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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.Elon Musk’s Sci-Fi Futurism Is Just Plutocracy With Space Travel
By Daniel Goulden In 2015, the blog Wait But Why began publishing a series on Elon Musk and his various exploits. More hagiography than examination, writer Tim Urban’s witty blog posts portrayed Musk as a visionary genius deeply concerned with the future of humanity and adept at tapping technological...
Union Budget 2023-24 Should Focus On Jobs
By Nantoo Banerjee The best thing the Narendra Modi government’s last full budget before the next Lok Sabha election can do is to focus primarily on job creation and provide attractive incentives to large industrial investments to help push quality employment. The government has done reasonably well in the...
Damning BBC Documentary Brings Back PM Modi’s Airbrushed Past
By Sushil Kutty How is it that the United States President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DoJ) can search Biden’s private residence and confiscate classified documents, and start an investigation? Ditto for the United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who gets hauled up by a British ‘Bobby’ for not...
Tipra Motha’s Rigid Stand On Separate State Halts Alliance Talks With BJP
By Ashis Biswas With only a few days left for the Tripura Assembly polls, major parties have continued their efforts to work out pre-poll alliances. So far, only the CPI(M) and Congress are in the process of finalising a joint pre-poll campaign , having agreed to contest the elections...
Law Minister Rijiju Is Fighting RSS Battle Against Independent Judiciary
By Arun Srivastava The compulsion to protect the image and personal interest of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is so domineering that his ministerial colleagues can go to the extent of retreating from their avowed ideological line and embrace their sworn enemies. The Law minister Kiren Rijiju who till a...
Samajwadi Party And BJP Prepare For Crucial Fight For Mission 2024
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Inspired by the tremendous response to Bharat Jodo Yatra of Rahul Gandhi, Samajwadi Party national President Akhilesh Yadav is planning to mobilise public opinion in Uttar Pradesh for his Mission 2024. Akhilesh Yadav is now in an aggressive mood to take on BJP which was...
G20 Countries Have Differing Healthcare Problems Needing Varied Approaches
By Dr Arun Mitra With gross differences in the health needs of the G20 countries it is to be seen how India gets its and other developing countries’ concerns addressed as priority in the G20 health agenda The first health working group meeting under India’s G-20 presidency was held...
Public Health Must Be A Priority In Union Budget 2023-24
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The past three years under the shadow of COVID-19 has indisputably exposed the weakness of healthcare sector that resulted in great loss of lives and livelihood, but it is still waiting to be treated as priority sector by the Narendra Modi Government. India’s public health...
Kerala BJP Putting A Premium On Inefficiency
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has signalled its intent to put up a better show in Kerala the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. But the strategy it has formulated to achieve the goal is flawed in the extreme. The main reason why the strategy would come...
Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal Turns 25 Years This Week
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav This week, the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal turns 25. The 24-year-old White House intern who came from an affluent family in California found out President Bill Clinton claiming he did not have sexual relations with “this lady, Monica Lewinsky” in a televised White House press...
Yatra Has Catapulted Rahul Gandhi To National Stage But What About The Congress Party?
By Harihar Swarup The Bharat Jodo Yatra will culminate on January 30 in Srinagar with a flag hoisting ceremony at Srinagar on the anniversary of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. By then, the yatra which began on September 7, 2022 would have traversed the length of the sub-continent from...
BJP Talking With Tipra In Tripura For Alliance, But Many Problems Remain
By Ashis Biswas As pre-poll campaigning heats up for the coming Assembly polls in Tripura and Meghalaya, people of Nagaland are somewhat disappointed that the greater ’political solution ‘ for the state remains unsettled. State-based regional parties as well as local Congress leaders acknowledge that their participation in the...
Indian Imports Help Russia Ride Out EU-Enforced Price Cap On Crude Exports
By K Raveendran Thanks to more crude imports by India, Russia has managed to beat the European Union embargo and the G-7 price cap on the Russian crude. In fact, there has been a strong increase in Russian seaborne crude exports, mainly from ports in the country’s west, according...
Granting PIB Sole Right To Fact Check Is Aimed To Make News Only Promotional
By Sushil Kutty The Modi government wants a stranglehold on the media. Period. Be it regular media outlets or citizen journalism on social media. The government does not want bad press. It does not tolerate criticism of “government policies, programmes, initiatives and achievements”. It will do anything to avoid...
Moderate Muslims Take To A Risky Strategy To Engage With Militant RSS
By James M Dorsey Moderate Muslims and militant Hindu nationalists are strange bedfellows at the best of times, particularly when they come together to reshape Hindu-Muslim relations in troubled India. Yet, that is what Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama and India’s Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) seek to achieve. Nahdlatul Ulama, arguably...
Union Budget 2023-24 Must Provide Relief To Workforce
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Budget 2023-24 has a greater responsibility of protecting India’s workforce at a time when they are at high risk of being forced into accepting lower quality jobs, as warned by ILO’s World Employment and Social Outlook (WESO) Trend 2023, large scale job cuts is...
Indian Foreign Minister Sticks To Economic Agenda On His Sri Lanka Visit
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar was on a two-day visit to Sri Lanka on January 19-20. It follows a letter by India to the IMF that it supports Sri Lanka’s efforts to restructure bilateral debt. The multilateral financial institution has offered a $2.9 billion bailout...
RSS Planning Big Organisational Changes In Bengal To Help BJP Before 2024 Polls
By Arun Srivastava Winning the battle of Bengal will open the wide vista for the RSS to have its political hegemony on the entire eastern and north eastern states. Though the RSS has succeeded in having a deep penetration in the north east, by exploiting the internal conflicts amongst...
