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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.The Worsening US-Saudi Split Could End The Brutal War In Yemen
By Branko Marcetic If you’re going to undermine your own public rhetoric and supposed values by cozying up to a brutal autocrat, you might as well get something out of it. While maybe an obvious point to the rest of us, it’s apparently something US officials are just now...
Decoding The Split Verdict Of Supreme Court On Hijab Ban Issue
By Sushil Kutty The day after the Supreme Court’s split verdict on the hijab, things are falling into place for a better understanding of the verdict. One, it has become clear that after failing with the essential religious practice (erp) as the raison d’etre for the ‘hijab’ in classrooms...
India’s Current Account Deficit Is Now Highest In Last Nine Years
By Dr. Nilanjan Banik Trade numbers for the fiscal 2022-2023 are looking dismal. The expectation is that for the Q1 and Q2 Fiscal 2022-2023, the Current Account Deficit (CAD) is expected to be the highest in 9 years. A quick search on items using the harmonized system (HS) at...
OPEC’s Decision To Cut Oil Output Is A Challenge To U.S. Hegemony
By Prabhat Patnaik What is called OPEC+ that is the13 members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) together with 11 other petroleum exporting countries led by Russia, decided on October 5 to cut their oil production by 2 million barrels per day, starting from November. The US...
IMF Calls For Global Solidarity In Ensuring Food Security For The Poor
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The world is reeling from multiple shocks and the global economic outlook looks increasingly difficult. Therefore, the IMF is in quest for a more resilient world, as is reflected in the IMF’s policy paper, called the Managing Director’s Global Policy Agenda 2022. It has come...
K Chandrasekhar Rao Asserts National Ambition With Pro-Farmer Image
By Rahil Nora Chopra Targeting the 2024 parliamentary elections, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has asserted that his party’s success in winning the support of women, farmers and marginalised groups with various welfare schemes, can be replicated at the national level. KCR has projected himself as a pro-farmer...
Angela Lansbury Was A Brilliant Actor And A Committed Socialist
By Eileen Jones It’s good to discover, in reading the tributes to Angela Lansbury — who died on October 11 at age ninety-six — that the beloved actor reportedly considered herself “a proud socialist.” She was a comrade via her illustrious lineage: her father was Edgar Lansbury, the British...
Xi Jinping To Emerge As Supreme Leader At 20th Chinese Communist Party Congress
By Nitya Chakraborty The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party begins on October 16 in Beijing. It will chart out the course of action for the next five years in terms of Chinese domestic politics, economy and also foreign policy, with the objective of catapulting the world’s...
Vijayawada Is All Set To Host 24th Congress Of CPI On October 14-18
By Binoy Viswam The heroic city of Vijayawada is all set to host the 24thCongress of Communist Party of India (CPI). The city has hosted the Party Congress twice before, in 1961 and 1975. On October 14, 2022, the Red flag, the flag of hope will be unfurled there...
Fractured Verdict On Hijab For School Children Creating Confusion
By Sushil Kutty When two honourable Supreme Court justices are unable to arrive at a mutually acceptable decision on the hijab, then why do you think the Karnataka High Court ruled that a classroom is out of bounds for religious symbols? The top court’s fractured verdict will keep the...
Unilateral Imposition Of Hindi Will Lead To Disunity And Discord In India
By Prakash Karat The Modi government has been trying to impose Hindi as the official language through various means. The recent instance is the report of the Committee of Parliament on Official Language headed by the union home minister, Amit Shah. The 11th volume of the committee’s report has...
Global Energy Security Under Serious Threat
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The next eight years of the present decade would be decisive not only for Net Zero by 2050, but also to ensure energy security. The world is already not on track to achieve SDG target of providing universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern...
Centre-State Confrontation Hurting Rural Poor In West Bengal
By Ashis Biswas In West Bengal, the administrative deadlock with the centre over the mandatory provision of 100 days work for unskilled rural people under the MNREGA scheme drags on, adding to the political concerns of the ruling Trinamool Congress(TMC) Government. This project, suspended since last December in the...
Annie Ernaux’s Writing Has Given Dignity To The Working Class Lives
By Jess Cotton Annie Ernaux, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature last week, was not on the other end of the telephone when the committee rang to deliver the news. Last year, she received a prank text telling her she had won the illustrious award, which might...
It Is High Time Age Of Supreme Court Chief Justice Is Reconsidered
By K Raveendran Chief Justice U U Lalit can feel happy that his 74-day tenure, coming to an end on November 8, is not the shortest in the history of India’s Supreme Court. That dubious record belongs to the 22nd chief justice, K N Singh, who occupied that position...
Despite Denials, Mallikarjun Kharge Has All The Stamp Of Gandhi Family
By Sushil Kutty Congress presidential candidate Shashi Tharoor is getting under the other Congress presidential candidate’s skin, party veteran Mallikarjun Kharge, who has to now defend himself from marketplace innuendos that his name for the top party post was “suggested” by none other than the party’s interim president, Sonia...
Economics Nobel This Year Celebrates Old Wines In New Bottles
By Anjan Roy Economists have ennobled their discipline by turning some basic common sense into highly esoteric and exotic body of intellectual exercise. Common housewife is the best economist for Aristotle. Economics for the Greeks was the knowledge of running a household’s balances. The economics Nobel prize this year...
Geopolitical Minefields Of President Erdogan’s Ambitious Turkic World
By James M Dorsey Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has blown new life into Turkey’s vision of a Turkic world that stretches from Anatolia to Xinjiang in north-western China. “Central Asia now resembles the 1990s when there was a huge competition between global and regional powers for influence over the...
