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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.China’s Nine-Year Old BRI Finally Finds A Challenger
By Nantoo Banerjee The European Commission’s decision just ahead of last month’s G7 Leaders’ Summit in Germany to mobilise Euro 300 billion (US$340 billion) by 2027 to invest in public and private infrastructure around the world is most welcome though it came several years after a similar initiative by...
Boris Johnson Is Determined To Prevent Rishi Sunak From Occupying His Place
By Arun Srivastava Number of the claimants for the office of the prime minister in Britain is quite alarming. Every fourth law maker of UK is striving to grab the post. If the present trend is any indication, it can safely be said that Conservative leadership election is quite...
Goa Crisis Again Shows How Congress High Command Is Clueless On States
By Sushil Kutty One, the Bharatiya Janata Party does not need the current kerfuffle in Goa. It is already in power there. But the fact that Goa is a neighbouring state to Maharashtra does betray that the disease is contagious. If Maharashtra was engineered to overturn a post-poll “unnatural”...
Pushing Gig And Platform Economy To Harm Indian Labour
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Most of the experts feel that pushing Gig and Platform Economy, in place of formal sector, would further deteriorate working conditions and throw the workforce into exploitative conditions, and therefore, NITI Aayog had to furnish a difficult task to portray worker perspective seemingly so rosy...
Acute Political Instability Stares At Sri Lanka Even After President’s Resignation Offer
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s bravado and brinkmanship turned fatal last Saturday. Not only was he reported missing from his office and residence, but the palatial President’s house in Colombo was also invaded by the protestors. Twitter is flooded with amusing pictures and videos of...
Congress Is A Total Failure As The Main National Party To Take On BJP
By Amulya Ganguli The absence of Congress MLAs from the Maharashtra assembly during a crucial floor test because they were said to be stuck in traffic would have been hilarious if it didn’t carry a sad tale about the party. For a start, it is odd that as many...
Vietnam Emerges As A Leading Challenger To China In Indian Electronics Market
By Subrata Majumder The recent disruptions in global supply chain, leading to China losing prominence, are prompting serious discussions on India’s dependency on China. Hitherto, notwithstanding political face-off, India’s rapid growth in electronic and electrical and pharmaceutical industries was largely dependent on China for supply chain. Given these and...
Windfall Tax Lets The Cat Out Of The Bag Of Petroleum Companies
By K Raveendran It was an open secret that the oil companies have been minting money on account of the rising crude prices, although they have been dishing out doctored numbers to show losses. Now that the government has decided to enforce a windfall tax on the companies for...
Indian Policy Makers Facing Big Test In Dealing With Inflation In Current Fiscal
By Harihar Swarup The impact of the ongoing Russia—Ukraine war on energy and commodity prices has caused great global economic turmoil. Some countries are facing food shortage and all oil-importing countries have been adversely affected. The invasion has come at an unfortunate time for India. Just when we all...
Bhima Koregaon: NIA Court Rejects Plea To Use Mosquito Nets In Prison
By Sarah Thanawala On July 7, a special National Intelligence Agency (‘NIA’) court in Mumbai presided by Special Judge Rajesh Kataria, rejected the plea filed by Gautam Navlakha and Sagar Gorkhe, to use mosquito nets in prison. The court allowed Navlakha and Gorkhe to use mosquito repellant ointments and...
Uddhav Thackeray Is Right In Calling For Fresh Polls In Maharashtra
By Sushil Kutty Uddhav Thackeray’s challenge to the man who replaced him, Eknath Shinde, to hold fresh elections in Maharashtra hasn’t elicited response, and likely would not because the Shinde-Fadnavis dispensation cannot for all the money in the BJP’s war-chest hazard a guess on which alliance will win the...
Weak Credit Growth In Indian Economy Is Hurting Recovery Process
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India finds itself in an unenviable position. Choosing an option has become ever more difficult. Financial sector crisis continues and the country has been suffering from negative shocks to credit growth which pushes up the macro vulnerability and increases downside risks to the growth in...
Narendra Modi Govt Is Keen To Revive Pre-Nationalisation Days
By Dr. Soma Marla Taking clues from finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s last year’s budget speech on the government’s intention to privatise a few PSU banks, media reports appeared last week on the government’s intention to introduce a Bill during the coming monsoon session to privatise them and relax the...
Shinzo Abe Played A Leading Role In Adapting Japan To Needs Of New Century
By Anjan Roy It is symptomatic of the ultra-nationalistic indoctrination of China under Xi that news of the attack on former Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, was greeted with celebrations on their internet social media. Shinzo Abe had reversed two of Japan’s self-inflicted restraints or flagellation. Shinzo Abe had...
Narendra Modi’s Sermons On Colonial Education Contain Half-Truths
By Sushil Kutty One servant to the other: Blame it on the British. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said July 7, that the education system India inherited was designed by the British Raj to create a “servant class”. The Prime Minister couldn’t have justified his ‘pradhan sevak’ title in a...
Search Begins For Joint Opposition’s Vice-Presidential Candidate
By Rahil Nora Chopra In a step forward, Congress is all set to look for a joint candidate of Opposition parties for the vice-presidential election. Congress has assigned the task to Mallikarjun Kharge, who is the Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, to communicate with the opposition parties and...
Nitish Kumar Is Blowing Hot And Cold In His Relationship With BJP
By Arun Srivastava It is not yet clear whether the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s words would prove to be prophetic that Draupadi Murmu’s candidacy could become unifying factor in bringing together all parties, but one thing is certain that Nitish Kumar and Narendra Modi have started the process of...
Social Protection For Rural Workers Remains A Dream
By Gyan Pathak Social protection for rural workers in ‘remains a dream’ though 80 per cent of the poor of the world live in rural areas. Inadequate safety at work, low wage, lack of stability and security, and excessive working hours are the grinding stones for them in which...
