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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.Food Items Increase, Not Petro Products Hike Contribute More To Inflation
By Subrata Maumder Pan India outrage is reaching its peak with the soaring inflation and government inability to control it. Angers were hurled against the government failure to rein in the oil products price hike and its impact on inflation. Inflation (measured by Consumer Price Index) increased by 6.34...
Frowning Hanuman, Snarling Lion – Symbols Of A “New” India
By Amulya Ganguli From an irate Lord Hanuman depicted on car windows to a snarling version of the age-old Asokan emblem, the signs of India discarding the old benign, Nehruvian era and entering an aggressive Hindu civilizational phase are all too evident under the new ruling dispensation. The architectural...
Opposition VP Candidate Margaret Alva Has Better Credentials Than Dhankar
By Sushil Kutty Congress leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge is emphatic that the Opposition’s Margaret Alva will by far be a better Vice President than the BJP’s Jagdeep Dhankar. Kharge should be forgiven for his loyalty to the Opposition’s cause. And the Opposition’s cause...
Russian ‘Conflict’ Diamonds Leave Kimberley Process Divided
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Diamonds are forever! That was a James Bond spy thriller released in 1971. And then, the Heart of the Ocean that got sunk in the ocean in the Titanic movie! It was a replica of the big blue 45.52-carat Home Diamond that’s worth $350 million,...
Final Status On Control Of Shiv Sena Party Depends On Supreme Court
By Harihar Swarup The Thackeray-Shinde feud has split the Nation. While some commentators are critical of Eknath Shinde’s departure, terming it as a subversion of party politics, others find it to be a correction of Uddhav Thackeray’s departure from the alliance with the BJP in 2019. The dissension within...
Russia Surprises Sanction-Slappers By Exporting More Oil Than Before
By K Raveendran It is becoming increasingly clear that the western sanctions against Russia for its Ukraine invasion is hurting Europe more than these were meant to harm Moscow. While a guaranteed energy crisis is staring Europe on its face due to the stoppage of gas flow from Russia,...
Economic Crisis Is The Main Focus As Tories Choose Britain’s Next Prime Minister
By Arun Srivastava For rightist Conservative Party, choosing a visionary and able administrator as the prime minister in place of Boris Johnson has indeed become a major combative task. This was for the first time that party was deprived of a talented leader. After coming to power three years...
‘Alleged’ PFI Document Makes Some Dangerous Observations About India
By Sushil Kutty Those who wrote the PFI document, currently in circulation, to convert India into an Islamic state by 2047 know their English. The grammar is clean and it took the author just eight pages to conquer India lock, stock and barrel. The long and short of it...
Controversy In Kerala Over CPI(M) Leader’s ‘Anti-Women’ Remark
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A flaming political row has erupted over the controversial comment made by former minister and CPI(M) MLA M M Mani against Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP) MLA K K Rema in the Kerala Assembly. The Opposition United democratic Front (UDF) has demanded an apology from Mani,...
Spotlight on U.S. Double Standards In Dealing With Turkey And Middle East
By James M Dorsey US and European acquiescence in Turkey’s long-standing refusal to honour Kurdish ethnic, cultural, and political rights came home to roost when Turkey initially objected to Finnish and Swedish membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). Ultimately, Turkey postponed potential conflict in NATO by dropping...
Not Bharat Jodo Yatra – Congress Should Campaign On BJP Gujarat, Himachal Choro
By Nitya Chakraborty The Congress high command led by president Sonia Gandhi decided at its Thursday meeting to start its proposed Bharat Jodo yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir within next few weeks and this yatra is scheduled to cover twelve states and two union territories measuring 3500 kms in...
Foreign Powers In Full Play As Sri Lanka Moves To Choose New President
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has sent his resignation — first by email and a hard copy flown in from Singapore. The authenticity of the resignation has been verified and it has been accepted as authentic. The Parliament Speaker, Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, officially announced the...
Senior BJP Legislator’s Allegations Create A Furore In Party
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: During the last week strange things have happened in Madhya Pradesh. Among these are the allegations by a senior BJP legislator Narayan Tripathi against his own party. Narayan Tripathi, ruling party MLA from Maihar constituency has publicly claimed that government officials are campaigning for...
Ukraine War Has Transitioned From Conventional To High Tech Targetted War
By Anjan Roy The battlegrounds in eastern Ukraine are proving to be prey wars between two weapons systems — old Soviet type weapons and those advanced latest weapons developed in the west. The battle worthiness and the effective of the competing firepower would indicate a lot for the future...
NDA Presidential Candidate Droupadi Murmu Is Set To Win On July 18 Polls
By Rahil Nora Chopra NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu has so far received the backing of BJP, BJD, YSR Congress, TDP, Janata Dal (Secular), Shiromani Akali Dal, JDU, AIADMK, Lok Jan Shakti Party, Apna Dal (Sonelal), Nishad Party, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Republican Party. Other parties like India (Athawale), NPP,...
Describing 1500 Hindi Words As ‘Unparliamentary’ A Ploy To Protect Modi
By Arun Srivastava The latest move of the government to declare around 1500 Hindi words as unparliamentary is an attempt to colonialize the language, it is also designed to completely transform the neo liberal and democratic image of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a threatening autocrat. With 2024...
Distinct Signs Of Unrest In Congress In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The more things change, the more they remain the same. This seems to be very true in the case of the Congress party in Kerala. The spectacular victory in the Thrikkakara assembly by-election had given a big boost to the party, which has been languishing...
Spectacular People’s Power Is On Display In Sri Lanka
By Prakash Karat People’s power was displayed in a spectacular fashion in Sri Lanka on July 9 when tens of thousands of people stormed the Presidential Palace, the President’s Secretariat and the official residence of the prime minister and took them over, sweeping aside the police and soldiers guarding...
