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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.Further Steep Rise In Energy Prices Looms Large As Ukraine War Continues
By Anjan Roy Renowned US based bank, J.P. Morgan, has observed that oil prices could top $380 per barrel in a short time. The bank made its prediction on the basis of trends in the oil markets and supplies from major producers. The current geo-politics, in which Russia faces...
Trinamool Congress Has To Depend On Locals In Next Assembly Poll In Tripura
By Arun Srivastava West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress nursed high hopes from Tripura, but it could not be accomplished. Her aspiration to have one more state under her party’s wings and the recognition of being a national party received a severe shock from the...
Time To Implement Treaty Prohibiting Use Of Nuclear Weapons By Any Country
By Dr Arun Mitra The world is on the edge of a serious threat of use of nuclear weapons by Russia and NATO as both have threatened their use during the on-going war between Russia and Ukraine. Presently there are approximately 13,000 nuclear weapons on earth, many of which...
Top Indian Business Houses, PSUs Push Up Imports From Russia
By Nantoo Banerjee It is good to see that a host of large Indian business houses and public sector enterprises have rapidly stepped up imports from Russia taking full advantage of hefty price discounts offered by Russian suppliers on a host of goods in the face of multiple trade...
Hard Core Hindutva Is Making Governance Difficult For Narendra Modi
By Sushil Kutty Several things were happening when the BJP was holding its national executive in Hyderabad, targeting Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao with an eye on the Telangana assembly elections slated for 2023. Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid low KCR with attacks on dynastic politics,...
Platform Jobs Chief Destination For Women After Education
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The women labour force participation in India has remained low, oscillating between 16 to 23 per cent in the last few years chiefly because structural barriers ranging from access to education, lack of skilling and a direct correlation between gender or disability and incidence of...
Opposition Is On Backfoot Now In Offering Big Challenge To The BJP
By Amulya Ganguli The Samajwadi Party’s defeat in two Uttar Pradesh by-elections, the Trinamool Congress’s miserable performance in the Tripura polls and the BJP’s strangulation of the ruling Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi with the help of the Shiv Sena rebels, are signs of the BJP juggernaut’s – bulldozer’s? – relentless...
Trinamool Congress Marginalises BJP In North Bengal Local Polls
By Ashis Biswas For the ruling Trinamool Congress(TMC) in West Bengal and its bigger ally in the Northern districts Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM), the recently concluded elections brought good news. The BGPM dominated the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) polls, winning 27 seats, while the TMC won five. Led...
BJP And Congress In A Bitter Battle In Madhya Pradesh Local Body Polls
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: On July 6, crores of Madhya Pradesh voters will elect their local government bodies. Originally elections were to be held in 2020 but they were delayed because of Covid-19. The term of all the local bodies expired in 2019. During the gap, affairs of...
BJP Leadership Is Under Pressure To Aggressively Pursue Hindutva Agenda
By Harihar Swarup Over the past decades, the Hindu-Muslim axis has once again emerged as the Central pole of Indian politics. But now, a period of churn has set in, following a raft of incidents, the latest being the brutal daylight murder of a Hindu tailor in Rajasthan’s Udaipur...
K Chandrasekhar Rao Is Strong Enough To Keep BJP Away From Telangana
By Sushil Kutty Now that ‘Operation Lotus’, Maharashtra edition, has successfully added the richest state in the realm to the 2024 BJP war-chest, ‘Operation Lotus’, Telangana edition, is ready for launch. And Telangana is in the neighbourhood, right next to Maharashtra. Therefore, the Bharatiya Janata Party is holding its...
Controversial Remarks Not Part Of Vacation Bench’s Order
By K Raveendran It is all very well that the petition moved by former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma for combining all the FIRs registered against her in different parts of the country for her offending remarks about Prophet Mohammed has been dismissed by a Supreme Court vacation bench in...
Steep Decline In Foreign Remittances Impacts Kerala Economy
By P. Sreekumaran There is no mistaking it. The drastic decline in migrant remittances over the last few years has affected Kerala’s fiscal health. While the world which came to a standstill due to Covid 19, Kerala was hit the hardest by the reverse migration which the pandemic triggered....
Supreme Court Misconstrued NGO’s Legitimate Activities As Against National Interests
By Prakhar Raghuvanshi Foreign contributions to individuals, associations and companies are regulated by the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 (‘FCRA’). The central aim of the Act is to prohibit foreign contributions, the utilisation of which may be for activities detrimental to the national interest. The FCRA was amended by...
World Cup Balance Sheet Presents A Mixed Bag For Qatar
By James M Dorsey It’s a good time, almost 12 years after the world soccer body, FIFA, awarded Qatar the 2022 World Cup hosting rights and five months before the tournament, to evaluate the campaign to reform the country’s erstwhile onerous labour system and accommodate fans whose lifestyles violate...
BJP Juggernaut Is On The Roll; Where Is The Congress?
By Nitya Chakraborty The BJP juggernaut is on the roll. As the second half of the 2022 calendar year begins, the opposition parties remain toothless and rudderless. Right now, BJP has begun its three-day national executive session at Hyderabad. The buoyant leadership is focusing on the next assembly elections...
In Maharashtra, Fadnavis Is The Main Driver Of The New Ruling Combination
By Sushil Kutty After the three-pronged Maha Vikas Aghadi government, it’s the turn of the ‘Double-engine’ Shinde-Fadnavis regime to rule Maharashtra. The Opposition called the new alliance ‘Maha Vinaash Aghadi’, and as if approving the nomenclature, within a couple of hours of Eknath Shinde and Devendra Fadnavis taking the...
Zero Hunger By 2030 Not Possible On Business-As-Usual Path
By Dr. Gyan Pathak If business as usual path continues, the world cannot achieve zero hunger target (SDG2) by 2030, and South and Southeast Asia is likely to suffer the most, with 2.7 billion population in the region. It is 34 per cent of the global population, and almost...
