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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.The Global Far Right’s Dangerous Game Is On In Full Force In 2025
By John Green LONDON: Around the world, we have been witnessing the rise of new right-wing and neofascist political forces at the same time as we have experienced the demise or marginalisation of strong left-wing forces. We face a new and more virulent Donald Trump presidency in the US,...
Government Must Raise Infrastructure Spend To Push Jobs, Consumption And GDP
By Nantoo Banerjee The slump in India’s GDP growth rate is understandable. Contrary to the government claims, the job market is down. The income growth, in general, is shrinking. A vast section of consumers are not spending enough, except for wage goods or daily dire necessities, as their real...
Controversy Over Retaining H-1B Visa Policy Divides Republican Party
By Kalyani Shankar As the US President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office on January 20, he faces a unique challenge. The issue of immigration and the H-1B visa has become a contentious point among the two key groups. He is trying to satisfy the conflicting interests of the...
National Anthem Controversy In Tamil Nadu Has Ominous Signs
By Dr. Gyan Pathak National anthem controversy picked up by the Governor of Tamil Nadu is ominous for the state and the country as well. Moreover, his refusal to follow the tradition relating to recitation of India’s national anthem in the Legislative Assembly of the state is also unwise,...
Delhi CM Atishi’s Missing Surname And Priyanka Gandhi’s Cheeks
By Sushil Kutty Playing the wronged man is Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal’s forte. Kejriwal is often heard reminding people he’s being targeted by the BJP for being ‘kattarimandar’ and ‘honest bloke Kejriwal’ says the “BJP has crossed all limits of shamelessness…” after serial slanderer Ramesh Bidhuri’s utterly...
Billionaires Get Ready To Take Over In Washington After January 20
By Mark Gruenberg and John Wojcik WASHINGTON—Once again the corporate media, as it did in the election campaign, is failing to focus on the issues that are important to the U.S. working class. While the billionaires prepare to take direct control over the government in Washington and use that...
Coalition Partners Upset With BJP Administration In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: All is not well between BJP and coalition partners in Uttar Pradesh where Apna Dal and Nishad Party presidents expressed dissatisfaction on public platforms at the functioning of the Yogi Adityanath government.. Significantly ,Apna Dal (Sonelal Patel) leader and cabinet minister Ashish Patel publicly alleged...
Right To Information Is Being Transformed Into Right To Deny These Days
By Shailesh Gandhi It is worth revisiting two judgments of the Supreme Court. A five-judge Bench has ruled in P. Ramachandra Rao versus State of Karnataka: “Courts can declare the law, they can interpret the law, they can remove obvious lacunae and fill the gaps but they cannot entrench...
Elon Musk Is Using His Social Media Platform To Throttle Liberalism
By Asad Mirza The recent seemingly eccentric and uncalled for comments by X’s owner Elon Musk against global leaders and governments, has once again brought the issue of setting the limits for Freedom of Expression, as per the democratic and decency norms of the society, not as dictated by...
Did Nitish Kumar Talk To Chandrababu Naidu About Joint Move Against BJP?
By Arun Srivastava Nobody except Narendra Modi knows Narendra Modi well, better than others. Leaders of almost all the political parties, even his BJP colleagues, are mythically in a state of confusion whether Modi would renounce Nitish Kumar and impose president’s rule in Bihar or Nitish would emerge on...
Digital Privacy Protection Must Avoid Pitfalls Of State Surveillance
By K. Raveendran The government has notified draft rules relating to the digital privacy protection law. Undoubtedly, this underscores a critical moment in the ongoing evolution of privacy legislation. The law, ostensibly designed to safeguard citizens, particularly children, from the darker corners of the digital realm, also raises profound...
Sambhal Issue Imparting A New Dimension To The Politics Of Uttar Pradesh
By Sushil Kutty Sambhal is an inflection point with many implications, some of which are already in play. One, there is a new ‘old Sambhal’ emerging before disbelieving eyes, the preserved remains of a long-lost town that existed much-much before the majority of those among today’s living were born,...
India To Witness Labour Reforms In 2025 In A Big Way
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The year 2024 saw the Union Government of India meticulously preparing the ground for proposed labour reforms, including the four controversial labour codes, and Employment Linked Incentive (ELI), though could not roll them out because of a range of issues, including hesitant attitude of India...
Politics Of Tariffs, Mass Deportation, Megalomania In New Year
By Matein Khalid Two tragic plane crashes in Azerbaijan/South Korea and now terrorist outrages in Las Vegas and New Orleans take the joy out of New Year’s Day but all we can hope that the world will be reinvented with a modicum of rationality when Donald Trump swears the...
Vietnam Emerging As The Best Performing Economy In South East Asia
By Nitya Chakraborty from Hanoi Vietnam, the Communist nation with nearly 10 crore population is presently the focus of the big investors of the world including the USA as the nation’s leadership has made a miracle in building a highly skilled youth brigade along with the creation of an...
Agricultural Marketing In India Once Again Is In The Eye Of The Storm
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Farmers have already been protesting against the Centre demanding legal guarantee for Minimum Support Price (MSP) for their crops and also implementation of Swaminathan formula C2+50 per cent for calculating MSP so that they could gent remunerative price for their produce, where C2 is the...
PM Narendra Modi Has To Deal More With Hard Core Hindutva In 2025
By Sushil Kutty 2024 was a happening year. Happenstance, 2025 also will be. There was a new government at the Centre in 2024 — with the same old Prime Minister and a brand new Leader of the Opposition! In year 2025, there will be a new government in Delhi...
Centre Must Allocate Higher Funds In Budget For Healthcare And Education
By Dr Arun Mitra At the time of Indian independence in 1947 with GDP at 2.7 lakh crore that is 3% of the world’s total GDP, it was a big challenge and horrendous task to meet aspirations of all sections of the society particularly the marginalized ones. Since the...
