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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.Russia’s Planned N-Arms Deployment In Belarus
By Girish Linganna US President Joe Biden, on Tuesday, March 28, came down heavily on a Russian plan to deploy nuclear weapons in neighbouring Belarus, terming it “dangerous” talk. Russian President Vladimir Putin had announced last week that Russia planned to deploy in the neighbouring state tactical, small-yield N-arms...
India Losing Its Influence In Sri Lanka Too, After Bhutan And Nepal
By Ashis Biswas During the tenure of the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government, India’s diplomatic influence and outreach have noticeably declined within its immediate South Asian neighbourhood. After the wake-up call on the Doklam stand-off from Bhutan, now comes news that temples and ancient cultural/traditional holy sites...
Communal Violence In Bihar And Bengal On Ramnavami Has A Planned Design
By Arun Srivastava It was not a coincidence instead a well-designed subterfuge to polarise the Hindu voters just a year ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha election. While on April 1, the day people usually celebrate the Fools’ Day, Narendra Modi cracked a vicious and spiteful joke in Bhopal,...
Samajwadi Party And BSP Fighting Each Other In Uttar Pradesh Over Poaching
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party are engaged in a big fight over poaching of each other’s core voters to enlarge the vote share to face local bodies polls and later on 2024 Lok Sabha polls. There is realisation in Samajwadi Party that with the...
India’s Declining Donkey Population Is Facing An Existential Crisis
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s donkeys are facing existential crisis. Their population has suffered about 90 per cent drop in the last three decades, and a drastic 61 per cent between 2012 and 2019. Concerns have repeatedly been raised, however, no comprehensive conservation programme has yet been initiated by...
It May Be Time For RBI To Decouple From Policies Set By U.S. Federal Reserve
By K Raveendran With the US Federal Reserve set to continue raising interest rates to combat record inflation rates, the highest in 40 years, there are calls that the Reserve Bank of India deviate from its traditional policy of mirroring the US interest rate hikes. The RBI has effected...
Congress Is Steadily Finding More Allies Despite Some Differences
By Harihar Swarup As we head into another massive electoral season, starting with Karnataka assembly polls on May 10 and ending with the Lok Sabha 12 months later; two parallel political processes are at work. These processes will play out in the coming months as the main actors figure...
Rahul’s Conviction Has Boosted Congress Prospects In Karnataka Assembly Polls
By Arun Srivastava Chanakya of BJP, Amit Shah has come out with the implicit advice to Rahul Gandhi to go to a higher court and challenge the verdict of the Surat court. This unsolicited advice coming from the iron man of the BJP has given rise to numerous conjecture...
Workers Unable To Live A Life Of Dignity Without Social Security
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The recently held Annual Development Partners meeting of the ILO’s Global Flagship Programme on Building Social Protection Floors for all has reiterated that the human right to social security is still not a reality for more than 4 billion people of the world who are...
Trump Has That Uncanny Power To Turn A Crisis Into A Big Opportunity
By Sushil Kutty Former United States President Donald Trump was to travel to New York from Florida following his indictment and the “charges in a sealed cover”. More than three years ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had famously said ‘Abki Baar Trump Sarkar’ which fell through notoriously and resulted...
