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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.Narendra Modi Government Is Planning To Use Forest Lands For Profiteering By Corporates
By Prabhat Patnaik The Narendra Modi government, ever solicitous of corporate interests, has launched a plan whereby real estate developers and other corporates will be allowed to destroy large swathes of India’s forest cover for starting projects that rake in profits. It is amending the Forest Conservation Act to...
Can Narendra Modi Convert Nijjar Killing Into His Balakot Moment In 2024 Lok Sabha Polls?
By Girish Linganna As the BJP gears up for the 18th Lok Sabha elections, slated for early 2024, there’s speculation about whether Khalistan will become a central campaign issue for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It’s worth noting that Modi secured a resounding victory in the 2019 elections for the...
A Great Visionary, Swaminathan Transformed India From A Food Begging Nation To Exporter
By Tirthankar Mitra Green is stated to be the colour of envy, but it was the colour of life to Mankombu Sambasivam Swaminathan, architect of Green Revolution which metamorphosed India’s image from a begging bowl to a bread basket. A nonagenarian, M S Swaminathan was full of beans and...
Wednesday Republican Presidential Debate Was Completely Nuts
By Luke Savage In the pre–Donald Trump era of yonder, Republican presidential debates were usually dull and predictable affairs with occasional moments of comedy provided by cartoonish figures like Herman Cain. Last night’s GOP debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, managed to replicate this...
Western Nations, Especially USA Are Known For Their Double Standards
By Sushil Kutty The Nijjar killing is now a row. After India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar called out Canada’s hypocrisy and the United States’ double standards, Canada sought to balance with “We cannot bend rules” for anybody. This at the United Nations General Assembly. India’s External Affairs Minister...
INDIA Constituents Are Well Placed In Bihar And Jharkhand Focusing On OBC
By Arun Srivastava It is undeniable that Bihar is India’s most economically backward state. The primary reason for pushing Bihar into the quagmire of extreme poverty and poor socio-economic development squarely lies on the upper castes of the state, who treated the state as their vassalage. The principal factor...
44 Year Old Barbara Figueroa To Lead Chilean Communist Party In Coming Battles
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Communist Party of Chile, a coalition partner of the left wing government of the country headed by President Gabriel Boric took a major step in rejuvenating the party at its meeting on Sunday by electing the fire brand trade union leader Barbara Figueroa as the...
Majority Of Indians Are Anaemic, Lack Adequate Nutritional Foods
By Dr. Gyan Pathak It is a fact, which even Prime Minister Narendra Modi can’t deny, that majority of Indians, especially women aged 15-49 years (57 per cent) and children aged 6 months – 5 years(67 per cent),and also men aged15-49 years (25 per cent), don’t even have enough...
Narendra Modi Government Has Been Eroding The Constitutional Values In Last Nine Years
By Krishna Jha In the five-day session of the Parliament, which was unusual, the themes taken up were certainly not manageable in just five days, but they were all clinched in both the houses. The last session of the Parliament had concluded only on August 11 and coming session...
Bidhuri’s Hate Speech In Parliament Reflects Overall Mindset Of BJP Members
By P. Sudhir Hate speech against Muslims, which has become rampant in society, has now invaded parliament. On the last day of the special session, which was held in the new parliament building, the BJP member of parliament from Delhi, Ramesh Bidhuri, used the most foul and crude anti-Muslim...
80 Per Cent Of Hate Crimes Related To Muslims In India Took Place In BJP Ruled States
By Girish Linganna A recent report by Bloomberg indicates that the ruling party in India, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and associated organizations were responsible for a significant portion of hate speech incidents targeting Muslims in the first half of the year. The report, released by Hindutva Watch,...
Lata Mangeshkar Is A Part Of Lives Of Most Indians More After She Is No More
By Tirthankar Mitra Her voice could have launched a thousand ships. It did not; instead a million or more persons listen with rapt attention whenever Lata Mangeshkar songs are broadcast and today September 28 when her birth anniversary is being observed, it would be no exception. One would hear...
Rubiales-Hermoso Kiss Controversy Is A Raging Issue In Europe
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav While Indians are gloating over the ongoing diplomatic row between India and Canada, their European counterparts are spending their evenings debating a salacious scandal. The story begins on August 20 when the Spanish and UK teams played the FIFA Women’s World Cup Final in Sydney....
British Weekly The Economist Played A Key Role In Encouraging Army Coup In Chile In 1973
By John McEvoy The Economist decided to mark the fifty-year anniversary of Chile’s coup by insisting that Chileans move on from the events of 1973 — even as its own writer distorted the historical record beyond recognition. On September 11, 2023, exactly fifty years after the brutal 1973 coup,...
Fresh Judicial Look At Setting Agencies After Adversaries Is Ominous For Modi Govt
By K Raveendran There is renewed hope for those who have dared to challenge the Modi government’s practice of using Enforcement Directorate to go after political adversaries. The Supreme Court has made it known that a three-judge special bench has been constituted to review a controversial judgment passed by...
Congress Needs To Start Talks With SP On Seat Sharing Immediately
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Congress is in dominant position in the three election bound states of the Hindi belt – Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh. Hence, the party may decide not to initiate seat sharing talks with Samajwadi Party (SP), which has only marginal presence in Madhya Pradesh, while...
Uncertainty Over Chief Minister Chouhan’s Future May Affect BJP Fortunes In Madhya Pradesh
By Sushil Kutty To be intuitive is not a criteria to understand what’s troubling the Bharatiya Janata Party as it gets set for the next set of assembly elections including in Madhya Pradesh, where the party has released its second list of 39 candidates. There’s a message in the...
Pakistani Taliban’s Latest Attacks Create Country-Wide Insecurity
By Manish Rai The recent bold attacks by the Pakistani Taliban, also known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP, wreaking havoc paints an alarming picture of rising instability across Pakistan. Especially the TTP’s recent incursion into Chitral district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa bordering Afghanistan is very concerning. Because it may...
