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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.Sangh Parivar Has To Do Away With Ideology Of Destructive Hatred
By Binoy Viswam Religious extremism is never far from religious fundamentalism. For the question that has hardly any explanation today the distance is practically nil. From religious extremism to the point of communal hatred, there is no distance to traverse. Thoughts of racial pride in its rude and primitive...
Bringing Back Section 66A Through The UN Convention Route
By Aditya Aamir Is Section 66A of the Information Technology Act making a comeback? This at a time when restrictions on Freedom of Expression are beginning to get the upper hand over free speech. The return of Section 66A is bound to lead to further restrictions and keep people...
Kashmir Searching For Its Magic Amid Tourism Boom & Targeted Killings
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Jammu and Kashmir is once again at the centre of a raging political debate. In the past few weeks, several targeted killings of non-Kashmiris and Kashmiri Pundits have rocked the nation’s conscience. News reports suggest that Kashmiri Pundits are desperate to leave the valley while...
Bernie Sanders Should Run For President A Third Time In 2024 Polls
By Branko Marcetic Allow me, for a moment, to indulge my inner Tom Friedman. A few weeks back, I was exchanging the usual banter with a taxi driver, Amandeep, an Indian immigrant who had lived in New York nearly two decades, when the conversation turned to politics. After telling...
Joe Biden’s Summit Of The Americas Turns Out To Be A Big Flop
By Steve Sweeney US President Joe Biden’s so-called Summit of the Americas has been branded “a neoliberal failure” after some regional leaders refused to attend over his exclusion of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The leaders of Bolivia, Honduras and Guatemala are boycotting the week-long event, which opened in Los...
Rise In Interest Rate By RBI Again Is A Part Of Its Plan To Deal With Global Headwinds
By Anjan Roy Reserve Bank of India has done a delicate pirouette in formulating its monetary policy in the context of extreme volatility and uncertain turn of events. All that RBI has done on Wednesday is to raise the policy interest rate —called the repo rate— by half a...
Narendra Modi Govt’s Image Has Got A Big Jolt In Gulf Nations In Last Few Days
By K Raveendran The Narendra Modi government might in all probability be able to bring the friendly Arab governments round to softening their initial response to what they consider to be the most sacrilegious remark by BJP leaders against Prophet Mohammed. The government has already intensified the firefighting, with...
Double Standards Haunt US, Europe In NATO Dispute With Turkey
By James M Dorsey United States of America and European acquiescence in Turkey’s long-standing refusal to honour Kurdish ethnic, cultural, and political rights has come home to roost with Turkish opposition to Finnish and Swedish NATO membership. The opposition has sparked debates about Turkey’s controversial place in the North...
Akhilesh And Mayawati Are Fighting Each Other To The Advantage To BJP
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party are confronting each other to poach vote bank to the advantage of BJP in next Lok Sabha polls. At a time Samajwadi Party is facing tough challenge from BJP in two crucial by-elections in Azamgargh and Rampur won by...
There Is A Calculated Conspiracy To Discredit Kerala Chief Minister
By P. Sreekumaran Unfazed by fresh ‘revelations’ in the diplomatic channel gold smuggling case, the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government has demanded a probe into the conspiracy to discredit it. The Government’s demand has come following the ‘new’ allegations levelled by Swapna Suresh, an accused in the...
Both BJP And Congress Are Involved In Horse Trading On The Eve Of June 10 Polls
By Sushil Kutty Horses are noble animals. And to taint their name with the slur of horse-trading is a disgrace. The political horse-trading currently going on in Rajasthan, and possibly Maharashtra, with tentacles spread out to Delhi and Bengaluru is the pits. Udaipur, Jaipur and Mumbai are also in...
Yasin Malik Has Four Decades Of Political Experience As A Separatist
By Harihar Swarup On May 25, a national Investigation Agency Court convicted Yasin Malik and sent him to two life terms. Malik is the leader of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), which seeks independence for J & k from India and Gilgit-Baltistan from Pakistan. Apart from the...
Caste Census Has Now Emerged As A Major Issue For Political Parties
By Kalyani Shankar Will a caste census trigger a disaster or settle the demand of many political parties? While it plays such a dominant role in our social, economic, and political life, it is strange that no credible Caste data has existed since 1931. Also, the prominent four main...
Madhya Pradesh Is In The Grip Of Election Fever For Local Bodies Polls
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: With the announcement of election schedule of local bodies, Madhya Pradesh is in the grip of election fever. Because of Covid-19 election is late by two years. During the last two years local bodies were being governed by officials. Besides the two major parties –...
Opposition Parties Are No Match To Trinamool In Coming Panchayat Polls In Bengal
By Ashis Biswas With Panchayat elections due early next year in West Bengal, there are ominous signs that the polling process could be just as violent and troublesome as the last time in 2018. That year parties opposing the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) could not put up candidates for...
Taliban Command Structure Afflicted With Bitter Factionalism
By Sankar Ray The monolithic dictatorship of the Taliban shows cracks as the compulsion for compromises on certain issues looms large. There is bitter opposition within the top leadership. It was apparent months ago when the Taliban’s deputy foreign minister, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, publicly pulled up the Taliban...
Drones Posing Risks To The Present Indian Security System
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Within 10 days of India celebrating two days Bharat Drone Mahotsav 2022 on May 27-28, the technical analysis of drone seized by Indian security forces has revealed an alarming trend of increasing security threat for the country – Drones are being used in smuggling of...
India’s Public Debt Level Is Too High To Become Comfortable
By Nantoo Banerjee It is a matter of serious concern that India’s public debt level is among the highest in emerging economies while the country’s debt affordability is among the weakest. Generally, the average threshold limit prescribed for public debt-to-GDP ratio is 77 percent with each additional percentage point...
