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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.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...
