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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.UK’s Iconic NHS Is Slowly Dying Of Privatization
By Tony O’Sullivan We are living under a deeply cruel, ideologically driven government. Since coming to power in 2010, the Conservative’s austerity program has caused over 330,000 deaths, and the mishandling of the pandemic saw a further two hundred thousand deaths, many of them avoidable. Currently, an estimated five...
Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Reveals Danger Of Wider Financial Crisis
By C.J. Atkins Finance capital seems poised to once more drag the country into a new banking crisis, dredging up the spectre of the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers and the Great Recession that it sparked. Since Friday, the U.S. government has seized control of two banks in an...
Britain’s War On Refugees Is State-Sponsored Fascism
By Claudia Webbe This week, the Tory Party’s horrific anti-migrant Bill is in its second stage in Parliament — and it is truly frightening that such an appalling piece of legislation is progressing at lightning speed, with this second reading, a mere six days after it was introduced. This...
Nagaland’s Opposition-Free Government Must Remain One-Off
By Kalyani Shankar After the recent Assembly results, all parties in the tiny State of Nagaland formed an Opposition- free government to get a share in the power pie. All the parties unconditionally supported the ruling alliance, and all parties were in the Government with no Opposition. It isn’t...
National Capital Heading Towards A Severe Water Crisis
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The National Capital Territory of Delhi is in the first leg of a colossal water crisis, almost a month earlier than the time it had hit last year, thanks to the unprecedented rise in temperatures in the country in February that broke all records kept...
RJD Demands Restricting ‘Vindictive’ ED Operation In Bihar
By Arun Srivastava Already made has been the strong demand on the floor of the Bihar assembly that the Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation should be asked to seek permission from the respective state government before proceeding against anyone in the state, similar to...
Decade-old US-Bangladesh Spat Over Dr. Yunus Warms Up Again
By Ashis Biswas After a tense truce, the war of words between American liberal lobbyists and the Bangladeshi ruling establishment over the Nobel laureate economist Mohammad Yunus has returned in full fury. 50 Dhaka-based thinkers have strongly countered a recent statement issued in a leading American daily in favour...
Modi Wants A Third Term To Match Nehru’s Record And Status
By Sushil Kutty A third term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2024 is the Bharatiya Janata Party’s goal. All its efforts and resources are concentrated on achieving this goal, i.e., Modi as Prime Minister for as long as possible, or for as long as Modi wants to remain...
Where’s The Justice For Victims Of Army Atrocities In Kashmir?
By Ravi Nair One would have liked to join the hoi polloi in welcoming the decision of the General Court Martial to recommend imprisonment for life to Captain Bhoopendra Singh, alias Major Bashir Khan for staging the encounter killings of three men in Shopian, Kashmir in 2020. The sentence...
Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Shows Little Has Changed Since 2008
By Branko Marcetic Every now and then, a development perfectly embodies everything that’s wrong with an era. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is one such development, the culmination of many years of financial recklessness, corporate entitlement, and corrupted political decision-making. The sixteenth-largest US bank by assets up...
Palestinian Children’s Art Exposes Israel’s Cultural Genocide
By Ramzy Baroud The following text tells the whole story of what pro-Palestinian communities around the world are fighting for, and what pro-Israelis are fighting against: “We are delighted to report that Chelsea and Westminster Hospital has removed a display of artwork designed by children from Gaza.” That was...
Political Opposition Faces Witch-Hunt From Parties In Power
By Nantoo Banerjee The arrest of Delhi’s deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia last month by a federal agency, CBI, for alleged financial corruption connected with the change in the state’s liquor policy, has understandably upset a large section of opposition parties across the country. Last year, Delhi’s health minister...
Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Sends Chills Down Indian Tech Sector
By Anjan Roy A prominent private bank in the United States — the country’s sixteenth largest— has failed and this can have significant impact on the Indian technology industry. Silicon Valley Bank —better known by its acronym SVB— has gone into liquidation. This was one of the 20 largest...
Anti-North Indian Worker Bias Raises Its Ugly Head Again In Tamil Nadu
By K R Sudhaman Whenever joblessness arises, parochial issues like migrant labour raise their ugly head in different parts of the country. Be it the attack on South Indians in Mumbai in the 1960s by the late Bal Thackeray-led Shiv Sainiks, or on UP bhaias and Biharis in 2000s....
Criticizing Union Government In Foreign Soil Won’t Really Hurt Modi
By Sushil Kutty So, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is ‘ek akela sab par bhari’! Does that make him ‘God’? The Creator’? Perhaps, the ‘One’ who makes the Sun rise? The Congress says any such thoughts in the Prime Minister’s head should be squelched, cleansed right away, because Modi is...
Can Kishida Upgrade Abe’s Legacy For A New Era Of Japan-India Ties?
By Subrata Majumder Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s upcoming visit to India, starting March 20, 2023, has been engulfed by controversy, after Japan refused to send its Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi to the G-20 summit held in New Delhi on March 3, 2023 under India’s presidency. His paradoxical googly,...
DA Agitation Puts TMC Government Between A Rock And A Hard Place
By Tirthankar Mitra The Trinamool Congress-run West Bengal government seems to be caught between a rock and a hard place over the ongoing agitation by state government employees demanding dearness allowance at par with their central government counterparts. The month-long hunger strike by agitating state government employees at the...
Rahul Gandhi’s UK Outreach Was An Extension Of Bharat Jodo Yatra
By Arun Srivastava The BJP leadership going bonkers and hurling all kind of insinuation against Rahul Gandhi, even to the extent of implicitly accusing him of working against the interest of India, makes it explicit that the Congress leader has hit the bull’s eye. His mission to use his...
