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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.Congress Leadership Has To Take Immediate Action To Resolve Rajasthan Crisis
By Kalyani Shankar With the state assembly election later this year, Congress faces a political crisis again. The party lost Punjab last year because of mishandling by the Gandhis by backing the wrong horse. Will the Congress leadership be able to save Rajasthan from going the Punjab way? Congress...
Murky Plot Behind Political Killings Of Gangster Brothers In UP
By Arun Srivastava The finance minister of Uttar Pradesh, Suresh Khanna, was absolutely right in saying: “Some decisions are taken in heaven. Whatever happened was kudrat’s (nature’s) justice, decided in heaven.” That the assassinations of gangster Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf was carried out following a ‘divine order’...
Rate Of Melting And Retreating Of Himalayan Glaciers Doubled
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though the rate of melting and retreating of Himalayan Glaciers has doubled since 2000 at the rate of 0.5 m per year compared to 0.25 m per year in the earlier 25 years between 1975 and 2000, there is no comprehensive information about the volume...
Politics Behind Vande Bharat Train For Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: One swallow does not make a summer. So goers the saying. Likewise, one Vande Bharat train for Kerala won’t solve the State’s long-standing railway travel woes. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders and activists in the State, who are over the moon, however, beg to...
Digital Payments Are Steadily Taking Over Usual Transactions In India
By Girish Linganna A woman named Subamma, holding her young child, prepares to go to work selling clay pots in Somanahalli Kanakpura Road, a village on the outskirts of Bangalore City. Across the country, millions sell roadside items for a living. However, the old-fashioned practice of trading goods for...
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...
