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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.India Among Low Women’s Empowerment And Gender Gapcountries
By Gyan Pathak India is among the low Women’s Empowerment and Gender Gap group of countries with their respective values 0.520 and 0.560 respectively in 2022. It is also in the medium value group countries in Human Development in 2021. It has been revealed in anew report on...
ISIS Still The Most Imminent Threat In Region: Peshmerga
By Manish Rai Major General Usman Mohammad Mustafa is the Director General of Media and Awareness in the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs effectively serving as the official spokesperson of Peshmerga forces. The Peshmerga are the military forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and one of the most...
AI Is Being Increasinglyused To Attack The Working Poor In Australia
By Chris Dite Australian business and government have joined the global chorus warning about the risks artificial intelligence (AI) poses to humanity. But despite their fretful tone, the introduction of algorithms into Australian political life has been less apocalyptic and more business-as-usual. Changes to the Australian welfare system...
India, Bangladesh To Use National Currencies For Bilateral Trade
By Ashis Biswas In South Asia, the recent agreement between India and Bangladesh, to use their respective national currencies (rupee and taka) for bilateral trade will help boost Bangladeshi forex savings by at least $2 billion US annually. While this is one of several factors behind the decision,...
Amitav Ghosh Is A Globally Recognised Writer Fighting For Right Causes
By Harihar Swarup Amitav Ghosh became the first writer in English to win Jnanpith IS A CRUSADER Award, one of India’s most prestigious literary prizes. It’s a sign of just how effectively he has decolonized the language. Borders mean little to the 67-year-old who was born in Calcutta...
A Broad Front Of Samajwadi Party And Congress Can Only Challenge BJP In Uttar Pradesh
By Dr.Gyan Pathak Uttar Pradesh, the state that sends 80 MPs in Lok Sabha, the largest number across the states, has lately been witnessing much increased political activities. Double anti-incumbency seems to be working against the double-engine government under PM Narendra Modi at the Centre and CM Yogi...
Maharashtra Politics Turns Bizarre Before Lok Sabha Elections In 2024
By Sushil Kutty Maharashtra politics is strange and is getting weirder by the day. Ask anybody in the streets of Mumbai. Pune or Nagpur. Opinion will not change even in Sambhaji Nagar. Ask political analysts and they’ll say Maharashtra’s politicians are to blame. Take, for instance, the powerful...
India Is Working On Global Currency Trade Deals Widening Its Coverage
By Anjan Roy India is working out local currency trade deals with an increasingly larger group of countries, thereby avoiding invoicing in US dollars for every trade. This is a move towards internationalisation of the Indian currency when the country is opening up its external sector. India has agreed...
Big Jump In Cases Of Unruly Mid-Air Behaviour By Passengers After Covid Pandemic
By K Raveendran ‘Pee-gate’, standing for the incident of a top executive of a multinational urinating on a co-passenger in an inumbrated state, was a new year sensation. The man, Shankar Mishra, was banned from flying for four months while Air India, the operator of the New York-Delhi...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Has Made Vegetarian Meals Popular In His Foreign Visits
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav A key feature of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent foreign trips was the vegetarian meals served in state banquets organized to mark his presence. On June 22, the White House organized a dinner that 400 guests attended. The three-course menu was simple and...
Autocrats Shift Gears By Exporting Repression Of Freedoms
By James M Dorsey Increasingly, muzzling political freedoms beyond national borders is part of an autocrat’s toolkit. Men like Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the presidents of Turkey and China, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Xi Jinping are no longer satisfied with silencing critical voices and controlling...
Trump Plans Imperial Presidency Should He Win 2024 Presidential Polls
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON: Trump and his inner circle are not at all shy about saying he will move to assume the role of a dictator should he be elected in 2024. Back in 1973, historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., wrote The Imperial Presidency, a book focusing...
Finland’s New Government Is Showing All Signs Of Far Right Neo-Liberalism
Finland’s new government had been in power for less than two weeks before entering into crisis. Vilhelm Junnila, the new minister of economic affairs, from the nationalist Finns Party, turned out to have had a history of far-right signaling, including jokes implying affinity toward Adolf Hitler. In a tight...
India’s Import Of Cheaper Russian Oil Falls Into Chinese Yuan Trap
By Nantoo Banerjee India has been put in a peculiar situation by Russian oil exporters as they prefer Yuan payment against the purchase of Russian crude by Indian importers. Of late, the latter are believed to be spending billions of dollars in buying Chinese Yuan to pay for Russian...
NDA Conclave On July 18 Is A Sort Of Challenge To Opposition Meet In Bengaluru
By Kalyani Shankar As we approach the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the ruling NDA and the combined opposition prepare for the fierce battle ahead. The opposition is holding strategy meetings in Bengaluru its second, on July 18, while the NDA is meeting in Delhi on the same day to...
BJP Is Focusing On Revival In Southern States Before 2024 Lok Sabha Polls
By Sushi Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be at the NDA meet on July 18. Modi wants to revive the comatose NDA as an alternative to the Opposition’s ‘Mahagathbandhan’, which is shaping up nice and friendly despite the blips and glitches. The BJP’s alliance partners in the NDA...
Modi-Shah Anxious About Losing Ground In Maharashtra And Bihar
By Arun Srivastava The erratic actions of the BJP leadership, especially in three states, Maharashtra, Bihar and Bengal, makes it explicit that the threat of losing the 2024 Lok Sabha elections has turned it so desperate that would not mind going to any extent and abusing the state machinery...
Skills And Labour Mismatch Has Emerged As Serious Issue
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Multiple crises and faster adoption of new technologies has sharply widened the skills and labour mismatch in the fast changing world of work globally. Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) systems in many low and middle income countries, including India, are unprepared to meet...
