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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.BJP Bid To Organise More Durga Pujas In Bengal This Year May Lead To Tensions
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Having flexed all its organisational muscles in 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJP secured 18 MPs from West Bengal; with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister, Amit Shah making almost daily trips to the state before 2021 Assembly elections, the saffron camp had...
Need For Complete Abolition Of Nuclear Weapons
By Dr Arun Mitra As the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6th and 9th August 1945 is coming near, we are once again reminded of dreadful effects of the incident that wiped out two cities, killed over 2 lakh people and left...
Creation Of Decent Jobs Muted, Low-Paying Ones Increasing
By Gyan Pathak Now it is official. Creation of decent formal jobs in the country remained subdued in May and low paying ones increased. Social security has also considerably declined as it has been noticed in the National Pension Scheme. As for the informal and gig workers, their...
Nepalese Traders Upset At Indian Railways Delay In Goods Transport
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: There is grave concern among Nepalese officials as well as trade/business circles over the delayed movement of goods transported from India in recent weeks, mainly because of the major train accident at Bahanaga station in Odisha on June 2 this year. A rare...
Senator Bernie Sanders Voting Against Funds To Pentagon Is A Big Step
By Liza Featherstone WASHINGTON D.C. Last week, Senator Bernie Sanders cast a vote that should be expected of all left-leaning politicians in Congress: he voted against giving $886 billion to the Pentagon. In his speech explaining why he could not support this massive giveaway to the military industrial complex,...
Labour’s Left Needs To Regain The Insurgent Spirit Of Jeremy Corbyn
BY James A. Smith One of the intellectual mentors of Corbynism, the late Leo Panitch, concluded his final book with the hopeful observation that the 2019 election defeat concealed a substantial rejuvenation of socialism in Britain: the fruit of a unique generational collaboration between the Labour left...
India Yet To Become Preferred FDI Destination Despite Good GDP Growth
By Nantoo Banerjee It is good to note that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised upward India’s economic growth projection for 2023 from 5.9 percent to 6.1 percent. The projection is still well below the Reserve Bank of India’s economic growth forecast of 6.5 percent. The...
Anti-BJP Alliance India Raises The Stakes For Modi-Led NDA
By S.Sethuraman CHENNAI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems increasingly obsessed with the needed numbers in Lok Sabha for him to make sure of his third term in 2024 Lok Sabha polls.,with the emergence of an apparently effective opposition alliance, INDIA. The kind of rhetoric the BJP head...
Prime Minster Has Copied Mamata’s “’Mamati Manush’ Slogan In His Latest Campaign
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been using All India Radio to give an edge to Bharatiya Janata Party over rival political parties; specifically in broadcasting government schemes that impress certain vote-banks to vote for the BJP. In his July 30 ‘Mann Ki Baat’ PM Modi...
Narendra Modi Govt Wants Data To Be Collated To Suit Political Interests
By Gyan Pathak The suspension of the Director of International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) K S James is yet another example that no data, how authentic they are, would be allowed to tarnish the image of PM Narendra Modi and the government he has been leading since...
Bengal CPI(M) Preparing For Alternative If Congress Allies With TMC
By Tirthankar Mitra A fissure threatening to widen into a crack in ant-BJP INDIA coalition can be traced to the Left read CPI(M)even as it remains in the combine and its alliance with West Bengal unit of Congress is still in place. The CPI(M) has an alternative strategy...
Netherlands Going For National Elections In November As Rutte Govt Resigns
By Helmer Stoel On one question, both friend and foe can agree: the collapse of the Dutch government this July 7 marked the end of an era. Mark Rutte, the longest-serving prime minister in the Netherlands’ history, tendered his cabinet’s resignation, announcing he was unable to continue as...
Rahul- Mamata Jugalbandi In Bengaluru Conclaveon India Has Significance
By Harihar Swarup India, the new name of the opposition alliance, has got widespread coverage in the news already. But, the inside story of how the leaders of 26 opposition parties who gathered in Bengaluru for a two-day meeting on July 17 and 18 arrived at the name...
BJP’S Outreach To Pasmanda Muslims Will Remain A Hollow Gesture
By Jehosh Paul The Supreme Court is soon scheduled to hear a case on the issue of imputation of caste system in Islam and Christianity in order to determine whether reservation benefits can be extended to Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims. It becomes crucial to examine...
Centre Falls Back On ‘National Interest’ To Keep Mishra As ED Director
By Arun Srivastava No one can guarantee that the Narendra Modi government will not reappear before the Supreme Court just ahead of September 15, the latest expiry date, requesting for yet another extension to the top cop of the country, the Enforcement Directorate chief S K Mishra, on...
No-Confidence Motion On Manipur Brings BRS, Congress On Same Table
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Lok Sabha has seen a no-trust motion being filed against the Narendra Modi-led government by the Congress and BRS to apply pressure on the ruling BJP over the Manipur issue, and it was accepted by the Lower house. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla...
Panicky Amit Shah Held Continuous Sessions In Bhopal With B Leaders
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: “Ninety six hours – two visits by Home Minister Amit Shah” It is obvious Amit Shah does not want that 2018 is repeated in 2023 Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh. That is why he is paying special attention to the state. He reached...
Narendra Modi Govt’s Claim Of Large Reduction In Poverty Level Is Flawed
By Prabhat Patnaik ON April 3 this year, the minister of state for planning, Rao Inderjeet Singh, said in the Rajya Sabha that the government had no data after 2011-12 for estimating poverty, and therefore had no idea how many people had been lifted out of poverty since then....
