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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.Thank You My Lord For Saying “Whatever Is Right Shall Prevail”
By Nitya Chakraborty Quoting from our great epic Mahabharata on Sunday at an interaction with the law students, Chief Justice of India U U Lalit said “ Our motto in Supreme Court is ”Yato Dharmastato Jayah” meaning whatever is right shall prevail. Gandhari said this to Duryodhan while giving...
India’s GDP Growth Belies Its Tax Collection Spurt
By Nantoo Banerjee The country’s encouragingly high tax collections — indirect and direct — during the April-June quarter (Q1) of the current fiscal may have more to do with price and profit spurt than any magical growth of its economy and consumption. High wholesale and retail prices of consumables...
Congress’s Bharat Jodo Yatra Is An Opportunity For Rahul To Reinvent
By Sushil Kutty A distance of 3676 kilometres separates Kashmir from Kanyakumari. Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ aims to unify India, and Indians. India had come unstuck after Narendra Modi took charge of India. Before Modi, there was Atal Bihari Vajpayee, but Atal’s language was not jarring as the...
New British Prime Minister Has A Tough Task To Contain High Inflation
By Nilanjan Banik The newly elected British Prime Minister Liz Truss will have an arduous road ahead. While the inflation in the United Kingdom has hit a 40-year high and growth in the Euro region has fallen the cry for subsidy has become bigger than before. Inflation is expected...
Nitish Kumar’s Mission To Unite Opposition Has Many Challenges
By Arun Srivastava It was more than a coincidence, when the rebel Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad was echoing the views of Narendra Modi of rout of the Congress at a rally in Jammu, the veteran Nitish Kumar was telling the people of the country that the BJP under...
New Turn In Governor-Government Standoff In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala Government has deftly tossed the ball back to Governor Arif Mohammed Khan’s court by getting the State Assembly to pass, in quick succession, two bills, which had kicked up a controversy. The first bill to be cleared by the Assembly was the Kerala...
Time Is Running Out Of Congress For Reinventing Itself Before 2024 Polls
By Harihar Swarup Congress has seen the exit of many heavy weights over the decades— and survived. It lost socialists in 1948, with Acharya Narendra Dev, Jayaprakash Narayan, and Ram Manohar Lohia walking out to form the socialist party. It saw vertical split in 1969 when Indira Gandhi got...
Frustrating Increase In Auto-Makers’ Delivery Timeframe
By K Raveendran The gap between time of booking and delivery of new cars is changing from months to years, which is causing frustration to buyers of new vehicles. During the pandemic, the industry was down in the dumps as demand dried up completely dried up. But as the...
Our Indian Engineers And Public Sector Ship Builder Can Take Credit For INS Vikrant
By Sushil Kutty Is INS Vikrant Indian made? Question modified: Is INS Vikrant made with Indian knowhow? Like the Chinese asking their government whether its aircraft carrier Liaoning, which traces its shipyard to Russia, made with Chinese knowhow? INS Vikrant does not carry a similar foreign baggage. But to...
Gulf Security In Peril, With Or Without Nuclear Deal With Iran
By James M Dorsey With the fate hanging in the balance of the 2015 international agreement that curbed Iran’s nuclear program, prospects for greater security and stability in the Middle East are meagre with or without a deal. Undoubtedly, the region will be better off with a revival of...
President Joe Biden For Wider Front To Defend Democracy In Mid Term Polls
By Mark Gruenberg President Joe Biden took the gloves off against his predecessor, Republican Donald Trump, calling the former Oval Office occupant and his MAGAite disciples a huge threat to democracy and the future of the United Sates. He went to Independence Hall on September 1 to deliver both...
Decoding Gorbachev’s Turbulent Six Years In Soviet Union – 1985 To 1991
By Nitya Chakraborty Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on August 30, 2022, at the age of 91 in Moscow will be remembered for his role in precipitating the downfall of the Communist Party rule in the Soviet Union in 1991 — 74 years after the November revolution in 1917 led...
Amit Shah’s Visit To Seemanchal Region Is Worrying For Nitish Kumar
By Arun Srivastava For those familiar with the political economic contour and social political cultural dimension of Bihar, the two day visit to the state of the electoral strategist of BJP, Amit Shah, on September 23 and 24, is absolutely not an exercise to reach out to Muslims of...
Modi Government Applying Rules For Bureaucracy To Suit Its Convenience
By Sushil Kutty Bilkis Bano’s 11 rapists were given the benefit of remission, their horrible crimes set aside like so many cookies in the jar. Now, they are back to roaming the streets. And we also have a second case of remission, this one for an IAS officer who...
Sharad Pawar Bats For United Opposition As Nitish Eyes Bid For 2024
By Rahil Nora Chopra After the exit of Nitish Kumar and Uddhav Thackeray from NDA, the Mahaghatbandhan is hopeful of gaining an edge over BJP in Maharashtra, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand and Karnataka in the next general elections. NCP chief Sharad Pawar has advocated and suggested for the unity...
Muslim Leaders / Organisations Protest Madrasa Demolitions In Assam
By Ashis Biswas Muslim leaders and organisations in Assam and beyond have strongly protested against the recent demolition (by using bulldozers) of three Madrasas so far by the BJP-run State Government. Major minority organisations may approach the Supreme Court to protest against some recent actions carried out by the...
Inflation Is Being Controlled At The Expense Of Working Class
By Prabhat Patnaik Economists distinguish between two kinds of inflation: “demand-pull” and “cost-push”. Demand-pull inflation is said to occur when there is excess demand in a situation where supply cannot be augmented, because full capacity output has been reached in one or more crucial sectors. Wartime inflation is a...
India’s FY 23 Q1 GDP Impressive But Pitfalls Remain As Inflation Worrying
By K R Sudhaman It is a no brainer that India’s economic growth would look impressive after a virtual shut down in the previous year due to Covid Pandemic. But the question to be asked is the double digit growth is good enough and to the desired level and...
