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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 Seems To Have Lost Its Strategic Autonomy In Global Diplomacy After PM Visit To USA
By P. Sudhir The outcome of the Modi visit to the United States has made one thing clear – India has become more cemented to the United States in a strategic and military relationship. Whatever the rhetoric “of the partnership between two democracies” and shared values, the compulsions for...
A Look Back At The Fascist Aggression Against Soviet Union In 1941 Is Timely
By Krishna Jha It was more than eight decades back, when on June 22, 1941, Hitler launched his fascist attack on Soviet Union. The onslaught was called Operation Barbarossa. Six years before the Operation Barbarossa, Georgi Dimitrov, the general secretary of the Communist International, in his famous address to...
Bengal BJP Divided Over Nominating Its Candidate For Rajya Sabha Poll
By Tirthankar Mitra As the campaign for the panchayat elections is in full swing in West Bengal murmurs of divided opinion have arisen in BJP’s state unit over the choice of a candidate in the coming Rajya Sabha elections in the state. The polls to the Upper House are...
Donald Trump Hints At Deportation Of Communists From US, If Elected
By C.J. Atkins WASHINGTON: Attempting to deflect attention from his criminal indictment on charges of violating the Espionage Act, former President Donald Trump is escalating his use of anti-communist and anti-Semitic red-baiting rhetoric to smear opponents and investigators. For years, Trump has wielded accusations of left-wing radicalism against anyone...
Gujarat Gets Status Of First Among Equals In Line With Modi’s Love For Home State
By K Raveendran The standard definition of crony capitalism is the existence of an economic system characterised by mutually advantageous relationships between business leaders and government officials. Going by this, at least two major decisions this week are India-centric, though with linkages to domestic as well as international. The...
China Is More Amused At Impact Of India-US Agreements Than Worried
By K R Sudhaman There is jubilation all over in BJP circles and the Indian media after the recent visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to United States, where he got a rousing welcome. This is no doubt a landmark bilateral visit which has laid the foundation for taking...
President Biden Puts Geopolitical Interests Above Human Rights In His Talks With Narendra Modi
By Arun Srivastava Even the fragrance of the pleasant words that were bestowed upon Narendra Modi before his departure from the United States had faded, the Indian prime minister had to taste the bitter bite of American anger at some of his cabinet ministers and senior BJP leaders unleashing...
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao Is Now Fighting Opposition More Than BJP
By Sushil Kutty If cars and sports utility vehicles can win general elections, then Bharat Rashtra Samithi President K Chandrasekhar Rao is already the Prime Minister! KCR, as he is called, led a convoy of 600 cars & SUVs into Maharashtra on Monday and made jittery a clutch of...
Mamata Banerjee Is Giving Big Focus On North Bengal Districts In Rural Polls
By Tirthankar Mitra If Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee’s detractors have often labelled her political actions to be sans rhyme or reason, she always had the last laugh. Kicking off TMC’s panchayat poll campaign from north Bengal is a case in point. This is the first time in her...
Chandrayaan-3: India’s Ambitious Lunar Mission
By Girish Linganna On September 6, 2019, the aspirations of more than a billion individuals were reliant on a mission that was on its way to the dark side of the Moon—an area that is perpetually shrouded in darkness. Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram lander was travelling to its destination more than...
U.S. Lacks Credibility Among Middle Easterners, But Not All May Be Lost
By James M Dorsey A recent poll of Arab public opinion suggests US credibility has taken a hit, but all is not lost. That is if the United States realizes that Middle Easterners judge the US on glaring inconsistencies in its domestic and foreign policies rather than on its...
Indian Cricketing Allrounder Ravi Shastri Has An Uncanny Grasp Of Young Players
By Harihar Swarup Ravi Shastri debuted for India as a cricketer in 1981. He was 18. A left-arm spinner who batted right—handed, he took six wickets in the test at Wellington, which India lost to New Zealand, and scored 22 at number 10. Playing alongside the likes of captain...
Progressive Olivia Chow Wins Toronto Mayoral Election In Right Bastion
By Luke Savage From its outset, Toronto’s mayoral election has been full of surprises — the first of them being that it happened at all. Last October, as turnout plummeted to a record low, incumbent mayor John Tory was reelected with a whopping 62 percent of the vote. An...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Focused On Indian Diaspora In A Big Way During US Visit
By Kalyani Shankar Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to the United States has strengthened the ties between the two countries, augmenting his global presence and reinforcing his association with the Diaspora and business leaders. The Indian Diaspora in countries like the U.S., U.K., and Australia has become a...
Andhra Pradesh Is Set To Witness Three Cornered Contest In Coming Polls
By Sushil Kutty Andhra Pradesh is in a different ballpark from the other states. The bifurcation left it curtailed, territory-wise, and crimped, politically, vis a vis the relatively flamboyant Telangana, which for its share of area got the city of Hyderabad, which is for the time being the capital...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Has Imparted New Dynamism To India-US Relations
By S. Sethuraman Prime Minister Narendra Modi, after completion of a nine-year majoritarian reign, has successfully accomplished a dramatic transformation in Indo-US economic and, more importantly, defence-related ties, raising further India’s global status, already the fifth largest economy.. The outcome of Mr Modi’s visit to US capital, his second...
Cracks In Pakistan’s Ruling Coalition As PML-N And PPP Fight Openly
By Tirthankar Mitra A crisis brings oddballs together. Having nothing in common, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) joined forces closed ranks against Imran Khan- led PTI government. The government led by the former cricketer ace was removed and as the coalition partners awaited PTI’s dissolution,...
Tejashvi Yadav Is Emerging As A Mature Politician, But He Has To Work More
By Arun Srivastava Being the son of Lalu Yadav is not the guarantee that Tejashvi Yadav will inexorably inherit his political legacy and acumen. People nurse the perception that like Lalu he also symbolises and represents the aspirations of the poor and the backward castes. But this is not...
