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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.New Measures In Rail Connectivity Reduce Travel Time Between Eastern India And Bangladesh
By Ashis Biswas By end 2023, rail journey time for passengers between Kolkata and the three Barak valley districts of Assam via Dhaka, Bangladesh may be reduced to 15/16 hours only, if things run according to plan. A Kolkata-Agartala journey would take only around 10 hours, according to Railway...
Observing May Day In India This Year With Vigour Is Of Paramount Importance
By Amarjeet Kaur May Day this year would be observed with more vigour by the working class for several pressing reasons. Taking into cognizance of the political developments which are moving at very fast pace on every front in the year before general elections in2024, it is of utmost...
Next Level Of Opposition Unity To Form After Karnataka Poll Results
By Rahil Nora Chopra It’s now evident that after the results of the Karnataka Assembly elections are declared that the results, the opposition unity will take itself to the next level. The Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar, is working hard and visiting places around the country to meet...
Wrestlers Demand In Dharna For WFI President’s Removal Is Justified
By Prakash Karat Many of the top wrestlers of the country, including international medal winners, are out protesting at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. They have returned to the spot where they first conducted dharna in January since the government and the sports ministry have not acted on the complaints...
Prime Minister’s Selective Response To Major Issues Of Nation Is Perplexing
By Sushil Kutty It is dozens of hours since the wrestlers protesting at Jantar Mantar appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to listen to their ‘Mann Ki Baat’, perhaps aware that India’s Prime Minister often slips into his default position of hard of hearing. And PM Modi, for all...
Attempts Towards De-Dollarisation Is Expressive Of Current Crisis Of Capitalism
By Prabhat Patnaik Janet Yellen, the US treasury secretary, has finally acknowledged what has been obvious to most people for quite some time, namely that the imposition of sanctions against countries that the US is hostile to, runs the risk of jeopardising the hegemony of the dollar as the...
Inclusivity And Diversity Must Be The Core Of New Education Policy
By Dr Taniya Malik The recent suicide of Darshan Solanki, an 18-year-old chemical engineering student at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, belonging to a Scheduled Caste (SC), has once again sparked a debate on caste-based discrimination in particular and inclusion in general at prestigious higher education...
BJP In Crisis Situation As Karnataka Goes For Assembly Polls On May 10
By Harish Bala Karnataka is one of the important states in Indian politics as it sends 28 members to the Lok Sabha. The election commission has announced elections to the Karnataka assembly on May 10 and counting of votes will be completed by May 13. Karnataka is a state...
Kaliagunj Violence Is A Culmination Of BJP-Trinamool Turf War Over Rajbanshis
By Tirthankar Mitra Rajbanshis are in the news for the wrong reasons. Ahead of the rural polls in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress and BJP have stepped up their outreach in Kaliagunj after two lives both from Rajbanshi community were snuffed out, a teenage girl was allegedly gangraped and then...
Will Congress Repeat In Karnataka Assembly Poll What Mamata Did In 2021?
By Arun Srivastava Is the Congress Party in Karnataka in a position to repeat in the May 10 assembly polls what the West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee did in 2021 polls in her state ?. The question is being asked by the seasoned political...
