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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.A Roadmap For Human Rights And Other Activists Beyond Qatar World Cup
By James M Dorsey Qatar 2022 put the myth of a separation of sports and politics to bed. Like in Qatar, human, worker, and LGBT rights are likely to be left, right, and centre as other Gulf and North African states move centre stage as hosts of and bidders...
2023 Is The Year Of Rahul Gandhi To Prove His Mettle Through Nine State Polls
By Kalyani Shankar What is in store for the year 2023? Will it be good or bad? For the past three years, the world has faced an unprecedented pandemic – Covid – which has devastated the globe. Crystal ball gazers are hoping for a better scenario next year. They...
Universal Health Care Coverage By 2022 Failed In India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Universal health coverage (UHC) by 2022 has miserably failed in India. The year that is closing to an end, rather brought a costlier healthcare with price hike of even essential medicines, equipment and services. Deterioration of public healthcare system continued, and the country moved further...
Will BJP’s Election Juggernaut Get A Hit By Bearded Rahul Gandhi In 2023?
By Sushil Kutty The Bharatiya Janata Party, the election winning machine, is closing the year a little rough for the wear, despite the resounding win in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home-state Gujarat, where fellow Gujarati, Home Minister Amit Shah, contributed his two bit with a threat and a promise,...
Supreme Court Must See To It That Bhima Koregaon Case Accused Are Released
By Arun Srivastava The day Union Home Ministry took away the investigation in the Bhima Koregaon case from the Maharashtra police and handed over to the National Investigation Agency (NIA,) it became explicit that the home minister has some ominous designs. This was not simply an endeavour to unearth...
Supreme Court Faces An Existential Crisis As The Govt Confronts
By Indira Jaising It is customary for all publications to review developments at this year-end festive season as we have been doing. However, there is nothing to celebrate as sadly, the most depressing event occurred in December and so, we must begin the year backward. A Supreme Court bench...
Russian And U.S. Diplomats Are Confronting Each Other In Bangladesh
By Ashis Biswas Once more, Russia and the United States of America are embroiled in a sharp diplomatic face-off over recent developments in Bangladesh, as the country braces up for its bitterest general elections in January 2024. An unorthodox war of words has broken out between Russian and American...
Indian Navy Needs Big Expansion To Take On China In Indo-Pacific Region
By Nantoo Banerjee The capital budget for Indian Navy needs a rapid escalation in the coming years for its fleet expansion and modernisation to become a strong force to deter the growing threats from the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), the world’s largest naval power in size, in the...
Congress Has Finally Got A Real Ideologue In Rahul Gandhi
By Arun Srivastava In India, the political graph, image and charisma of a politician shoots up only when he continues to win elections. Electoral victory is the precondition for being a charismatic and popular leader. Winnability quotient defines the stature of the political leader. In contemporary Indian politics, the...
Hunger In India Remained A Major Concern In 2022
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Hunger in India remained a major concern throughout 2022 due to slow recovery from the economic downturn after the two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. True, as PM Narendra Modi drumming up, India became the fifth largest economy of the world, but his jubilation conceals...
Prachanda’s Negotiation Power Makes Him Nepal Prime Minister
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Nepal’s most prominent global face, Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has become the new Prime Minister of the former Himalayan kingdom. In a swift political development on Sunday, he broke away from the ruling alliance led by the Nepali Congress and joined hands with the rival...
China Is Discriminatory In Treating South Asian Nations On Loan Repayments Issue
By Ashis Biswas Nepal has been taking so far a hard look at an impressive range of connectivity projects in the High Himalayas promised by its richer, powerful northern neighbour China, as part of its global Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) programme Nepal’s new found caution about accepting major...
India’s China Policy Has Remained Too Ad Hoc All Through The Year 2022
By Sushil Kutty India’s foreign policy is baked in the red hot sun beating down on the Great Gangetic Plains and can be encapsulated in “India will bend over backwards” to give the impression it never quarrels with other countries. Not with United States. Not with Russia. Not even...
Grinding India: Bilawal Is Certainly Partisan But The Issues Are Worrying Other Nations Too
By Amitabha Sen Blitzkrieging India and accosting Prime Minister Narendra Modi by the Pakistani n Foreign Affairs Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari son of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, with foul and churlish words has produced anger, and chain reaction thereafter. His counterpart Dr S. Jaishankar back-volleyed by smearing attack...
West Bengal Congress Badly Needs Left Cooperation To Make State Yatra A Success
By Tirthankar Mitra Come Wednesday, Congress leaders in West Bengal will step out on a march of Bharat Jodo Yatra whose success hinges on the participation of Left party activists in it. The fact stares the state Congress leadership in the face that the numbers lie with the Left,...
Narendra Modi Blew The Whistle For Lok Sabha Poll With G20 Presidency
By Harihar Swarup Nine assembly elections will take place between February and December 2023 stretching from Telangana to Tripura. Collectively these polls will be the last chance for opposition to test the mettle of the incumbent BJP before the May 2024 general elections. Any realistic assessment of the next...
2022 That Began On Optimistic Note Ends With Ominous Signal Due To New Covid
By K Raveendran India’s 2022 began with hopes of a rebound from covid-induced downturn, which materialized to a large extent as the year progressed, but is winding down to a close with dark clouds beginning to appear on the horizon over threats of a return to the pandemic environment....
Global Economy Hit By Ukraine War In 2022 Is Entering Another Uncertain Phase In 2023
By Anjan Roy If any one thing defines 2022 it is Russia’s Ukraine war. Coming close on the heels of the covid pandemic, unleashed by China’s callus and lackadaisical handling of the initial outbreak, world’s woes are brimming over. Bad luck would not come alone, in the very closing...
