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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.Congress Snatches Himachal From BJP’s Electoral Kitty
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Indian National Congress at last scored a decent electoral win this year. The Congress managed to pull Himachal Pradesh from under BJP’s nose, as it crossed the majority mark of 35 seats in the 68-member Assembly in the hill state. Himachal maintained its tradition...
Organised Workers In Western Countries Are Fighting Fall In Living Standards
By Prabhat Patnaik A neo-liberal regime entails a spontaneous change in the balance of class power against the working class everywhere. This happens for a number of reasons. First, since capital becomes globally mobile while labour is not, such globally mobile capital gets an opportunity top it the working...
Corporatisation Of Ordnance Factories By The Centre Is A Failure
By C. Srikumar Despite the opposition by the Defence Civilian Employees of 41 Ordnance Factories and also in violation of the previous agreements with the federations, taking advantage of Covid-19 Pandemic, the Narendra Modi government took an unilateral decision to splinter the defence production industry with more than 220...
Hypocrisy Of The Rich Countries Harming The Programme For Climate Change
By Prabir Purkayastha The crux of the issue is that non fossil, or even a low fossil fuel path, will need grid-level storage costs to drop by a factor of 10 times what they are today! If they don’t, then the grid supply will become unreliable, with cascading costs...
India’s Heatwave Tragedy To Boost Cooling Business
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s heatwave tragedy may be devastating for common men and the ecology of several regions of the country, Modi government is yet to rise from its slumber to start framing of a comprehensive plan to deal with the likely devastation. Union Government has been treating...
Congress Win In Himachal Is A Positive Signal For Other Hindi Speaking States
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Delhi Municipal Corporation polls results on December 7 and Vidhan Sabha election results of Himachal Pradesh on December 8 should enthuse Congress on several counts chief of which is the shadowing of electoral prospects of its prime rival BJP, which has performed well only in...
BJP Has Got Big Victory In Gujarat But That’s All Due To Congress Lapses
By Sushil Kutty Gujarat for Bharatiya Janata Party. Himachal Pradesh went to Congress. Does that spell equal=equal, overall, neither party won, neither party lost? Delhi’s ‘Big Boss’ Aam Aadmi Party failed at both places. And that will rankle. One day right on top of the world, the other day,...
BJP State Governments Have Started Communal Cleansing Of Educational Institutions
By Prakash Karat What has happened in the Government New Law College in Indore and some other places is a disturbing pointer as to how the deep communalisation and polarisation in society is now affecting the educational system. The worst incident has taken place in the Government New Law...
Agriculture Is Contributing In A Big Way To India’s Employment Growth
By Krishna Jha Driven by good performance compared to other sectors during the pandemic, agriculture has absorbed an additional 11 million workers over the last three years while the rest of the economy lost 15 million jobs, said the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE). Jobs apart, the question...
Jagdeep Dhankar Is Carrying Out Modi’s Mission To Have Pliant Judiciary
By Arun Srivastava A person like Jagdeep Dhankar, holding the coveted office of the Vice President of India, launching vitriolic against the Supreme Court on the issue of appointment of judges, even while the Law Minister Kiren Rijiju in all sincerity has already been carrying on the mission to...
