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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.Polarised Brazil Poised For Run Off On October 30 As Lula Is Short Of Majority
By Satyaki Chakraborty Brazil, the largest populated country in Latin America, failed to elect its next President in the national elections held on October 2 as the front runner in opinion polls Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the left-wing former president got 48.4 per cent of the votes polled-slightly...
Bharat Jodo Yatra In Karnataka Is Crucial For Congress Before Assembly Polls
By Sushil Kutty The Congress ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ has been in Karnataka since September 30. It rolled in from Gudalur in Tamil Nadu to Gundlupet in Karnataka. Add the third ‘G’, ‘Rahul Gandhi’, and it will be like the stars were in alignment. Rahul Gandhi started the Karnataka leg...
Rahul Gandhi Is Getting Massive Response In Karnataka During Yatra
By Arun Srivastava BENGALURU: Before Bharat Jodo Yatra of Rahul Gandhi entered Karnataka on September 30 and is getting massive response. The disinformation unit of the BJP had tried to create the impression across the country ably assisted by the mainstream media, especially the TV news channels, that the...
Leading Marxist Scholar Ramkrishna Bhattacharya Passes Away In Kolkata
By Subhendu Sarkar Dr. Ramkrishna Bhattacharya, a renowned Kolkata based Marxist scholar passed away in a city hospital on October 2. He was 74. An unrepentant old-fashioned Marxist, Ramkrishna Bhattacharya preferred, for the most part of his life, to work for the ‘party in the broad historical sense’, as...
Congress Depending On Imported BSP Leaders For Revival In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: With the decline of BSP in successive elections, Congress in Uttar Pradesh is now depending on imported leaders from that party to regain traditional dalit votes in 2024 Lok Sabha poll. Major political parties were surprised when Congress high command announced the name of BSP...
BJP Unit In Madhya Pradesh Making Massive Preparations For Assembly Polls
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Both the major political parties of Madhya Pradesh BJP and the Congress have taken two very crucial steps in view of the coming elections of state Vidhan Sabha. Among the two the state BJP has held a marathon session of important leaders of the...
Kodiyeri’s Death: An Irreparable Loss To Kerala CPI(M)
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It may sound clichéd. But it is true that the sad demise of Kodiyeri Balakrishnan marks the end of an era in CPI(M) politics in particular and Kerala politics in general. In other words, Kerala politics will never be the same with the exit of...
Higher Gas Royalty To Cause Ripple Effect, Squeeze Household Budgets Further
By K Raveendran The government has raised the price of natural gas by an incredible 40 percent to take it to a new level, and the move comes like a bolt from the blue to consumers who are already finding their energy costs unbearable. Household budgets are expected to...
Nitish Kumar-Lalu Yadav Combine Has Potential To Unite Kurmis With Yadavs
By Harihar Swarup The increase in visibility and profile of Nitish in national politics ever since he dumped the BJP and joined hands with Lalu Prasad Yadav has spotlighted the OBC Kurmi community to which Bihar Chief Minister belongs. Kurmis are a small community than Yadavs, they have not...
Tharoor Vs Kharge – It Is A Battle Between Change And Continuity In Congress
By Sushil Kutty There was Sir C Sankaran Nair, the only Malayali Congress president in a 100 plus years. He was elected in 1897. Nair rose from obscurity to prominence and left behind a big family and a sprawling estate. A grandson was Lt. Gen. Candeth, the liberator of...
Festival Season Could Not Generate Enough Jobs
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Festival Season could not generate enough employment in September 2022 which ended up with unemployment rate of 7.7 per cent in urban India, still above 7.37 per cent of October 2021 indicating weak revival of job market in the country. It is significant since...
Corporate Hospitals Are Fleecing Common Patients By Overcharging
By Dr Arun Mitra The issue of overcharging by the corporate hospitals has been a matter of much concern. In 2017 it came to highlight when a child suffering from Dengue Fever could not be saved in the Fortis hospital, Gurgaon but the parents were billed Rs.15 Lakhs. The...
Supreme Court Has Recognised Pregnant Woman’s Right To Dignity
By Rohin Bhatt When the Delhi High Court dismissed the matter of X versus. The Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare Department, I was apprehensive that this case would end in disappointment and result in a situation which is similar to what is happening after the United States Supreme...
Southeast Asia Mirrors Middle East’s Increasing Religious Fundamentalism
By James M Dorsey In a mirror image of recent polling in the Middle East, a just-published survey of Muslims in Southeast Asia suggests Islam’s central role in people’s daily lives and choices. The survey was published days after former Indonesian minister of social affairs Habib Salim Segaf Al-Jufri...
Netflix Release Blonde Is Marilyn Monroe Abased All Over Again
By Eileen Jones By now the Netflix film Blonde is notorious for its length, it’s NC-17 rating, and its cruelly narrow view of film star Marilyn Monroe (Ana de Armas) as a relentlessly abused and exploited waif from early childhood through her death of a drug overdose at age...
It Is Going To Be An All Out War In Ukraine Now Between Russia And NATO
By Debabrata Biswas from Boston When Russia, on February 24, 2022 waged a full scale military invasion of Ukraine, many a people and President Putin himself thought that it would be a cakewalk like Russia’s previous invasion of Crimea. But since then the Ukrainians are fighting back vigorously under...
India Among 42 Countries Where People Are Being Silenced
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India is among the 42 countries where victims of rights violations, human rights defenders and journalists have suffered reprisals and intimidation by States and non-State actors – including being detained, targeted by restrictive legislation and surveilled both online and offline. It has been revealed in...
India Is Facing Again A Foreign Exchange Crisis Hitting Balance Of Payments
By Prabhat Patnaik On September 23, the value of the rupee vis-a-vis the dollar fell to a new low: it crossed 81 to a dollar after some weeks of relative stability when it hovered between 79 and 80. And it fell despite the Reserve Bank’s running down of foreign...
