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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.Even After Eight Years, Congress Brand Of Secularism Has No Definite Shape
By Sushil Kutty The AK Antony panel constituted by Sonia Gandhi to look into the 2014 Congress debacle blamed BJP’s Hindu communalism for the Congress defeat and concluded that Hindu votes mattered to win elections. Regardless, the Congress lost in 2019. Now, after eight and a half years, AK...
Akhilesh Faces Big Challenge To Unite Opposition In UP Against Ruling BJP
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Mishandling of backwards quota issue for civic polls by BJP has given an issue to opposition to corner BJP and boost the morale of leaders like Akhilesh Yadav, Jayant Choudhry and Priyanka Gandhi. The only exception is BSP national president Mayawati who is seen giving...
BJP Workers In Madhya Pradesh Want Shivraj Out, Demand New Face
By Rahil Nora Chopra As a result of the historic win by the BJP in the recently concluded Gujarat assembly polls, the demand for change of leadership in the Madhya Pradesh unit of the party has gained ground. BJP leaders in the state are claiming that the party could...
The Retreat Of Centre On Farm Laws Is Temporary, Modi Govt Is Set To Bring These Back
By Prabhat Patnaik The hegemony of imperialism is invariably associated with an agrarian crisis in countries of the global south; in fact agrarian crisis is just the other side of the ascendancy of imperialism. This is evident from the case of Indian agriculture. The colonial period saw a more...
Pakistan Is Entering The Year Of More Eco-Political Uncertainty In 2023
By Sankar Ray In mid-December this year, foreign exchange reserves of the State Bank of Pakistan’s (SBP) dropped to $6.1 billion, the lowest level since April 2014, meaning that the SBP had reserves, just enough to meet five weeks of imports needed. The reserves of commercial banks declined by...
Indian Startups Face Major Viability Crisis In 2022 As Part Of Global Trend
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The startup scene has been substantially subdued in 2022. Compared to 542 in 2021, only 244 new unicorns were created in 2021. Indian startups have not been aloof from the global trend, and compared to 44 in 2021, the country produced only 23 new unicorns...
Changing Paradigms: Israel’s Far Right Meets Christian Nationalists
By James M Dorsey Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu’s far-right, Jewish nationalist, ultra-conservative coalition government threatens to put the Jewish state on a collision course with Jewish Diaspora Jewry and could weaken or undermine a pillar of Israeli national security: unquestioned US support. The looming crisis with two of Israel’s...
2022 Witnessed Modi Regime’s Desecularisation Of State And Attack On Federalism
By Prakash Karat A look back at the year 2022, which is ending this Saturday, shows that it has been a year in which the Indian economy struggled to come out of the deep trough it was plunged into in the years 2020 and 2021. Rising inflation, growing unemployment,...
Chandrababu Naidu Finally Passes On His Baton To His Son Nara Lokesh
By Sushil Kutty Why should it surprise anybody if Telugu Desam Party supremo Chandrababu Naidu wants his son Nara Lokesh to replace him at the head of the TDP table? CBN is doing nothing that is unusual. Besides, it is classic Congress. Nara Lokesh will also undertake a ‘padayatra’,...
Modi-Shah Duo Is Using CBI To Break Mahagathbandhan Govt Under Nitish In Bihar
By Arun Srivastava None can deny that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is the storeroom of the best imaginative and fertile brains. Earlier the CBI sleuths had come out with the revelation that Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav owned the Gurugram mall constructed from the illegal money...
