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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.Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo’ Yatra Losing Focus In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Is Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo’ yatra losing focus during its Kerala leg? The answer to that question, unfortunately, has to be in the affirmative. The Congress had started the yatra with the express objective of countering the BJP-led Union Government’s ‘divisive and anti-federal agenda. A...
Indonesia As G-20 Chairman Requires A Tightrope Walk
By James M Dorsey Indonesia’s geopolitical plate is piling up as the archipelago state prepares to host the Group of 20 (G20) summit and associated gatherings in November, including the Religion 20 (R20), a high-level meeting of religious leaders, the first under the G20’s auspices. The challenges and opportunities...
Malayali Film Actor Dileep Is Having A Troubled Times With Accusations
By Harihar Swarup In February 19, 2017, at a meeting in Kochi’s Durbar Hall grounds, some of Kerala cinema’s biggest names gathered to protest the abduction and sexual assault of a woman actor. Among those present that day were superstars Mammootty and Dileep Singh, high profile directors –Kammal and...
Narendra Modi Should Strive For A Better Understanding With Xi And Putin At SCO Meet
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting the historical city Samarkand in Uzbekistan on September 15 and 16 to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit amidst the continuation of the Ukraine war and the persisting misunderstanding between India and China over the border issues. This...
BJP’s March To Nabanna, Official HQ Of Mamata Has Failed To Make Impact
By Arun Srivastava Bengal BJP’s March to Nabanna, the headquarters of Bengal Government on September 13 against ‘TMC Corruption’ was a desperate exercise to project Mamata Banerjee as the most corrupt leader in the country, it also implicitly aims to counter ‘pro-separatist’ and anti-minority image and identify itself particularly...
Arvind Kejriwal’s Dinner With Auto Driver In Ahmedabad Is A Good News
By Sushil Kutty Arvind Kejriwal’s gimmicks! There was the time, early in his political career, January 2014 to be precise, when Kejriwal slept on the side of the road outside the Rail Bhawan in New Delhi, his body at ease on a mattress placed next to his famed blue...
Shocking Trend Of Rising Modern Day Slavery Among Workforce
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The much-awaited data on modern day slavery has finally been released, which has confirmed our worst of the fears that already shockingly rising trend has further been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic since 2020. The report has special significance for India, since it reveals that...
Political Corruption Is Eating Into Heart Of Indian Economy
By Nantoo Banerjee Nothing has grown more steadily in democratic India than political corruption ever since its independence. Ironically, the news of political corruption consumed more media space than any other line of stories since 1948. Yet, such news had hardly much impact on political parties and their indulgence...
Congress’s Bharat Jodo Yatra Has Good Potential To Connect To Masses
By Kalyani Shankar Image building is a politically important tool for present-day politicians worldwide, and India is no exception. They employ specialized image-building companies, who tell their clients what to wear, how to speak and what issues should be focused on at considerable costs to capture power. In the...
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...
