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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.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...
Iranian Protesters Deserve The Big Support Of The International Left
By Khosrow Golsorkhi For more than a month now, anti-government protests have been spreading throughout Iranian society — in the streets, on university campuses, at high schools and middle schools, in front of coffee shops, on the metro and other public transit, and most recently among workers in the...
India-UK FTA Is Welcome If It Helps Manufacturing At Both Ends
By Nantoo Banerjee India, accounting for a meagre 2.4 percent of the world surface area, over 18 percent of the current world population and only three percent of global manufacturing output, should focus more on production than free trade agreements (FTA). The matter is relevant as the United Kingdom...
Telangana Bypoll Result Proves That KCR Led TRS Still Reigns Supreme
By Sushil Kutty Bharatiya Janata Party President Jagat Prakash Nadda must have hit bed Sunday evening with a satisfied smile, but not as wide as the one ‘K’ for King Chandrashekar Rao must have had on his lean face. Stand Nadda and Rao shoulder to shoulder and it will...
BJP Has No Reason To Gloat Over Bihar Results, Its Votes Eroded In Gopalganj
By Arun Srivastava Winning the Gopalganj seat in the latest assembly by poll in Bihar is purely a consolation gift for the BJP. In Gopalganj, BJP’s candidate Kusum Devi won by a slender margin of 1794 votes, defeating RJD’s Mohan Prasad Gupta. Kusum Devi received 70,053 votes and Mohan...
Green Energy – An Antidote For Inflation And Economic Uncertainty
By Nilanjan Banik and Guido Cozzi By the end of this century, planet earth may not be a liveable place, with the average temperature rising at least 2.5 Celsius higher than what it is now. This is according to the latest published UN Climate Change Report. With the climate...
Indian Journalists Union Calls Upon The Centre To Enact National Law For Journalists
By L.S. Herdenia The Indian Journalists Union has expressed serious concern over persistent attacks on media and the shrinking space for independent media in the country. In a resolution passed at the two-day plenary session at Chennai last week, the union appealed to the democracy loving people in the...
Five Million Poor, Low Income Voters Could Make The Difference In Nov 8 Mid Term
By Mark Gruenberg In a massive pre-election push to the November 8 midterm in USA, the Poor People’s campaign has contacted 5.5 million low-wealth and poor registered voters who could deliver the GOP a massive defeat on Election Day. The organization headed into the final weekend before Election Day...
Mild Weather Prompts Soaring International Gas Prices To Reverse Course
By K Raveendran Soaring international gas prices in recent weeks have caused much concern in consumer countries like India, but the latest trends indicate that power prices may be reversing course. Although Indian gas prices, particularly in terms of supplies for vehicles as well as cooking, have remained moderated,...
AAP Is Generating Big Hype In Gujarat On Poll Eve But Congress Is Doing A Good Silent Campaign
By Sushil Kutty The perception battle surrounding the Aam Aadmi Party and its assault on the Bharatiya Janata Party’s poll prospects in the state, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi cut his teeth in politics, may at the end of the day be nothing more than an expedition to snatch...
India’s Job Market Turned Perilous In October This Year
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The month of October this year in which fell the two great Indian festivals – Dussehra and Diwali – failed to bring much expected happiness to the common people of India. Rather, it turned India’s job market much more perilous that only a month ago...
Owners Will Face Legal Action For The Defiance Of Railway Laws By Their Cattle
By Arun Srivastava Certainly it is not less than bizarre that the Narendra Modi administration which has been using the ED, CBI and IT to terrorise and coerce his opponents to fall in line, only a couple of days back asked the top Railway officials to direct Railway Protection...
