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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 Reaps Maximum Benefits From Sanctions Against Russian Oil
By K Raveendran India is leading the switch in the flow of Russian crude oil, hit by sanctions in the wake of the country’s invasion of Ukraine, from its traditional market Europe to Asia. According to latest estimates available with Rystad, in the four months since the start of...
Laxmi Jadhav Makes History By Becoming The First Woman Bus Driver In Mumbai
By Harihar Swarup “Most people think women don’t make good drivers, but I have proved them wrong”, says Laxmi Jadhav, 42, with a mischievous smile. It’s been a week since she became the first woman bus driver in the history of BEST (The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport Undertaking),...
Qatar’s World Cup Catch-22 Situation Over LGBT Access
By James M Dorsey When Egyptian football legend Mohammed Aboutreika came out swinging against homosexuality in late 2021, he touched a raw nerve across the Muslim world. The tit-for-tat between Aboutreika and supporters of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights laid bare a yawning gap. For Aboutreika and...
Azamgarh And Rampur By-Polls Are Very Crucial For Samajwadi Party
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party is under tremendous pressure to retain Azamgarh and Rampur Lok Sabha seats facing by-elections on June 23. Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav had won from Azamgarh while Rampur was won by senior party leader Mohd Azam Khan who was recently released on...
When Hate Speech Falls Short Of Being Free Speech In Indian Society
By Ujjaini Chatterji The contemporary Indian democracy is at a threshold of its constitutionalism. Amidst the deafening noise of the media and a structured, institutionalised political propaganda of minority marginalisation, every second day, there is a renewed debate regarding what constitutes an exercise of the freedom of speech and...
France Enters A New Era Of Political Instability After Macron’s Failure To Get Majority
By Sankar Ray “France has had enough of its monarch president. If the French people decide to give us a majority then we will govern . . . Destiny is in your hands,” crisply said Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of the coalition of various hues of left and green...
Presidential Elections In Last Seven Decades Have Been Eventful
By Kalyani Shankar Presidential elections are the buzz of the season as India is poised to get its new President next month following the retirement of incumbent Ramnath Kovind. Since Independence, these polls have witnessed close contests, surprises, and upsets. Generally, the ruling party gets its candidate elected, and...
Trinamool Congress Giving Stiff Fight To Ruling BJP In Tripura Bypolls
By Ashis Biswas With only two days left for the by-elections for four Tripura assembly seats on June 23, the war of words between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its main challenger Trinamool Congress (TMC) reached a climax of sorts this week. While TMC’s top leader Mamata...
Rewriting History Is The Brain Child Of RSS To Refurbish Its Image
By Arun Srivastava Decrying modern Indian history and accusing the eminent historians of distorting the historical facts has turned into an obsession for the BJP leaders and cadres. Every individual in the party, right from the lower level to the top leaders, is busy finding fault with the history...
Shiv Sena Supremo Uddhav Thackeray Is Facing His Biggest Political Crisis
By Sushil Kutty ‘Unreachable’ is what mobile phones communicate when the tower can’t connect. But when a bunch of Shiv Sena MLAs went “incommunicado” midnight on Monday, the future looked grim for Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, who couldn’t get through to Eknath Shinde, a key Sena MLA and...
Infrastructure For Combating Cyber Crimes In India Is Still Weak
By M.Y. Siddiqui States/Union Territories (UTs) have set up 169 cyber police stations across the country to combat ever rising cyber crimes in the country as per a latest report, Data on Police Organizations for 2020 by the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D). Union Government in the...
Gujarat Glows As Epicentre Of India’s Development
By Nantoo Banerjee Prime Minister Narendra Modi must be a very happy person today as his dream to make his home state Gujarat an epicentre of India’s economic development has finally come true. Modi has been relentlessly trying to make Gujarat the country’s choicest investment destination since he became...
Oil Diplomacy Has Assumed Critical Importance For Survival Of Economy
By Anjan Roy As the three big names of Europe rolled into Kyiv by train on June 16 of for a pow-wow with the Ukrainian president, Volodymir Zelensky, Russia had warned France, Germany and Italy of consequences. President Emmanuel Macron of France, Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany and Prime...
Super Profiteering In Essential Drugs Cannot Be Allowed
By Dr Arun Mitra The COVID-19 Pandemic has brought to the fore necessity to bring about changes in the international agreements on drugs/vaccines keeping the public health priorities uppermost. Latest data points out that 66.2% of the world population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine...
Anger Against Acute Unemployment Finally Explodes In India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Unprecedented unemployment crisis in independent India that has been building up with sharpest ever hike in joblessness since 2014 has finally exploded on June 14, 2022, when the Centre announced Agnipath (literally the Path of Fire) scheme for short term recruitment in armed forces. The...
Leftwing Gustavo Petro Is Elected As The New President Of Colombia
By Satyaki Chakraborty The people of Colombia belonging to the Latin American region elected the left wing leader Gustavo Petro as the next President of the country in the Presidential polls held on June19,setting the stage for further radicalization of the politics of the continent. This was for the...
BJP Has Advantage In Presidential Polls With Support From BJD And YSRCP
By Amulya Ganguli The BJP’s advantage in the forthcoming presidential polls is that it has friends – both overt and covert – in the opposition camp. Their presence not only boosts the party’s own numerical strength, but also sows seeds of doubt and disaffection among its adversaries. The two...
Narendra Modi Is Packaging The Agnipath Scheme To Tame The Protesters
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi has directed BJP leaders and his ministerial colleagues to market his product Agnipath in a more professional manner and to accomplish the mission they should reach out to every individual. Modi is known as a marketing guru. He can market anything. People of the...
