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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.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...
Corporate Media In India Not Taking Strong Position Against Attacks On Human Rights
By Arun Srivastava Indian media’s unwillingness to question the rulers, the people in power and also its reluctance to uphold the cause of the common people is a deliberate move to conceal the illegal scheming of the capitalist economy and the manoeuvring of the RSS and Modi government to...
Dharmendra Pradhan Seeks CM Nitish Kumar’s Nod On Murmu
By Rahil Nora Chopra Senior BJP functionary and union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan met Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in Patna on Tuesday. According to sources in the BJP, the meeting is being deemed important in the context of the upcoming Presidential polls. Moreover, in the wake of the...
Trinamool Congress MLA Comparing Mamata With Sarada Devi Creates Furore
By Ashis Biswas Once more, there is confirmation of the familiar public plaint that in their zeal to nestle ever closer to the ‘supreme ‘leader of the moment by using barefaced flattery, practicing politicians often cross all limits. Mostly the outcome is amusing, even as the glorified bigwigs squirm...
Supreme Court Has Failed To Secure Justice For Gujarat Riot Victims
By Krishna Jha We never had experience of loss of democracy…Living in our multiplicity, nobody has ever forced us to violate the cultural limits. We have never been isolated from the other, in fact it never had a separate identity. Yet, in the third decade of the twentieth century,...
Agnipath Scheme Challenges All Traditions Of Indian Military Service
Dr Yugal Rayalu The military recruitment drives are ‘festive times’ in some of the states in north India. Village elders bless the youth going for the tests. Women folk would send the sons (now daughters too) with tilak and best wishes. In some of the families it is the...
Public Sector General Insurance Unions Reject Wage Revision Offer
By Trilok Singh The Joint Forum of Trade Unions and Associations in the public sector general insurance companies, having around 58,000 employees and officers, have unanimously rejected the offers given by the General Insurers Public Sector Associations of India (GIPSA) management. The long-pending wage revision talks between the...
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren Is Under Siege By BJP Leadership
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Having emboldened by the success in Maharshtra, the BJP has just started its political game in Jharkhand to destabilize the Mahagathbandhan government led by JMM. Chief Minister Hemant Soren has just betrayed his commitment towards opposition unity and ditched the anti-BJP political parties by announcing...
