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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.Sudan’s Political Crisis Intensifies As Para Military Groups Oppose Army Coup
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Fierce fighting between Sudan’s military factions has been ongoing and continued for a second day, resulting in dozens of casualties across the country. Reports suggest that the clashes began with months of tensions between the country’s army and a paramilitary group. Battles have erupted in...
China-Brazil Summit Paves Way For The Emergence Of Alternative Currency Against US Dollar
By W. T. Whitney Jr. The United States proclaimed the Monroe Doctrine 200 years ago and ever since has arranged Latin American and Caribbean affairs to its advantage. Nevertheless, struggles for national and regional independence did continue, and the poor and marginalized classes did resist. Eventually there would be...
After The Ukraine War Documents Leak, Biden Presidency Is Left With No Cover
By Branko Marcetic The Ukraine war documents leak is a very big deal. Among other things, the documents reveal that the Biden administration has been misleading the public about its upbeat assessment of the Ukrainian war effort. The leak lays bare the extent of US spying on friends and...
India’s US$2 Trillion Foreign Trade Target By 2030 Is Over Ambitious
By K R Sudhaman The Narendra Modi Government has come out with a new Foreign Trade Policy that aims to achieve $ two trillion exports by 2030 — that is $1 trillion of goods or merchandise exports and an additional $1 trillion services exports. It certainly looks a tall...
Unholy Bank-Borrower Alliance Is Behind Most Big Financial Frauds
By Nantoo Banerjee Pledging inflated stocks to borrow big from India’s public sector banks seems to have become a routine practice in India. Surprisingly, the Reserve Bank (RBI), the banking regulator, and the government, are doing little to control such practices by holding bank management as responsible as those...
Karnataka BJP Is In Twilight Zone Before May 10 Assembly Elections
By Arun Srivastava In a scenario where it appears that road to south for BJP is once again getting blocked, the desperate leadership as a last resort to salvage the situation and stem the crisis is seriously contemplating to turn the electoral battle into a combat between “SAVARKAR VS...
AAP Supremo Arvind Kejriwal’s Prime Task Now Is To Come Out Of CBI Net Unscathed
By Sushil Kutty Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is the soul and spirit of the Aam Aadmi Party, which recently achieved “national party” status, couldn’t care less right now for an electoral alliance with a party or parties for the 2024 general elections. Not the day after he...
Congress Leadership Must Act Fast To Bridge Gehlot-Pilot Differences
By Tirthankar Mitra Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge is walking a tightrope in trying to amicably resolve an intra-party feud between veteran Ashok Gehlot and young Turk Sachin Pilot in Rajasthan. Working out a compromise formula by Kharge seems to be asking for the moon as both the feuding leaders...
Gangster Killings At Prayagraj Unite Opposition And Civic Society On Law And Order
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The brutal killing of mafia don Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf in police custody in full public glare outside Prayagraj hospital where entire media was also present has not only shocked the civic society but also exposed the deterioration in law and order situation...
Continued Influx Of Nepali Youths To North Bengal May Create Tensions
By Ashis Biswas There has been a noticeable increase in illegal immigration from Nepal into parts of India in recent months owing to the continuing economic crisis in the former Himalayan kingdom. Concern has been expressed recently in the North Bengal-based mass media about an influx of unemployed migrant...
BJP Is Pinning High Hopes On Its Agenda Of Nationalism And Hindutva
By Harihar Swarup With day-long protests by Congress across the country recently, the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Parliament has given shape to political chessboard, setting up the opening pieces for the 2024 election battle. How events pan out depends on subsequent moves of various protagonists. We can, however,...
Minefield Of Labour Statistics: Confusing Signals And Conflicting Claims
By K Raveendran A graph tweeted by Rahul Gandhi, sourced to ‘India’s Consumer Economy 360 Survey’, and showing that between 2016 and 2021 income of the poor class decreased by about 50 per cent has put the focus on the think-tank that produced the survey report. Rahul cited the...
China Outsmarts USA In Hardcore Diplomacy In The Last Two Months
By Ben Chacko This spring has been a triumphant one for Chinese diplomacy, from the breakthrough in Iran-Saudi relations to Friday’s high-profile summit with Brazilian President Lula. Lula’s remarks on moving away from trade in US dollars show Chinese President Xi Jinping’s description of China and Brazil as “comprehensive...
Oil Output Cut By OPEC+ Countries Is A Testimony To Decline In Us Hegemony
By Prabhat Patnaik Except in war-time, capitalism invariably seeks to control inflation by creating a recession; and this is so even when the inflation has been caused by an autonomous increase in capitalists’ profit-margins which are downward inflexible and hence would not be reduced by a recession. This strategy...
Social Justice Indispensable In Protecting Workforce
By Dr. Gyan Pathak International Labour Organization (ILO) has categorically told the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) that social justice is indispensable in protecting the workforce since inequality has been growing worldwide. The importance of the statements lies in the fact that these have been delivered at...
Latest Surge In Covid Virus Poses Fresh Challenges In Dealing With Variants
By Sushil Kutty Ever since Covid happened to humans, the World Health Organization has disappointed a lot of people. First it seemed to let off China with a light rap on the wrist. Then, it floundered in the number-crunching. So much so, it gave to our own high-flying Prime...
Nation-State Inspired By Religion, But Politics Making A Difference
By James M Dorsey Think that the modern nation-state originated with the emergence of the 17th-century beginnings of the era of science and reason? Think again. In a recently published book, political scientist Anna Gryzmala-Busse traces the origins of the modern state to medieval Europe when religion and the...
Farmers Across States Must Be Compensated As In Punjab
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Government of Punjab has just started compensating farmers of the state for their crop losses due to inclement weather conditions in March and April. AAP government led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann kept their assurance to do it at lightning speed in transparent manner...
