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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.Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sharma Leads Lok Sabha Poll Campaign Of BJP On Communal Plank
By Ashis Biswas In Assam, Chief Minister Mr Himanta Biswa Sarma, responding to fresh charges of corruption from the opposition, has launched a sharp counter attack specially targeting the Congress party in the pre-poll campaign for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Assam...
Ecuador’s Presidential Poll Runoff On October 15 Is Going To Be A Game Changer
By Satyaki Chakraborty Ecuador belonging to the Latin American continent is witnessing its run off Presidential elections on October 15, Sunday culminating in a fierce poll campaign marked by jail killings, car bombings, shootings and a widespread security crisis involving the common citizens. The Left wing Presidential nominee Luisa...
Delhi Police Raids On Newsclick Is A Sort Of McCarthysm By The Centre
By Prabhat Patnaik The central government’s hounding of Newsclick reminds one of the children’s story about a tiger and a goat drinking water from the same stream. The tiger, wanting an excuse to attack the goat, accuses it of muddying the water it is drinking; when the goat points...
Hamas-Israel War Has Been Taking Serious Global Dimension In A Week
By Sushil Kutty ‘Global Jihad Day’, Friday, October 13, was an imposition on the non-Muslim world. The Muslim world has a grudge and the rest of the world has to pause and pay. It is about who is the aggressor and who is the silent sufferer? It is no...
Caste Census Demand To Shape Assembly Polls, 2024 Lok Sabha Agendas
By Rahil Nora Chopra The stage is all ready for the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections as the Election Commission of India announced the dates for the upcoming assembly polls to be held in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, and Mizoram. The polls will be held between November 7 and...
Fist Fights, Locking Union Minister In Party Office Mark BJP’s Factionalism In Bengal
By Tirthankar Mitra Just as Union home minister, Amit Shah and BJP national president JP Nadda are about to make a brief visit to West Bengal early next week, fissures threaten to turn into cracks in the state BJP unit. While leading lights of Trinamool Congress, the ruling dispensation...
United States Funding Of Israeli War Efforts Will Prolong West Asia Conflict
By Stephen Semler On Tuesday, Joe Biden said he’d formally ask Congress to approve military funding for Israel in the coming days, emphasizing: “We stand with Israel. And we will make sure it has what it needs to take care of its citizens, defend itself, respond to this...
Is Hunter Biden Influencing Washington’s Decisions Targeting Awami League Govt?
By Satyaki Chakraborty Is US President’s son Hunter Biden putting pressure on the US administration to tighten noose around the Bangladesh government headed by the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to pursue the agenda of the ruling Awami League’s rival Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) before the general elections scheduled early...
Just Condemning Hamas Is Not Adequate, India Has To Extend Solidarity To Palestinians Also
By P. Sudhir The ferocious conflict which has erupted with the astounding Hamas attacks in southern Israel and the Israeli counteroffensive with the savage bombardment of Gaza constitutes a new chapter in the ongoing history of the occupation and the resistance to it by the Palestinian people. At the...
BRS Under K Chandrasekhar Rao Is Still Frontrunner In Telangana Assembly Polls
By Sushil Kutty Elections often throw up surprises. Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao isn’t one for unexpected surprises though. He is confident his party, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi, will keep control of the Telangana assembly at the expense of the Congress and the BJP. Reports say money and...
Infighting Is The Biggest Challenge For BJP In Rajasthan Polls
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Rajasthan polls, that has been rescheduled for November 25 from November 23 by the Election Commission of India on account of very large number of weddings in the state, has offered the twin challenges of “infighting and anti-incumbency” for both the Congress and the BJP....
U.S. Must Support United Nations Call For Ceasefire In Gaza And Israel
By Phyllis Bennis The most recent eruption of violence in Gaza and Israel is a tragic reminder of the human consequences of decades of oppression. The human toll – hundreds of Palestinians and Israelis killed so far – tells that appalling story. Many of the targets, and many of...
Narendra Modi Government Is Intolerant To Any Independent Media
By Krishna Jha An unprecedented gloom has been setting over in our hitherto unblemished skies. All pervasive, suffocating. Since last nine years, right from 2014, there is all out destruction of everything positive. And it does get noticed. The sentinels of media convey to country how pillars are crumbling....
Hamas-Israeli Conflict Coincides With 50th Anniversary Of 1973 Oil Shock
By K Raveendran Curiously, the Hamas attack and the Israeli reprisal coincide with the 5oth anniversary of the first oil crisis, which plunged the world into an oil shock of unprecedented proportions, causing energy prices to skyrocket and leading to fuel shortages, particularly in the United States. And by...
Modi Factor Is Not A Decisive Factor In Poll Bound States
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The political pulse felt by the majority of analysts in the five poll bound states – Mizoram, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Telangana – suggests that “Modi Factor” has failed to emerge as decisive aspect so far. Rather, the roles of BJP’s state leaders have...
Israel-Hamas War Is Going To Have Some Impact On The Coming State Polls
By Sushil Kutty Voting for elections to the assemblies of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, and Mizoram are to take place from November 7 to 30. Counting of votes will be on December 3 and by evening of the day, the results will be plain to all and sundry...
Decoding The Origin Of The Hamas-Israel War Through Tumultuous Past History
By Anjan Roy Not unexpectedly, Israel-Hamas war has sparked off a battle of words and ideas between two mainline political parties in India. The prime minister’s statement on the Hamas attack as a terrorist act and full support to Israel came face to face from criticisms from the Congress....
Hamas Offensive Against Israel Was Aimed At Putting Palestine Issue To Global Attention Again
By Debabrata Biswas from Boston, USA The Hamas attack, unprecedented in scale and scope, is the deadliest offensive that Israel has faced in 50 years. In the surreptitious attack what Hamas called Operation Al Aqsa Storm / Flood, Hamas more than 900 Israelis have been killed since now and...
