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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.Mamata Government In Bengal Lacking In Administrative Coordination
By Ashis Biswas Recent revelations of massive corruption in West Bengal Government’s Education department, along with shocking accounts of major criminal activity in Birbhum and neighbouring districts, have shattered the state’s administrative morale. The situation has deteriorated to a point where the Government stands publicly accused of spreading ‘fake...
Right Wing Alliance Set To Win September 25 National Elections In Italy
By Guido Liguori Italy’s general election promises victory for the right-wing alliance — thanks in part to an electoral system that everyone criticizes but no one has sought to change. The current law gives a huge advantage to parties who run in coalitions, who can win a large majority...
Our Prime Minister Gets Strength Through Disruption And Controversies
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned 72 on September 17 and the country celebrated how fast an African Cheetah can run in the Indian wild? Not faster than its destiny, right? Talking of which, Modi is not ‘Destiny’s Child’, he is just another man-sized Gujarati with the...
Digitisation Could Make India A Global Health And Wellness Hub
By K R Sudhaman Prime Minister Narendra Modi is committed to making India a global manufacturing hub and his stress on the need to work on easy transit to promote trade in central Asia and Europe at the recently concluded Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is well justified. Stepping up...
Nitish Kumar Imparts Fresh Dynamism To Opposition Unity Before 2024 Polls
By Harihar Swarup Take a look at three significant events in recent weeks. These political initiative will be a crucial in the general election scheduled for 2024. Earlier, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met all opposition leaders for several hours in New Delhi. He met Congress leader Rahul Gandhi...
Price Parity With Fuel Vehicles Next Year To Remove Major EV Hurdle
By K Raveendran A major hurdle in the shift to electric vehicles has been the price disadvantage of EV units. But this is expected to change soon, as electric vehicles are expected to hit price parity with petrol and diesel engines by next year. The shift is being made...
Reasons Behind Narendra Modi’s Praising Subhash Bose And Hating Nehru
By L S Herdenia What would have happened if Germany and Japan would have succeeded in defeating allied powers in the Second World War? In this context a remark by U Nu, the then Prime Minister of Burma was very significant. Our Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was on a...
Peasants Suicides Continuing In Trinamool Congress Ruled Bengal
By Ashis Biswas In West Bengal, the controversy over how many farmers have committed suicide in recent times is a settled issue. Despite strenuous efforts made by the state Government of late that no distressed farmer ever killed himself during the Trinamool Congress’s (TMC) tenure, it is common knowledge...
Labour Force In Pakistan Is Persistent Victim Of Unemployment, Poverty
By Sankar Ray Labour force in Pakistan confronts a crisis of existence. Working people have been on the brink of aggravated unemployment following the Coronavirus pandemic. In mid-2021, the awkward rise of job losses, aside from joblessness, in the country as a sequel to COVID-19 spread, reflected in a...
Karl Marx’s Translation Of “Capital” In French Turns 150 Years Today
By Marcello Musto Karl Marx’s French translation of “Capital” was first published on September 17, 1872. In February 1867, after more than two decades of herculean work, Karl Marx told his friend Friedrich Engels that the first part of his long-awaited critique of political economy was finally complete. Marx...
By Attacking Opposition During Yatra, Congress Has Harmed The Cause Of Unity
By Nitya Chakraborty In the renowned writer Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s novel “Kapalkundala”, there is a famous dialogue “Pathik, tumi ki path haraiacho” (Traveller have you lost your way)., Scanning the observations of the Congress spokesperson Jairam Ramesh in the course of the Bharat Jodo Yatra on its ninth day...
Privatising Public Sector Banks By Modi Government Is A Dangerous Move
By Prabhat Patnaik There are fundamental objections to the plan of the government to privatise at least some of the public sector banks. They centre around the fact that such a move will change the pattern of deployment of credit, away from productive activities towards speculation, away from peasant...
Congress Gears Up To Pick New Chief, Leaders Bat For Consensus
By Rahil Nora Chopra With the process for electing the new Congress president round the corner, senior party leaders have started batting for consensus in selecting the new AICC chief and seek to uphold the presence and prominence of the Gandhi family in the organisational matters in any sort...
Gujarat Is A Favourite Of Centre When Mega Projects Are Involved
By Sushil Kutty Some of the headlines make it sound like there was a fair bidding between Maharashtra and Gujarat for the Foxconn-Vedanta semiconductor project and Gujarat won the project, as well as the fair-play trophy, fair and square! Far from the truth! The fact is, Maharashtra never stood...
Bengal BJP Still Groping To Find Right Ways To Fight Trinamool Congress
By Tirthankar Mitra Given Bharatiya Janata Party’s goal of becoming the ruling dispensation in West Bengal, the saffron camp has put its best foot forward in the state even when it is in a twilight zone. The areas of darkness are formed by successive electoral defeats and desertions while...
In The New Normal, Kolkata’s Durga Puja Is Very Special As UNESCO Said
By Devasis Chattopadhyay With only a fortnight to go, this edition of Durga Puja in Kolkata has a special significance. Hailed as a public art exhibition on par with Venice Biennale and Rio Carnival, Durga Puja, this year, begins on October 1 in Kolkata and all over India. During...
Labour In Informal Sector Is In Pathetic Economic Condition In India
By Krishna Jha Covid was a reality all over the world in the years of 2020-2021.The epidemic was not alone, it was followed by devastation. The victim countries were dragged down from the development level they had been. India was no exception. But for other countries, their agenda never...
Union Home Minister Amit Shah Should Not Push Hindi In His Own Policing Way
By Sushil Kutty On the one hand we have a politician on a ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ and, on the other, there’s the politician who divides along linguistic lines. And the manner in which this is being done couldn’t be more untimely. In the sense, why give Hindi a bad...
