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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.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....
Rise And Fall Of The Father Of Atom Bomb J Robert Oppenheimer In United States
By Prabir Purkayastha THE new blockbuster film on Oppenheimer has brought back the memories of the first nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It has raised complex questions on the nature of the society that permitted such bombs to be developed and used and the stockpiling of nuclear arsenals that...
In Rajasthan, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot Is Setting A Record Of Pro People Schemes
By Gyan Pathak As Rajasthan is approaching closer to Vidhan Sabha election later in 2023, political rhetoric is rising to higher pitches. CM Ashok Gehlot has clearly been playing a politics of human development to counter the BJP’s politics of communal hatred. Nevertheless, politics of development is always...
Supreme Court’s Order To Grant Extension To ED Sanjay Mishra Till September 15, Is Bizarre
By Sushil Kutty Supreme Court Justice B R Gavai is busy, perhaps the busiest justice. Very recently he asked to be recused from Rahul Gandhi’s defamation/conviction case citing long-standing family links with the Congress. Now, he was part of the special bench that has given Director, Enforcement...
Death Of Marxist Journalist Adolfo Gilly Is A Big Loss To Latin American Left
By Tony Wood With the death of Adolfo Gilly on July 4, 2023, the Latin American left didn’t just lose one of its most lucid Marxist thinkers. It also lost a man who directly experienced many of the region’s key events of the past seventy years, from the...
School Recruitment Scam Is Having Impact On Bengalee Teachers In Assam
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: In Assam, the job security of Bengali teachers working in many schools has been endangered by the circulation of widespread reports of organised corruption in the state Education sector of West Bengal. Many of these teachers—- local Assam media estimates put their number...
