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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.China Is Interested In The Buddhist Monastery In Tawang For Its Internal Reason
By Anjan Roy China appears to have made a planned and heavy intrusion in the areas close to Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh last week, which were repulsed by the Indian army forthwith. The Chinese have repeatedly forayed into the area to make gains in Arunachal Pradesh near Tawang. This...
97 Per Cent Of Afghan Population Are Languishing In Poverty Under Taliban
By Sankar Ray The Emirate of Afghanistan under the Taliban is in a deepening existentialist crisis due to continuity of economic blockade and diplomatic impasse. Till date, excepting Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and UAE, the ultra-Islamic government is yet to be accorded diplomatic recognition, even after 16 months of capture...
Fusion Technology For Generating Electricity Can Change The Future
By Anjan Roy Energy shortage could become a thing of the past and so could be the concerns about global warming if what the US scientists have achieved could really be rolled out commercially. US department of energy has announced that its scientists have at last achieved a breakthrough...
Way Cleared For Tejashwi Yadav To Lead Mahagathbandhan In 2025 Polls
By Arun Srivastava More than keeping his promise made to the RJD leaders and other alliance partners, it is the importance of Tejashwi Yadav in Bihar’s caste oriented politics that led Nitish Kumar to announce Tejashvi, his deputy in the alliance government, as his successor. The Bihar Mahagathbandhan will...
Mamata’s Meghalaya Visit Focuses On Alliance Strategy To Defeat BJP In North East
By Ashis Biswas Ahead of the Meghalaya and Tripura state Assembly elections in 2023, Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee , currently visiting the Northeast, is sending out mixed signals to major national parties like the BJP and Congress . Steps taken by the TMC so far in Meghalaya...
Nuclear Disarmament Should Be Priority Agenda Of India Led G20 In 2023
By Dr Arun Mitra The group of 20 countries, nick named as G20 includes Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union. So far seven summits...
A Curious Courtship: Power Rival Muslims Woo Hindu Nationalists
By James M Dorsey Muslim religious soft power rivalry, a battle for the soul of Islam, just got hotter. The latest battlefield is not Mecca, Medina, Cairo, Tehran, or Istanbul. It’s Hindu nationalist Delhi. That is because, for the next year, India chairs the Group of 20 largest economies...
Easing Inflation A Bit Is Too Little For Common People
By Dr. Gyan Pathak A little easing of inflation in November has been projected by the Modi government as if they have finally controlled and successfully brought it within the RBI’s tolerable limit of 6 per cent. However, this little ease is too little for common man who will...
Indian Judiciary Has A Big Role In Defending Constitution In Narendra Modi Era
By Sushil Kutty Another five judges have been recommended by the Supreme Court collegium for appointment to the apex court. The five-member collegium led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud. This comes on the heels of the Centre’s nod to the appointment of the Chief Justice of the...
New Himachal Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu Is A Self Made Man
By Harihar Swarup If there is something called a meteoric rise, this is the one. The son of a bus driver has taken oath as the 15th chief minister of Himachal Pradesh. Not many profiles can touch as many steps of the political ladder as Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister...
Far Right Has Consolidated In Israel After Netanyahu’s Victory In Polls
By Uri Weltmann TEL AVIV: The troubling results of the recent elections to the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament), held on November 1, generated interest around the world for their possible repercussions on the situation in the Middle East and the danger they pose to the cause of Palestinian freedom....
Congress And Regional Parties Can Jointly Give A Good Fight To BJP In 2024 Polls
By Kalyani Shankar Now that the voters in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh have given their verdict, what next? Each of the main parties got some gains but also suffered some losses. The immediate challenge before them and the Opposition are to set right things before the final 2024 polls....
Centre Armtwisting States Implementing Old Pension Scheme
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Devil of a New Pension Scheme (NPS) has now surfaced impacting government employee-pensioners in India, many of whom are getting a paltry monthly pension in the range of Rs 2000-Rs 4000 per month retiring after 18 years of service as a government employee. In...
Narendra Modi Govt’s China Policy Has Always Been Ad Hoc Since 2014
By Sushil Kutty Usually things start with a display of offensive banners and end with a flag meeting. Tempers cool followed by the rival “20-year-olds” going back to each their neck of the woods either side of the LAC. This time, it was at Tawang far to the east...
BJP Using Kurhani Defeat Of JD(U) To Malign Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar
By Arun Srivastava Impervious of the defeat of his JD(U) candidate by the BJP contender in Kurhani assembly by-election, the leader of the seven party Mahagathbandhan, Nitish Kumar in a clarion call to his opposition friends underscored the need for coming together to successfully counter the BJP. After the...
Mamata’s Visit To Meghalaya Energises Trinamool Before Polls In 2023
By Ashis Biswas By launching its pre-election campaign in Meghalaya much earlier than other major parties, the West-Bengal based Trinamool Congress (TMC) has highlighted its striking differences in terms of its general political approach and mobilisation programmes. As Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee launched on Monday the TMC’s state...
Centre Is Eroding Judicial Freedom By Its Control Over Appointments
By Paras Nath Singh While the Supreme Court and the Union Government are locking horns in matters concerning the appointment of judges to the higher judiciary, it has come out in the public domain that at-least on two occasions, the Supreme Court Collegium gave in to the wishes of...
In UK, Public Sector Workers Are Striking Against Austerity
By Grace Blakeley Wage growth in the United Kingdom over the past twelve years has been dismal. In the period after the financial crisis, the country experienced the longest period of wage stagnation since the Napoleonic Wars. Then the pandemic hit, and wages collapsed as unemployment spiked. As the...
