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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.Shortlisting Of Gujarati Film ’Chhello Show’ For Oscar Is A Great News For India
By Satyaki Chakraborty At long last, there is a big news for India’s film industry from the US Academy which organizes the Oscar awards. Director p Nalin’s Gujarati film ‘Chhello Show’ has been shortlisted for Oscar nomination in the international feature film category. Apart, Rajamouli’s RRR’s track ‘Naatu Naatu’...
Workforce World Over To Face Great Hardship In 2023
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Workforce world over would face greater hardship in 2023. IMF has already sounded alarm over the grim global situation in their latest World Economic Outlook. More than a third of the global economy is expected to slip into recession in 2023, while the three large...
BJP Is Worried At Likely Impact Of Rahul’s Yatra In Haryana, Kashmir
By Arun Srivastava Having failed in its design to malign and create hurdles in the path of Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, Narendra Modi has finally resorted to the strategy of hitting below the belt. As an obedient colleague, the Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya conveyed the directives of Modi...
G20 Under India’s Presidency May See Little Change In Its Policy And Programmes
By Krishna Jha The first meeting of Development Working Group under India’s G20 presidency has taken place in Mumbai. Members, guest countries and international organizations attended the conference from December 13 to 16, 2022, held at Jio World Centre in Bandra-Kurla complex. Eleven municipal wards that were to be...
Bangladesh-U.S. Diplomatic Relations Worsen Over Ambassador’s Visit
By Ashis Biswas As the year comes to an end, relations between Bangladesh and the USA remain as frosty as ever. Yet another diplomatic spat of sorts occurred a few days ago, over the US Ambassador’s intriguing visit to the Dhaka residence of a ‘disappeared’ opposition leader. The ruling...
After A Disappointing Season Gold Trade Hopes For Better Luck Next Year
By K Raveendran A relatively disappointing year-end and a possible less dramatic interplay between inflation and central bank intervention globally have India’s domestic gold trade keeping its fingers crossed over what could happen in 2023. November-December months have been less than reassuring for the domestic trade, with soft retail...
China’s New Covid-19 Outbreak Threatens The Rest Of The World
By Dr. Gyan Pathak China’s new COVID-19 outbreak threatens the rest of the world. Mathematical models predict one million or more deaths by early 2023, within 90 days from now. Epidemiologists estimate 60 per cent of the population of China and 10 per cent of the world are likely...
Why Union Health Minister Issuing Ultimatum To Rahul Gandhi To Suspend Yatra?
By Sushil Kutty Reports have been doing the rounds that Rahul Gandhi was planning a short break from the Bharat Jodo Yatra to mark Christmas. BJP spokespersons have been asking with sly grins what if Rahul Gandhi took a Christmas break and went to Bangkok? This, even as the...
Bengal CPI(M) Is In A Bind As Rural Cadres Increasingly Work With BJP Against Trinamool
By Tirthankar Mitra West Bengal CPI(M) is in a bind following a considerable section of its rank and file cosying up to their BJP counterparts. The reason is neither an ideological meltdown or desertion for fished or loaves but a desire for survival in the face of apparently overwhelming...
Komera Anka Rao Is Consistently Clearing Wastes Of The Forests To Keep It Clean
By Harihar Swarup Komera Anka Rao will never have a scarecrow on his one-acre farm at Karempudi village in Palnadu in Andhra Pradesh. The sole reason he grows crops on his only piece of farm land is to feed birds. Jaji, as he is locally known, grows pearl millets...
Indonesian Religious Reforms Call Challenges Muslim Autocracy
By James M Dorsey At first glance, Islamic scholars discussing the religious legitimacy of the United Nations and the nation-state sounds esoteric. It’s not. On the contrary, it’s potentially revolutionary. Religious scholars, led by Nahdlatul Ulama, the world’s largest and arguably most moderate Muslim civil society movement in the...
DMK Promotes Udhayanidhi As Third Generation Dynast Politician In Tamil Nadu
By Kalyani Shankar The BJP has weakened Congress in the past eight years, but can it decimate the growing number of influential regional leaders who will be the primary challengers in the 2024 polls? In July, the BJP vowed to eliminate the family rule in the Hyderabad executive meeting....
Elon Musk Is A Big Social Junkie, He Can Not Live Without Twitting
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Elon Musk asked his 122 million followers through a poll on Twitter whether he should step down as the chief executive of the social media giant he bought for $44 billion on October 28. Out of the total 17 million votes, 57.5% favored him stepping...
Prime Minister’s Visit To North East Has Given A Big Boost To BJP Prospects
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi’s visit last week to Northeast region in public perception is meant to give a major thrust to the development projects in the region, but the main axiom behind this move has been to make nationalism the primary election agenda in the 2024 Lok Sabha...
Kisan Garjana Rally May Be Precursor To BJP’s Decline
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Kisan Garjana Rally organized in Delhi Ramleela ground on Monday by RSS-affiliated farmers’ body Bhartiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) against the ruling establishment led by Narendra Modi might have inflicted a chilling sensation into the Modi-Shah duo’s spines, for it reflected the despair and anger of...
China’s Covid-19 Spread Is A Wake Up Call To Complacent West And India
By Sushil Kutty China’s zero-Covid policy is history and the virus is exacting revenge; taking Beijing and every major Chinese city in its deadly embrace. The very same people who protested the strict Covid restrictions are sharing their Covid-positive test results online. Offices are reporting “staff sick”. Curiously, Chinese...
RBI Affidavit On Demonetisation Obfuscates Rather Than Clarifying
By Arun Kumar In a vibrant democracy, critique of policy a) makes for a) better policies, and b) helps correct mistakes as they occur. Official spokespersons will always argue that the government is doing the best under given circumstances. But today, the world is changing so fast that mistakes...
As President Of Brazil, Lula Could Lead A New Nonalignment Movement
By Majeed Malhas Lula da Silva’s victory in this year’s Brazilian presidential election marks a significant political shift not only in Brazil, which spent the past three years under the leadership of the far-right Bolsonaro administration, but on the global geopolitical stage. In 2009, as then president of Brazil,...
