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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.New Polling Shows The Palestinian Cause Is Becoming Popular In The US
By Yaseen Al-Sheikh On Thursday night, President Joe Biden delivered a nationally televised address making the case for an unprecedented military aid package for Israel, as well as Ukraine. Biden is requesting a whopping $74 billion to send to Israel and Ukraine, even amid scenes of mass death, humanitarian...
Time To Launch United Battle Of Secular Parties To Save The Ethos Of India
By D. Raja With the country inching closer to polls in five states followed by the parliamentary elections, the situation remains quite dire and critical. The sinister design of the powers to be to transform the country socially and politically in the mode of theocratic order of the Hindu...
Madhya Pradesh Assembly Poll Widens Opposition Faultline
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Congress is resurgent in Madhya Pradesh, but it is the only state among the five going to poll in November, is ruled by the BJP, where it has better political prospects than in any other state. Logically, the opposition INDIA alliance should have gone for...
Ashok Gehlot Signals Sachin Pilot Will Not Be Flight Captain After November Polls
By Sushil Kutty That Sachin Pilot does not like Ashok Gehlot must not be a difficult answer in Rajasthan. The late Rajesh Pilot’s son is a long time sufferer at the hands of the magician-turned-politician who says “the CM post won’t leave me”. If only Sachin Pilot knew this...
Post Caste Census, JD(U)-RJD Further Consolidate Support Base
By Rahil Nora Chopra For Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and RJD Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, the prime supporters of the caste survey in the state, the result has been a strengthening of the ruling Mahagathbandhan’s social support base among Other Backward Classes (OBCs), Economically Backward Classes (EBCs) and...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Officially Takes Over Poll Campaign In Madhya Pradesh
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Late night political scene in Madhya Pradesh has undone some surprise change for both BJP and Congress For BJP it was never expected that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi will directly appeal to M.P. voters “to support me by reposing confidence yet again in...
BJP Ecosystem Spreading Fake News About Hamas-Israel War Targeting Palestinians
By Prachi Arya The news of the alleged beheading of Jewish babies and children by the fighters of Gaza administrator Hamas in the latest flare-up between Israel and Palestine spread like wildfire and has had a worldwide impact. However, more recent expositions have sought to establish the falsity of...
Samajwadi Party Is Jittery At The Failure Of Alliance With The Congress In MP Assembly Polls
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Failure of seat sharing in Madhya Pradesh assembly elections has led to sharp bitterness in INDIA partners Samajwadi Party and Congress. As of now both the parties are adamant to confront each other in assembly polls on November 17 accusing the other party playing in...
Assam Chief Minister’s Nod For Pro-Bengali Demand Creates Confusion In State Politics
By Ashis Biswas In an unexpected turn of events, the outlawed separatist United Liberation Front of Assam (pro Independence) faction, has threatened residing Bengalis in the three Barak valley districts with violence if they supported the call for an autonomous homeland. In a recent statement, the ULFA(I) declared that...
Om Puri – The Actors Actor Made Indian Cinema Poorer By His Early Death
By Tirthankar Mitra A newcomer with a handsome face needs no recommendation for entry into filmdom. Feted by Hollywood and nearer home at Bollywood to be one of the finest actors to perform before the camera, Om Puri who stood out in a crowd with a pockmarked face was...
Bolivian Government Facing Crisis Due To Infighting In Ruling MAS
By Olivia Arigho-Stiles Bolivia’s governing party and a shining light of the Latin American left, the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), is mired in a deep internal crisis. Recently, during the MAS congress in the coca-growing town of Lauca Ñ, President Luis Arce and his vice president, David Choquehuanca, were...
United States Is In Full Complicity With Israel In Its War Crimes Against Palestinians
By P Sudhir If President Biden’s visit to Tel Aviv for a day demonstrated anything, it is the unremitting and blind support for the Israeli settler-colonial State. The visit underlined what has been the unchanging reality since 1948 – the United States has nurtured and cultivated Israel as its...
For His Electoral Gains, Biden Is Pushing US Towards A Global War
By Arun Srivastava Rightist forces do not empathise with the human and humanity. Humanitarian emotions and sensibilities have been unknown commodities for them. Hitler crushed the humanity and the worst victims of his tyrannies were the Jew. It is ironical that now the same Jews are perpetrating the worst...
Sending Raghubar Das Out Of Jharkhand As Governor May Not Help
By Dr. Gyan Pathak One of the biggest challenges for PM Narendra Modi and the BJP in their way to returning to power after the Lok Sabha election 2024 is infighting in the state BJP units, a fact that is well known by now. No wonder former Chief Minister...
USA And The Other Western Nations Are Not Bothered About Cessation Of War
By Sushil Kutty The Israel-Hamas war is nearly two weeks old. The highlight was a rocket striking a hospital parking lot which killed 500. The tally was later corrected to 471. US President Joe Biden said he was happy that the “other team” was to blame and not Israel...
Modi Government Is Mum On Allegations Against Adani Group On High Price Of Coal Imports
By Krishna Jha ‘…In a more or less developed form, fascist tendencies and the germs of a fascist movement are to be found almost everywhere,’ said Georgi Dimitrov, while presenting his report in the annual conference of Communist International (Comintern) in 1936, and then, cautioned, “With the development of...
Extent Of Horror And Killings In Hamas-Israel War Stuns Global Celebrities
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav As Israel’s offensive continues against Hamas and Palestine, people who loved peace and relished good times are shocked. With thousands killed and cities flattened, the anger is only growing, promising more of it in the following days. Socialite Jemima Goldsmith, a UK-based Jew from a...
Amal Chakraborti’s Passing Away Is A Big Loss To The Political Journalism Of Bengal
By Tirthankar Mitra 90 years is ripe old age. But when renowned cartoonist nonagenarian Amal Chakraborti passed away on October 18 in the midst of puja festivities in Kolkata , legions of his admirers felt that his exit from the mortals’ company was untimely. Chakraborti’s fans included readers of...
