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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.BJP and RSS Have Got Hold Of A Guru To Act As Hindutva Icon In Bihar
By Arun Srivastava As if the ruthless drubbing which RSS and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s politics of Hindutva met at the hands of the Hindus in Karnataka assembly elections, Modi and RSS are moving to implement the Hindutva campaign in Bihar for getting better results in the coming Lok...
Karnataka Poll Results Show That PM’s Outreach To Muslims Did Not Give Dividends
By Sushil Kutty Less than 12 months are left for general elections 2024 and those of us asking what’s gonna propel voters to the election booths are being too smart by half. We all know one camp’s strategy has come a cropper, while the other camp has won the...
Job-Taking Is Only A Small Part Of Threat Posed By Generative Artificial Intelligence
By K Raveendran The call by ChatGPT founder Sam Altman a US Senate committee meeting for heavy regulation of the use of artificial intelligence by governments across the world to mitigate the risks from the new technology takes the current debate about generative AI to a new dimension. While...
The Grand Old Editor Of Hindi Journalism, Sheetla Singh Is No More
By Satyaki Chakraborty Sheetla Singh who founded the Hindi language daily Jan Morcha based in Faizabad in 1958 and nurtured it for the last 65 years turning it into a real people’s paper passed away on Tuesday. He was 91 and active in his editorial responsibilities till the end....
WHO Warning On Precipitous Adoption Of AI Is A Wake-Up Call
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The WHO’s warning on precipitous adoption of AI must serve as a wake-up call for the world. These new AI-based tools require vigilance, especially in light of such rapidly expanding platforms such as ChatGPT, Bard, BERT, and many others that imitate understanding, processing, and producing...
Sudan Tests The Limits Of Middle Eastern De-Escalation, Dollar Diplomacy
By James M Dorsey With Saudi-hosted talks to end Sudan fighting producing minimal results and Arab states supporting rival forces, de-escalation in the Middle East faces a major test. So does Gulf states’ ability to employ dollar diplomacy to persuade poorer Arab brethren to align with the policies of...
More And More Democrat Law Makers Protest US Sanctions Against Cuba, Venezuela
By Branko Marcetic One of the defining features of our era has been the loss of a domestic political appetite for more US wars. But a similar pushback to Washington’s use of sanctions has been slow to follow, despite the fact that US sanctions are demonstrably cruel, indiscriminate, ineffective,...
Nita Ambani Founded Cultural Centre Is The Great Landmark In Mumbai
By Harihar Swarup We are at Mumbai’s newest landmark, Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre, on a Monday evening. Preparations are in full swing for award winning Broadway musical—Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Magic of Music – which will begin playing early May. Ambani says this will be first time an...
President Joe Biden Is Favourite In The Present Campaign For 2024 Polls
By Kalyani Shankar Could the United States also favour an Indian American for the top job in the 2024 polls? It is a million-dollar question. But it does not stop the American Indians from dreaming about it. The United Kingdom has chosen an Indian-origin Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, last...
PM Appointing Karnataka DGP Praveen Sood As New CBI Chief Sends Ominous Signals
By Arun Srivastava Even before Hanuman’s ‘gada (mace)’ could smash and decimate Bajrang Dal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is gearing to strike a brutal assault on the Congress leaders and social activists. Contrary to the common belief that Modi will restrain use of the police, ED and CBI against...
PM Modi’s Rozgar Melas Will Now Be Regular Features In States
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi was slated to distribute appointment letters via video conferencing to 71,000 newly-inducted recruits on Tuesday, May 16. Less than a year short of the 2024 general elections, Modi is acutely aware he might not be the 2024 favourite. Modi’s numero uno position...
Mamata’s Olive Branch To Congress Has Many Significant Dimensions
By Tirthankar Mitra It has been many summers since Mamata Banerjee floated Trinamool Congress in 1998, thus leaving the Congress a pale shadow of its former self in West Bengal, and no longer a political force to be reckoned with in the eastern state. However, post Congress’s decisive victory...
India Among ‘Governments Freely Targeting Faith Communities’
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Report on International Religious Freedom 2022, a Congressional-mandatory annual report by the US State Department has placed India in the group of countries where the governments have been freely targeting religious communities. The report provides a comprehensive review of state of religious freedom in...
Gen-Z More Aware Of Negative Aspects Of Social Media Platforms Than Other Generations
By K Raveendran Contrary to what is considered to be the general perception, post-millennial Gen Z-ers, meaning those who are aged between eight and 23 years, are more likely than other generations to cite negative feelings about social media. They are also more likely to report having poor mental...
Sri Lankan Economy Has Started Picking Up With Rise In Tourism And Remittances
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Sri Lanka is still grappling with an unprecedented economic crisis, and is expected to witness a contraction in its economic growth in 2023. The country’s economy already contracted by 7.8% in 2022 and is projected to shrink by an additional 3% this year. The challenges...
Turkey’s Political Future Depends On National Polls Run Off On May 28
By Devriş Çimen People around the world are waking up to news that Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is nearly certain to spend another five years strengthening his grip on power. In Sunday’s first-round vote, Erdoğan took 49.5 percent support, while his challenger Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu received 44.9 percent. Runoff...
After Karnataka, Combined Opposition Can Now Face Lok Sabha Polls With Bigger Confidence
By Nitya Chakraborty The resounding victory of the Congress Party in the Karnataka assembly elections less than a year before the holding of the Lok Sabha polls in April/May 2024 has given a big boost to the Party and its leaders the Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi....
Time Looks Tough For India’s Manufacturing-Led Growth
By Nantoo Banerjee It is unfortunate that manufacturing is losing focus in India while all eyes are on so-called rapid growth of the services sector. Advertising and marketing campaigns have been peaking to impress consumers as well as investors while the manufacturing sector continues to struggle silently for growth....
