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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.‘The Banshees Of Inisherin’ Film Has Many Qualities But Weak On History
By Jenny Farrell Oscar nominations of films are not always a final indication of the super quality of a film.. This applies to The Banshees of Inisherinas .wel which has ben nominated for Oscar awards for 2023 to be announced on March 12 at Los Engeles. The film had...
Ambitious K Chandrasekhar Rao Is Now Serious In Building A Third Front
By Kalyani Shankar A Third Front again! Before every Lok Sabha poll, this Third Front idea is floated, and the 2024 polls are no exception. Political pundits predict there is space for the entire Opposition against BJP but not a Third Front, as it will splinter the anti- BJP...
Brazil And Argentina Jointly Move To Develop A Common South American Currency
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Brazilian President Lula, after strongly rebuffing the attempts of the former right wing president Jair Bolsonaro to foment riots to unseat the left wing incumbent, has taken a major step to consolidate the economic cooperation of the left leaning ruling governments of the Latin America....
Narendra Modi’s Muslim Outreach To Get More Seats Is A Pipe Dream
By Sushil Kutty At 72, Prime Minister Narendra Modi thinks Muslims have a better opinion of him in 2023 than in 2014, and in 2019. With that in his political calculation, Modi believes the BJP will win 2024 Lok Sabha polls with 400-plus seats with communal-engineering. This is sheer...
Union Budget 2023-24 Entrapped In Lower Growth Prospect
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Budget 2023-24 has fallen into the trap of lower growth prospect that has been estimated downwardly for the current fiscal 2022-23 ending on March 31, 2023, and also for the financial year 2023-24. Union Finance Ministry is under acute pressure of resource mobilization to...
BJP Is No Match Against Trinamool In Booth Preparedness For Panchayat Polls
By Tirthankar Mitra Even after praise for the BJP functionaries in West Bengal from Prime Minister Narendra Modi together with the party’s national president JP Nadda choosing this state as his first port of call at the beginning of his second term, prospects of the saffron camp in the...
Madhya Pradesh Civic Bodies Poll Results Give A Slight Edge To BJP As Against Congress
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: An analysis of the results of the polls of civic bodies in Madhya Pradesh shows that they cannot be described as victory or defeat either the BJP or Congress. Polls were held for 19 civic bodies in various districts of the state. Out of...
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...
