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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.A Global Challenge Emerging To Shifting Of Global Sports Capital To Arabian Sands
By James M Dorsey Saudi Arabia’s stunning sports acquisition blitz, alongside Qatari and Emirati European club purchases, may reshape the beautiful game, just not in ways Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and other Gulf rulers like Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani envisioned. The Gulf’s impact on European...
Socialist Win As President Of New Congress Is A Good News For Spanish Left
By Steven Forti While all of Spain was busy celebrating the national team’s epic triumph in the women’s soccer World Cup, the country’s tormented political situation was also becoming clearer. In the corridors of power, something has shifted during these heatwave-stricken mid-August weeks. This, even if the final outcome...
INDIA Alliance Is Meant For Lok Sabha Polls, State Elections Are Separate
By Nitya Chakraborty Just five days before the third meeting of the anti-BJP opposition parties now acronymed India National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) on August 31 and September 1 in Mumbai, a major issue should be made clear to the constituents as also to the people of the country...
Birth Of A New Multipolar World Order With The Emergence Of BRICS 11
By Annie Domini Since its inception in 2009 as BRIC, the Brazil-Russia-India-China coalition which went on to include South Africa in 2010 to become BRICS, has been about inclusion and assertion of the Global South in international affairs. This Asia-Africa-Latin America spanning bloc has transformed from a fair economics-driven...
BJP May Not Be Able To Put Brake On Its Downhill Journey
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The public mood across India is now somewhat visible behind hitherto hazy political cloud. The latest Mood of the Nation Survey of India Today – Cvoter has just found that the BJP is on its downhill journey along with its partners in the National Democratic...
Narendra Modi Government Has Destroyed The Academic Character Of Universities
By Prabhat Patnaik When BJP rule in the country is dead and gone, a good deal of the damage it has caused to the Indian society, polity and economy will no doubt be reversed. But there are at least two areas where such reversal will be difficult: one is...
27 Parties To Gather In Mumbai For Decisive I.N.D.I.A Third Meet
By Rahil Nora Chopra About 27 parties will be attending the I.N.D.I.A alliance’s third meeting scheduled on August 31 to September 1 in Mumbai. On agenda of this meet is the formation of several committees for coordination and discussion on drafting a common minimum programme (CMP).In addition, a convener...
India’s Chess Prodigy R Praggnanandhaa Has Catapulted Our Nation Sky High
By Sushil Kutty India’s chess prodigy R Praggnanandhaa lost to Magnus Carlsen in the Chess World Cup final, ‘X’ announced, the same microblogging site that Elon Musk bought and gave it a new avatar. Fide world champion Carlsen was magnanimous in victory giving Praggnanandhaa a new moniker, kind of...
Wrong Central Policies Harm The Interests Of Darjeeling Tea Plantations
By Ashis Biswas While Darjeeling tea planters are pressing central government again to impose a minimum import tax (MIT) on imported Nepal tea, to arrest the steep decline in Indian high value export earnings, Nepalese producers feel bilateral level talks may help improve the situation. Darjeeling planters had appealed...
Republican Party Debate Proves The GOP Is Still Very Much Trump’s Property
By Luke Savage Watching Wednesday night’s Republican Party’s presidential debate in Milwaukee, I felt an overwhelming sense of déjà vu. Before Donald Trump injected his weird carnival barker routine into the bloodstream of American conservatism, Republican primary contests were generally dull and predictable affairs. And in this respect, much...
After Soft Landing On Moon, India Has Now Better Bargaining Power In Space Diplomacy
By Anjan Roy Now that India has soft landed on the south pole of moon, the dust it will raise will travel from moon surface to the earth. The landing of a rover vehicle will kick up lot of moon dust —called regolith for its typical characteristics— which is...
ISRO Scientists And Engineers Have Earned Their Bragging Rights, Not Politicians
By Sushil Kutty Just after 6 pm, August 23, Chandrayaan-3 landed on the moon. ISRO — the Indian Space Research Organization — erupted in cheers. Vikram-lander and a rover called Pragyan were deposited on the lunar surface. India was only the fourth country to be on the moon, and...
Latest CAG Reports Expose Big Corruption In Central Govt Schemes
By P. Sudhir Prime Minister Narendra Modi, every other day, rails against the corrupt rule of the Congress and UPA governments in the past and targets the corruption of those ruling regional parties who are arrayed against the BJP. From the outset, Modi has tried to project the BJP...
Precious Central Funds Have Been Plundered In Various Schemes
By Krishna Jha As the masses in the country are suffering from extreme deprivation, under the dark shadows of unemployment and no earnings even to meet the basic needs, there comes the horrific revelation that under Ayushman Bharat, 7.5 lakh beneficiaries were registered with a single mobile phone number....
ED Raids On Opposition Political Leaders Intensify As INDIA Alliance Consolidates
By Arun Srivastava On the same day the newspapers carried two news related to enforcement directorate. Both the news related to the chief ministers of two states. While the ED carried out raids at some offices and premises in Bengal, connected to the Trinamool Congress MP and Chief Minister...
Bengal BJP Leaders Trying Their Best To Retain Dhupguri On Sept 5 By Poll
By Tirthankar Mitra A combination of nationalism and neglect of north Bengal will be the twin issues on which BJP seeks to retain Dhupguri Assembly constituency in north Bengal. Strategically located near Nepal and Bangladesh, a by-election is scheduled to be held in this Assembly segment on September 5....
U.S. Remains In A State Of Regulatory Limbo On Crypto Currencies
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav In an unexpected move, PayPal, operating under the trust charter held by its partner Paxos from the New York Department of Financial Services since 2015, introduced what Paxos heralded as the first regulated stablecoin in the U.S. This action drew sharp criticism from US Representative...
Hard Right Parties Continue To Gain In Greece At The Expense Of Left
By Mariana Tsichli Greece opposition Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras’s resignation as leader of Syriza on June 29 symbolizes the end of an era. This era had begun in spring 2010 with the imposition of unprecedentedly brutal neoliberal shock therapy and imposition of European Union (EU) tutelage on Greece. Yet...
