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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.Arrest Of A Big Bangladeshi Financial Scamstar In Bengal Creates A Row
By Ashis Biswas Nothing has engaged the capabilities of police forces in India (West Bengal) and Bangladesh in recent times more the arrest of international fugitive Prashanta Kumar Halder, charged with the embezzlement of billions of rupees through a scam that makes the homegrown Sarada ponzy scheme look puny!...
Chandrutt Mishra, World’s Foremost Leopard Expert Is A Change Maker
By Harihar Swarup Nobody knows how many leopards there are in the wild not even Chandrutt Mishra, the world’s foremost expert on the big cat, and he’s been studying them for 25 years. The spotted grey feline that lives on the snowcapped mountains of Asia’s is so elusive that...
Can Hindu Marriage Act Allow Same Sex Marriage In India?
By Tanish Arora The Madras High Court, in the case of Arun Kumar versus Inspector General of Registration (2019), analysed the legitimacy of cis-trans marriage with regards to the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 specifically and held that the same would be legally sound. For the purposes of this, the...
Rahul Gandhi Has Damaged The Cause Of Opposition Unity With Udaipur Statement
By Nitya Chakraborty Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has struck a big blow to the efforts of the opposition parties towards forming a combined front to take on the ruling BJP in the Lok Sabha polls in 2024. Gandhi said in the Congress Chintan Shivir in Udaipur that the Congress...
Centre On Backfoot After Unsuccessful Privatisation
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Shelving of the disinvestment programme of the Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) the Pawan Hans Helicopters Limited (PHHL) soon after postponing planned disinvestment programme for another PSU the Central Electronics Limited (CEL) has brought the national attention not only to reexamine the merits and demerits of...
Central BJP Leaders Are Depending On Yogi Adityanath For Next Lok Sabha Win
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP leadership are banking on Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his team for crucial Lok Sabha elections scheduled for 2024. With 80 Lok Sabha seats from Uttar Pradesh, the elections are very crucial for PM Narendra Modi and BJP for...
Regional Parties Are Jittery At Rahul Gandhi’s Dig To Them On Ideology
By Arun Srivastava Rahul Gandhi’s homily that unlike regional parties which “lack an ideology” and “have different approaches”, Congress is a party with an ideology has evoked strong reaction from the leaders of other opposition parties. Questions are being raised what the authority does he enjoy to speak in...
‘Gyanvapi’ Aurangzeb Alamgir Refuses To Rest In Peace
By Sushil Kutty Who hasn’t heard of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb? Those who did not are being fed a healthy diet of Aurangzeb these past few days, ever since the fate of the Gyanvapi Mosque of Kashi/Banaras/Varanasi became a subject of intense strife and discussion in a country where places...
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...
