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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.Fast-Unto-Death By 112 Farmers At Khanauri Border Is Pathetic
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Deteriorating health condition of the farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who has been fast-unto-death hunger strike since November 26, 2024, has become a matter of serious concern, since he has been willing to end his hunger strike if Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government agrees...
Bankrupt Economic Policies Of Modi Govt Have Led To More Suffering For People
By P. Sudhir The GDP growth figures being officially put out are suspect, given the fact that the calculation is based on an implicit inflation rate that is not even a fourth of that emerging from the Consumer Price Index (CPI). But despite such manipulated figures, the fact cannot...
Rahul Gandhi Has Given The Right Focus By Exposing Indore Speech Of Mohan Bhagwat
By Arun Srivastava Rahul Gandhi has come under severe attack from the saffron ecosystem for using the word “the state” while identifying the challenges and ideological threat the country and its people face today. Rahul is not a Marxist. But his remark “We are now fighting the BJP, the...
“Sangathan Srajan” Is A New Mantra For Rebuilding Congress In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: “Sangathan Srajan” Is the new mantra for Congress leaders and workers for building the organisation to face Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls in 2027.Although it is a big challenge for UP Congress leadership to achieve this task but AICC general Secretary incharge of UP Avinash Pande...
Rahul Gandhi Intensifies His Battle Against Sangh Parivar Over Bhagwat’s Remark
By Sushil Kutty Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, returned from wherever he was marking New Year from and promptly stirred the hornet’s nest, which is from where the BJP, RSS and the “Indian State” are forever in conflict with the Congress, the party which fought...
Global Economy To Weaken In 2025, Says 56 Per Cent Of Chief Economists
By Satyaki Chakraborty The global economy is set to face significant challenges in 2025, with 56% of chief economists surveyed expecting conditions to weaken, according to the latest Chief Economists Outlook from the World Economic Forum. Only 17% foresee an improvement, pointing to heightened uncertainty in key regions and...
President Biden’s Latest Relief To Cuba Is A Delayed Action But Welcome
By W. T. Whitney Jr. WASHINGTON DC: Only days before he will leave office, President Joe Biden on January. 14 finally removed Cuba from the U.S. list of “State Sponsors of Terrorism” (SSOT). Designating Cuba as a terrorist state has long been a part of the U.S. blockade against...
Mandate Against AAP Leaders Shows Centre Only Weighs Political Dividends Of Corruption
By K Raveendran The latest decision by the Modi government to grant sanction for prosecution of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia marks yet another chapter in the ongoing narrative of central agencies being leveraged for political ends. At its core, the move highlights a...
RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat Declares ‘True Independence Day’ Of India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak On January 14, 2025, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Chief Mohan Bhagwat declared that India achieved its ‘True Independence’ on Ram Mandir’s consecration day in Ayodhya, that he called ‘Partishtha Dwadashi’. Ram Mandir was consecrated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 22, 2024, but Bhagwat denied...
Donald Trump To Set The Agenda For Deliberations At World Economic Forum Meet
By Nitya Chakraborty The global body of the multinational CEOs World Economic Forum (WEF) meets annually in January end at Davos in Switzerland to discuss the global issues of development and technology but this year the 2025 conclave of WEF is going to witness an unusual affair of Donald...
Five European Countries Oppose Trump’s Formula For Defence Spending
By Satyaki Chakraborty Only a week before Donald Trump taking over as U.S. President on January 20, defence ministers of five European NATO member nations came out officially against U.S. President elect Donald Trump’s suggestion for raising defence spending to 5 per cent of the country’s GDP. The countries...
Cow Vigilantism Is Still Rampant Threatening Innocent People Of Minority Community
By Krishna Jha It is not the carnage yet, but horror keeps unfolding in various ways. One among them is cow vigilantism. The attack is real and fetal, and as usual the justification is irrational and horrific. A decade and more have gone by, but there has been no...
West Bengal BJP Is Still In Doldrums, No Breakthrough In Expansion
By Tirthankar Mitra Riven with factionalism made worse by a rank and file lowering in morale, West Bengal unit of BJP is not a political outfit which has some reasons to fulfil its promise to emerge as the ruling dispensation of the state post 2026 Assembly elections. Nowhere matching...
Delhi Slums And Unauthorised Colonies Possess The Key To Winning Delhi
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The way AAP, BJP and the Congress have been trying to woo the electorates living in Delhi’s slums, unauthorized colonies, and less developed areas, it is increasingly becoming clear that the key to winning the legislative elections lies with them. Over 50 per cent of...
President Zoran Milanovic’s Reelection In Croatia Is A Big Rebuff To Trump-Musk Far Right Threat To Europe
By Satyaki Chakraborty Is Europe finally giving a rebuff to the far right offensive to its democratic functioning by the Donald Trump-Elon Musk combination? The issue is now being discussed widely in European political circles after the resounding victory of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate Zoran Milanovic in...
Talk Of ‘Hindu Sherni’ Nupur Sharma Contesting As BJP Candidate Has No Basis
By Sushil Kutty A video of the castaway BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma taking part in a ‘Jan Jagran Yatra’ ahead of the Ayodhya Ram Mandir ‘pran pratishta’ claiming that this was Nupur Sharma campaigning for the upcoming Delhi assembly elections was fact-checked and found wrong. Unlike ‘Meta’, Facebook’s parent-body,...
Industrial Investment Climate In West Bengal Is Showing Some Positive Signs
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: It is time to say with a degree of confidence that an investment drought that has afflicted West Bengal all these years has started disappearing and the first signs of a sustainable improvement have become visible. The situation had turned worse after the Tatas...
Strict Regulation Of Private Healthcare System Is An Immediate Imperative For India
By Dr Abhay Shukla In December 2024, another shocking case of violation of patients’ rights and huge financial demand by a private hospital sparked public outrage and media attention. During this incident in Pune, the family of 35-year-old Tejaswini, who passed away on December 9, 2024, was forced to...
