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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.Tripura BJP Is Panicky At The Resurgence Of The New Tribals Party Before Polls
By Ashis Biswas In Tripura, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP), eager to consolidate its traditional Bengali Hindu support base, revved up its pre-poll campaign by launching two major Rathyatras from Sabroom and Dharmanagar areas of Agartala. Union Home Minister Mr Amit Shah, who specially flew in for the programme,...
No Option But To Increase Public Investment By The Centre
By Dr. Gyan Pathak It would be pleasing to hear that India is set to be the second-fastest growing economy in the G20 in 2022-23, despite decelerating global demand and tightening of monetary policy to manage inflationary pressures, but the harsh reality on the ground can’t be wished away....
2023 Doesn’t Look Too Bright For British PM Rishi Sunak
By Arun Srivastava The more Rishi Sunak uses his administrative and economic skills to convince his own restive Tory lawmakers about his intentions and efforts to rein in the inflation tiger, the more lawmakers loyal to Boris Johnson, as well as a section of the backbenchers, become aggressive critics...
Black Money Continues To Pour Into Real Estate Despite Demonetisation ‘Success’
By K Raveendran The government has been shifting the goal posts of demonetization from black money elimination to greater tax realization and finally digitization to suit its arguments from time to time for justifying the mindless decision, whose parentage is being disowned by every party involved. Prime Minister Narendra...
More Entrepreneurs But Fewer Jobs Exposing Job Market Distortion
By Dr. Gyan Pathak There were 1.3 crore more entrepreneurs in India in 2022 compared to 2018, but there were 1.4 crore people less in employment – 45 lakh fewer men and 96 lakh fewer women – in October 2022 compared to January 2020. Younger unemployed persons are the...
BJP Is Going All Out To Retain Karnataka In The Coming Assembly Polls
By Sushil Kutty Will the Bharatiya Janata Party ever get more than a foothold in states south other than in Karnataka? The number of times the BJP has undertaken serious forays down south has been equalled only by the number of times the Congress has launched Rahul Gandhi in...
Naveen Patnaik Leading BJD To Assembly Polls In 2024 For The Sixth Time
By Harihar Swarup Seeking to galvanize his party’s cadre ahead of the 2024 Assembly and Lok Sabha polls, Biju Janata Dal President and five-term Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has said the BJD has the potential to serve the people of Odisha for next 100 years. Naveen, 76, thus sent...
Why Anti-Taliban Resistance Should Be Supported For World Peace
By Manish Rai Recently the Taliban ordered an indefinite ban on university education for women, the ministry of higher education said in a letter issued to all government and private universities. Before this drastic decision last year, the Ministry of Women’s Affairs was dissolved and the sinister Ministry...
Mexican President AMLO’s Four Years In Power Have Brought Big Changes
By Kurt Hackbarth The Mexican people have just celebrated with big enthusiasm four years in power of the leftwing president Luis Obrador better known as AMLO. His strong leadership, pro-people programmes and policies to protect the interests of the common American masses have been widely appreciated. He is considered...
Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra Has Presented A More Mature Persona Of Him As A Leader
By Kalyani Shankar Congress would like to rebrand Rahul Gandhi as a young, caring, and ideological leader before the 2024 polls. Has Rahul shown a new image after the Bharat Jodo yatra, completed over 100 days as intended? For the first time after many years, the grand old party...
India Wakes Up To Challenges Posed By Spreading Online Gambling
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The central government released draft regulations for the online gaming and gambling sector on January 2. Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said the government has begun consultations to frame detailed guidelines and regulations for India’s nascent gaming sector, which has...
Coal Production And Consumption To Make Higher Records In 2023
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Pledges made by countries in all climate crises summits are really angelic, but what is done is clear dichotomy and hypocrisy, which the world will see in full play in 2023 with rise in production and consumption of coal, the dirtiest of the three fossil...
RSS Moving Fast To Establish Its Domination Of Tribals Before 2024
By Arun Srivastava With the RSS hastening up the process of fattening its Hindu rank by inducting the tribals, the alarm bell for complete dissipation of their identity has started ringing for the adivasis and they are ready to assert their independent distinctiveness by confronting the RSS pracharaks. Discontent...
There Is More Than Football To Ronaldo’s Move To Saudi Club
By James M Dorsey One-upmanship in Middle Eastern sports just wretched up a notch as superstar Cristiano Ronaldo joins state-owned Saudi football club Al Nassr FC for reportedly a whopping US$241 million over 2.5 years. Ronaldo’s transfer, involving the biggest football salary in history, beats Qatar-owned Paris St. Germain’s...
Working-Class Activism Was The Highlight Of U.S. Politics In 2022
By Mark Gruenberg There for all to see was the determination of an independent grass-roots union, the Amazon Labour Union, to confront one of the nation’s three richest men, Jeff Bezos, and his monster goliath, Amazon, over wages and working conditions. They bested Bezos and won the union...
SC’s Demonetisation Verdict Fails To Consider Human Cost Of Ill-Fated Decision
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court has by a 4-1 majority ruled that the demonetisation decision by the Modi government was technically valid, but apart from the concerns raised in the dissenting voice recorded by Justice Nagarathna, the verdict has failed to acknowledge the huge human cost of...
Free Food Supply To India’s Poor Won’t Help Eradicate Poverty
By Nantoo Banerjee It is a pity that the government could not think of a better “new year gift for the country’s poor” than continuing to feed 81.35 crore Indians with free food grains for another year till December 31, 2023, under a 10-year-old National Food Security Act (NFSA),...
2023 Starts With Lula’s Presidency In Brazil Amidst Big Regional Uncertainties
By Satyaki Chakraborty Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took office SundayJanuary1for a third term as Brazil’s president, in a ceremony marked by the absence of his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro and violent demonstrations by far right supporters in different parts of the country. The 77-year-old ex-metalworker, who previously led...
