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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.France’s Left-Wing Coalition Risks Splitting Apart As Strike Actions Mount
By William Boucher For the third time in the last month, on Tuesday hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets of cities around France to voice their opposition to President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age. Ahead of the protests, MPs from left-wing alliance NUPES...
Latin America Is Pointing The Way To A Different And Fairer World
By Roger McKenzie January was a very good month for the left on the international relations front — as long as we don’t miss the opportunity. It saw the continuation of the inspirational people’s protests in Peru against the coup that removed President Pedro Castillo. In spite of a...
Narendra Modi Beats His Own Drum In Lok Sabha Speech Without Touching Adani
By Arun Srivastava While the 140 crores Indians, even those spread across the world, were impatiently awaiting a resilient rebuttal from their prime minister Narendra Modi to the allegations levelled by the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi against him of patronising and promoting corporate giant Gautam Adani, who allegedly indulged ...
Prime Minister’s Refusal To Probe The Fraud In Adani Group Smacks Of An Unholy Alliance
By Krishna Jha Prime Minister Narendra Modi has blocked the demand raised by the Opposition in the Parliament for an enquiry to be monitored by the Supreme Court or to set up Joint Parliamentary Committee to investigate the Adani group’s manipulations of the stock market and fraud and into...
BJP Is Derailing Democracy In Delhi Hurting Federalism
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The result of the election for Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) held on December 4, was declared on December 7, 2022. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had won 134 seats in a house of 250. The BJP that had been ruling the MCD for the last...
Modi Govt’s 2023-24 Budget Proposals Have No Clue To Dealing With Job Crisis
By Subodh Verma The union budget for 2023-24 has unveiled a big assault on lives and livelihoods of the people. Spending on schemes and programmes that provide direct economic benefit to people has been slashed across the board. But even bigger and more alarming are the sins of omission....
The Threat Of Corona Virus Is Still Not Over, Precautions Are Needed
By Sushil Kutty It speaks a lot that human beings are by their very nature courageous. True, but also true is the fact that human beings are foolhardy and brave. Like, how many of us continue to wear the mask, which in the heyday of Covid-19 kept the novel...
Where Does Indian CBDC’s 50K-User Milestone Fit In Global Innovations?
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced that the retail e-rupee has accomplished the first milestone set for it – 50,000 users. Launched on December 1, 2022, the e-rupee is India’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) pilot which was launched within a closed group...
Battle To Control Microchip Supplies Will Define Twenty-First Century
By Ben Wray If energy resources are the heart of global capitalism, pumping fuel around its body to keep it accumulating, its brain is made up of trillions of semiconductors. Cars, bombs, phones, refrigerators, even energy systems — today, they all rely on the computer processing power of chips....
India’s Crony Capitalism Thriving With Tacit Support Of State Power
By Arun Srivastava It is for the first time in the history of the RSS, the proponent of politics and philosophy of Hindutva, that it has come out in the favour of a capitalist. The reason is simple: to protect the interest of its political front, the BJP, and...
Can BJP Afford To Depend On Hindutva Campaign For Assembly Elections?
By Sushil Kutty ‘Hindu-versus-Hindutva’, and the ‘casteism’ that plagues Hindu society are the issues for the 2023 9-states’ assembly elections, as well as for the 2024 general elections. Ask people from Kanyakumari to Kashmir and they will agree. Especially after the Bharat Jodo Yatra of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi....
Survey Finds Iran To Be Ripest Country In Middle East For A Revolution
By James M Dorsey A recent survey of Iranian public opinion suggests that the lack of confidence in a Middle Eastern regime is starkest in Iran, although crisis-wracked Lebanon, Egypt, or Syria may compete. Surveyed in late December by the Netherlands-based Gamaan Institute, an overwhelming majority of the 158,000...
Reversal Of Fortunes For Steel Industry As Price Increase Picks Up Momentum
By K Raveendran Further hikes in steel prices are in the offing as upside risks in the global markets have strengthened in recent weeks. Faced with a decline in global production, manufacturers across the world are raising their prices. Indian steel mills have already effected a 3-5 percent increase...
BJP Leadership Playing Dubious Role In Dealing With Separate State In Bengal
By Tirthankar Mitra Doublespeak is now a part and parcel of politics. Though it has come to stay it is yet find the nod of the common man whose vote brings about regime change. But it turned up like a bad penny in the shape of carving out more...
Budget 2023-24 Proposals Fail To Give A Boost Manufacturing Sector
By Subrata Majumder India’s fiscal budget is not merely a statement of account, but also a short term economic policy. Media hailed, domestic investors were exhilarated with greater tax exemptions to middle income groups and bagful fiscal gifts to agriculture sector. Both are the major contributors to vote bank....
Nationalist Education To Tibetan Children Upsets Rights Experts
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Children too have basic human rights, but their violation in the name of educating them for their bright future is commonplace. Sufferings of the children are worse if they happen to be from minority community, and worst if they are subjected to the Oso called...
At 90, Apollo Hospital Group Founder Dr. Pratap Reddy Is Still Dreaming
By Harihar Swarup Forty years ago, when India was still a closed economy, Dr Pratap Reddy set up country’s first private corporate hospital on Greams Road, Chennai in 1983. It was a gleaming, multi-specialty space built for comfort and state-of-the-art health care— very different from the functional trust –...
After Yatra’s Success, Rahul Gandhi’s Main Task Should Be To Energise The Congress
By Kalyani Shankar How does one assess the impact of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s just completed Bharat Jodo yatra? Has he achieved his goal vis-a-vis himself, his party and the Opposition? The answer is yes; he has partially succeeded in his image makeover. But about the Party and the...
