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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.LGBTQ Rights Emerge As Litmus Test For Limits Of Saudi Reforms
By James M Dorsey Saudi Arabia has turned LGBTQ rights into a litmus test for the limits of social reforms by sending mixed messages. In line with broad-based official and popular rejection of gender diversity and fluidity in the kingdom and across the Muslim World, the Saudi General Commission...
BJP Heading Towards Serious Troubles In Haryana
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Emergence of cracks in ruling BJP-JJP alliance in Haryana, just 10 months ahead of Lok Sabha elections and 16 months ahead of Vidhan Sabha election in 2024, foretells an omen for PM Narendra Modi, the BJP that he leads, and his RSS Pracharak friend CM...
TDP May Finally Align With BJP In Both Andhra Pradesh And Telangana
By Sushil Kutty After Telugu Desam Party Chief Chandrababu Naidu met Bharatiya Janata Party top-brass in Delhi a little over a week ago, there’s movement. The BJP appears to have thrown its weight behind the TDP and the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) helmed by Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy...
Updated Congress Working Committee: Names Of Members By June End
By Rahil Nora Chopra Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is expected to return to India on June 18.Soon after his arrival, crucial decisions will be taken to kick-start a major overhaul in the party’s organisational structure. According to sources, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has already framed the groundwork and the...
Chinese Youth Losing Interest In Marriage Will Hit The Country’s Demographic Advantage
By Anjan Roy China could just as well be contesting with the United States as the new super power, however internally it is facing serious problems with its younger generations turning away from traditional social norms. China has just witnessed fewest marriages in decades. The Chinese state has an...
After Sri Lanka And Pakistan, Bangladesh Has Landed Itself In A Serious Economic Crisis
By Prabhat Patnaik After Sri Lanka and Pakistan, Bangladesh has become the third country in our neighbourhood to become afflicted by a serious economic crisis. It has asked for a $4.5 billion loan from the IMF, apart from $1billion from the World Bank and $2.5-3billion from multilateral agencies and...
BJP’s RSS Faithfuls And Turncoats Are In Factional Battle In The Eastern And Ne States
By Arun Srivastava In his decades long association with Narendra Modi, and especially as the second in command, during Modi’s nine year rule as the prime minister, Amit Shah has never faced any kind of spanner from the original BJP workers. They listened to him with awe and carried...
Global Initiative Is Needed To Stop Immediately Russia-Ukraine War
By Dr Arun Mitra The recent report on the state of annual assessment of the state of armaments, disarmament and international security released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on 12th June 2023 is startling. The report highlights that the ‘number of operational nuclear weapons has increased...
Britain Under PM Rishi Sunak Is Joining The New Washington Consensus
By Carlos Martinez Last Wednesday marked the second annual UK-US Friendship Day. Although this momentous occasion was met with near-universal indifference on both sides of the Atlantic, Rishi Sunak took the opportunity to celebrate by making his first official visit to the US as Prime Minister. The discussions didn’t...
Divisive Politics On Uniform Civil Code Has Risen Its Head Again
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With issuance of notification by the Central Law Commission of India on June 14, 2023 soliciting views from the public and recognized religious organisations on Uniform Civil Code, the divisive politics of BJP-RSS clan has risen its head again, as usual, ahead of Lok Sabha...
Latest Killings In Manipur Signal Total Failure Of Amit Shah’s Efforts
By Sushil Kutty One thing is getting certain and certain as we get closer and closer to the general elections 2024. That is, the BJP will go to any extent to win elections. Who can forget the 2019 elections on the heels of the Balakote airstrikes; which had at...
Narendra Modi Govt’s MSP For Kharif Season Is Neither Fair Nor Remunerative
By Prakash Karat The BJP-led union government announced the minimum support prices (MSP) for the Kharif Season 2023-24 on June 7, 2023 claiming that “the move is to ensure remunerative prices to growers for their produce and to encourage crop diversification”. The MSP announced is neither fair nor remunerative;...
US May Agree To Supply India High Powered Predator Drones During Summit
By Girish Linganna Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting USA on a four day state visit beginning on June 21. He will discuss pending defence deals with the US President Joe Biden and the other senior policy makers during his visit including the summit with the US President on...
Kerala Has Brought Digital Revolution To The Doors Of Poor Families
By Krishna Jha There had been tall promises made by the RSS-BJP government as early as in 2019 to offer online infrastructure and Internet connectivity through the ‘Digital India’ programme with a vision to transform the country into a digitally-empowered society with a rich knowledge economy. It was to...
CPI(M)-ISF Alliance In Bengal Panchayat Elections Angers The State Congress
By Tirthankar Mitra At a time when scams galore including cash for teaching jobs, coal and cattle smuggling is dogging Trinamool Congress, it has been gifted a brownie point in the form of an alliance between Left and Indian Secular Front before the panchayat elections in West Bengal. The...
Marxist Babler’s Election As Head Of Social Democratic Party Of Austria Is A Boost To Left
By Nick Cosburn June 3 won’t be a date that many in the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) will want to remember for very long. For months, the anti-migration hardliner Hans Peter Doskozil had launched attacks on the party’s sitting leader, Pamela Rendi-Wagner, before achieving his aim of...
Shinde-Fadnavis Battle Over Chief Ministership Has Come Out In The Open
By Sushil Kutty So a Sena advertisement claims Eknath Shinde is the first choice of the people of Maharashtra for Chief Minister and Devendra Fadnavis is nowhere in the picture. The Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister’s face didn’t show on the advertisements which did not forget Modi’s picture. Is this...
After Doubling Of Bank Frauds, Swindlers To Get Second Chance
By Dr. Gyan Pathak In the first eight years under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India witnessed more than double the number of bank frauds. The first half of the ninth year, number of frauds rose even more sharply compared to the corresponding months of the eighth year. Now in...
