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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 Samajwadi Party Making Full Preparations For Civic Polls Next Month
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: All major political parties of Uttar Pradesh are gearing up for crucial urban body polls scheduled in first week of next month. These elections are considered as semi finals for eventual Lok Sabha polls next year. Since the outcome of these polls will set the...
Latest Deletions In History Textbooks By NCERT Bosses, Are Biased Against Secular India
By Krishna Jha This year, the Independence Day celebrations and the prime minister’s speech from the ramparts of Red Fort would not make us proud of our architectural achievements, its aesthetics, since Red Fort stands bereft of its history. Taj Mahal, one of the seven wonders of the world,...
Factional Battles Intensify In Karnataka BJP After The List Of 189 Is Out
By Arun Srivastava Less than a month ahead of the assembly elections in Karnataka scheduled on May 10, the state unit of the BJP is vertically split between the loyalists and turncoats and between believers and nonbelievers of Hindutva. While the turncoats through their patrons at Delhi have been...
Court Indictment Of Donald Trump Has Not Affected His Popular Base
By Debabrata Biswas from Boston On April 4, citizen Trump surrendered, formally arrested and arraigned in a mundane court room on the 15th floor of Manhattan Criminal Court in New York .He was spared of procedural mug shot and handcuff as a courtesy to a former president. And with...
Remembering O P Sabherwal, A Dedicated Journalist In His Centenary Year
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Indian economy, politics, and media was in transition when I joined India Press Agency in March 1993 led by O P Sabherwal as its Chief Editor. I had been sent there by Sumit Chakravartty, Editor of the weekly Mainstream. The transition of the 1990s had...
Corruption Issue Dogs Bommai Administration As Karnataka Assembly Polls Are Nearing
By Sushil Kutty Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, before she left for the United States to defend the Narendra Modi government on a number of charges levelled against the nine-year-old government, spent some time in poll-bound Karnataka and explained the special bond her party and her government shared with...
IMF And World Bank Must Work For Price Stability Globally, More In Poor Countries
By Anjan Roy The bi-annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Washington when the policy wonks of these institutions for meet with finance ministers of the participating countries are important occasions for findings solutions to the world’s economic ills. This year’s meet, currently being...
B S Yediyurappa Is The Main Campaigner In Karnataka Poll After Narendra Modi
By Harihar Swarup Wearing a spotless white safari suit and a dot of vermillion on his forehead, B S Yediyurappa walked out of the puja room through the corridor of his Bengaluru home. He glanced at the verandah and meeting rooms full of people, but headed straight to the...
Fractional Ownership, Blockchain Democratise Property Investment
By K Raveendran Fractional ownership of real estate is catching up fast in India, particularly among the tech-savvy investors. As a concept, fractional ownership has democratized real estate investment in that it has given small investors access to commercial properties which otherwise remained the exclusive domain of high and...
Unnecessary Legal Squabbles Are Wasting Supreme Court’s Precious Time
By Ashish Khetan No constitutional democracy can sustain without a constitutional dialogue between the non-judicial forces. American legal scholar and constitutional expert Alexander Bickel, in his work The Least Dangerous Branch: The Supreme Court at the Bar of Politics (1962) referred to a “continuing colloquy” between the Supreme Court,...
Sports A Potential Bellwether Of How Middle East States Manage Their Differences
By James M Dorsey Renewed controversy over Saudi ownership of English Premier League club Newcastle United suggests the kind of opposition the kingdom may encounter as it bids for hosting rights to multiple global and regional sporting mega events. The controversy may also become a bellwether of how Saudi...
Getting National Party Status From Election Commission Is A Big Boost To AAP
By Kalyani Shankar When Arvind Kejriwal launched his Aam Admi Party in 2012 and bid for power the following year for Delhi assembly in 2013, no one thought he would find political space and sustain himself for long years. Now, on Monday, the Election Commission has granted AAP national...
Amit Shah’s Strategy To Gain Majority Seats In Bihar In Lok Sabha Polls Floundering
By Arun Srivastava “We will win all the 40 seats” is the clarion call of the BJP Chanakya Amit Shah to his cadres and sympathisers in Bihar. But the task ahead is arduous. Riding on the shoulders of the RSS, Narendra Modi and his lieutenant Shah may talk of...
Positive Vibes At G20 Meet In India’s Northeast, But With A Twist
By Ashis Biswas There has been a mixed diplomatic response from various foreign countries attending the recent G20 sessions in different states of India’s lush-green Northeast. Most among the attending foreign ministers and diplomats preferred discussing local/regional development and tourism-related matters. This was in consonance with the generally agreed...
Ten Govts Of Latin America To Meet In Havana For A Joint Economic Strategy
By Satyaki Chakraborty Ten national governments of Latin America including a few left wing regimes are having discussions to evolve a common strategy in dealing with the economic issues facing the countries. Most of the countries are facing the problem of high prices of essential commodities and there are...
India Needs To Be Worried About Its Children
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Indian children have fundamental right to education and the number of incidences of violation has crossed 12.5 lakhs in the form of out of school students during the education session 2022-23 just ended. Equity and inclusion thus remain important issues, apart from quality and relevance...
Differences Surface In Bengal BJP Over Functioning Of Governor Bose
By Tirthankar Mitra No stranger to intra-party squabbles, BJP leaders of West Bengal unit have often differed over internal matters of the party. But fissures are now discernible in the state saffron camp leadership over actions of governor, CV Anand Bose in the recent communal violence which erupted in...
Growing Unrest Among Hard Hindutva Camp May Spoil BJP’s Grandiose Plans
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in for a couple of 2024 surprises when the country goes for yet another general election. The surprises will come courtesy the hardcore cache of the Hindu electorate that the BJP and the Modi government have been taking for granted during...
