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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.Eminent Academics Decry Centre’s Attempt To Saffronise History Text Books
By Sulagna Som Historians Ranabir Chakraborty and Aditya Mukherjee slammed the New Educational Policy of the present government at the Centre at the 81st session of the Indian History Congress, held at the Madras Christian College, Chennai, between 27 and 29 December 2022. They blasted the on-going saffronisation of...
Saudis Milking Ronaldo Move To Kingdom To The Hilt
By James M Dorsey Saudi Arabia isn’t wasting time to milk for what it’s worth soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo’s move to the kingdom. Neither are others in the Gulf eager to join the bandwagon. Playing for nine-time Saudi league champion Al Nassr FC for US$211 million over 2.5 years,...
Centre Is Making Use Of LG Of Delhi To Help BJP Get Control Of MCD
By Sushil Kutty The Lt. Governor, Delhi, VK Saxena, acts as if he’s a power unto himself. But everybody knows his loyalty to the Union Ministry of Home is absolute. The Delhi Government is at the mercy of frequent interventions, call them interferences. And if Delhi is suffering, it...
In Tripura, All National Parties Vying With Each Other To Woo Tipra Motha
By Ashis Biswas In Tripura, the main contending formations in the coming Assembly elections have stepped up efforts to secure an alliance with the pace-setting tribal Tipra Motha (TM) party. So far, the TM has maintained an equidistance from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)/IPFT alliance and the Left...
Gold Appears To Be Non-Stoppable In Its March Towards A Historical High
By K Raveendran 2023 may well be a year of gold. This is because despite several negatives the yellow metal has outperformed everything else. And with the New Year expected to unravel all that traditionally has worked in favour of gold, this asset class appears to be non-stoppable right...
India Can Do A Lot For Higher Production In International Year Of Millets
By Harihar Swarup The United Nation has declared 2023 as the International Year of Millets. Since that was at the initiative of India, which also accounts for a fifth of the world’s millets production, Narendra Modi government would be expected to do something different this year to promote these...
Informal Employment Sans Social Security On The Rise In India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The first week of 2023 has brought the signs of the beginning of even higher level of unemployment in India at 8.4 per cent than 8.3 per cent in December 2022 which was 15 months high. It is indeed a bad news, but not so...
India’s North East Gets A Big Infra Push With 57 Km Railway Line To Bhutan
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav India’s North-East has seen several major infrastructure projects in the past few years. The latest is a 57 km broad gauge railway line between India’s Kokrajhar and Bhutan’s Gelephu, for which the work is going to start this year. This would be Bhutan’s first...
Turkey Walks A Fine Line To Challenge China On Uighur Repression
By James M Dorsey An official visit to Xinjiang to assess the fate of Turkic Muslims in the troubled north-western Chinese Province is a risky proposition by any definition. Even so, it would be worth the risk if China and Turkey could agree on the terms of a visit....
India’s Balance Of Payments Crisis Touches Precarious Level Under Modi Regime
By Prabhat Patnaik India’s current account deficit for the second quarter (July-September) of 2022-23 has reached a massive $36.4 billion which is 4.4 per cent of the gross domestic product, higher than at any time in the last nine years. It is only in October-December 2012 that the absolute...
South Asian Economy Needs To Prepare For The Worst
By Dr. Gyan Pathak South Asia still needs to prepare for the worst since there are increasing signs of geo-economic fragmentations. Expenditure needs to meet the Sustainable Development Goals; equity needs to be improved through labour market and social protection reforms as well as gender policies, appropriate measures needed...
Amit Shah Offers Ram Mandir As Against Rahul’s Slogan For Jobs And End Of Hatred
By Sushil Kutty Union Home Minister Amit Shah has spoken. And the timing is telling, just in time for a clutch of assembly elections in 2023, and the big one in 2024. Shah announced that a grand Ram temple will be inaugurated in Ayodhya on January 1, 2024. That...
Prime Minister Is Likely To Do Major Cabinet Rejig After January 14
By Rahil Nora Chopra There is a chance of a massive rejig in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Cabinet after January 14, when the ongoing Kharmas period, which is believed and considered to be inauspicious as per the Hindu calendar concludes . According to sources, Prime Minister Narendra Modi may...
India Should Use Vector Nasal Vaccine To Meet Any Fresh Covid Challenge
By Prabir Purkayastha The news of the opening up of China from the Covid-19 protocols and its current epidemic has overtaken the threat of two emerging SARSCoV-2 lineages – XBB and BQ.1. China is seeing the spread of BF.7, which is much closer to the original Omicron strain. Our...
Former BJP Govt Of Jharkhand Is Responsible For Jain Pilgrim Spot Controversy
By Arun Srivastava Any political party which has acquired incisive skill and expertise in double standard and speak, blowing hot and cold at the same time, is none else but the BJP of Narendra Modi. There is serious lack of consistency in its stance and utterances. In the past...
Justice Abdul Nazeer Has Left A Rich Legacy In His Nearly Six Years In Supreme Court
By Tushar Kohli On January 3, Justice S. Abdul Nazeer retired as the third senior-most judge of the Supreme Court and a member of the Supreme Court Collegium, after a tenure of nearly six years at the Supreme Court. He was a part of the Constitution bench which declared...
India’s Oil Purchases From Russia Will Increase Substantially In 2023
By Subrata Majumder Concerns have been looming large on the sanctions on Russian oil, which is heading for another major oil shock in the world. Russia is the second biggest exporter of oil in the world. EU is the biggest importer of oil from Russia. EU has prohibited maritime...
Under PM Narendra Modi, India Resiles Itself From Palestinian Cause
By Prakash Karat India abstained on a resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 31, 2022 that asked International Court of Justice (ICJ) to render its opinion on the legal consequences of Israel’s prolonged occupation of Palestinian territories. The resolution was passed with 87 countries supporting...
