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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.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...
Death Of Eight Persons During Flash Floods In Mal River In Bengal Poses Many Questions
By Tirthankar Mitra Questions outnumber answers in the tragic death of eight persons in a flash flood in Mal river in North Bengal recently. Even as the Opposition is crying itself hoarse that a “temporary barrage” allegedly in aid of the sand mafia led to the tragedy, the theory...
Betting On The Wrong Horse: Battle To Define Moderate Islam
By James M Dorsey Proponents of a moderate Islam that embraces tolerance, diversity, and pluralism may be betting on the wrong horse by supporting Muslim scholars on autocrats’ payroll. Polling in the Middle East seems to confirm that state-sponsored clerics lack credibility. Recent research suggesting that non-violent protest has...
Bharat Jodo Yatra In Karnataka Has Given A Big Boost To Congress
By Nitya Chakraborty The Bharat Jodo Yatra led by the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi completed one month of its march in Karnataka on October 6. With the participation of the Congress president Sonia Gandhi, the Yatra got massive character boost, attracting thousands of men, women and even children, as...
Eurozone Countries Facing Double Digit Inflation Hitting Working Class
By Prabhat Patnaik For the first time ever, the annual rate of inflation in the Eurozone, measured by the Consumer Price Index, has reached double digits: it exceeded 10 per cent in September 2022, up from 9.1 per cent in August. Energy and food prices of course drove this...
Digvijaya Singh Likely To Be Leader Of Opposition In Rajya Sabha
By Rahil Nora Chopra Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge, after filing his nomination for the election for the party presidential post, resigned as the Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Rajya Sabha. He met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and submitted his resignation and in line with the party’s one-leader, one-post...
Indian Economy Beset With Dwindling Growth And High Food Inflation
By Sanjay Roy The post-pandemic recovery in the world economy that picked up in 2021 is likely to slow down due to expectations of rising inflation, continuing war, restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic and prolonged real estate slump in China as well as a slower than anticipated consumer...
Narendra Modi Govt’s Draft Telecom Bill Is A Gift To Telecom Monopolies
By Prabir Purkayastha The government has recently released a Draft Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022, for public comments. At the same time, the union government has withdrawn the Personal Data Protection Bill, which had been in the making for five years. This bill was to give a framework for the...
Atrocities Against Dalits In India Have Recorded Steep Rise Under Modi Regime
By Dr. Soma Marla We are celebrating 75thyear of our independence and our prime minister proudly claimed that we are now in the cusp of Amrit Kaal. In these times of Amrit Kaal in Lakhimpur Kheri of UP, two Dalit sisters were raped and murdered, their bodies left hanging...
Tripura Bats For New Tea Auction Centre At Dharmanagar Town
By Ashis Biswas Prospects have brightened for a new tea auction centre (TAC) in Northeast India to be located in Tripura, following recent negotiations among local trade circles and state officials. Earlier, Indian Tea Association(ITA) authorities had suggested that NE-based tea producers , especially those operating out of the...
Election Commission Is Infringing On The Rights Of Political Parties
By Prakash Karat The Election Commission of India wants political parties to provide detailed information about the financial implications of the promises made in their election manifestos as well as the effects of these promises on the fiscal sustainability of the state or central government’s finances. For this, the...
Economic Crisis In India Accentuating With Continuing Loss Of Jobs
By Krishna Jha “One of the most striking results of the path of capitalist development is the concentration of Capital with economic power in the hands of big monopolies who enrich themselves at the expense of people and even other broad sections of the Indian bourgeoisie… “ These are...
