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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.NDA Says Bihar Is Next After Resounding Delhi Victory
By Rahil Nora Chopra The political activity in Patna is heating up since the Delhi assembly results have been announced. Several National Democratic Alliance (NDA) leaders of Bihar and those at the national level have claimed with complete confidence that Bihar is the next state where the saffron party...
UDF Agitation Against Wild Animal Attacks Politically Motivated
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Congress-led United Democratic Front(UDF) is trying to extract political mileage from the human-wild animal conflict raging in the State. As part of the agitation, the UDF launched a dawn-to-dusk hartal in Wayanad on February 13. This is the second hartal in the district in...
Britain’s Labour Govt Should Support Current Peace Moves To End Ukraine War
By Ben Chacko LONDON: UK’s Labour Government pledged on Thursday to pour more money and arms into the Ukraine conflict even as the prospect of peace emerged this week. Turning his back on US President Donald Trump’s negotiations, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said Britain would continue to “ramp...
‘Captain America: Brave New World’ Is A Topical Film Of Current Times
By Chauncey K. Robinson NEW YORK: It is fitting, for a variety of reasons, in these current political times that we have a new film instalment of a superhero with a long history of fighting against fascism and Nazis. While Sam Wilson has had the Captain America mantle for...
Centre Dominated Administration Played A Big Role In Defeating AAP In Delhi Polls
By P. Sudhir The BJP has won the Delhi assembly election with a tally of 48 seats, polling 45.6 per cent of the vote. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won 22 seats getting 43.6 per cent of the vote. The difference between the two was only 2 per cent...
RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat Having Continuous Meetings In Kolkata To Energize Bengal BJP
By Arun Srivastava How far the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat would succeed in his mission to rejuvenate the saffron ecosystem and rejuvenate the cadres in West Bengal, who have been feeling disconsolate and crestfallen due to the intense factional feud in the state BJP, is not yet clear, but...
Political Crisis Within INDIA Bloc Deepens In Maharashtra
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The political crisis into which INDIA bloc allies in Maharashtra had fallen after humiliating defeat in the Vidhan Sabha election in the hands of NDA, seems to have deepened. Shiv Sena (UBT) made a direct political attack on NCP(SP) supremo Sharad Pawar, and NCP(SP) responded...
Why Are Supreme Court Judges Taking Differing Line On Granting Freebies To The People?
By Sushil Kutty Our Supreme Court is a fountainhead of stories. Even run-of-the-mill non-court reporters often court courts for stories to escape the spectre of a story-less days. Some of the stories are really interesting. Like, on February 12, there was the story of the Supreme Court observing that...
Powers Of State Governments Have Got Diluted Under UGC Draft Regulations
By Krishna Jha In the appointment of vice-chancellors at state universities, the UGC Draft Regulations grant more power to the chancellor. Governors, appointed by the centre, are the ex-officio chancellors of state universities. It is almost a road block for the field of education to evolve further. It is...
Justice Shekar Yadav’s Remarks Expose The Conduct Of The Bar Also
By Ajay Kumar It has been 67 days since Justice Shekar Yadav of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad made a speech to members of the legal cell of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, a Hindu right wing organisation. In his speech on the Uniform Civil Code, which he...
India Has To Do Its Bit For Global South To Figure Prominently In Evolving AI World Order
By K Raveendran Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for greater emphasis on the Global South in the evolving world order shaped by artificial intelligence is a strategic proposition. With AI becoming the most critical technological force of the 21st century, it is imperative that developing nations, particularly those in...
BJP’s Political Machine Reset To Work On Dalit Politics Now
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Delhi has 12 Vidhan Sabha seats reserved for Scheduled Caste, and BJP has been able to win 4 of them in the recently concluded election after a decade. Since 8 Vidhan Sabha seats have been won by AAP, the BJP is aware of the danger...
Both The Congress Unit And RJD Are Taking Lessons From Delhi Assembly Poll Results
By Arun Srivastava The Congress’s rout once again in the assembly elections in Delhi has brought much worry to the central party leadership as it will have some reaction on the next state assembly polls scheduled in Bihar by the end of this year. One of the reasons is...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Should Take Up Birthright Citizenship Issue With Trump
By Sushil Kutty United States President Donald Trump has a pile of “vows”, one to get Gazans to vacate bombed-out Gaza for a Riviera in its place. Another to end birthright citizenship to children born to foreign workers in the USA. Trump is a hated figure in Gaza and...
Immigrant Workers Including Indians Are Employed As Indentured Labour In Britain
By Elizabeth Short LONDON: Campaigners have demanded reform after a damning report laid bare shocking conditions facing migrant workers propping up Britain’s crumbling care system. Unison surveyed more than 3,000 people who came to Britain on health and care worker visas to tackle shortages in the sector. It found...
Constitutional Crisis Deepens In U.S. As President Trump Sidetracks Courts
By Mark Gruenberg and John Wojcik WASHINGTON: In only one of an avalanche of unconstitutional, outrageous and crude executive orders this week, Donald Trump installed an 18-year-old who goes by his internet name “Big Balls” as Senior Adviser to the U.S. Department of State. That appointment followed his refusal...
Why Modi Should Remember 1971 Indo-US Summit During His Coming Meeting With Trump
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be meeting the United States President Donald Trump in Washington on February 13. He is going straight to U.S. on a two-day visit after completing his engagement in France on Tuesday, including co-chairing the global AI summit along with the French...
Draft Higher Education Commission Bill Removes State Control
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Draft Higher Education Commission Bill that seeks to create Higher Education Commission of India under the National Education Policy 2020 has been opposed by the department related parliamentary standing committee, stating that it would perpetuate many of the issues arising out of multiplicity of regulators...
