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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.Many Lessons Are There For The Indian Startups From Byju’s Present Crisis
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Byju’s, the edtech giant, is grappling with a series of challenges that have put its stability and growth in question. With marked-down investments, the resignation of its auditor Deloitte, key board members quitting, employee layoffs, and defaulting on loan interest payments, Byju’s stands as a...
Dashed Hopes And Expectations In BJP Ruled Manipur In Last Two Months
By Major General S.G. Vombatkere The violence in Manipur which started on May 3, 2023, in Churachandpur and still continues, has complicated causes and sources, but one evident effect is that it is causing untold misery and suffering to the people of Manipur, and harm to the state of...
Long History Of BJP’s Dealings With Partners In National Democratic Alliance
By Harihar Swarup May 15 was the 25th anniversary of National Democratic Alliance (NDA) which was formed in 1998. On May 26 Prime Minister Narendra Modi reminded his party that no alliance other than NDA has remained intact for a quarter century. And he was correct. While it’s right...
Uniform Civil Code Can Be A Double Edged Sword For Narendra Modi
By Sushil Kutty With Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Pasmanda outreach marginalised Muslims are on test. Will they rise above identity and embrace an opportunity to enhance socio-economic circumstances which had kept them tied to the lowest rungs of Indian society? Ironically, and quite paradoxically, the Pasmanda, or the “left...
Unemployment Rate Rose To 8.4 Per Cent, Livelihood Crisis Deepens
By Dr. Gyan Pathak All expectations of recovery in labour market conditions have shattered. Unemployment rate has risen to 8.4 per cent as the CMIE dashboard shows on July 1, 2023, calculated on the basis of 30 days moving average, and with it deepens the livelihood crisis. There are...
Assessing The Impact Of Six Years Of Goods And Services Tax On Indian Economy
By Arun Kumar Goods and Services Tax (GST) has completed six years since it was launched on the midnight of June 30, 2017. It was billed as India’s second freedom. In a repetition of the then Parliament’s midnight meeting on August 14, 1947, the Parliament met dramatically in 2017...
Nearly Matching Its Value To Indian GDP, Apple Elevates Country As Future Growth Partner
By K Raveendran Apple has become the first company to hit a market value of $3 trillion. Although largely symbolic, the milestone is nearly as much as the GDP of India, the country that the tech giant hopes will drive its new future as it seeks to diversify its...
RSS Politics Of Hindutva Has Alienated BJP From Manipuri People
By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been facing critical condemnation for not visiting Manipur, the state ruled by his party, the BJP, during the last two months while the state was burning and more than 160 persons lost their lives in the ethnic violence. Not only the...
Tripura Economy Gets Big Boost Following Trade Expansion With Bangladesh
By Ashis Biswas Improved bilateral road and rail connectivity has helped the growth of Indo-Bangladesh import/export trade, during the past decade. In particular Tripura Chief Minister Mr Manik Saha, while welcoming the robust trend of bilateral trade, is hopeful of increasing exports from the state. However, India Government sources...
U.K. Tory Party Leaders’ Ties With Controversial Terror Funder Businessman Exposed
By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury While evidence has emerged pointing to disturbing nexus between numerous politicians from the United States, United Kingdom and European Union as well as US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden and an undesignated terrorist organization in Bangladesh, there is report about embattled MP from...
Centre Has No Clue On How To Bring To An End The Continuing Violence In Manipur
By Sushil Kutty Police stopped Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in Manipur and without being asked “what next for Manipur?” the disqualified Congress Member of Parliament said, “Manipur needs healing” – the panacea the violence-hit Manipuris have been yearning for months. Distraught people everywhere, across time zones and over the...
Tamil Nadu Is Getting Big Focus In BJP’s Lok Sabha Poll Strategy For Southern States
By S. Sethuraman Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday night chaired a nearly five hour long huddle of the BJP top brass to discuss organisational and government changes, narrative focus and strategy and tools for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in 2024. The meeting at the official residence of...
Risk To India’s Growth Trajectory In 2023-24 Fiscal Is Real
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though Indian economy is projected to grow at 6.5 per cent during 2023-24 with risks evenly balanced at this juncture, the slower global growth, potential volatility in the global financial system, and the persistence of core inflation, notwithstanding a dip in April 2023, could pose...
BJP Scores A Self-Goal On Uniform Civil Code Move And Manipur Clashes
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Union Government’s failure to control the riots raging in Manipur and the move to bring in a uniform civil code in the country have evoked strong protests from the opposition parties not only in Kerala but also across the nation. At one stroke, the...
Possibility Of Cabinet Reshuffle Gives Modi Ministers The Jitters
By Rahil Nora Chopra Prime Minster Narendra Modi, just after returning from his first State visits to the US and Egypt, met with President Droupadi Murmu at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. While it is standard practice that the prime minister briefs the President on foreign visits, the fact his meeting...
BrahMos Aerospace To Produce World’s Fastest Supersonic Cruise Missile
By Girish Linganna BrahMos Aerospace, The Indo-Russian missile maker, recently announced that they had concluded the initial design of a new generation of BrahMos-NG missiles. The export director of the missile producer has stated to Russian news agency Sputnik that the design of the forthcoming BrahMos-NG missiles has been...
Centre’s Announced Minimum Support Price For Current Kharif Season Is Inadequate
By Dr. Soma Marla In the initial days of June, the Indian agriculture sector witnessed three important events. Farmers in Kurukshetra waged a two-week agitation as the state government refused to procure Sunflower seeds at the minimum support price (MSP) announced by the government. Second incident the union government...
Looking Back At Stonewall Rebellion By Gays Fifty Four Years Ago
By C.J. Atkins Fifty four years ago, on June 28, 1969, when a bar named the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village became ground zero for the modern gay rights movement, there were, of course, no corporate sponsors. No political allies in positions of power. And rather than keeping people...
