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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.Centre Cherry-Picking Names Recommended For High Court Judges
By Paras Nath Singh On May 13, the Union Government notified the appointment of nine advocates as judges of the Delhi High Court. Of them, three are women. This increases the high court’s current working strength to 44 judges against the sanctioned strength of 60 judges. The newly appointed...
The West Is Using Ukraine To Fight A Proxy War Against Russia
By Nantoo Banerjee Few will disagree that the US-led 30-member North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is using Ukraine to test Russia’s military capability and patience. The increasing supplies of arms, money and even clandestinely despatching soldiers to Ukraine indicate that NATO is fighting a proxy war against Russia cleverly...
Congress Chintan Shivir At Udaipur Has Laid No Road Map To Take On BJP
By Kalyani Shankar Where does Congress go from Udaipur Chintan Shivir? Was the conclave an exercise in futility, or will it revive the party? It all depends on the implementation of the decisions taken at the conclave. Congress President Sonia Gandhi said that the Shivir should not become a...
Confusion That Grips Congress Gets Exposed At Three Day Chintan Shivir
By Arun Srivastava The Chintan shivir is not the panacea of the malaise that inflicts the Congress. Significantly, Congress under Sonia Gandhi has been regularly holding such shivirs. But the shivirs have failed to rejuvenate and revitalise the organisation and provide a new direction. On the contrary the party...
BJP Is Going The Whole Hog In Unseating KCR From CM’s Chair In Telangana
By Sushil Kutty Media has been writing and talking of “KCR’s gambit” from way before the Telangana state was born. That first gambit succeeded and, today, Telangana is India’s youngest state. It is said that KCR led the way for the formation of Telangana from the front from the...
Majoritarian Nationalism Of Rajapaksa Family Has Failed In Sri Lanka
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Majoritarian nationalism can go wrong and it can land the leaders in a hot soup! This is the unmistakable message from the Sri Lankan crisis. The Rajapaksa family was the darling of the majority Singhalese and it indulged in hate politics against Hindus and Muslims....
AAP-Twenty20 Alliance In Kerala Causes Confusion
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A new political outfit has burst on Kerala’s political landscape. The latest addition to the plethora of political organisations the State parades has been made by the Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) and the corporate-backed Twenty20, which have joined hands to challenge the two principal political fronts...
Sedition Law Has A Long History Since 1857 Sepoy Revolt Till Present
By Major General S.G. Vombatkere Following the 1857 so-called Great Indian Rebellion during the rule of the East India Company, British monarch Queen Victoria, issued a proclamation in 1858 that India would be governed by and in the name of “the Crown”. Thus, the British territory of India (the...
India A Key Player In Seismic Shift In Global Crude Oil Market
By K Raveendran The seismic shift in the global crude oil market has begun to take effect. This is expected to manifest in tightened crude markets as well as unprecedented shifts in trade flows, most notably of Russian oil from Europe to Asia. Russia is expected to redirect as...
Constituent Assembly Held Long Discussions On Major Labour Issues
By S.N. Sahu India’s record of taking up labour issues in a progressive manner predates the observation of May Day, on May 1, 1891, as the first international Labour Day. In 1884, seven years before the commencement of May Day celebrations in 1891, Narayan M. Lokhande, hailed as the...
Supreme Court Order On Sedition Law Is A Significant Forward Movement
By Harihar Swarup In a Batch of petitions challenging the law of sedition, contained in section 124A of the Indian Penal Code, the Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a slew of interim directions. Things came to a head because the Central Government, instead of defending the constitutionality of the...
Workforce Being Crushed Between Inflation And Joblessness
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Workforce in India is being crushed between inflation and joblessness chiefly on account of wrong policy stance of the Narendra Modi government and the pandemic may be just an additional excuse. Retail inflation (CPI) in April soared to a 8-year high, ie the entire period...
Modi’s ‘Civilisationalism’ May Be Another Potential Flashpoint
By James M Dorsey When Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, he laid down a marker for a critical mass of world leaders who, like him, think in civilizational rather than national terms. In the minds of these leaders, the stakes in Ukraine are about much more than the...
Mohammad Ali Jinnah Wanted Balkanization Of India, Says A New Book
By K R Sudhaman Mohammed Ali Jinnah, who is now being eulogized by some of the Indian politicians particularly during the elections, did not care for Muslims staying back in India and was willing to sacrifice them to ensure the well-being of those who opted for Pakistan. In an...
Competition Between AAP And TMC Warms Up In East, North East States
By Ashis Biswas In some Indian states, the two major regional parties the Trinamool Congress and Aam Aadmi Party, sworn as they are to battle against the ruling BJP — find themselves unavoidably drawn into a bitter struggle to upstage each other in their quest to achieve organizational growth....
Confusion Over The Exact Role Of Mayawati After Assembly Polls Remains
By Sushil Kutty The mood in Uttar Pradesh is different from what it was before the last assembly elections. Things are on an unprecedented boil. Kashi, Mathura, Agra… Things happening with far-reaching implications. Before the elections, there was AIMIM’s Asaduddin Owaisi making a pitch for the Muslim vote, claiming...
Congress Braces To Pick Party President, Wants Rahul To Lead
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Congress has already initiated creating the ground for the assembly elections to be held in Rajasthan next year. Along with this, preparations are also being made to hold organisational elections in the party to pick the new president. During the Congress Working Committee (CWC)...
Two Years Of Pandemic Have Shown The Inhumanity Of Capitalist Path
By Prabhat Patnaik For over two years now, the world has been facing a pandemic the like of which has not been seen for a century, and which has already taken 15 million lives according to the WHO, without being anywhere near an end. This is an unprecedented crisis...
