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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.Human Sacrifice Trauma Tarnishes Image Of ‘Progressive’ Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A case of ‘human sacrifice’, in which two women were brutally killed, has shocked Kerala. It is difficult to believe that such an act of unspeakable barbarity should happen in a progressive state like Kerala. But that is the chilling reality to which traumatized Keralites...
Al-Zawahin Led Al-Qaeda With Equal Ruthlessness As Osama Bin Laden
By Harihar Swarup Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian-born surgeon turned-Jihadi known as al-Zawahin who assured the leadership of al-Qaeda after killing of Osama bin Laden led a life steeped in secrecy, betrayal, conspiracy and violence, after the September 11 attacks against U.S. in 2001. While bin Laden, who was killed...
AAP Supremo Arvind Kejriwal Is Trying To Compete With BJP In Hindutva Race
By Sushil Kutty At last a political party other than the Bharatiya Janata Party has caught on that cornering increasingly rabid Hindu votes is half the electoral battle won in Modi’s India. For decades, the “secular” and “communal” Hindus were separated by the Muslim vote-bank with the secular Hindus...
BJP Gets More Political Concerns On Its Platter Before 2024 Polls
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The two-day National Convention of RJD held on October 9-10 in Delhi has made it clear that there will be a united opposition led by the congress to dethrone the BJP in Lok Sabha Election 2024. RJP leader Lalu Yadav’s saying this in categorical terms...
Amit Shah Is Trying To Exploit JP’s Name In His Current Visit To Bihar
By Arun Srivastava After their design to confine Nitish Kumar to Bihar going haywire, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his lieutenant Amit Shah have chalked out a fresh strategy to unleash a blistering attack on him and portray him as an opportunist politician who even did not care for...
Absence Of Mulayam Singh Yadav Will Have Deep Impact On Samajwadi Party
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Unless Samajwadi Party National President Akhilesh Yadav understands meaning of Mulayam Singh Yadav’s role in the evolution of Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh, it would be a very difficult task to run the party in his absence. Akhilesh Yadav will have to see how his...
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan Is On Backfoot Over Leaked Audio Tapes
By Sankar Ray The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman and the erstwhile Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan’s threat to move the court over the recent audio leaks questioning how and who did leak them suggests that that the PTI chief seems to be on the lookout for an escape from...
Panchayat Polls In Bengal Will Be A Fight Between Trinamool Congress And BJP
By Tirthankar Mitra Panchayat elections scheduled to be held in West Bengal early next year will be in stark contrast to the rural polls held five years ago. But the CPI-M has little reason to be upbeat about its chances of surging past the BJP which many voters opposed...
CPI Has To Take Key Role In Building Broader Unity Against Ruling BJP
By Nitya Chakraborty The Communist Party of India (CPI) is holding its 24th Party Congress at Vijayawada on October 14 ro 18 this year at a crucial time of the country in terms of both politics and economy. There has been a decisive shift in the political direction of...
India’s Politicised Police Is Mostly Busy Protecting Ruling Party Concerns
By Nantoo Banerjee Last month, the alleged murder of a 19-year-old girl receptionist, Ankita Bhandari, in the Vanantara resort in Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Uttarakhand’s Pauri district sparked massive outrage across the country. The girl went missing on September 18 following which a missing complaint was lodged by her parents...
Election Commission Is Functioning In A Bizarre Manner In Shiv Sena Symbol Issue
By Sushil Kutty At the heart of politics is cowardice. Okay, foolhardiness. Take demonetization, for instance. It was a reckless display of authoritarianism, unbridled power, when the BJP-led NDA Government tipped its hat to its Prime Minister and forgot that in a democracy, collective decisions are the norm and...
Freebies Debate In India Highlights The Limits Of Judicial Overreach
By Mayuri Gupta Over the last few months, what the remit of political campaign promises should be has remained constant in public discourse. This increased attention for election promises is partly the result of a public interest litigation (‘PIL’) filed at the Supreme Court in January by politician and...
President Putin Is Losing His Options In Ukraine After Latest Reverses
By Anjan Roy The Ukraine war is taking a turn after seven and a half months which is worrying strategic experts and militaries in Europe in new ways. If initially the worry was about an outright defeat of Ukraine and presence of Russia in eastern parts in a more...
India Needs A Major Revolution In Healthcare System In Next 25 Years
By Harihar Swarup A writer woke up in panic but felt relieved when felt it was only nightmare. He had gone back in time to being a young doctor, feeling helpless with high rate and mortality rates, a paediatric ward filled with children suffering from tuberculosis meningitis, polio, severe...
Sigh Of Relief As OPEC-Plus Cut Unlikely To Reach Declared Levels
By K Raveendran As the global oil markets digest the news about OPEC+ announcement of a 2 million barrels per day of crude output cut, more details emerging from market analysts should calm Indian nerves a bit as the impact may not be as severe as feared. The Brent...
Citizens Committee Blames Centre For Not Doing Enough To Quell NE Delhi Riots
By Satyaki Chakraborty A Citizens Committee comprising former Supreme Court and High Court judges and a former Home Secretary of the Union Government have authored a report raising serious questions about the role of the news media, social media, Bharatiya Janata Party (‘BJP’) and Hindu nationalist leaders, the Delhi...
Digital Credentials Needed For 80 Per Cent Of Jobs In India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Explosive growth and spread of digital technologies have brought transformations changes to the working world. Labour market is being reshaped, demand for digital skills and competencies increasing, and the demand for people who perform routine manual jobs is reducing. The COVID-19 crisis accelerated digitalization and...
Uddhav Thackeray Is Emerging As A Principled Leader In His Battle Against Shinde
By Sushil Kutty Uddhav Thackeray grew up jostling with a rival for his father Balasaheb Thackeray’s pats and “well-dones”. Cousin Raj Thackeray was finally gone and the years thereafter erased the memory of living with a ‘resentment’. But, irony of all ironies, whoever would have thought that a grown-up...
