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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.Andhra Pradesh Slow-Walking To Double-Whammy 2024 Elections
By Sushil Kutty Talk polls and Andhra Pradesh is lacklustre. Telangana hogs all the publicity and sucks dry any left for Andhra Pradesh. Part of the reason is Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y Jagan Mohan Reddy’s glamour quotient. Last Saturday, a flying stone found his forehead and there was...
Samajwadi Party Working Hard To Defeat NDA In Western Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: It is going to a very tough fight between NDA and INDIA bloc candidates in Western Uttar Pradesh also known as jatland in all the eight Lok Sabha seats facing polling in first phase on April 19. It is going to be a testing time...
Netanyahu Has Got Upper Hand After Iran’s Failure To Damage Israel
By Girish Linganna Around midnight on Saturday night, air raid sirens screamed across Israel as Iran launched a major drone and missile attack on the country, sparking fears of a larger conflict in the Middle East. Residents were advised to seek shelter as explosions were heard, even as air...
U.S. And Western Regimes Must Suspend Arms Supply To Israel
By Ben Chacko LONDON: The risk of catastrophic war in the Middle East is real. Western governments, including Britain’s, calling on Israel not to spark such a war have the means to force it to comply and must be made to use them. Israel is to blame for the...
Old ‘Ghoshnas’ Dressed Up In ‘Sankalps’ Is BJP’s 2024 Election Manifesto
By Sushil Kutty If the newspapers had Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman missing from the line-up on stage of BJP leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, displaying the party’s ‘Sankalp Patra’ that shouldn’t be construed as where women might end up in the...
India’s Hurried EV Expansion Plan Is Unsustainable And Lacks Logic
By Nantoo Banerjee At a time when the countries such as the United States, Japan and South Korea are going slow on electric vehicles (EVs) for various reasons, it is difficult to understand why India is going gaga over its utility, substantially raising the EV production and sales targets...
BJP’s Manifesto 2024 Is A Romantic Presentation Of India’s Future
By Dr. Gyan Pathak BJP’s election manifesto for 2024 Lok Sabha polls is presentation of a romantic view of India’s future. It is a camouflage grandiloquence and guarantees given fall short of any specific commitment. It talked about “good governance” and left its meaning to be understood by imagination,...
Congress Is Determined To Take On BJP-JD(S) In Lok Sabha Polls In Karnataka
By Kalyani Shankar The Lok Sabha elections are coming up in Karnataka and will be held in 28 constituencies on April 26 and May 7. The Congress party and the BJP-JD(S) alliance will compete to win voters’ support. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has visited the state multiple times to...
Saffron Design: Use State Police Forces For Electoral Triumph
By Arun Srivastava With the Lok Sabha elections coming closer, RSS and Narendra Modi have started showing their true colours unnerving the voters tasked to elect their destiny-makers. Modi has made his intentions long clear that he would go to any extent to rig and turn the election results...
Persuading Congressmen To Vote For The Left Is A Big Challenge For The India Combine In Bengal
By Tirthankar Mitra It is an open secret but it is talked about in whispers between Left and Congress leaders in West Bengal. It is about mutual transfer of votes between the two INDIA partners when the seven phase elections begin in the state on April 19. For if...
