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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.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...
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...
