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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.France’s Left-Wing Coalition Risks Splitting Apart As Strike Actions Mount
By William Boucher For the third time in the last month, on Tuesday hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets of cities around France to voice their opposition to President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age. Ahead of the protests, MPs from left-wing alliance NUPES...
Latin America Is Pointing The Way To A Different And Fairer World
By Roger McKenzie January was a very good month for the left on the international relations front — as long as we don’t miss the opportunity. It saw the continuation of the inspirational people’s protests in Peru against the coup that removed President Pedro Castillo. In spite of a...
Narendra Modi Beats His Own Drum In Lok Sabha Speech Without Touching Adani
By Arun Srivastava While the 140 crores Indians, even those spread across the world, were impatiently awaiting a resilient rebuttal from their prime minister Narendra Modi to the allegations levelled by the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi against him of patronising and promoting corporate giant Gautam Adani, who allegedly indulged ...
Prime Minister’s Refusal To Probe The Fraud In Adani Group Smacks Of An Unholy Alliance
By Krishna Jha Prime Minister Narendra Modi has blocked the demand raised by the Opposition in the Parliament for an enquiry to be monitored by the Supreme Court or to set up Joint Parliamentary Committee to investigate the Adani group’s manipulations of the stock market and fraud and into...
BJP Is Derailing Democracy In Delhi Hurting Federalism
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The result of the election for Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) held on December 4, was declared on December 7, 2022. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had won 134 seats in a house of 250. The BJP that had been ruling the MCD for the last...
Modi Govt’s 2023-24 Budget Proposals Have No Clue To Dealing With Job Crisis
By Subodh Verma The union budget for 2023-24 has unveiled a big assault on lives and livelihoods of the people. Spending on schemes and programmes that provide direct economic benefit to people has been slashed across the board. But even bigger and more alarming are the sins of omission....
The Threat Of Corona Virus Is Still Not Over, Precautions Are Needed
By Sushil Kutty It speaks a lot that human beings are by their very nature courageous. True, but also true is the fact that human beings are foolhardy and brave. Like, how many of us continue to wear the mask, which in the heyday of Covid-19 kept the novel...
Where Does Indian CBDC’s 50K-User Milestone Fit In Global Innovations?
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced that the retail e-rupee has accomplished the first milestone set for it – 50,000 users. Launched on December 1, 2022, the e-rupee is India’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) pilot which was launched within a closed group...
Battle To Control Microchip Supplies Will Define Twenty-First Century
By Ben Wray If energy resources are the heart of global capitalism, pumping fuel around its body to keep it accumulating, its brain is made up of trillions of semiconductors. Cars, bombs, phones, refrigerators, even energy systems — today, they all rely on the computer processing power of chips....
India’s Crony Capitalism Thriving With Tacit Support Of State Power
By Arun Srivastava It is for the first time in the history of the RSS, the proponent of politics and philosophy of Hindutva, that it has come out in the favour of a capitalist. The reason is simple: to protect the interest of its political front, the BJP, and...
