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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.India Has Performed Worse Than Pakistan And Bangladesh In Hunger Index
By Prabhat Patnaik The Global Hunger Index (GHI) for 2022 has just come out, which shows India occupying the 107th position among the 121 countries for which the index is prepared (countries where hunger is not a noteworthy problem are left out of the index).India’s score on the hunger...
New Congress President Kharge Has To Launch An Ideological Battle Against BJP
By Arun Srivastava The presidential election has virtually split the grand old party of India, the Congress, on ideological plane. Congress has been a conglomerate of people having divergent political and social backgrounds. It never had a defined ideological line. The party primarily followed the centrist political line. Even...
USA’s Latest Sanction On Chinese Companies On Chips Is A Threat To Global Economy
By Prabir Purkayastha The US has gambled big in its latest, across-the-board sanctions on Chinese companies in the semiconductor industry, believing it can kneecap China and retain its global dominance. From the slogan of globalisation and “free trade” of the neoliberal 90s, it has reverted to good old technology...
Nepal’s General Elections On November 20 May Not Lead To A Stable Govt
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Nepal is going to polls on November 20 this year for the second time in its latest tryst with democracy. The first round of general elections took place in 2017 after the country got a brand new constitution in 2015. What makes the Nepal elections...
Congress Has A Golden Opportunity To Reunify And Rejuvenate The Party
By Sushil Kutty Suddenly everybody is an advisor to newly elected Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, advising him on how to go about running the 137-year-old party, which, if it had life of its own, will know the constant that nothing changes in the Congress till the Gandhi family wants...
India Under Narendra Modi Is The Hunger Spot Of The World In 2022
By Vikas Kumar The Global Hunger Index 2022, released on October 13, shows that India’s rank in the world has slipped further – from 101 last year to 107 this year – in terms of this important indicator of conditions of hunger and malnutrition. India’s rank is far below...
New Congress President Kharge Has To Tread Carefully
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Defeated, but not disgraced. That is the apt assessment of the outcome of the Congress presidential election, which saw Mallikarjun Kharge become the first non-Gandhi leader to head the grand old party in 24 years. The Congress veteran will officially take over the post on...
Akhilesh Yadav Is Positive To Nitish Kumar’s Unity Bid Of Socialist Groups
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The visit of leaders from different political parties to Sefai village in Itawah in Uttar Pradesh to meet Akhilesh Yadav to condole the death of his father and founder of Samajwadi Party Mulayam Singh Yadav had significance for future alliances by SP to face 2024...
British Prime Minister Liz Truss Steadily Losing Support Of Tory Members
By Arun Srivastava Britons nurse the feeling that Labour Party has lost the opportunity to take advantage of the present crisis facing the Tory Government led by Liz Truss. Though its leader Keir Starmer is trying to capitalise on the government crisis, the major section of the Labour leaders...
Home Ministry Granting Release Of 11 Rape Accused In A Hurry, Is Preposterous
By Arun Srivastava The truth is now in the public domain. While admiring “Nari Shakti (women’s power) on August 15, from the ramparts of the Red Fort, Narendra Modi resorted to uncanny act of concealing the fact that 11 rapists of Bilkis Begum and killers of her seven family...
