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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 Is Failing In Achieving Sustainable Development Goals
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Narendra Modi government has just completed 8 years in power that PM Narendra Modi has referred to as the years of great achievements. While inaugurating the iconic week (June 6-11) celebrations of the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Corporate affairs on June 6, he...
Workers, Small Traders, Enterprises, And Farmers Rendered Destitute
By Dr. Gyan Pathak In the absence of adequate social security for migrant workers, their rural households of largely left-behind women supported millions of migrant workers when they returned after the COVID-19 pandemic struck the country and induced a severe recession that also rendered small traders and operators of...
New Delhi Holds Its Own On Discounted Oil Imports From Russia
By K Raveendran The world believes that the success of western sanctions against Putin’s Russia depends on just two countries: India and China. On the face of it, it would appear to be a straightforward positioning. For, much of the Russian oil that has been made redundant by the...
Congress Win In Thrikkakara Bypoll Is A Big Boost To The Party And UDF
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It is celebration time for the Congress and the party-led united Democratic front (UDF) after a long drought of election victories. The Congress has just scored a spectacular victory in the Thrikkakara assembly by-election with its candidate Uma Thomas defeating CPI(M)’s Dr Jo Joseph by...
RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat Is Known For Giving Differing Signals On Hindutva
By Sushil Kutty RSS ‘sarsangchalak’ Mohan Bhagwat thinks he speaks for the Hindus of India, and AIMIM solo head Asaduddin Owaisi wouldn’t be given a chair to sit by the vast majority of Muslims. But Bhagwat can’t get it round his head, and the AIMIM head refuses to heed...
Gautam Adani’s Buying Spree Merits A Rethink In India’s Competition Law
By Dr. Shilpi Bhattacharya Do the Adani Group’s recent acquisitions of cement (63.19 per cent stake in Ambuja Cements and 54.5 per cent in its subsidiary ACC) and media (49 per cent stake in Quintillion Business Media) companies raise concerns for the Competition Commission of India (‘CCI’)? Media reports...
Broad Left Coalition Has An Edge In French National Assembly Poll On June 12
By Julian-Nicolas Calfuquir With France’s parliamentary elections scheduled on June 12, Jean-Luc Mélenchon looks in a stronger position than ever. Where other left-populist challengers around the West have struggled to build lasting organization, or even to repeat their initial electoral scores, his France Insoumise movement has established itself as...
Resurgence Of OBC Politics In Bihar Spreads To Maharashtra
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Resurgence of OBC politics in Bihar is now spreading to other states as far as even Maharashtra where NCP has renewed its demand for caste based census on June 2, 2022, the day the Bihar state cabinet led by JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar approved the...
Sharad Yadav, Yashwant Sinha Are In Opposition List On Presidential Nominee
By Rahil Nora Chopra The names of NCP chief Sharad Pawar, BSP Supremo Mayawati, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and a few others have been circulating as possible presidential candidates for the last few months. Adding to that list are the names of socialist veteran Sharad Yadav and TMC leader...
India Govt Has To Take Care Of The Bangladeshis Working In The Country
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav For the last two-three days, Indian media is running a story that says a Bangladeshi woman crossed the swampy Sundarban forests, also home to Royal Bengal Tigers, and then swam for an hour to cross a river and meet her Indian boyfriend. The 22-year-old Krishna...
Neo-Liberal Economic Agenda Can Never Tackle Inflationary Pressures
By Prabhat Patnaik Central banks all over the capitalist world are raising, or are about to raise, interest rates as a means of countering the currently rampant inflation, which is certain to push a world economy that is barely recovering from the effect of the pandemic, back towards stagnation...
Mismanagement By Organizers Of KK’s Function In Kolkata Needs Probe
By Ashis Biswas Whether as commoners or experts, people engaged in making political predictions are usually in a high-risk, error-prone business: Yet judging by initial public reactions after the unfortunate death of highly popular singer Krishnakumar Kunnath or KK in Kolkata on May 31 it seems safe to conclude...
Global Icon Thomas Piketty’s New Book Shows His Faith In Socialism
By Eric Blanc It’s a sign of the times that one of the world’s most prominent intellectuals has just published a book of essays titled Time for Socialism. As Thomas Piketty explains in the volume’s long introduction, “If someone had told me in 1990 that I would publish a...
Russia-Ukraine War Crosses 100th Day With No Signs Of Early Truce
By Aman Kumar On May 23, a domestic court in Ukraine sentenced a 21-year-old Russian soldier to life in prison for committing war crimes. The soldier had shot dead an unarmed civilian in Ukraine. This was the first conviction related to the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia. On...
During Eight Years Of His Rule, Narendra Modi Has Encouraged Divisive Forces
By Binoy Viswam The Modi government under the control of RSS has completed eight years. The Prime Minister and his companions have mobilised every propaganda means to boast about their ‘tremendous’ achievements. The sufferings and sorrows of the masses are cunningly drowned with the flood of propaganda gimmicks. During...
Relentless Attack On Democracy Is The Highlight Of Modi Regime Since 2014
By Prakash Karat The BJP is conducting a fortnight campaign to celebrate the completion of eight years of the Modi government. The campaign seeks to highlight claims of the various achievements of the government regarding economic growth, infrastructure development, foodgrain production, social welfare schemes and foreign policy. All these...
BJP Govt Is Making Use Of Central Agencies To Hound Opposition Leaders
By Sushil Kutty What’s with the Modi Government, why are AAP leaders being arrested? After Satyendar Jain, it could be Manish Sisodia. ‘Satyendar’ translates to ‘honesty’, the gospel ‘truth’. Yet, the enforcement directorate arrests Satyendar, health minister in the Delhi Government, and architect of the famed “mohalla clinics”. Kejriwal...
BJP Much Ahead Of Political Rivals In Lok Sabha Poll Preparation
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP is much ahead of political rivals in making preparations for 2024 Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh using Hindutva, holding investment meet and gearing up party workers to achieve target. Significantly enough Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath asked the party leaders and workers to achieve...
