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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.Both Centre And The State Governments Have Failed India’s Hungry Children
By Sushil Kutty As if the remission to the “Gujarat gang-rapists” and the showboating from the ramparts of the Lal Qila weren’t enough, now there’s India’s humiliating 107 out of 121 ranking on the Global Hunger index, too, indicting the Modi Government. Only the morally-corrupt and the ethically-challenged will...
Kharge As Dalit President Can Improve Congress Tally In Gujarat
By Rahil Nora Chopra Veteran leader Mallikarjun Kharge becoming the third Dalit president of the Indian National Congress, after D Sanjivaiah (1962) and Jagjivan Ram (December 1969), is expected to have a big impact on Gujarat assembly polls. In the western state and home-turf of Prime Minister Narendra Modi,...
India Has Performed Worse Than Pakistan And Bangladesh In Hunger Index
By Prabhat Patnaik The Global Hunger Index (GHI) for 2022 has just come out, which shows India occupying the 107th position among the 121 countries for which the index is prepared (countries where hunger is not a noteworthy problem are left out of the index).India’s score on the hunger...
New Congress President Kharge Has To Launch An Ideological Battle Against BJP
By Arun Srivastava The presidential election has virtually split the grand old party of India, the Congress, on ideological plane. Congress has been a conglomerate of people having divergent political and social backgrounds. It never had a defined ideological line. The party primarily followed the centrist political line. Even...
USA’s Latest Sanction On Chinese Companies On Chips Is A Threat To Global Economy
By Prabir Purkayastha The US has gambled big in its latest, across-the-board sanctions on Chinese companies in the semiconductor industry, believing it can kneecap China and retain its global dominance. From the slogan of globalisation and “free trade” of the neoliberal 90s, it has reverted to good old technology...
Nepal’s General Elections On November 20 May Not Lead To A Stable Govt
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Nepal is going to polls on November 20 this year for the second time in its latest tryst with democracy. The first round of general elections took place in 2017 after the country got a brand new constitution in 2015. What makes the Nepal elections...
Congress Has A Golden Opportunity To Reunify And Rejuvenate The Party
By Sushil Kutty Suddenly everybody is an advisor to newly elected Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, advising him on how to go about running the 137-year-old party, which, if it had life of its own, will know the constant that nothing changes in the Congress till the Gandhi family wants...
India Under Narendra Modi Is The Hunger Spot Of The World In 2022
By Vikas Kumar The Global Hunger Index 2022, released on October 13, shows that India’s rank in the world has slipped further – from 101 last year to 107 this year – in terms of this important indicator of conditions of hunger and malnutrition. India’s rank is far below...
New Congress President Kharge Has To Tread Carefully
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Defeated, but not disgraced. That is the apt assessment of the outcome of the Congress presidential election, which saw Mallikarjun Kharge become the first non-Gandhi leader to head the grand old party in 24 years. The Congress veteran will officially take over the post on...
Akhilesh Yadav Is Positive To Nitish Kumar’s Unity Bid Of Socialist Groups
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The visit of leaders from different political parties to Sefai village in Itawah in Uttar Pradesh to meet Akhilesh Yadav to condole the death of his father and founder of Samajwadi Party Mulayam Singh Yadav had significance for future alliances by SP to face 2024...
British Prime Minister Liz Truss Steadily Losing Support Of Tory Members
By Arun Srivastava Britons nurse the feeling that Labour Party has lost the opportunity to take advantage of the present crisis facing the Tory Government led by Liz Truss. Though its leader Keir Starmer is trying to capitalise on the government crisis, the major section of the Labour leaders...
Home Ministry Granting Release Of 11 Rape Accused In A Hurry, Is Preposterous
By Arun Srivastava The truth is now in the public domain. While admiring “Nari Shakti (women’s power) on August 15, from the ramparts of the Red Fort, Narendra Modi resorted to uncanny act of concealing the fact that 11 rapists of Bilkis Begum and killers of her seven family...
Congress Has To Do A Lot In Next Three Weeks To Take On BJP In Himachal
By Sushil Kutty Most times we forget there is also Himachal Pradesh in the Union. Tucked between Punjab and the high Himalayas, largely Hindu–dominated with a burgeoning Muslim-led demographic change. This is a state nestling in the lower reaches of the Himalayas, a paradise on earth largely gone unnoticed...
Indian Economy Has Potential For High Growth But Job Generation Too Low
By K R Sudhaman After International Monetary Fund recognized India as a bright spot in a gloomy world economy in view of the impending recession, high inflation and none too comfortable geo-political situation. It is true that India is better off than other major economies where the slowdown and...
Baloch Conflict No Longer A Low-Level Insurgency
By Manish Rai For decades the Pakistani establishment has termed the Baloch insurgency as a low-intensity conflict confined mostly to Balochistan, the country’s largest province by territory. But that seems to have changed, as a spate of attacks that have taken place this year clearly demonstrate that insurgency has...
Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan At It Again
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan has, once again, kicked up a controversy by warning the ministers in the Pinarayi Vijayan Cabinet of expulsion if they make critical comments about him. In a tweet on Monday, the Governor said statements from ministers that lower the dignity...
New Third Front Of Seven Parties To Contest In Bangladesh Polls In 2023
By Ashis Biswas In Bangladesh, a new third force has emerged on the political scene, even as the ruling Awami League (AL) and the chief Opposition outfit Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) bitterly debate pre-election administrative arrangements. Seven parties and groups have recently launched a new formation called the Ganatantra...
Next Chief Justice Of India D Y Chandrachud Can Not Be Bracketed In Ideological Terms
By Harihar Swarup On October 16, 2019, when the Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi read out the unanimous verdict on Ayodhya case, something that aroused as much curiosity as the judgment by five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court was its authorship. In a departure from convention, the judgment did...
