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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.Regional Tensions Spill Into Qatar World Cup As Event Gets Underway
By James M Dorsey Recent Saudi efforts to appease the Biden administration in the wake of the kingdom’s backing of last month’s OPEC+ oil production cut take on added significance in the wake of this week’s US midterm elections that have strengthened Joe Biden and weakened former President Donald...
National Pension Scheme Will Be A Major Election Issue During 2024 Poll
By C. Srikumar Agitation of the central government and state government Employees are going on throughout the country against the no-guarantee National Pension System (NPS) implemented by the BJP-led NDA government during the year 2003. The central government and state government employees are grateful to the Communist Party of...
Rahul Gandhi Could Have Avoided Savarkar Issue During Yatra In Maharashtra
By Sushil Kutty After weeks of weaving through narrow roads and broad avenues, through how many states one had stopped counting, Congress leader and party rejuvenator Rahul Gandhi and his Bharat Jodo Yatra are in volatile territory; the peace of the southern vistas replaced by the cacophony of opposing...
Funds Outflow From Third World Countries Strengthening US Dollar
By Prabhat Patnaik There are two defining and portentous features of the current world economic situation. One, which is well discussed, is the world-wide increase in interest rates in response to the pervasive inflationary upsurge; it would indubitably generate recession and unemployment, which, notwithstanding all protestations to the contrary,...
Rahul-Led Bharat Jodo Yatra To Enter Madhya Pradesh On November 20
By Rahil Nora Chopra Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra will reach Madhya Pradesh, entering it from the Burhanpur district on November 20. This would the seventh state of the Yatra, which has by now acquired a cult following. According to sources, Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to visit...
Recent Deaths Of Labourers Of Bengal In Other States Have Alarming Signals
By Tirthankar Mitra Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee missed the wood for the trees when she expressed concern at the death of five persons from West Bengal in a Mizoram stone quarry collapse recently. The deaths of four persons from Nadia and one from North-24-Parganas are a pointer to the...
Sunak Govt’s Autumn Budget Signals New Era Of Austerity In Britain
By Ceren Sagir The British Government led by the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak government has marked a “new era of austerity” in its Autumn Statement, unions warned November 17 as the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt was accused of “picking the pockets” of the entire country. Jeremy Hunt set out a...
Ukraine Missile In Poland Shows Again, Why The War Must End
By Lindsey German The news on Tuesday that a Russian missile had killed two people in a Polish village on the border with Ukraine was greeted with trepidation by many. The implications were clear: Poland is in NATO, therefore any military attack upon the country meant that Article 5...
Congress Leadership Has To Make Their Ideological Stand Clear On Nehru
By Binoy Viswam Ideology is the foundation on which political thoughts and actions have taken shape. At the core of every socio-political battle, it acts as the decisive factor. All the political parties represent certain ideological traits attributed to their class character. In the history of Congress, it was...
Modi Govt Is Eroding The Independence Of The Election Commission Of India
By Prakash Karat Some of the recent positions and steps taken by the Election Commission (EC) of India do no credit to its well-earned reputation of being an impartial arbiter and supervisor of free and fair elections, a role vested in it by the Indian Constitution. In the last...
BJP Is Going All Out To Win Mainpuri Lok Sabha Seat With An Eye On 2024 Elections
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP is desperate to win Mainpuri Lok Sabha by-election to make significant dent in what is known as yadavland to demoralise Samajwadi Party before crucial 2024 Lok Sabha polls. It would be worth mentioning here the Mainpuri by-election is taking place on December 5 following...
India-Indians Everywhere-Football Crazy Desi Fans Swamp World Cup Venue
By Sushil Kutty Soon, Indians will be watching the gypsy nation drowning in sorrow when it dawns on them that Indians have beaten them for being gypsies! Yup, Indians are global nomads, the multi-flavours of the planet, present under every stone, from the Arctic to the Antarctica—Vasudeva Kutumbakam!...
Looming Recession In U.S. Economy Is No Threat To India’s Growth At The Moment
By Subrata Majumder Concerns are looming over the rising recession in USA and its ripple effects on India. Surging inflation in USA, leading to successive hikes in interest rates, crippled by Russia- Ukraine war with no end in sight, disruption in supply chain owing to USA-China trade conflict have...
India Has Positioned Itself At The Centrestage Of Global Diplomacy At G-20 Summit
By Anjan Ray India seems to have earned a huge diplomatic recognition at the end of the Bali Summit of twenty leading economic powers —the so-called G20—of the world. A now-famous Indian sentiment echoed through the halls of Bali Summit in Indonesia and summed up the message of the...
India Played Down Importance Of Human Rights At United Nations Periodic Review
By Ravi Nair The Solicitor General of India, Tushar Mehta while presenting India’s fourth periodic report at the United Nations (‘UN’) Human Rights Council session in Geneva on November 10, stated that human rights defenders should conform to the law of land. That is a no brainer. Unless, one...
Trump’s Decision To Contest For 2024 Presidency Should Be Taken Seriously
By Branko Marcetic When you announce a presidential run, you typically want to establish yourself as the front-runner by having some momentum behind you and demonstrating broad support from within your party. You certainly don’t want to do it off a stunning electoral failure you’re being widely blamed for,...
India Is Surpassing China In Total Population After Only Five Months
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India celebrated 14 November as Children’s Day, and exactly five months after on 14 April, 2023 would surpass China crowning itself the world’s most populated county. The world has already celebrated the arrival of 8 billionth baby on Earth, as it signified a milestone for...
CJI D Y Chandrachud Is Emphasising On ‘Equal And Modern’ Judiciary
By K Raveendran Supreme Court Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud has elucidated his concept of ‘equal‘ and ‘modern’ judiciary, free from colonial hangovers, in which there would not be any subordinate judges, often used in the context of district courts, but only judges of equal worth, irrespective of where...
