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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.MSME Sector In India Continues Its Struggle Amidst Odds
By Dr. Gyan Pathak There is no end in sight to the woes of the MSMEs in India, that suddenly started worsening with the sudden announcement of demonetization on November 8, 2016 by PM Narendra Modi, further exacerbated by introduction of GST next year from July 1,...
Can Sympathy Wave See Congress Through In Puthuppally?
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANTHAPURAM: The stage is set for a prestigious battle in the by-election to be held in Puthuppally Assembly constituency in Kottayam district of Kerala. The by-election has been necessitated by the death of incumbent MLA and former chief minister of Kerala Oommen Chandy. Though almost...
Pakistan Seeking Major Economic Assistance From Gulf To Deal With Economic Crisis
By Tirthankar Mitra An offer from United Arab Emirates to invest in Pakistan is a feasible route to pull it out of its entrenched economic crisis. The offer comes in the wake of a spurt in the volume of capital flow from Emirates and Saudi Arabia into India....
Prime Minister’s Comments On Opposition Front India Smack Of Panicky Reaction
By Sushil Kutty These are testing times for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party. The I.N.D.I.A of the combined Opposition is testing all Indians. How many of us know our Constitution – is it ‘Bharat that is India’ or ‘India that is Bharat’? Bet...
The Curious Case Of Missing Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang For A Month
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav For nearly a month now, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, just replaced , , has remained out of the public eye for a month The absence of Minister Qin has caused some rescheduling in diplomatic engagements. . Though former foreign minister Wang Yi n...
Preeti Aghalayam Is The First Woman Director Of Any Iit Till Now
By Harihar Swarup Preeti Aghalayam, 49 just became first woman to head any IIT. She, is excited, about reaching out to the world, at the first overseas campus, in Zanzibar. We need women in STEM, we need diversity in research, we need young people to feel they...
India Partners Seat Sharing For Lok Sabha Polls Is Achievable In Most Of 543 Seats
By Nitya Chakraborty Nearly a week has passed since the holding of the Bengaluru conclave of the opposition parties which gave birth to the new front INDIA consisting of 26 anti-BJP parties. In the following days since July 18, the focus of both media and the BJP...
Sonia Gandhi Will Be More Active In India Till 2024 Lok Sabha Elections
By Kalyani Shankar Why did the Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi consciously keep a low profile at the Opposition unity meeting in Bangalore or earlier in Patna? Insiders say that it was a calculated decision. Congress decided two things after the Party failed to...
Modi Govt Writes Off Rs 2.09 Lakh Crore Loan To Companies In 2022-23
By Gyan Pathak India is in election mode, and the Narendra Modi government takes special care of big companies that are not only helping the BJP through finance, especially through electoral bonds, but also through making favourable propaganda on behalf of the government. In the pre-election year 2022-23,...
Ruling Party Is Acting Bizarre In Parliament On Discussion On Manipur
By Sushil Kutty It will take a dozen oxen of 1000 horsepower each to drag Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Parliament and then, too, there is no guarantee the Prime Minister will make a statement on “Manipur”, the forbidden topic as far as the Prime Minister is concerned....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Is Avoiding Discussions In Parliament On Manipur
By Arun Srivastava Lying has acquired the character of political culture of the BJP. Certainly it has not come as a surprise. While the so-called conscience keeper of New India, the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, has not been alive to the ethics of truth, probity and transparency in...
Successful Launch Of Chandrayan 3 Is A Remarkable Achievement By ISRO
By Dr. Soma Marla Successful launch of Chandrayan 3, the latest mission of Indian Space Research Organisation to moon, is a remarkable scientific endeavour. It took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikotain Andhra Pradesh state on the afternoon of July 14,2023. With the successful...
Saudi Arabia’s Bin Salman Toys With Religious Reforms Adding To Soft Power Rivalry
BY James M Dorsey For Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, religious reform has long been a question of when rather than if. Bin Salman’s potential embrace of religious, not just social and economic reform, could have far-reaching consequences for the role of religion in Saudi Arabia...
Socialist Sanchez And Communist Diaz Halt Far Right Take Over In Spain
By Satyaki Chakraborty Spanish voters finally gave a big rebuff to the Far Right People’s Party(PP) and the fascist VOX by denying them majority in the 350 member house of national assembly elections to which were held on Sunday, July23. Despite all opinion poll predictions about the defeat...
India’s Price Indices May Not Be All That Reliable
By Nantoo Banerjee It can happen only in India when wholesale prices shoot up and retail prices drop sharply. Or, when consumer prices flare up, wholesale prices are deeply depressed. Ordinarily, they may look somewhat absurd, but are often seen as true by the data provided under India’s...
Bengal Congress In Utter Confusion Over Mamata’s Olive Branch To The Party
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Congress national leadership has a tough task ahead of it to make some of its West Bengal unit leaders cooperate with Trinamool Congress in 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Given earlier intra-party differences coupled with panchayat election clashes, the bonhomie between Trinamool Congress supremo...
Supreme Court CJI’s Observation On Govt Failure In Manipur Is A Warning To PM
By Sushil Kutty We can do without #ModiVsChandrachud, the entire lot of us bifurcated people of India. The fight is not imaginary and is not limited to social media alone. The perception that the CJI is waging an all-out war against the Prime Minister and is weighing...
Official Data On The Decline In Poverty In India Highly Questionable
By Dr.Gyan Pathak Several recent studies have claimed that India has made significant progress in reducing poverty during the decades leading up to the pandemic in 2020, however, a recent Staff Paper prepared in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says that the magnitude of the decline in poverty...
