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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.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,...
It’s Time To Unlock Lands Held By Closed Industrial Units
By Nantoo Banerjee The West Bengal government’s latest decision to take over 395 acres of prime industrial land lying idle at Uttarpara, near Kolkata, under CK Birla-controlled Hindustan Motors Limited (HM), for gainful use is most welcome. The giant HM factory has been closed since 2014. It may be...
Division Among Tribals In Tripura Has Special Significance For 2023 Polls
By Ashis Biswas As the pre Assembly poll campaign warms up in Tripura, the state seems to be heading for a sharper ethnic divide in 2023 between the majority Bengalis and native tribal groups. New poll entrants Tipra Motha (TM) fighting for a greater separate Tripura (Tipraland) state, have...
Rijiju Planning To Bring A New Law To Empower The Govt To Appoint Judges
By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi is silently, and certainly irreversibly, moving towards his goal, to transmute the basic identity and character of Indian judicial system. There are many aces on his chess board, but the Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju is a rare exception to perform the...
Narendra Modi Govt Is Avoiding Discussion On Tawang In Parliament
By Sushil Kutty Congress Member of Parliament Manish Tewari wants a discussion in the Lok Sabha on the ‘border situation’ with China, the Line of Actual Control, which is a euphemism for not having a recognized border. Tewari, who has established himself as a military affairs expert over the...
Amit Shah’s Warning To Bengal BJP Leaders Is Aimed At Containing Left Also
By Tirthankar Mitra West Bengal BJP leaders were caught on the wrong foot when Union home minister Amit Shah during his recent visit to Kolkata asked them the reason behind a rise in Left parties strength in the state. Complacent in the knowledge of being the Opposition party in...
Decoding The Work Of Great Documentarian Julia Reichert Who Died At 76
By Lindsey Bahr Julia Reichert, the Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker behind American Factory whose films explored themes of race, class, and gender, often in the Midwest, has died. She was 76.She died on December. 1 in Ohio from cancer, her family said through a representative. She was diagnosed with stage...
Modi Govt May Be Dusting Out Its Plan For One-Nation, One-Poll By 2024
By K Raveendran After taking on the Supreme Court for the impasse on Collegium, which he described as ‘alien’ to the Constitution, Law Minster Kiren Rijiju has played another bite from His Master’s Voice – prime minister Narendra Modi’s favourite simultaneous elections. Rijiju said in a written reply in...
2023 May Be Worse Than 2022 For India’s Workforce
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As the Indian economic growth is set to decelerate in the financial year 2023-24 as per the latest estimates of all the national and international organisations, India’s job market is likely to deterioration. Employment opportunities would decline, new job opportunities will be limited, and job...
BJP Took Corrective Actions After 2017 Poll In Gujarat Resulting In Big Win In 2022
By Harihar Swarup Gujarat and Himachal have voted for two opposing national parties. While Himachali voters rejected the BJP and upheld the tradition of electing an alternate every five years, voters in Gujarat gave the saffron party its biggest victory ever and seventh straight term. With over 52 per...
Pentagon Is Deeply Worried At China’s Military Beef-Up In Next Two Decades
By Sankar Ray The Pentagon, headquarters of US military establishment, submitted to the US Congress a report, ‘Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2022’ pursuant to the National Defence Authorisation Act for Fiscal Year 2000.It reflects Pentagon’s concern about China’s military beef-up as it poses...
Amitabh Bachchan’s Remarks At Kolkata Film Festival Have Big Significance
By Sushil Kutty Finally, megastar Amitabh Bachchan has spoken truth to power! And in the city where he spent a part of his youth…Kolkata! Then, early in his tinsel-town career, after moving to ‘Bombay’, when his screen roles demanded, he was the “angry young man”, who in real-life was...
