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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.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...
Kerala Governor Escalates Faceoff With LDF Government
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan has escalated the standoff with the Left democratic Front (LDF) Government by raking up the gold smuggling case to spite Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan. In an interaction with presspersons in New Delhi, Khan said he had not interfered in governance. ...
Entire World Is Demanding Again An End To The US Blockade Of Cuba
By Medea Benjamin and Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan Immoral, illegal, archaic, coercive, intimidating, criminal, absurd, reckless, brutal — even genocidal. These were some of the adjectives used by global leaders at the United Nations as they took to the podium at the United Nations General Assembly to rail against...
Legislations Unable To Thwart ‘Auctioning’ Of Daughters, Wives And Sisters
By K Raveendran The disgraceful incident in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara in which a man ‘auctioned’ his daughters to repay his debt is a social evil that manifests in similar occurrences in parts of northern India from time to time. The incident attracted widespread condemnation and lowered the prestige of India...
Gujarat And Himachal Poll Results On December 8 Are Crucial For Rahul Gandhi
By Sushil Kutty Five years back in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat, the BJP and the Congress were face to face and people were asking the question “what does Gujarat and Himachal mean for the two national parties? In 2017, Aam Aadmi Party was limited to Delhi and nobody thought...
Morbi Bridge Collapse: Questions Gujarat Govt Needs To Answer
By Prabir Purkayastha The Morbi pedestrian suspension bridge over the Machchhu River collapsed on October 30, leading to the confirmed death of 141 persons and injuries to more than 100. In this column, I will not repeat what is widely known regarding one of the worst bridge disasters in...
Clearance To GM Mustard Is Harmful To Environment And Human Health
By Dr. Soma Marla Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee, GOI (GEAC) has permitted on October 18 the environmental release of genetically-modified (GM) mustard. Being the first food crop, the studies by expert question the environmental and biosafety as well as human health risks associated with hasty government approval. Gory experience...
Congress May Lean On Priyanka For Intra-Party Pro-Rahul Outreach
By Rahil Nora Chopra A reshuffle will take place among the All India Congress Committee (AICC) office-bearers, expected after Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh assembly elections get over. Seemingly, one section of senior Congress leaders wants Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to have a place in the AICC headquarter. The grapevine is...
Imran Khan Making All Efforts To Politically Capitalise The Shooting Incident
By Sankar Ray Mystery surrounds the failed assassination attempt on the erstwhile Prime Minister of Pakistan and chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Imran Khan on the seventh day of his protest march on Thursday afternoon demanding snap elections after being forced from office in April this year. He...
Supreme Court Cannot Bear The Brunt Of India’s Fragile Governance
By Varsha Ramesh Article 32 is said to be the heart and soul of the Indian Constitution; it acts as a safeguard for all the other fundamental rights. However, it does not have indefinite jurisdiction – it is limited to fundamental rights, as demonstrated by the existence of Articles...
Far Right Former PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s Win In Israel Is A Bad Signal
By Amiad Horowitz It appears likely that the criminally corrupt former Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, will be returning to power, despite being under criminal indictment. On Tuesday, Israelis cast their votes in the fifth national election in three years. The more than 4.5 million Palestinians who live...
Decoding Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen On His 89th Birthday On November 3
By Nitya Chakraborty India’s first Nobel Prize winner in Economics Prof: Amartya Sen has stepped into 89 on November 3 this year. It has been a long innings for him as a proactive global intellectual who has made deep impact on the thoughts of the thinking world wide apart...
Rahul Gandhi’s TRS Bashing In Telangana Is No Good For Opposition Unity
By Sushil Kutty If nobody has noticed, Wayanad Congress Member of Parliament Rahul Gandhi speaks in riddles and then walks away from them as if it was malarkey, meaningless talk, which made no difference to the task at hand, i.e., Opposition unity, and divesting the BJP of power, both...
BJP-AAP Slugfest Touches New Low As Delhi Gasping For Breath
By Dr. Gyan Pathak BJP-AAP, the political parties ruling the National Capital Territory of Delhi on different capacities, have touched new low in their slugfest while people are gasping to breathe clean air. Already toxic air quality became more hazardous in the morning today when the ‘very poor’ air...
