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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.Qatar’s Mediation In Gaza War Threatens To Boomerang On A Possible Resolution
By James M Dorsey Qatari mediation in the Gaza war threatens to become a double-edged sword. Demonstrators gathered this week at Qatari diplomatic missions in Washington, New York, and Ottawa to express frustration with the Gulf state’s failure to achieve an Israeli-Hamas agreement on a second round of prisoner...
Leftwing Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders Is Again Trying To Stop US Aid To Israel
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON: This time Democratic senator Bernie Sanders is pulling no punches. The carnage the Israeli military has inflicted upon civilians in Gaza is so appalling that he wants to cut off all U.S. military aid to Israel—offensive and defensive. And that stand flies directly in the...
Opposition’s Points Raised During Debate On ‘Motion Of Thanks’ Unanswered
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Since the Presidential address in the Parliament is supposed to summarise the government’s achievements and intentions followed by meaningful debate, in which opposition raises points of concern, the Prime Minister is expected to address them during his reply to the ‘Motion of Thanks’. However, in...
CJI Chandrachud’s Observation On Chandigarh Mayoral Polls Exposes BJP
By Sushil Kutty Was the manner in which the Chandigarh mayoral election conducted a symptom or the disease itself, a crooked system at play? The country’s top court has spoken – the previous week’s mayoral poll in the Union Territory was openly tampered with by a seemingly biased Presiding...
Hemant Soren Exposed Modi Design To Pit Non-Adivasis Against Adivasis
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi’s lurid boast on the floor of Parliament that he would be the prime minister for the third time and his party would alone win 370 seats deserves attention. The question is why is he so confident? Are RSS and BJP leaders busy hacking the...
BJP May Substantially Gain In North Bengal If There Is No TMC-Congress Alliance
By Tirthankar Mitra At a time when Trinamool Congress supremo, Mamata Banerjee is announcing her intent of going alone in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, she seems to have overlooked that the company of Congress can help her regain some constituencies in north Bengal. The outfit she founded after...
Urgent Measures Needed To Tackle Widespread Stray Dog Menace In India
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav A 55-year-old teacher, Paresh Doshi, filed an FIR against himself after his wife lost her life in a car crash caused by an attempt to save a stray dog. Paresh Doshi and his wife Amita were returning from the Ambaji Temple in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district...
BJP Initiates Boothwise Intensive Campaign In Madhya Pradesh For Lok Sabha Polls
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Both BJP and Congress have intensified their campaign for the Lok Sabha elections. While the BJP held a series of meetings to formulate strategy for various issues connected with the elections, the Congress has decided to line-up equal mix of youths and veterans for...
Narendra Modi Govt Has Been Spreading Myths In The Last Ten Years
By Dr Arun Mitra No one believed when Copernicus proposed that the Sun was the centre of the solar system and the Earth and other planets revolved around it or when Galileo proposed the principle of the pendulum and the law of falling bodies. They were demonised and persecuted...
Red Sea Crisis Adds To World’s Reliance On India As Rice Supplier
By Girish Linganna Mounting stress in the Red Sea—the direct trade route for ships travelling from Asia to Europe—has hit India’s exports of marine products and also high-quality rice to buyers in the United States, Middle East and Europe as prices have skyrocketed. This very serious bottleneck that has...
Two Years Into The Ukraine War, Europe Has No Clue For Ceasefire
By Harrison Stetler After ratcheting up pressure on Hungary in recent weeks, European leaders have convinced premier Viktor Orbán to stop blocking a crucial extension of aid for Ukraine’s war effort. The deal emerged from a meeting of the European Council in Brussels this Thursday, where European Union (EU)...
Tackling Disinformation Is An Absolute Must To Protect Social Integrity
By Devasis Chattopadhyay In times when technology is constantly redefining reality as we know it, it is often hard to tell what’s real and what isn’t. So why troll Poonam Pandey for using social media to fake her death; popular FM radio channel Fever for faking its closure; and...
Houthi Pirates Bring Global Trade Through Red Sea To A Near Halt
By Nantoo Banerjee It is difficult to believe in the 21st century that some small groups of Yemeni Houthi pirates on the Red Sea can bring a $1-trillion-plus annual global trade using the sea route almost to a halt, forcing shipowners and shippers divert the trade through a several...
Champai Soren’s Convincing Win In Jharkhand Assembly Test Is A Victory For INDIA Bloc
By Kalyani Shankar The convincing victory of the JMM-Congress coalition in Jharkhand assembly on February 5 amidst allegations about BJP’s poaching reports, is a big boost to the INDIA bloc in the present political atmosphere in the country. Chief Minister Champai Soren has now the tough task to run...
Rahul Gandhi’s Yatra Is Getting Good Response Before Lok Sabha Polls
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Despite all sorts of statements against Congress and its leader Rahul Gandhi, the Congress party and the leader has got significant response by people during Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra so far. It makes PM Narendra Modi’s concerns worse, since Congress candidates would be offering closer...
This Hide And Seek Game Between ED And Delhi Chief Minister Has Turned Bizarre
By Sushil Kutty MLAs and MPs are placed such that they can make tonnes of money by shifting allegiance, the money credited to their bank accounts, like nowadays when the focus is on Jharkhand and Bihar MLAs fleeing BJP depredations with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Delhi minister...
Not Out Of Respect: Modi Honoured Advani Taking In View LS Polls
By Arun Srivastava Lal Krishna Advani, the ironman of the BJP whose Ramjanmabhoomi movement turned the construction of Ram Mandir into the basic ideology of the saffron ecosystem, has been honoured with the prestigious gift of the Bharat Ratna. Coming right after the inauguration of the Ram Temple, Prime...
Modi Govt’s Interim Budget Has Some Positives But Ignores Aam Admi Concerns
By Dr. Nilanjan Banik This year’s budget was a ‘vote of account’ which is a provision in the budgetary process that allows the government to obtain the approval of the parliament for essential expenditures for a limited period before the full budget is present. With Mr. Nitish Kumar, joining...
