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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.Declining Chinese Economic Growth Is Leading New U.S. Investments To India
By Subrata Majumder India is not a member of RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership). Neither it is party to BRI (Belt and Road Initiative). Both are predominantly influenced by Chinese economic and political muscles. RCEP is facing problems, owing to ASEAN paranoia over China’s increasing influence, without any headwind...
The Curious Duel Between VHP And Shazia Ilmi On Remission To Killers
By Sushil Kutty Either the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) thinks Prime Minister Narendra Modi doesn’t read newspapers or there must be another reason why the BJP cannot keep its national spokesperson Shazia Ilmi in check. It rankles the VHP no end that an “import to the BJP” can be...
Nitish Kumar And Lalu Yadav’s Meeting With Sonia Gandhi This Week Is Highly Significant
By Arun Srivastava Unlike some of the leaders of the regional and opposition parties who subscribe to the BJP invectives of the Congress as spent force and losing the sting, the Bihar chef minister Nitish Kumar and the veteran Lalu Yadav, chief of the RJD, nurse strong feeling that...
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Charged With Major Scam
By L S Herdenia With hardly one year left for Vidhan Sabha elections, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is facing the charge of scam perhaps as serious as VYAPAM. The scam has been brought into open by the Madhya Pradesh Accountant General. The accountant general detected alleged...
Supreme Court Keeps Its Word For Protecting Rights Of Undertrials
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court has kept its word in terms of protecting the rights of undertrials by granting bail to journalist Siddique Kappan, who has spent over two years in UP jails without trial in connection with the Hathras conspiracy case. The decisive action comes within weeks...
Queen Elizabeth Has Left Behind An Unequal And Poorer British Society
By Arun Srivastrava In the death of Queen Elizabeth II, a divided Britain finds itself in a mystified situation where the country’s economy under the new prime minister Liz Truss not only faces the worst nature of shattering , it also confronts the threat of losing the emblem of...
Rahul Gandhi Has To Be Careful In Meeting Right People During Yatra
By Sushil Kutty The ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ of the Congress was in the “land of Kamaraj” when Rahul Gandhi met two people, a teenage girl of about “12/14”, and a Catholic “father” of no mean controversies. If the girl’s curiosity was a welcome diversion for Rahul Gandhi, the Congress...
Indian Economy Needs Fresh Push But People’s Interests Are Supreme
By Harihar Swarup The Indian economy was expected to collapse due to pandemic. But its recovery has been better than most countries. Appropriate counter – cyclical policy enabled this but it worked because reforms had reached a threshold of adequacy. In the recent past growth suffered because of an...
Bolsonaro Is Trying To Repeat Trump Game Even Before October 2 Polls
By Satyaki Chakraborty Only three weeks are left for the holding of the historic Presidential elections in Brazil on October 2 this year but the right wing President Jair Bolsonaro who is contesting the elections again challenging the opinion poll favourite Workers Party candidate former President Luiz Inacio Lula...
Queen Elizabeth Was A Witness To The Decline Of Britain’s Power In Global Arena
By Anjan Roy It is hard to think now of England without Queen Elizabeth II. She had been there for as long as anyone could remember. A reign of seventy years. This moment would have been somewhat similar to when Queen Empress Victoria had died in 1901. She had...
Latest I-T Raids On Think Tanks Reveal Nervousness Of Ruling Regime
By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised the people of India of having good days, is himself passing through his worst days. Bizarre are the ways in which the Income Tax Department has searched this week the premises of three leading bodies, Centre for Policy Research (CPR),...
Rahul Commences Ambitious ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ From Sriperumbudur
By Rahil Nora Chopra Congress leader Rahul Gandhi launched his most cherished “Bharat Jodo Yatra” after paying homage to his father Rajiv Gandhi at Sriperumbudur, where he was assassinated in 1991. It might lead to a turning point in Indian politics and could end up projecting Rahul Gandhi as...
Finance Ministry Officials Glossing Over First Quarter GDP Estimates
By Prabhat Patnaik The estimates of Gross Domestic Product for the April-June quarter released by the government of India on August 31 paint a dismal picture of the Indian economy. Since the GDP in real terms (at 2011-12 prices) shows an increase of 13.5 per cent over the first...
NDTV’s Sreenivasan Jain Allowed Donald Trump To Play On His Own Terms
By Sushil Kutty In the United States former presidents continue to be ‘President’ for the rest of their lives. And so, ‘President Trump’ gave an interview to NDTV and but for the fact that seven seas separated India from the United States, Trump wouldn’t have agreed to the interview...
“It Is Outrageous That Germany Is Sending Weapons To Ukraine To Continue War”
By Ben Chacko BERLIN: The death of Mikhail Gorbachev on August 30 brought discussion of the collapse of Soviet socialism back to the fore—especially as the neoliberal world order it ushered in is crumbling around us. Just a couple of days before the last leader of the Communist Party...
Nitish Kumar’s Delhi Visit Has Helped The Cause Of Opposition Unity Against BJP
By Nitya Chakraborty Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) supremo Nitish Kumar’s talks this week in Delhi with most of the leaders of the anti-BJP opposition parties have been very helpful in paving the way for understanding of the need for a joint front of the parties who are...
Kerala Governor Is Misusing His Position By Taking Arbitrary Decisions
By Prakash Karat The governor of Kerala, Arif Mohammad Khan, has been interfering in the affairs of the state universities and taking arbitrary decisions, misusing his position as chancellor of these universities. Recently, the governor appointed a search committee for the post of vice chancellor of Kerala University bypassing...
Women Can’t Wait For Another 300 Years For Gender Equality
By Dr. Gyan Pathak A new UN report has warned that the world would take another 300 years to achieve gender equality if the countries perform to continue as usual. It is too long a time for which generations of girls and women must not be put to peril....
