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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.Rise In Bitcoin Prices Imparts Fresh Dynamism To Cryptocurrencies
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Cryptocurrency prices are once again on a rebound. Bitcoin is above $28,000 consistently for some time and most of the leading altcoins are similarly in the green over the past few weeks. The rise in bitcoin prices after remaining subdued for nearly a year coincides...
Rajasthan Govt’s Right To Health Act Is A Major Step In Public Health
By Dr. Arun Mitra Passing of Right to Health Bill by the Rajasthan Assembly is a long overdue requirement of the citizens and demand of the health care organizations. This Act gives the residents of Rajasthan right to free healthcare. The right to health thus becomes justiciable, that is...
PUCL and National Network Of LBI Present Findings On Cruelty To Queers And Transpersons
By Satyaki Chakraborty NEW DELHI: People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), along with the National Network of LBI (Lesbian, Bisexual, Intersex) Women and Trans Persons (The Network), organised a press conference to present findings from a public hearing, where testimonies and lived experiences of queer and transpersons facing conflict...
Anatomy Of Train Tragedy In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The arson attack inside a coach of the Alappuzha-Kannur Executive Express in Kozhikode, Kerala, which left three persons dead and eight injured, underlines the urgent need to tighten security systems on trains and at railway stations. A man from Noida, Uttar Pradesh, has emerged as...
Back To Back Communal Flare Ups In Bengal Have Dented Mamata’s Image
By Tirthankar Mitra Communal clashes during passage of Ram Navami processions at Kazipara in Howrah followed by another flare up at Rishra in Hooghly has the Trinamool Congress leadership worried about its minority support base. These conflagrations could not come at a worse point as they erupted in the...
Chinese Business In India Is Ballooning Despite Restrictions
By Nantoo Banerjee The growing presence of Chinese industrial investors in India despite the so-called government restrictions is more alarming than Chinese spy balloons over the Indian sky (detected by the US) and spy ships close to its territorial water. These Chinese industrial investors pose a big threat to...
There Is A Strategy Behind Arvind Kejriwal’s Sudden Personal Attacks Against PM
By Sushil Kutty Ten years is a long time in politics. Ahead of the watershed 2014 general elections, the two main players in the reckoning were Gujarat-model famous Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi whose sole claim to political relevance was dynasty. Also trying to edge in sideways,...
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...
Unleashing Of An Iranian Tiger: Politics Over Tourist Attractions
By James M Dorsey A Gulf investor with an analytical and artistic bent, Ali al-Salim pinpointed the long-term challenges Saudi Arabia faces as it re-establishes relations with Iran. While most analysts focused on the immediate reduction of regional tensions and the possible opening for an end to the eight-year-long...
