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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.Nagpur Panchayat Poll Results Signal A Big Swing Against BJP-Shinde Combo
By Sushil Kutty The Bharatiya Janata Party could not be in a worse place than in Nagpur in the state ruled by the BJP-Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena alliance. The saffron party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah will be stewing in their juices when Congress leader...
Supreme Court Bench Behaved In A Bizarre Manner In Prof. Saibaba Case
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court of India has added very little to its credibility by holding a special sitting on a most uncommon Saturday morning and setting aside the Bombay High Court order for the release of human rights activist G N Saibaba, the wheel-chair bound former Delhi...
India Among Worst Child Food Poverty Stricken Countries
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India is among the worst countries in the world where children are facing severe child food poverty, the latest UNICEF data reveals. Severe child food poverty is reaching dire levels, 1 in 3 children under five live in it globally, but in 13 countries, situation...
America’s Right Wing Has Long Been Enamoured With Fascists Abroad
By Berry Craig There’s ample historical precedent for Donald Trump and the MAGA GOP embracing far-right, if not outright fascist, European politicians. Their latest hero is Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s likely new prime minister. Never mind that her authoritarian, racist, Christian nationalist, anti-immigrant, and anti-LGBTQ Brothers of Italy Party was...
1962 Missile Crisis Was A Turning Point For The Cuban Revolution
By Antoni Kapcia As academics and the media recall and reassess the Cuban missile crisis sixty years on, their focus will primarily be on the two superpowers — the United States and the USSR — that seemingly came close to nuclear war. However, it is also timely to reconsider...
Rising US$ Could Be Bad News For Import Happy Indian Economy
By Nantoo Banerjee Indian Rupee (INR) is constantly depreciating against the US Dollar (US$). If the trend continues the exchange rate of INR vis-à-vis US$ may touch Rs.100 for a dollar before the end of this financial year. It could be a matter of great concern if India continues...
Indian Trade Unions Have To Be Ready For Bigger Struggles In Coming Days
By Amarjeet Kaur The situation worldwide and in India for the working class and the common people in general has further deteriorated on all counts since the last CPI party congress held at Kollam, Kerala. In 2018. The 24th congress of the CPI is currently on in Vijayawada till...
Algorithm Management May Be Destructive To Labour Market
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Future of work has been increasingly dependent on algorithm management for quite some time, the process of which has been accelerated after the COVID-19 crisis changing the world of work. It is posing new challenges to the labour market in general, and workforce in particular....
Southern States Are Doing Better Than North In Development Parameters
By K R Sudhaman There is always a debate in India whether South is doing better than North. In the early years after independence North was doing better and South which always had better administration, was lagging behind economically. One of the reasons for South todo better in subsequent...
Modi-Shah Duo Gearing To Silence Their Critics Before 2024 Lok Sabha Polls
By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s words of caution to the natives of Gujarat; “stay alert and away from the “urban naxals” and foreign agents who were creating roadblocks in development and pursuing a malicious agenda to wreck India,” may appear to be of local character, it echoes...
Supreme Court Overruling Bombay High Court Order On Saibaba Is Bizarre
By Sushil Kutty The wheelchair-bound former Delhi University professor, GN Saibaba, accused of being a Maoist “mastermind”, remains incarcerated in Nagpur Central Jail despite the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court acquitting him, and five others, including one who is no more, ordering that they be released on...
Republicans Rally Behind Trump To Win Midterm Elections On November 8
By Debabrata Biswas from Boston Just three weeks are left for the holding of crucial midterm elections in United States of America on November 8. During this election, all the 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 Senate seats will be contested. Betting markets...
Russian Oil Price Cap Move Provides India Another Major Opportunity
By K Raveendran The move by the US and western nations to enforce a price cap on Russian crude as part of their sanctions against Moscow to put even a tighter leash on its finances provides another opportunity for India to maximise its benefits through the purchase of discounted...
RSS Has Started A Major Drive To Project Itself As Vanguard Of Indian Nationalism
By Harihar Swarup RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s vijayadashami speech exhibited the confidence of the organization and its strong desire to intervene in the contemporary social and cultural churning in India. RSS’s ideological shadow has spread beyond its organizational reach and cadre. Sontosh Yadav, the chief guest at the function...
Congress Presidential Contest Evokes Big Response In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Will Congress presidential hopeful Shashi Tharoor spring a surprise by winning the election for the top party post? That is the question uppermost in the minds of Congress leaders and activists in his home state Kerala. Political experts, however, say the odds are against Tharoor....
Narendra Modi Govt’s Official Covid Death Figures Need Thorough Scrutiny
By Sushil Kutty Earlier this month, October 10 to be precise, Janine Small, Pfizer’s president of international developed markets, stunned the world when she admitted to the European Parliament that Pfizer did not know if its Covid-19 vaccine had been tested for the prevention of the transmission of the...
Britain Paying The Price For Liz Truss’s Tilted Right Wing Agenda
By Arun Srivastava Riding on the back of Boris Johnson’s support, Liz Truss entered into the cosy office of the prime minister of Britain, but this success has not provided her with the vision as to how to govern Britain. During the Tory leadership contest, the former Chancellor Rishi...
Indonesian Muslims Gamble On Problematic Ties With Saudi Order
By James M Dorsey Nahdlatul Ulama, arguably the world’s only Muslim mass movement propagating a genuinely moderate and pluralistic form of Islam, has forged an unlikely, albeit temporary, alliance with the Saudi-controlled Muslim World League. The League is Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s chief propagator of a socially...
