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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.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...
In The Gujarat Assembly Polls, It Is Narendra Modi All The Way, Not BJP
By Sushil Kutty It is a small world, and sound travels far. Otherwise how could America’s former President Donald Trump echo Prime Minister Narendra Modi? Announcing his 2024 bid for the White House, Trump said, “This is not my campaign, this will be our campaign”. And television host Sean...
Known Separatist Leader Bilal Gani Lone Is Going Mainstream In Kashmir
By Harihar Swarup Kashmir’s politics is likely to witness a major change, Separatist leader Bilal Gani Lone is preparing to bid farewell to separatism and enter the mainstream politics.. Bilal is elder son of Abdul Gani Lone, the Hurriyat Conference leader who founded the People Conference. Considered a moderate...
BJP Govt In Madhya Pradesh Trying To Woo Tribals Before 2023 Assembly Poll
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh BJP has launched a massive campaign to win over tribals who constitute a significant portion of state’s population. Its defeat to the Congress in 2018 assembly polls was largely due to the fact that it won less than one third tribal...
Kerala Governor Pitching For Showdown With LDF Government On VC Issue
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It was a massive manifestation of Kerala’s collective anger against Governor Arif Mohammed Khan’s activities in violation of the Constitution. The protest march to the Raj Bhavan on November 15 against the gubernatorial grouches saw the attendance of close to one lakh people. The march,...
No Pre Election Fever As Nepal Goes For National Elections On November 20
By Sankar Ray The Federal Parliament and provincial assemblies’ elections in Nepal are scheduled to take place on November 20. But the election fever isn’t felt in most of the 165 first-past-the-post constituencies or directly electable seats out of 275 lower house seats of FP. The same is true...
When Biden Erred In Pitting Ukraine As War Between Democracy And Autocracy
By James M Dorsey US President Joe Biden potentially made a strategic mistake when he framed the struggle for Ukraine as a battle between democracy and autocracy. In doing so, he did America’s main rival, China, an unintended favour. Ukraine is not about democracy vs. autocracy; from America’s perspective,...
CoP27 Draft Agreement Shows Clear Divide On Options To Meet Climate Goals
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The draft text on CoP27 agreement released on Monday, November 14, clearly shows the division. Countries are still fighting on the most contentious issue of agreement on “funding arrangements for loss and damage”. The UN climate conference is still swinging between hope and despair. At...
Biden-Xi Talks At G20 Meet Send Mature Signals Amidst The Period Of Tensions
By Sushil Kutty President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping met on Monday in the Indonesian island of Bali, the first substantive meeting between them since Joe Biden became President, and Xi Jinping secured an unprecedented third term. The other side of the road, other leaders of Group of...
Hemant Soren Is The New Aspirational Symbol Of Adivasis In Jharkhand
By Arun Srivastava Offence is the best strategy for Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren to foil the mischievous designs of the Narendra Modi government, the BJP and the powerful caucus of the Dikus, the non tribals, who have been desperate to grab the land of the adivasis on the...
BJP Is In Covert Collusion With Separatists For Division Of North Bengal
By Tirthankar Mitra Even as panchayat election is inching closer, north Bengal is in the news for the wrong reasons. The demand for a separate state or Union Territory has resurfaced. The present scenario, however, differs from the one which arose last year when BJP MP John Barla and...
