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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.Bigger Muslim Support To The Congress In Karnataka Poll Is A Positive Signal For 2024
By Sushil Kutty Nine Muslims grace the treasury benches in the 224-member Karnataka assembly, all of them Congress MLAs. En bloc Muslim voting in the just-concluded 2023 Karnataka assembly elections was one of the reasons why the Congress returned to power. Muslims comprise nearly 13% of the Karnataka electorate...
Kejriwal Gathering Opposition’s Support Against Centre’s Ordinance
By Rahil Nora Chopra Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been in touch with various leaders of non-BJP parties to gain support in the fight against the Centre’s latest ordinance to clip the wings of Delhi’s elected government, despite a Supreme Court order...
Modi Govt Is Planning To Make Sedition Law Stricter Before 2024 Polls
By Dr. Gyan Pathak To stifle the opposing voices, PM Narendra Modi led government has planned to bring a more stringent law of sedition before the General Election 2024, in which he and his party BJP would be seeking election for his third term, if the report of the...
‘Deglobalisation’ Talk By Experts Means Tendency Of Western Powers To Discriminate Against China
By Prabhat Patnaik Many economists these days talk of a process of “deglobalisation” taking place; some others talk of the neoliberal regime of yesteryears no longer existing. Of course, nothing remains the same forever: as the Greek philosopher Heraclitus had said “You cannot step into the same river twice”;...
Bengal BJP Revamps Its Campaign Strategy Focusing On Both Left And TMC
By Tirthankar Mitra Having earlier asked its West Bengal unit to mend its affairs, the national leadership of BJP have instructed its state unit to step up its campaign against a traditional political opponent -Left. Going by it, the state saffron camp will be henceforth focussing on the “misdeeds”...
Installation Of Sengol At New Parliament Building Is A Part Of RSS Plan On Hindu Rashtra
By Prakash Karat Twenty opposition parties had boycotted the inauguration of the new parliament building on May 28 on the grounds that the Modi government had bypassed the President of India, Droupadi Murmu, who is the head of the state as well as and head of parliament and decided...
Coming Caste Census Has To Focus On Many New Dynamics Of Indian Society
By Krishna Jha We are a multi-religious country. For each community, there is a spiritual path to arrive at the basics, the most sacred that we hold to ourselves. Our culture is composite, multi- dimensional, and each according to its own context. There are those that are based on...
High Growth Rate Of GDP In 2022-23 Hides Many Concerns Over Its Nature
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s growth rate for 2022-23 exceeded expectations. It has now been estimated upward to 7.2 per cent from 7 per cent as per second advance estimate released in February. The magic was the result of a stronger-than-expected fourth quarter growth when GDP rose to 6.1...
BJP Leadership At State, Centre Have Been Stoking Manipur Fire
By Arun Srivastava It needs fairly high amount of moral strength and conviction to look straight into the eyes of the rulers of the country and expose their lies and falsehood in the public domain. Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Sunday last had said that nearly 40...
Centre and The Ruling Party Have Lost All Propriety By Defending The Accused BJP MP
By Sushil Kutty A farmer – ‘Bharat ka kisan’ – prevented the hard won gold, silver and bronze medals of the protesting wrestlers from immersion in the polluted waters of the Holy Ganga at Haridwar. This, after the wrestlers refused to take lying down any further the Centre’s intransigence....
Brazil President Lula Pushes For Integration At South American Summit
By Satyaki Chakraborty The move for the integration of the economies of South American nations has got a big boost after the conclave of twelve countries of the region at Brasilia on May 30. Brazil’s president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva inaugurated the conference which signalled the arrival of...
The Bloody History Behind The British Possession Of The Koh-i-Noor
By Girish Linganna The Koh-i-Noor and Cullinan diamonds went on display at an exhibition at the Tower of London on Friday (May 26, 2023) as representations of victory and a ‘symbol of conquest’. The Koh-i-Noor has been displayed as a tourist attraction and is backed by a video which...
US Govt Putting Pressure On India To Join NATO+ As A Part Of Asia-Pacific Strategy
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi’s yearning to be acknowledged as the world leader (Vishwa Guru) has landed India in a unpleasant quagmire endangering its identity and credibility built over the years amongst the global fraternity. The longing was so acute that he even ignored the conventional wisdom to realise...
Political Outcome From Communal Cauldron May Not Favour BJP
By Dr. Gyan Pathak BJP has broken its legs in Karnataka assembly polls when it fell into the pitfalls of majority politics. The party, including the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left no stone unturned to polarize Hindu majority votes in their favour, but miserably failed. BJP’s loss, if translated...
No Real Truce Is Ready At Ending Gehlot-Pilot Infighting In Rajasthan Congress
By Sushil Kutty The latest Sachin Pilot-Ashok Gehlot patch-up will last till June 8 when disqualified Congress Member of Parliament Rahul Gandhi returns from his trip to the United States where the Congress scion will be raising yet another front against Prime Minister Narendra Modi like he had from...
Slowdown In Containerized Exports Poses Setback To Pro-Export Agenda
By K Raveendran There is a marked slowdown in the containerized exports from India, attributed mainly to a decline in consumer demand for Indian goods in the US, EU and the UK markets, according to data from Container xChange, a leading online platform for container logistics. This trend has...
Sons Of First Joint Climbers Of Mount Everest Are Carrying The Legacy Of Their Fathers
By Harihar Swarup The first Everest climbers families took their person bond and love for the mountains to a new high on May 29, 1953, seventy years after that great achievement by tensing Norgay and Edmund Hillary who became global icons during that period. Tenzing Norgay’s son Jamling and...
Shiites And Not Jews Emerge As Touchstone Of Saudi Moderation
By James M Dorsey Saudi Arabia has removed anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli references from Islamic studies schoolbooks, according to an Israeli textbook watchdog. The watchdog, the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se), said the deletions were part of a broader textbook revision that also eliminated...
