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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.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...
Decoding Lessons From Mussolini’s Take Over Of Italy 100 Years Ago
By Krishna Jha October 31 was the day of ‘March on Rome’, when Mussolini proceeded towards the capital of Italy hundred years back, with his black shirt clad young boys with arms. Even before that on October 28, 1922, the king in Italy was forced to accept Mussolini as...
West Bengal BJP Unit Is Witnessing Continuous Faction-Fighting
By Tirthankar Mitra At a time when panchayat elections are inching closer in West Bengal, indiscipline is rife in state BJP, be it at the leadership level or among the rank and file. Posters seeking whereabouts of Durgapur-Asansol MP, Surinder Singh Ahluwalia in his constituency is a case in...
Mike Davis, Acclaimed Marxist Activist, Journalist, And Historian, Dies At 76
By Matt Bokovoy Mike Davis, the acclaimed Marxist activist, journalist, and historian, died at his home in San Diego on Oct. 25, after a years-long fight against esophageal cancer, with his wife Alessandra Moctezuma, the Chicana artist, curator and scholar, by his side. Davis was a prolific Marxist journalist,...
It May Be Time To Consider Setting Up Of A Competition Commission For Elections
By K Raveendran With a new round of assembly elections, including that of Gujarat, round the corner, the freebies issue has occupied the centre-stage of political discourse. The matter is now before the Supreme Court, which has favoured an early hearing of a PIL in this connection by a...
Developments Following Morbi Bridge Collapse Have Taken Bizarre Turn
By Sushil Kutty Funny things have been happening in Morbi Gujarat where a 143-year-old suspension bridge collapsed under the weight of its own expectations, killing 135 including 50 children. If the bridge was brought down by criminal negligence, nobody seems bothered, least of all the state government. In Gujarat...
