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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.Gulf Support For Erdogan Is About More Than Economics
By James M Dorsey When jailed Turkish politician Selahattin Demirtas apologized for his pro-Kurdish party’s poor performance in recent Turkish elections, he did more than take responsibility. Demirtas implicitly questioned the notion that Turks vote primarily along ideological and identity lines rather than based on assessing which party will...
Shanti Teresa Lakra Is Continuing With Her Nursing Work In Andaman Islands
By Harihar Swarup In the five years that she spent living alongside the remote Onge tribe of the Andaman island, Shanti Teresa Lakra fished and cooked with them: saw how differently they raise their young; followed into them the forests in the summer, “a season when they cannot bear...
Rahul Gandhi’s Engagement With Indian Diaspora In USA Has Been Productive
By Kalyani Shankar Why do Indian politicians woo the Diaspora in the United States and elsewhere? Why does the Diaspora, who can’t vote in India, take an interest in their homeland? It is perhaps because, as India’s GDP grows, the Diaspora’s role in India’s foreign policy also rises. The...
Cornered In South After Karnataka Debacle, BJP Woos TDP For Telangana, Andhra Pradesh
By Sushil Kutty In the mid-1990s and about the time when the Bharatiya Janata Party was still building its formidable cadre, the Telugu Desam Party’s N. Chandrababu Naidu used to be the busiest political body in Delhi and everybody knew if something political was cooking it would be in...
Developed Nations Should Appreciate India’s Work In Fighting Pollution
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though India is currently the third largest polluter in the world in terms of CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) emission as estimated in 2020 after China and the United States, its pollution is less than half of the US and one-fourth of the China. Moreover, if taken...
National Elections In Pakistan In October This Year May Not Ensure Stability
By Tirthankar Mitra Pakistan seems to be teetering on the edge of an abyss of crisis with none its political parties offering a policy prescription of course correction. Uncertainties abound even as industrial sector contraction is likely to rise, former prime minister Imran Khan despite being bogged down in...
United States-China Rivalry In Space Leading To A Big Technology War
By Girish Linganna The intensifying rivalry between the United States and China in the realm of space has become a significant challenge as the world enters a new era where space is seen as an essential battleground. Global leaders are increasingly concerned about China’s rapid advancements in space capabilities,...
The Conundrum Of Constitutional Morality: Delhi’s Chief Minister Versus LG
By Lt Gen. Bhopinder Singh Former President K.R. Narayanan made power good by remaining true to the Constitution, and above everything, to constitutional morality. Even the longest-written Constitution in the world, i.e., Bharatiya Samvidhan (Indian Constitution) relies on the ‘executive’ to interpret actions as underpinned by the morality whose...
AMLO’s Party Wins In Mexico’s Most Populous State For The First Time
By Roger McKenzie Mexico’s most populous state turned its back on decades of single-party rule, deciding to move forward with President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s ruling Morena party over the long-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Results from electoral authorities on Sunday night indicated a victory for Delfina Gomez in...
More Russian Oil Is Making Backdoor Entry Into NATO Nations Via Saudi Arabia, UAE
By Nantoo Banerjee The cat is out of the bag. India is not the only country using imported Russian oil to export processed petro-products. West Asian oil giants, led by Saudi Arabia, are buying millions of barrels of Russian diesel oil, which is banned in Europe, to sell the...
Questions Galore About BRS Decision Not To Join Crucial Opposition Conclave
By Sushil Kutty Sulking is common to non-BJP Chief Ministers. And opposition unity suffers. Right now the tribe of non-BJP Chief Ministers sees opportunity in Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s problems. The Modi government’s ordinance upturning the Supreme Court’s verdict that gave Delhi’s AAP government control over “services” is...
Secure Railway System To Prevent Balasore Like Deadly Accidents
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Only few years ago, the Union Minister of Railways had claimed in the Parliament of India that they made railway journey safe, though the trains were running late in the country. The claim had come in reply to a question as to why trains were...
Opposition Is Looking Confident Of Defeating RSS-BJP Combine In 2024
By Arun Srivastava For nine long years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been dictating political actions in India, but the expected opposition meet will not only redefine the nature of the political discourse of the country, but would set a completely new political narrative, engineering a different political activism...
More Jitters For Narendra Modi-Led BJP Before 2024 Polls
By S. Sethuraman The worst rail disaster in a century, so far claiming 275 lives, in triangular derailments in Orissa, is so perplexing even for a technology-minded Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, that the cause gets shifted from signal system failures to ultimately sabotage CBI would probe. A shocked and...
Uptick In Q4 GDP Growth Is Positive But Challenges Remain In Current Fiscal
By K R Sudhaman There is jubilation in Indian government as uptick in last quarter lifted India’s GDP growth in fiscal 2023 to 7.2 per cent belying expectations of less than 7 per cent growth this year. After slowing GDP growth of 4.5 per cent in third quarter, there...
Bengal BJP In A Quandary Over Holding 1,000 Meetings In Four Months
By Tirthankar Mitra At a time when BJP national leadership wants to pull out all stops to ensure that saffron juggernaut rolls all over the West Bengal in next year’s election, it finds organisational glitches hamstringing its programme with less than ten months to go before the crucial Lok...
Nepalese Prime Minister’s Four Day Visit Bring Ties With India Closer
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav During his 4-day India visit, Nepalese Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal completed formal engagements with the Indian leadership and is visiting places of interest. Going by the importance traditionally attached to Nepal’s relationship with India, Dahal’s India visit is bound to be watched and analysed...
What Will Be India’s Response To US’s Bid To Offer NATO+ Membership
By Girish Linganna In what could be a significant turning point in global geopolitics, the United States is reportedly contemplating extending an invitation to India to join the NATO Plus security arrangement. This move, a first of its kind, comes as the US seeks to strengthen its alliances and...
