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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.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...
BJP Is Using The Electoral Bonds Scheme To Cripple The Opposition
By Nitya Chakraborty Latest reports that the BJP leadership has offered a few legislators of the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti a total of Rs. 1,00 crore has created furore in the state capital Hyderabad and as usual the BJP leaders have denied this. But, this type of move...
Handing Over Tata-Airbus Project To Gujarat Is The Height Of Partiality
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi has handed the prestigious and precious C-295 Tata-Airbus project to Gujarat, his home state which will go to polls any time before the year is out, but the election date for which hasn’t been announced yet! Could it be that the...
Tory Party And Its Backers Favour Unbridled Capitalist Practices
By Prabhat Patnaik The most intriguing question with regard to Liz Truss’ resignation as the prime minister of Britain after a mere 44 days in office is this: what is it about her economic programme that the “market” (read “finance capital”) found unpalatable? At its core after all...
Tharoor Absent In Kharge’s High-Level Steering Committee
By Rahil Nora Chopra With Mallikarjun Kharge taking over as the new president of the Indian National Congress, a steering committee with 47 members — including Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi, AK Antony, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, KC Venugopal, Salman Khurshid and Jairam Ramesh — has been constituted...
No Sign Of Early Peace In Myanmar As Junta Intensifies Its Attacks
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav In a meeting of foreign ministers of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries on Thursday, ways to reduce conflict in Myanmar were discussed. The regional block that comprises 10 member countries including Myanmar held its meeting without Myanmar, which has been barred...
24th Party Congress Of CPI Has Charted A New Path To Fight RSS-BJP Agenda
By Binoy Viswam The 24th Congress of the Communist Party of India will be marked as the Congress of confidence and rejuvenated spirit. The Party Congress held in the historic city of Vijayawada gave new impetus to the Party to march forward. Each moment of the Congress from October...
Kerala Governor Arif Md. Khan Is Flouting All Norms On Centre-State Relations
By Prakash Karat Kerala is witnessing the spectacle of a governor who is out of control. One day he is demanding the resignation of all the vice chancellors of Kerala universities and on another day he “withdraws pleasure” from a minister in the government and asks the chief minister...
Raging Debate On ‘Muslim Prime Minister’ In India Is Uncalled For
By Sushil Kutty Congress leader Shashi Tharoor started the whole shebang. And he couldn’t have been more specious. “Shouldn’t India have a Muslim Prime Minister now that Britain has a Hindu Prime Minister?” Problem is Tharoor gets away with the contentious just because he throws worthless words like “floccinaucinihilipilification”...
Garbage Mountains In Delhi Now A Major Political Battle
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Chief Minister of Delhi and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal accused the BJP on Wednesday of building three garbage mountains in 15 years and filling the national capital with waste, and then visited the largest site at Ghazipur today, that became a scene with BJP workers...
Left Wing Luiz Lula All Set To Be Next Brazilian President After October 30 Poll
By Satyaki Chakraborty Brazil’s Presidential frontrunner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, better known as Lula is set to win in the crucial elections on October 30. Just seventy-two hours before the elections, the opinion polls give Lula a handsome margin of six to seven percent as against the incumbent...
Assam Govt Sealing The Just Inaugurated Miya Museum Is A Case Of Vendetta
By Ashis Biswas With the Assam Government sealing the newly opened museum devoted to ‘Miya culture’ within hours of its opening in Goalpara district, clearly the targeted marginalisation of Bengali speaking Muslim settlers is set to intensify further. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma personally spearheads the offensive, describing...
