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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.Akhilesh Yadav Focuses On Padayatras To Meet BJP Challenge In 2024 Polls
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Leader of Opposition and Samajwadi Party national President Akhilesh Yadav has decided that his party would hit the streets on public issues to take on BJP to face 2024 Lok Sabha. Former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav led impressive padayatra of his party legislators on the...
Hate Mongering Has Serious Physical And Mental Health Impact
By Dr Arun Mitra Health refers to a state of complete emotional and physical well-being. It is, therefore, important that social and environmental milieu is conducive and fulfils the criteria of better nutrition, equitable distribution of resources and affordable healthcare facilities. There have to be sufficient conditions to prevent...
Inflated Stock Prices Are Behind Gautam Adani’s Massive Wealth Spurt
By Nantoo Banerjee The skyrocketing wealth of Ahmedabad-based business tycoon Gautam Adani in the last three years may be exciting news for shareholders of Adani group companies, but the same can’t be said about lenders to those enterprises as the liabilities don’t match with their real assets. According to...
ASHA Workers Helping Deprived Sections Are Themselves Deprived
By Dr. Gyan Pathak “ASHA will be the first port of call for any health related demands of deprived sections of the population, especially women and children, who find it difficult to access health services,” read the Union Government’s document on Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA). However, ASHA workers...
BJP Bihar Leaders Start Vilification Campaign Against Nitish Kumar
By Arun Srivastava The cat is out of the bag. It is no more a secret that the week old indiscriminate firing by four criminals in Begusarai of Bihar was planned by close aides of a local BJP leader. Only a couple of days back, a Congress leader came...
Bizarre Reactions To The Leaked Videos From A Girls Hostel Of Chandigarh
By Sushil Kutty ‘Iconoclastic filmmaker dead’ read the headline, and people reckoned rightly that it must be about the death of French filmmaker Jean Luc Godard, whose reputation as an “image destroyer” was an established fact long before he called it a day. Veneration of anybody and anything was...
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...
