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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.Demolition Politics By Centre At Tughlakabad And Mehrauli Sends Ominous Signal
By Gursimran Kaur Bakshi As south Delhi’s Mehrauli Archaeological Park gets a makeover ahead of the G-20 Summit in Delhi in September, a massive anti-encroachment drive by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) took place in the Ladha Sarai village of Mehrauli on February 10. The demolition drive was carried...
U.S. Economic Sanctions Aggravate Earthquake Response In Syria
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Suffering in Syria and Turkey caused by a strong earthquake on Feb. 6 has elicited an immense worldwide humanitarian response. The toll as of press time for this article was 36,000 people dead, with the number of recorded deaths steadily rising as rubble from...
Debt-Heavy Adani Group May Take Time To Overcome That Sinking Feeling
By Nantoo Banerjee With government banks and financial institutions involved in massive funding in the lately stock-crashed Adani group enterprises, legislators from India’s main opposition parties are understandably concerned. Last week, even the Supreme court sought to know from the government and market regulator the steps needed to improve...
MGNREGA Budget Cut Is Being Protested Across India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Ever since the Union Budget 2023-24 was tabled in the Parliament of India, MGNREGA workers across the country has been protesting against substantial budget cut for the second year reducing the earlier employment guarantee making the rural workforce restive. The reduction in budget allocation would...
CPI(ML) Liberation Calls For Broadest Unity Of Democratic Forces To Fight RSS-BJP
By Arun Srivastava With India facing a diabolical threat from the rightwing RSS and BJP, the immediate and most urgent task for the revolutionary communists is to save the country from this flurry of fascist disaster and destruction and to accomplish this it is imperative that all democratic forces...
BJP Leadership Desperate To Retain Power In Tripura Again At All Costs
By Ashis Biswas Pre-poll campaigning has reached its peak in Tripura, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi visiting twice during the last three days for addressing election meetings in the state and the Home Minister Amit Shah holding road shows and meetings on February 6 and 7 and again on...
BJP President JP Nadda’s Bengal Visit Before Panchayat Polls Is A Big Flop
By Tirthankar Mitra Beset by defection and dissension, West Bengal unit of BJP seems to be like a part of retreating army trudging along wearily. Recent tour of party president JP Nadda to the state aimed to be a pep up pill before the yet to be announced panchayat...
Nachiketa Desai’s Death Is A Big Loss To Fearless Journalist Community
By Sagari Chhabra Nachiketa Desai a journalist passed away on in Ahmedabad on Sunday, 5th February after a fall at his house. Why should a journalist’s death, make news when the entire profession has been dealt a dying blow by massive lay-offs, corporate takeover, dissolution of the Working Journalists’...
Like Bolivia, Peru Can Overturn The Coup By Mass Demonstrations
By Ken Livingstone As the mass mobilisations for the return of democracy in Peru intensify, the illegitimate government of President Dina Boluarte this week declared a state of emergency in seven regions where the largest anti-government protests are taking place. The coup-government clampdown now exists in 11 of Peru’s...
Opposition Parties Have To Force The Prime Minister To Agree To JPC Into Adani Affairs
By Sushil Kutty Is Adani-Modi and the so-called Hindenburg revelations that brought the alleged murky ties between a prime minister and a stinking rich moneybag an issue in the Tripura assembly elections, the first of nine state assembly elections scheduled for 2023? The answer is, there is so far...
