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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.Global Tech Companies Laying Off In Thousands Despite Big Rise In Earnings
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Tech layoffs have left the employment scene bloodied. So far, Google has officially laid off 12,000 employees, Amazon 18,000, Meta 11,000, Salesforce 8,000, Twitter 4,000, IBM 3,900, SAP 3,000, and Coinbase 2,000. Microsoft is planning to reduce its headcount by at least 10,000 and Google...
Sukesh Chandrasekhar Has A Family History Of Cheating And Criminal Acts
By Harihar Swarup Sukesh Chandrasekhar knows how to make an entrance. With a supporting cast of 12 bodyguards and an expensive car fitted with red bacon, he is a Tamil Nadu politician’s son. He walked into Taj Connemara in Chennai brimming with confidence, only to stop in his tracks...
Economic Survey 2022-23 Too Optimistic With Downside Risks In Economy
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Economic Survey 2022-23 is clearly optimistic on Indian economy with downside risks not getting proper focus in the analysis of the policy makers. Though it has projected India’s GDP growth at 6-6.8 per cent for 2023-24, has also cautioned that even as India’s outlook remains...
Bharat Jodo Yatra Is Over, Now The Real Battle For Challenging BJP Has Begun
By Sushil Kutty It’s over. Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, after 3750 km on the trot, from Kanyakumari to Kashmir in 134 days. News agency Reuters headlined it ‘India’s Gandhi ends 135-day march to revive Congress party in snowy Kashmir’. So, did Gandhi revive the Congress party? Opinion is...
‘Son Stroke’ Singes Congress In Kerala Politics
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: As if the plethora of problems plaguing the Congress in Kerala is not enough, the party has been hit by ‘son stroke’! The man in focus is, Anil Antony, son of veteran Congress leader A K Antony. Anil had to quit as chairman of the...
Samajwadi Party Is Set To Gain With Responsibility Given To Shivpal Yadav
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has shown political maturity by giving key position to his uncle Shivpal Yadav as national vice-president in recently constituted national executive of the party. It would be worth mentioning here that Akhilesh Yadav sorted out his differences with his estranged...
Fasting Himalayan Activist Draws Scorn From Insensitive Modi Government
By K Raveendran Even the British succumbed to the moral pressure of Satyagraha, but that is not the case with the present day Indian rulers, who have responded to a fast by a Magsaysay award winner to attract the attention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the need to...
World Health Organisation Is Worried About Serious Threat From Nuclear Weapons
By Dr Arun Mitra The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently updated the list of medicines and drugs recommended to treat exposure to radiological and nuclear emergencies. Last time it was done in the year 2007. Maria Neira, the director of the WHO’s Department of Public Health and Environment...
All Focus Is Now On Coming Presidential Elections In Nepal On March 9
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Nepal’s politics is chugging along pretty cutely! After Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda”, with 32 members in the House of Representatives of 275 members, took oath as the Prime Minister on December 25, analysts who have been following the politics of the former Himalayan kingdom and...
Hitler’s Coming To Power In 1933 Has Many Lessons For Left After 90 Years
By Paul Scholl January 30, 2023, marks the 90th anniversary of the corporate-facilitated appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of a deeply-divided Germany. There is an alarming lesson in this disastrous development for a deeply-divided America today. Cutting deals with fascists to catapult a voraciously power-hungry politician to high...
Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra Culminates In An Emotional Crescendo
By Annie Domini It was snowing hard in Srinagar, capital of Jammu and Kashmir, when the concluding ceremony of Bharat Jodo Yatra took place on the morning of30 January, 2023. Rahul Gandhi was finally donning a pheran, the traditional Kashmiri coat, as he delivered an emotionally rousing speech, delineating...
Narendra Modi Govt’s Last Full Budget On February 1 May Have Some Surprises
By Kalyani Shankar One of the important businesses in Parliament is the annual budget presentation. This year too, on February 1, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the 2023 budget. Why is a budget important? It gives a bird’s eye view of the government’s fiscal policy and how...
Hindenburg Exposure Underlines Patronage Of Ruling Govt To Adani Group Companies
By Arun Srivastava In one stroke the empire of the world’s third richest till the other day, Gautam Adani, which he had built on the edifice of dishonesty and crony capital has been crashed. The assault has come from the US-based Hindenburg Research which charged the Adanis of being...
India’s Imports Of Components From China Are Finally Coming Down
By Subrata Majumder Chinese official English daily “Global Times” reiterated recently in its column that India’s policy initiative to reduce imports from China would backfire. It said “India needs integration, not protection”. In another argument, given the Apple’s Inc shifting to India, Global Times jeered, “Apple, facing softening demand,...
All India Survey On Higher Education Reveals Many Faultlines
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2020-21 by the Union Ministry of Education does not give a clear picture of the status of higher education in India, one can easily see through behind its hedgy screen the dire consequences that are on our...
Pathaan’s Big Success Is A Big Slap On The Face Of Fringe Elements Of Sangh Parivar
By Sushil Kutty There were calls to ban ‘Pathaan’ if the song ‘Besharam Rang’ wasn’t removed. Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra warned the makers of ‘Pathaan’ action would be taken. People believed him. Those for and against ‘Besharam Rang’. ‘Pathaan’ released and the song sang along in ‘besharam...
Split In Tribal Votes Gives Relief To BJP, CPI(M) And Congress Before Polls In Tripura
By Ashis Biswas In Tripura, with only days left for the Assembly polls, the tribal vote remained set for a split between new entrant Tipra Motha(TM) party and the IPFT(Indigenous Peoples’ Front of Tripura).This followed the failure of a major effort made by TM leader Mr Pradyot Debbarma during...
God Can’t Save Pakistan From Its Present Predicament, Only IMF Can
By K Raveendran ‘Insha Allah’ is a term used extensively by Arabs and Muslims across the world to mean ‘god willing’. But according to Arabic linguists, Insha Allah means ‘only if god willing’. There is a subtle difference between the two usages, the former denoting a lot more optimism...
