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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.Income Tax Searches Into BBC Offices In India Is A Panicky Reaction By Centre
By Sushil Kutty It has started. The Empire has struck back, the undeclared emergency is out in the open. Teams of Income Tax officials landed in BBC’s offices in Delhi and Mumbai on Valentine’s Day to conduct what it called ‘surveys’, and not ‘raids’. The “surveys” were on at...
G20 Presidency For India Caught Between Pride And Humiliation
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his pride and magnanimous words when the country took the responsibility of G20 in the beginning of December 2022, and now UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said with great poignancy to turn “words into action” to get the world...
Congress Is The Weakest Link In Left-Led Opposition Alliance In Tripura Polls
By Ashis Biswas In Tripura, with only 48 hours before the scheduled Assembly polls on February 16, the state Congress unit has been left to fend for itself by the party high command in carrying out its pre poll campaign. Despite earlier assurances by local Congress leaders, neither Mr...
Demolition Politics By Centre At Tughlakabad And Mehrauli Sends Ominous Signal
By Gursimran Kaur Bakshi As south Delhi’s Mehrauli Archaeological Park gets a makeover ahead of the G-20 Summit in Delhi in September, a massive anti-encroachment drive by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) took place in the Ladha Sarai village of Mehrauli on February 10. The demolition drive was carried...
U.S. Economic Sanctions Aggravate Earthquake Response In Syria
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Suffering in Syria and Turkey caused by a strong earthquake on Feb. 6 has elicited an immense worldwide humanitarian response. The toll as of press time for this article was 36,000 people dead, with the number of recorded deaths steadily rising as rubble from...
Debt-Heavy Adani Group May Take Time To Overcome That Sinking Feeling
By Nantoo Banerjee With government banks and financial institutions involved in massive funding in the lately stock-crashed Adani group enterprises, legislators from India’s main opposition parties are understandably concerned. Last week, even the Supreme court sought to know from the government and market regulator the steps needed to improve...
MGNREGA Budget Cut Is Being Protested Across India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Ever since the Union Budget 2023-24 was tabled in the Parliament of India, MGNREGA workers across the country has been protesting against substantial budget cut for the second year reducing the earlier employment guarantee making the rural workforce restive. The reduction in budget allocation would...
CPI(ML) Liberation Calls For Broadest Unity Of Democratic Forces To Fight RSS-BJP
By Arun Srivastava With India facing a diabolical threat from the rightwing RSS and BJP, the immediate and most urgent task for the revolutionary communists is to save the country from this flurry of fascist disaster and destruction and to accomplish this it is imperative that all democratic forces...
BJP Leadership Desperate To Retain Power In Tripura Again At All Costs
By Ashis Biswas Pre-poll campaigning has reached its peak in Tripura, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi visiting twice during the last three days for addressing election meetings in the state and the Home Minister Amit Shah holding road shows and meetings on February 6 and 7 and again on...
BJP President JP Nadda’s Bengal Visit Before Panchayat Polls Is A Big Flop
By Tirthankar Mitra Beset by defection and dissension, West Bengal unit of BJP seems to be like a part of retreating army trudging along wearily. Recent tour of party president JP Nadda to the state aimed to be a pep up pill before the yet to be announced panchayat...
