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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.Niger Coup Risks Opening Another Front In The West’s War With Russia
BY Jody Ray On July 26, a splinter faction of the Niger military overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum, confining him to the presidential palace. While telecommunications infrastructure was still intact, a tweet from the premier’s office claimed Bazoum and family were in good health but were prepared to...
SP Leader Akhilesh Yadav And RLD Supremo Jayant Chowdhry To Join Rahul’s Yatra
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Opposition parties are facing the real test of seat sharing in Uttar Pradesh to take on BJP for crucial 80 Lok Sabha seats in 2024 polls. The re-entry of Rahul Gandhi to Lok Sabha following Supreme Court order has boosted the morale of the...
United Arab Emirates: The ‘Teflon’ Nation In The Middle East
By James M Dorsey The United Arab Emirates resembles US ‘Teflon President’ Ronald Reagan. Congresswoman Pat Schroeder awarded Reagan the label because nothing stuck to him while he was president in the 1980s – not the recession, not his interventions in Lebanon that cost the lives of 241...
Fringe Outfit ISF Expands Its Base Among Bengali Muslims In Rural Polls
By Tirthankar Mitra A political outfit once considered to be a fringe player has made its presence felt over a wider area after the dust settled following declaration of West Bengal panchayat poll results. Indian Secular Front (ISF) have emerged with 336 seats. Of these, 325 are gram...
Decoding ‘Father Of Atom Bomb’ J. Robert Oppenheimer On Hiroshima Day
By Nitya Chakraborty British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s latest film ‘Oppenheimer’ is creating waves in the cinema halls all over the world, including India, bringing to the fore once again the history behind the making of the atom bomb that was dropped by the Americans on Hiroshima on August...
Dumped Chinese Steel Puts India’s Steelmakers In Deep Distress
By Nantoo Banerjee China, the world’s largest steelmaker with annual crude steel output of over one billion tonnes, is out to dampen India’s bid to double its production capacity from the present level of 150 million tonnes to 300 mt by 2030 by continuously dumping its ferrous metals...
RSS Steps Up Hindutva-Driven Communal Aggression To Counter I.N.D.I.A.
By Arun Srivastava Just eight months ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP is facing the same organisational and political crisis that the Congress faced before the 2014 general elections. However, there’s one very significant difference. While in 2014 the Congress had no support mechanism to...
Rahul Gandhi Is Finally Back In Lok Sabha Before No Confidence Motion
By Sushil Kutty Wayanad got its Member of Parliament back on Monday, August 7, 2023. The Lok Sabha Secretariat reinstated disqualified Congress MP Rahul Gandhi though there were complaints Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla did not display the same alacrity the Lok Sabha Secretariat had shown when disqualifying...
AI-Powered Job Market Disruption May Turn Into Nightmare
By Gyan Pathak The waves of Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered job marked disruption is knocking at the door of India, more intensively than any other country of the world, which may soon turn into a nightmare, since India is not yet prepared to face the challenge except...
NSS Frustrates BJP’s Game Plan In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Nair Service Society(NSS)’s decision to end public protests against the remarks made by Kerala Assembly Speaker A N Shamseer has frustrated the BJP’s plan to pursue its divisive agenda. Instead of hitting the streets, the powerful organization of the Nair community will now...
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan Is A Victim Of Army’s Wrath
By Tirthankar Mitra Gallows or a prison term seem to be awaiting the men who occupied the seat of power in Pakistan once they are eased or ejected out of it if during their tenure after they have crossed the army’s path. As former Prime Minister Imran Khan...
Many Nepalese Gorkhas Joining Foreign Mercenary Groups Including China
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: Recent reports about the number of Nepalese Gorkhas joining mercenary groups like Wagner army of Russia may be exaggerated, but Indian government is still concerned about China making a fresh attempt to recruit them as soldiers. For some time, news of Nepalese Gorkhas...
Fitch downgrade of U.S. Debt hastens Dollar’s Displacement as Default Global Currency
By K Raveendran When empires fall, they don’t exactly come crashing down. It is a process that takes time to complete. So when rating agency Fitch decided to lower the credit rating of the United States triple A to AA+, the market was not expecting the heavens to fall....
Challenges From Modi Awaiting Rahul On His Way To Parliament
By Arun Srivastava Notwithstanding Rahul Gandhi reiterating his absolute belief that ultimately truth had prevailed, as Supreme Court suspended his defamation conviction allowing him to return to Parliament, it would be sheer naiveté to believe that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would accept this humiliation lying low. The...
Rahul Gandhi Is Emerging As The Defacto Congress Face Of Prime Minister In 2024 Polls
By Sushil Kutty Lalu Prasad Yadav fed him Champaran-style mutton curry and Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said Rahul Gandhi is the only opposition leader who can trounce Narendra Modi and become the Prime Minister of 2024 India. “He is the Congress party’s Prime Ministerial Face,” Gehlot...
Nitin Gadkari Is The Best Performing Minister In Narendra Modi Cabinet
By Harihar Swarup India is on the move, on the fast lane. With Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s focus on boosting infrastructure as an engine of growth, the country added more than 50,000 lane kilometers (length of each new lane built) to its highway system in the past nine...
Adani Group’s Ride In Sri Lanka’s Energy Sector Raises Concerns In Colombo
By Girish Linganna India’s recent actions in Sri Lanka are seen as a part of its strategy to increase its influence and presence in South Asia. India aims to establish itself as the dominant player in the region. However, experts warn that the differing power dynamics between...
Ignoring SDG8 Will Lock Humanity In Cycle Of Crisis And Conflict
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The World is observing August as the month of SDG8, one of the 17 goals that were agreed upon by the global community in 2015 to improve the lives of all people by 2030 and to protect the planet we live in. Unfortunately, the...
