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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.Narendra Modi Seeks To Convert The Nation As A BJP Ground In Global Arena
By Sushil Kutty Do we get the sneaking feeling that the G-20 has been roped in to be part of the BJP’s ‘Operation Lotus’; an opportunity to electorally cash in on the universal appeal of the lotus, which also happens to be India’s national flower? The Opposition is bristling,...
Centre Should Revise The Criteria For Defining Economically Weaker Sections
By Prakash Karat A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court has, by a split verdict of 3 to 2 upheld the validity of the 103rd constitutional amendment which provided reservation for economically weaker sections (EWS) from within the general category. The CPI(M) had supported this constitutional amendment in parliament...
Climate Crisis In The World Including India Is Accentuating Faster
By Krishna Jha Three coal mining workers died on September 18, 2022, due to suspected inhalation of poisonous gas while working in a rat hole coal mining at Tikok Malu hills in Ledo area under Margherita subdivision of Tinsukia district. Saidul Islam, Hussain Ali and Asmat Ali, all under...
Governor-Govt Standoff Touches A New Low In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The confrontation between Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan and the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front(LDF) Government plumbed a new depth with the Government deciding to bring in an ordinance stripping the Governor off the Chancellorship of Universities and the Governor firm on referring the ordinance to...
Retired Chief Justice U U Lalit Did A Lot In His 74 Days In Supreme Court
By Indira Jaising As we speak of a new Chief Justice of India (‘CJI’) being sworn-in, much has been written and said about the former CJI Uday Umesh Lalit. It is difficult, if not impossible, to add anything new to the wealth of literature available on the subject. Yet,...
After The U.S. Midterm, The Democrats Should Do Some Soul-Searching
By Branko Marcetic As results continue to trickle in, it’s safe to say two things about the 2022 midterms. One, the Republicans massively underperformed, squandering what should’ve been a slam dunk at a time of significant voter discontent. Two, this is one of the stranger election results in modern...
Jaishankar Has Done A Good Job In Pushing ‘What Works To My Advantage’
By Sushil Kutty In today’s divided world, an independent foreign policy can be possible only when pressure from the US and EU can be countered with the “what works to my advantage” doctrine, which is why Russian President Vladimir Putin couldn’t stop himself from praising Indian Prime Minister Narendra...
COP27 Has Brought Indian Agenda Into A Tighter Spot
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The COP 27 meet in Egypt is on its fourth day on November 9 India has been in the forefront in demanding climate justice from the developed countries ever since the Paris Agreement on Climate Change 2015. Now Island nations have demanded India along with...
Modi Government Is Planning To Cripple Any Dissent By Terming Them ‘Urban Naxals’
By Arun Srivastava Like his earlier proposal ‘One Nation, One Uniform’, the innovative prime minister Narendra Modi has come out with yet another pioneering directive to the security forces to identify and crack down on the Urban Naxal network of Maoist strategists and their supporters across the country. This...
Six Years Later, The Adverse Impact Of Demonetisation Still Haunts India
By Arun Kumar Six years back on November 8, the country suffered a policy-induced shock. The economy, which was coasting along at a good clip, suddenly stalled. The most severe impact was on the most vulnerable sections, who can barely take care of themselves. They largely belong to the...
New Chief Justice Of India D Y Chandrachud Is A Person Of Diverse Interests
By Harihar Swarup Supreme Court Justice D Y Chandrachud took over as the Chief Justice of India on November 9 following the superannuation of Chief Justice U U Lalit who was in the position for only 74 days. New CJI Chandrachud will remain in his position for two years....
Denmark Halts Right Surge In Europe By Allowing Centre-Left A Narrow Win
By Satyaki Chakraborty For the European Left, finally there was some good news last week as the voters in Denmark handed the Social Democratic Party a mandate to form a new government in a general election seen as a vote of confidence in Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s handling of...
Modi Govt Shamelessly Amends Electoral Bonds Scheme To Put Funds In BJP Kitty
By Nitya Chakraborty The Narendra Modi Government is stooping to its lowest level of propriety to channelize funds to the ruling BJP on the eve of the state assembly elections to Himachal and Gujarat. Himachal polls are due on November 12 and elections to Gujarat assembly are scheduled for...
Questions That Refuse To Go Away Even Six Years After Ill-Fated Demonetisation
By K Raveendran It is six years since Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the fateful night of 8 November, 2016 announced demonetisation, putting the nation to untold miseries and breaking the backbone of the country’s economy, but people are still groping in the dark as to why the draconian...
BJP Is Quite Nervous In Himachal Before The Assembly Polls On November 12
By Sushil Kutty Himachal Pradesh votes to elect a new government in a couple of days and the debate over Uniform Civil Code is all over the hills, and in the apple orchards. Only the BJP feels the need to come out with the promise of a Uniform Civil...
Demonetisation Haunts India Even After Six Years
By Dr. Gyan Pathak November 8, is the sixth anniversary of Demonetisation, and yet the Indian economy is haunted by black money, counterfeit notes, and cash-economy. The decision of a five-judge bench hearing a bunch of petitions regarding Modi’s decision of Demonetisation to further examine the 2016 move has...
Hemant Soren Has Launched A Crusade Against The Modi Government
By Arun Srivastava The politics in Jharkhand has taken a curious turn with the chief minister, Hemant Soren trying to burnish his relation with the Governor and the judiciary consistently busy adopting an aggressive stance towards the BJP and Modi government. Only a couple of days back Hemant was...
Effective Centre-State Dynamics A Must To Counter Terrorism
By Aastha Malipatil Very recently the Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, while addressing the two-day Chintan Shivir (brainstorming session) on various internal security issues, for the State Home Ministers, Home Secretaries and Directors-General of Police and Central Armed Police Force (CAPF), at Surajkund, Haryana, emphasised the need to formulate...
