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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.New Pakistan Army Chief General Asim Munir Belongs To Anti-Imran Camp
By Sankar Ray The nomination of 57-year-old Lieutenant General Syed Asim Munir Ahmad Shah, the senior-most officer among the nominees as the Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan Army has put the erstwhile Prime Minister and chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-Insaaf Imran Khan Niazi on pins and needles. The...
Sign Of Easing Of Global Recessionary Trend Is Good For India
By Anjan Roy A Christmas celebration has started at least on the global stock markets. The financial markets are showing a surprising buoyancy and climbing new heights. Indian stock markets jumped up. The representative BSE index rose by close to 1000 points and touched its historic record high of...
Congress Is Congress, It Never Changes – Ashok Gehlot Proves It Once Again
By Sushil Kutty Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has a lot of explaining to do after his “explosive” interview in which he called arch rival Sachin Pilot “traitor” six times and would have made it a dozen if the interviewer hadn’t cut short the interview. “What’s happened to you...
Anti-BJP Politicians Are Merely Hounded By Modi Government
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Face is the index of the status of health of a person, and the capital of a nation is the index of a country’s state of affairs. Delhi, the national capital of India, also gives ample opportunity to see how the anti-BJP AAP leaders ruling...
BSP Worried After Congress Puts Kharge On Top, Khabri In Uttar Pradesh
By Rahil Nora Chopra The BSP’s strategy for 2024 general elections is trying hard to regain its lost base among Dalits and Muslims. After BSP registering its worst Uttar Pradesh assembly elections defeat in terms of seats, winning only one seat in the 403-member House, and garnering just 12.8%...
Supreme Court Has Responsibility In Ensuring An Impartial Election Commission
By Arun Srivastava With the Supreme Court questioning the Centre about resorting to unnecessary “haste” and “tearing hurry” in appointing Arun Goel as Election Commissioner, the saffron Think Tank and academician supporters of the Narendra Modi Government have turned belligerent and have indiscreetly alleged that it was trying to...
PM Crop Insurance Mostly Benefits Private Firms
By Dr. Soma Marla Not a single day passes without media reporting suicides committed by farmers in rural India. Crop failure due to drought, untimely and excessive rains and other weather calamities along with the acute deprivation and unpaid debts are some of the major causes forcing farmers to...
Foreign Diplomats Want Proper General Elections In Bangladesh In 2023
By Ashis Biswas Even a spell of sustained economic growth in recent years has not helped Bangladesh in resolving its problematic image-related issues effectively in the larger international arena. One indication of this according to observers, can be found in the gratuitous advice occasionally showered upon Dhaka by serving...
Domestic And Sexual Violence Against Women Has Reached New Peak In India
By Prakash Karat The United Nations’ call to observe November 25 as an International Day for “Elimination of Violence against Women” has got wide media coverage after the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, presented a chilling fact sheet that across the world every 11 minutes a woman or a...
Assam Chief Minister’s Anti-Rahul Tirade Has Reached Its Lowest Ebb
By Sushil Kutty The good news is, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has gone so ’low’ that from hereon he can only go ‘high’. Sarma comparing Rahul Gandhi to Saddam Hussein is straight out of the book of the absurd. For one, Saddam was married with sons. Two,...
