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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.Centre’s Operation Uproot Of Naxalites Will Be Helping BJP Politically
By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sent an unambiguous and loud message to the intellectuals, academics, social activists and leaders of the political parties of the country to fall in line or get ready to face the music. Though his government at the directive of the RSS...
Bangladesh Takes Up Power Sector Reforms Focusing On Green Energy
By Ashis Biswas With crippling power cuts continuing, Bangladesh Government is going all out to buy more power from its regional neighbours , and also examining the possibility of producing ‘green energy’ by using hydrogen, following recent measures taken in advanced Western countries. The ruling Awami League (AL) Government...
Cuba Has Made Big Advances In Cheap Treatment Of Cancer And Diabetes
By Dylan James The Cuban government has established an extensive network of biotechnology labs that have developed cutting-edge medical advancements to reinvent traditional cancer and diabetes treatments. For the U.S., a country that tops lists for the prevalence of cancer and diabetes among its population, these advancements would be...
BJP Must Stop Playing Mischief For Political Hegemony
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Politics is alright. But what about playing mischief? It must stop. Time has come for BJP to learn not to play mischiefs before an election for votes, and even after losing polls for keeping power for themselves legally or by proxy at the cost of...
Kerala CPI-M Overtures To IUML Worries UDF
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There is no mistaking it. The CPI(M)’s fulsome praise of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), the second most powerful constituent of the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF), has scared the daylights out of the Congress. There is a delicious irony here. As the leader...
Income And Wealth Inequalities Increase Substantially Under Neoliberal Regimes
By Prabhat Patnaik The fact that income and wealth inequalities have increased quite dramatically under the neo-liberal regime is beyond dispute. The empirical work by Piketty’s team bears out the increase in income inequality. They use income tax data to infer about the share of the top 1 per...
BJP’s Doublespeak In Attacking Nitish Kumar For Prohibition And Hooch Deaths
By Arun Srivastava Exploiting the death of the poor in an accident has been most awful pastime rendezvous of the politicians. This apparently got manifest in the death of nearly 50 people in the Chapra hooch tragedy of Bihar. The BJP which has been prime mover of the idea...
BJP High Command Doesn’t Want Vasundhara As Rajasthan CM Face
By Rahil Nora Chopra With BJP having recently lost the Sardarshahar assembly by-election in Rajasthan, a slogan has been creating fresh buzz, gaining popularity in Rajasthan:“Kaho dil se, Vasundhara phir se!” . While Raje has been involved in a tussle for power with...
Congress In Uttar Pradesh Wants Rahul Led Yatra To Revive Organisation
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Congress is depending on the success of Bharat Jodo Yatra of Rahul Gandhi to create a favourable atmosphere for party to do well in 2024 Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh. In order to spread the message of Rahul Gandhi, Congress also organised state level...
Contraction In Manufacturing In Second Quarter Is A Bad Sign For Economy
By Sanjay Roy The quarterly estimates released for the second quarter (July to September 2022) by the National Accounts Division estimate a GDP growth of 6.3 per cent which was pegged at 13.5 per cent in the first quarter of 2022-23. It is understandable that the previous figure was...
US Women’s U-19 World Cup Cricket Team With All PIO’s Is A Tribute To Indian Diaspora
By Sushil Kutty There was God, the ‘God of Cricket’, Sachin Tendulkar. For a people with 33 million gods and one more discovered or invented every once in a while, this wasn’t a surprise. Like somebody insignificant pointed out, gods should be shown their place except the ‘One’ almighty...
India’s Next I-T Boom May Be In Artificial Intelligence, Related Sciences
By K Raveendran A global survey of companies has revealed a serious shortage of tech talent when it comes to artificial intelligence, which is threatening to slow down the shift towards the new productivity tool. A majority of respondents in the survey, carried out by management consultancy McKinsey, have...
Centre’s Proposed Amendment Bill For Cooperative Societies Is Ominous
By Ram Kumar The tendency to centralise administration and power – and thereby weaken the federal structure of the constitution – is a hallmark of the Narendra Modi government’s policy. One of the important ways in which the Modi government attempted to violate the constitutional powers of the states...
Proposed Changes In Forest (Conservation) Rules Will Hit The Dwellers
By Krishna Jha In almost every act of development, there keeps flowing an undercurrent of loss. Every beginning is based on the negation of its preceding one. One glaring example is that of global warming. There is smog, wide spread and dense, erosion destroying the course of streams and...
Rahul Gandhi Led Bharat Jodo Yatra Will Be 100 Days Old On December 16
By Sushil Kutty The morning of December 14 ex-RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan hitched his wagon to Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra. The timing made sense. One, the Bharat Jodo Yatra was traversing through Congress-ruled Rajasthan. Two, the Congress had just a couple of days ago defeated the BJP in...
Non-BJP Opposition Parties Have Enough Potential To Take On BJP In 2024
By Mriganka M Bhowmick The recently concluded state elections of Gujarat, Himachal along with MCD election in Delhi and By-elections give a mix-bagged signal towards 2024 general election. One can hardly draw a conclusion about the final shape of political outcome as well as political divides across the party...
Fixing Jharkhand Chief Minister May Turn Into Quicksand For BJP
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Fixing political opponents by Narendra Modi government is not a secret by now. Jharkhand chief minister and JMM leader Hemant Soren leading UPA mahagathbandhan government has naturally become their target. Central investigating agencies were unleashed against him which included the Enforcement Directorate (ED). By now,...
Local Bodies Must Share Larger Responsibility In Preventing Sewerage Deaths
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Ramdas Athawale told the Parliament in a written reply early this week that the country has not seen any deaths due to manual scavenging but 233 persons died while undertaking hazardous cleaning of sewers in the past...
