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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.Bangladesh Hosts Top Ministerial Summit Of D-8 Islamist Countries
By Ashis Biswas Largely unnoticed by the Indian mainstream media, Bangladesh hosted the Ministerial Conference of Developing 8 grouping, D-8 for short, a few days ago. This relatively new alliance brings together eight Muslim countries spread from South East Asia to Africa. There were a few tangible, positive decisions...
United States-China Technology War Accentuates As Tensions Rise
By Prabir Purkayastha As the tension between the United States and China mounts as a fallout of Nancy Pelosi’s provocative Taiwan visit, the technology war between them is also taking a new turn. Both houses of Congress have approved the CHIPS and Science Act—a $280 billion plan to boost...
Uncertainty Continues Globally About Future Viability Of Metaverse
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Co-founder of Ethereum, the world’s second-largest blockchain network by market cap, Vitalik Buterin last week kicked up a storm by claiming that corporate efforts to create metaverse will not be successful. He specifically mentioned Meta Inc. (formerly Facebook), which suffered $10 billion of losses in...
Imran Khan Trying To Turn His Indictment By Commission To Political Advantage
By Sankar Ray Despite a clear edge in the recent popularity curve in Pakistan former Prime Minister Imran Khan and chief of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf is in political dock again. The Election Commission of Pakistan has caught him on the wrong foot by indicting King Khan and his party of...
Prime Minister’s ‘Strong Government’ Means That The BJP Regime Controls Everything
By Prakash Karat Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, spoke recently about how a strong government should be. Addressing a university convocation in Chennai on July 29, Modi said: “A strong government does not control everything or everyone. It controls the system’s impulse to interfere…A strong government does not move into...
Sangh Parivar And BJP Have No Right To Talk Of Tiranga Celebrations
By Binoy Viswam At the 75th year of Independence, India witnesses unusual initiatives from BJP, the ruling party. They are taking extra pains to exhibit their loyalty to the national freedom struggle and the National Flag. Anyone with a little understanding of history knows that neither the BJP nor...
Hounding Out The Main Opposition Party By ED And Delhi Police Has Crossed All Limits
By Sushil Kutty The prime-time anchor couldn’t hold back his happiness. He wanted to know from the anti-corruption crusader exactly where the “case” stood. The anti-corruption crusader was happy to oblige. Both had tried and found Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi guilty. The anchor spelled out the verdict and...
High Food And Energy Prices Making Living Conditions Unbearable Globally
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Since the COVID-19 pandemic struck the world, common people have been bearing the brunt of the once-in-a-generation cost-of-living crisis since the beginning of 2020. Hundreds of millions lost even access to food, energy, and finance, millions of them just perished, and millions somehow survived on...
Remembering August 6, 1945 For First Atomic Bombing On Hiroshima
By Dr Arun Mitra As we approach August 6, we remember 8.15 am on that day in 1945 when the US exploded first ever nuclear weapon on human population at Hiroshima in Japan. This was followed by another attack on Nagasaki on 9th August. Over two lakh people died...
Shiv Sena Battle In Supreme Court Between Uddhav And Shinde May Be Prolonged
By Indira Jaising At the hearing of the Maharashtra political stalemate before the Supreme Court bench comprising the Chief Justice of India (‘CJI’), N.V. Ramana, and Justices Krishna Murari and Hima Kohli on August 3, arguments commenced with senior counsel addressing the court on the questions of law arising...
Modi Govt Continues To Run Away From Vexed Inflation Issue
By K Raveendran Parliament has been witnessing a standoff between the government and the opposition over the issue of price rise and inflation, with the opposition demanding urgent debate on the issue and the Modi government showing the inclination to go to any extent, including suspension of over a...
Price Rise Of Essential Commodities Has Led The Poor Gasping In India
By Sushil Kutty Destitution, bankruptcy, mass famine! Some rightwing folks desperate to see the back of Joe Biden are predicting this for America. They do not like the President’s “dementia” and are not hailing Speaker Nancy Pelosi for taking on the People’s Republic of China in its own backyard....
Al Qaeda Chief Zawahiri’s Killing By U.S. Is A Symbolic Act
By James M Dorsey President Joe Biden was not wrong when he declared that “justice has been served” with the killing of Al Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri in a US drone strike. The problem is that’s only half of the truth; the other half is that Zawahiri was more...
The Killing Of Zawahiri Is A Marvel Of U.S. Intelligence Gathering And Planning
By Anjan Roy The killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri by the US intelligence network is more about the lethal capacities that the US has developed than the elimination of one person. al-Zawahiri was singled out and killed so precisely that not another person in his extended household in a Kabul...
Foodgrain Crisis To Aggravate In India In The Coming Months
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Foodgrain crisis is set to further aggravate in India. Earlier, the heatwave conditions impacted the wheat crop leading to less production and procurement enforcing wheat export ban on May 13, and now deficit rainfall has caused a decline of rice cultivation by about 13 per...
CPI(ML) To Initiate The Process For Left Unity For Fighting Saffrons
By Arun Srivastava The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation which has largest representation among the left parties in the Bihar assembly is planning to initiate a process of uniting all left parties of the country including the CPI and the CPI(M) in a common platform along with other ...
Film Maker Aparna Sen Is Creating Waves With Her Latest ‘The Rapist’
By Harihar Swarup Aparna Sen, 76, has just received the Icon Award at the London Indian Film Award for her contribution to cinema. Her latest film, The Rapist, a complex look at how impact the perpetrator, the survivor and her husband has been winning Awards and accolades across the...
U.S. House Speaker’s Visit To Taiwan At This Time Is Nothing But Provocation
By Ian Goodrum United States House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi is under immense scrutiny for her family’s incredibly profitable stock trades as the U.S. Congress considers a ban on its members, their staff, and families from swapping securities. She is presiding over what could be her last term...
