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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 Still Among Top 20 Clean Energy Access-Deficit Countries
By Dr. Gyan Pathak World is not yet on track to achieve the clean energy access for all by 2030, and at the current rate of progress, 670 million people will remain without electricity by 2030 – 10 million more than projected last year. Currently, 733 million people worldwide...
Cryptoassets In India Are Still Being Sought After By People
By Prachi Arya The evolution of the internet is underway. Users may soon experience the same kind of disorientation that was caused by the cataclysmic shift of the internet from English computer scientist Tim Berner Lee’s World Wide Web to social media-based Web 2.0. The Information Technology Act, 2000...
Renewed Focus On Skewed System For Designating Senior Advocates
By K Raveendran The remark by two judges of a Supreme Court vacation bench on the need for senior advocates to enrol and train at least 15 juniors is set to breath new life into the long-drawn controversy about the abuse of the system of designating senior advocates. “We...
Climate Change Has A Big Impact On The Healthcare System Of All Countries
By Dr Arun Mitra I very vividly remember when 30 years back in the year 1992 we wanted to hold a public function as a part of campaign for the promotion of healthy environment and preservation of ecology, not many people took it seriously. However we carried out with...
Left Wing Candidate Luiz Lula Has Now A Big Advantage In Brazilian Prez Polls
By Satyaki Chakraborty The left wing candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, better known as Lula, is firmly on his path to big victory in the coming presidential elections in Brazil scheduled for October 2 this year. A recent opinion survey run by Instituto FSB found that in the...
Ukraine: How Long Can Middle East Nations Do Tightrope Walk
By James M Dorsey For now, Ukraine is the far from my bed show for most Middle Eastern nations. The question is not if but when Ukraine will arrive on their doorstep. Two centrifugal forces threaten to push Middle Eastern nations off the tightrope: an increasingly bifurcated world populated...
Perarivalan, The Accused In Rajiv Gandhi Assassination, Is Finally Back Home
By Harihar Swarup AG Perarivalan is finally back home, after having spent nearly 31 years behind bars. One of the seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, he was initially sentenced to death; the Supreme Court later commuted it to life imprisonment. In March, this year he was...
Working In Cuba Was A Fabulous Experience In Health Care System
By Aleida Guevara Solidarity is one of the most beautiful things about the Cuban people. All Cubans have had their own experience with solidarity. Some as teachers, some as doctors, others as instructors. For example, we have all had some type of experience on internationalist missions. And even if...
Britain Celebrates Queen Elizabeth’s Reign’s Platinum Jubilee In June
By Kalyani Shankar Why are the Indians curious about the British Royal family even after India’s Independence? Even the present generation of Indians know of Queen Elizabeth 11. We have listened to the nursery rhyme in our childhood, “Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been? I have been...
Twists In Bihar Politics Signals New Churnings
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Twists in Bihar politics has now become perceivable with re-emergence of caste based clamoring among leaders of both national and regional political parties. The complexities and contrasts in the three decades of politics, beginning around 1889 with the well known Mandal vs Kamandal issue, now...
Deft Kerala Government Move Averts A Major Controversy
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANTHAPURAM: Deft handling by the Left Democratic front (LDF) Government of Kerala has prevented a sensitive issue from snowballing into a major controversy. The Government did this by deferring a decision on whether the Government should leave appointments in State-funded educational institutions to the Kerala Public...
Congress High Command Has Again Messed Up The List Of Rajya Sabha Nominees
By Sushil Kutty The Congress is 137 and in a hurry to turn fossil, led by the nose into old age. Some liquefied high fliers in the party, sensing atrophy in the bones, have already flown the coop. Others haven’t, out of a misplaced sense of loyalty to the...
Nitish Kumar-Narendra Modi Spat On RCP Singh Has Ominous Signal For NDA
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi is so smitten with the eulogy showered on him by his sycophants and bhakts of his being the strongest and most powerful politician India ever had in its 75 years of political freedom that he prefers to roam around in his make believe world...
President Biden Is In No Rush To Help Ukraine Negotiate An End To The War
By Branko Marcetic Thirteen weeks long, the war in Ukraine has reached a state of paradox. To a greater extent than at any previous point since Russian president Vladimir Putin invaded, the political establishment is acknowledging that a negotiated settlement is the only way the war can end safely....
Growing China-Russia Ties Put India Under A Trap
By Nantoo Banerjee China’s fast growing strategic and economic ties with Russia are becoming a major concern for India. Facing the heat of increasing Western financial sanctions on the country apart from large supplies of military and monetary aid from the US-led NATO countries to Ukraine, Russia is fast...
Leftist Gustavo Petro Is On Top In First Round Of Prez Polls In Columbia
By Satyaki Chakraborty The politics in Latin America took a definitive left wing shift on Sunday May 29 as the people of Columbia voted the candidate of the anti-establishment coalition Gustavo Petro as the top candidate with 40.3 per cent votes, followed by the surprise businessman candidate Rodolfo Hernandezwhogot28.2...
Calling Off BPCL Disinvestment Indicates A Disturbing Economic Trend
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Narendra Modi government’s calling off disinvestment of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) and the statement issued in relating to it thereafter is indicative of a disturbing undercurrent in the Indian Economy that should be a matter of great concern since what we are seeing might...
All These Eight Years, Narendra Modi Has Compelled The People To Listen
By Sushil Kutty These days spanning a month are an essay of our times. That said, it took less than 75 years for India to start unravelling. Some will set the date closer by decades; like eight years to date—from May 26, 2014 on, from the time the BJP...
