deteriorating every year. As on September 13, 2023, it has already become unhealthy for sensitive groups, and tomorrow it is likely to turn unhealthy for all, with Air Quality Index (AQI) has...
Modi-Biden’s Economic Corridor Boosts Political Clout Of Middle East Countries
By K Raveendran The proposed India, Middle East, Europe economic corridor is expected to go a long way to increase the political clout of Middle East countries, particularly the Gulf countries, which the West has hitherto been looking at mainly as a market for arms as well as the...
Growth Pattern Of States In India Is Uneven Though All Are Thriving
By K R Sudhaman Forbes has come out state-wise analysis of GDP in India, which makes an interesting analysis of how growth has been uneven in the country and there appears to be correlation between human development index and per capita income. Apparently merely high GDP does not indicate...
No Talk On Nuclear Weapons Abolition In The G20 Summit Is Disappointing
By Dr. Arun Mitra The G20 summit publicized with much fanfare ended without any commitment for disarmament and abolition of nuclear weapons. There were several expectations from this summit since it was held in the background of on-going war between Russia and Ukraine; and it was held in India...
India’s Chess Prodigy R Praggnanandhaa Is Looking Forward For The Next Win
By Harihar Swarup In sports, prodigies don’t always blossom into world-beaters; Indian chess currently has a handful of teens who could be on the cusp of doing so. They include Gukesh D, Arjun Erigaisi and, as of now, first among equals R. Praggnanandhaa, who took on the great Magnus...
22 Years After Attack On World Trade Centre, US War On Terror Loses Its Track
By C.J. Atkins How do we measure the time that has passed since Al Qaeda terrorists flew hijacked planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon and crashed another in a field in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001? How should we count the impact of the U.S.’ seemingly endless...
Arab Authoritarian Regimes Hoping For A Prolonged Winter Fearing Discontent
By James M Dorsey Protesters in Syria, Bahrain, Libya, Iran, and Israel are dashing autocratic and authoritarian hopes of a prolonged winter. In response, Arab autocrats are scrambling to squash what they fear could evolve into a third wave of protests in little more than a decade. The autocrats...
India Being Named As Bharat Is Not A Big Issue As Constitution Already Has It
By Kalyani Shankar The well-known quote from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet,” is frequently referenced about name change. It is true of the ongoing debate about India’s official name change to Bharat....
Political Narrative In India To Have New Twist Next Week
By Dr. Gyan Pathak All indications suggests that India’s political narrative will have a new twist next week when the Special Session of Parliament will be held in five sittings from September 18 to September 22. Agenda for the session has still been kept secret and there are only...
BJP Is Now In War Like Preparation Mode For 2024 Lok Sabha Elections
By Sushil Kutty It has been a couple of months since the BJP got into election mode. Preparations for general elections 2024 began in earnest in July 2023. The Karnataka assembly elections loss was a jolt that called for a reassembling of sorts. On September 1, news came of...
