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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.Is Narendra Modi’s ‘Gujarat Model’ Collapsing Along With Morbi Bridge?
By Sushil Kutty Congress leader Dr. Ajoy Kumar tweeted “Morbi bridge collapse is an ‘Act of Fraud’. God’s message to Modi ji”. New Twitter owner Elon Musk wouldn’t object, he is a free speech absolutist. But even he wouldn’t approve of “likes” garnered for being glib about 134 killed,...
Nitish Kumar Not Campaigning In Bihar Bypolls Due To Personal Issues
By Arun Srivastava The political developments are not shaping up in consonance to the desires of Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) supremo Nitish Kumar. While he wants that Bihar should strive for bringing the opposition parties on a common platform, allies of his Mahagathbandhan are not putting so much...
Lula’s Victory Over Bolsonaro Has Restored Hope For Democracy In Brazil
By Olavo Passos De Souza On Sunday, October 30, Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva achieved a historic victory over the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. In the closest race since the restoration of Brazilian democracy in the 1980s, Bolsonaro became the first incumbent to ever lose reelection. The...
Latin American Pink Tide Peaks With Left-Wing Lula’s Win In Brazilian Elections
By Nitya Chakraborty In a development of historic significance for Latin American politics, the Brazilian voters on Sunday, October 30, ousted far-right President Jair Bolsonaro after just one term and elected the leftist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva by a narrow margin. The Presidential runoff between the...
Time To Stabilise Indian Rupee To Make It A Global Currency
By Nantoo Banerjee Reserve Bank Deputy Governor T Ravi Sankar is absolutely right to say that there is no alternative to the internationalisation of Indian Rupee (INR) despite the domestic monetary challenges it will pose. The use of INR in cross-border transactions is expected to mitigate currency risks for...
Indian Banks Are Far Behind In Adoption Of New Digital Technologies
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Early this month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated 75 Digital Bank Units (DBUs) to mark 75 years of Independence. These brick-and-mortar digital banks one each in 75 districts of India aims to take the benefits of digital banking to every part of the country –...
BJP Is In Backfoot Over ‘Operation Lotus’ In KCR’s Telangana
By Sushil Kutty Some days you’re the bug, some days you’re the windshield! Of late, the Bharatiya Janata Party is the bug plastered all over India’s windshield. Before the ‘Bridge over River Machchhu’ in Morbi collapsed, there was ‘Operation Lotus’ going completely wrong in Telangana, making Chief Minister K...
Narendra Modi’ Talk Of ‘One Nation, One Uniform’ Has Dangerous Intent
By Arun Srivastava Except jabbing his jumlas and narrating his “man ki baat” that too once in a month, Narendra Modi is not known to be upfront in his expressions and usually refrains from conveying his thoughts and ideas to the people of the country. But whenever he speaks,...
Sayantan Basu’s Letter Exposes The Big Divide In West Bengal BJP
By Tirthankar Mitra Poised to emerge as ruling dispensation of West Bengal an year ago before state Assembly polls, state BJP hopes fell flat thereafter. And now the party finds itself to be a house divided with intra party squabbles, so far under the wraps is now in the...
Fast-Growing Indian Market Irresistible Attraction For Digital Payment Giants
By K Raveendran Violations and atoning for them are in the DNA of Google and its owner Alphabet. Google had to pay penalties of Rs 2,274 crore within the space of a week, in two orders issued by the Competition Commission of India for misusing its dominant position in...
States Are Lagging In Spending For Developmental Needs In 2022-23
By Harihar Swarup From a fiscal point of view, the state governments are in a strong position to emerge key drivers of economic growth this year. But while the availability of funds doesn’t appear to be a constraint, surprisingly, actual spending by states so far has been muted. Their...
Early India-UK FTA Prospects Brighten With Rishi Sunak Becoming British PM
By K R Sudhaman There is a general euphoria with a PIO Rishi Sunak becoming Prime Minister of United Kingdom. This is natural as India being a vibrant democracy, politics is at its best even on a non-issue. In this, there is some case for celebration with Sunak being...
EPFO Payroll Data Reveals Sharp Fall In Formal Job Creation
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The provisional payroll data of EPFO released in October 2022 reveals that formal job creation in August sharply dropped by 7 per cent compared to a month earlier in July, though the government press release preferred to claim that the organisation added 16.94 lakh net...
Election Commission Is Giving PM More Time To Announce Projects In Gujarat
By Sushil Kutty Perhaps the Election Commission wants to give Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi more time to dog-whistle the Gujarat electorate with election-oriented development projects, like the Tata-Airbus C-295, and bombard voters with election-winning poll-promises which may or may not be kept. Gujarat is Narendra Modi’s home-state....
Azam Khan’s Sentence Is Okay But What About Hate Speeches By BJP Leaders
By Arun Srivastava Only after six days of the Supreme Court passing stringent orders to the police chiefs of Delhi, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh to file suo motu cases against hate speeches made by people from any religion, and warned of contempt action if the orders of the court...
Mayawati Making Serious Efforts To Win Over Muslim Support In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) national president Mayawati is busy these days to enlarge the support base of her party to face civic polls and later on Lok Sabha polls in 2024. After worst ever performance in Uttar Pradesh assembly polls held in March this year,...
Christian Nationalism A New Threat To Israel’s National Security
By James M Dorsey The threats to Israel’s existence as a democratic Jewish state have multiplied and could weaken or undermine a pillar of Israeli national security: unquestioned US support. Rising anti-Semitism among Christian nationalists, together with Evangelicals, the mainstay of US grassroots support for Israel, threatens to drive...
Decoding How Mussolini Came To Power In Italy One Hundred Years Ago
By Clara E. Mattei Beneto Mussolini took over effective power in Italy in October 1922Just over a month after the Italian fascists’ March on Rome in October 1922, the parliamentary votes of the National Fascist Party, the Liberal Party, and the People’s Party (or the popolari, a Catholic party...
