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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.Ministry Expansion Is A Part Of Mandal Card Of BJP For Assembly Poll
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP has played aggressive mandal card with induction of with three OBCs, two Scheduled Castes, one Scheduled Tribe in Yogi Adityanath ministry . One brahmin was also inducted the ministry. Since BJP is playing both kamandal and Mandal cards to win over support of voters...
Expert Panel Of Supreme Court Has To Do A Proper Job On Pegasus Issue
By Arun Srivastava The Supreme Court has expressed its desire to set up a committee of experts to study the allegations of illegal surveillance using Pegasus spyware and in likelihood will issue orders next week. The apex court’s observations on constituting the committee assume significance in view of the...
Congress High Command Did Not Act With Tact In Dealing With Amarinder Singh
By Harihar Swarup The Congress, it appears, has a death wish. Otherwise why it should destabilize, the Punjab government, headed by Capt. Amarinder Singh. It is a established norm that the Chief Minister and PCC President should be on same wave length. Why then Navjot Singh Sidhu was appointed...
Stock Market Boom Hides Much More Than It Reveals
By K Raveendran The stock market seems to be in a great hurry to pronounce the end of the Covid crisis. This week headline indices clocked new records, with Sensex soaring past 60,000 and the Nifty inching close to the 18,000 mark. The temporary scare of the collapse of...
Echoes Of Farmers Voice Haunt Political Corridors
By Dr. Gyan Pathak September 26, 2021 will mark the completion of 10 months of farmers’ agitation against Modi’s three controversial farm laws, and the next day on September 27, there will be Bharat Bandh. The call is given by Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), at a time when the...
Confusion Over The Status Of PM Cares Fund Still Continues
By Sushil Kutty So, we are all less than average in the brains department, with our right to information curtailed to boot. The Union Government collects money on our behalf, for our stated welfare, from umpteens of sources, including government conduits, departments, ministries, government agencies. It hides as it...
North Eastern States In Dilemma Over Tackling Refugees From Myanmar
By Ashis Biswas Nine months after the army coup in Myanmar, poor administrative coordination between Government of India and the Mizoram government has emerged as a major problem as a steady stream of political dissidents from across the border continue to arrive in India’s Northeast region. Recent reports suggest...
Labour Market Recovery After Second Wave Now Vanishing
By Gyan Pathak After the second wave of COVID-19 subsided in May, the labour market in India started showing recovery. However, within four months the recovery has started vanishing, salaried jobs diminishing, and employment generation is waning. Moreover, the data on jobs, if we don’t dive deep into it,...
Proposed Bad Bank Will Help Facilitating Wealth Transfer To Corporates
By C P Chandrasekhar The Modi government has laid out one more plan to “clean” the books of banks, especially public banks, by helping them get rid of Rs 2 lakh crore of loans gone ‘bad’. It has announced the creation of two institutions for the purpose. The National...
Modi Govt’s Economic Policies Have Led To Massive Unemployment
By Krishna Jha There is shift in the basics and when the basics change, superstructure also faces change. In a capitalist society, production process is based on the employer and the working class. One regulates the production process, which involves investment, which is scientifically called capital. This capital is...
