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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.DOGE Against MAGA Is Gathering Fire Under Donald Trump’s Nose
By Sushil Kutty This was bound to happen: Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy ganging up against President-elect Donald Trump’s MAGA supporters. The two technocrats have their egos hanging from the tips of their noses. Imagine if Vivek Ramaswamy had won the Republican presidential nomination instead of Donald Trump! Now,...
Election Fever Grips Delhi As AAP And Congress Size Each Other Up
By Mriganka M Bhowmick Election fever has begun to grip Delhi as the state prepares for its upcoming elections. Though small in size, Delhi holds significant political importance, influencing perceptions across the country. In recent years, it has drawn national attention due to the intense political rivalry between the...
Peshmerga Making Solid Contributions To Stabilise A Volatile Region
By Manish Rai While on my recent visit to Iraqi Kurdistan, I visited several frontline positions of the Peshmerga forces, where they are facing the Iraqi Army and active ISIS cells. Firstly, I visited Brigade 14 headquarters near Dibak, approximately 60 km from the Kurdistan capital, Erbil. There, I...
China Is Alive To Challenges Of Changing Economic Landscape
By Tirthankar Mitra The Chinese economy continues to be in the news. Now, in a significant change to its fiscal strategy, a record of $411 billion treasury bonds will be issued next year. Such a bonds issue is not new to China, but the sheer magnitude of the effort...
BSP Supremo ‘Behen Mayawati’ Finally Wakes Up To Revive The Dalit Party
By Pradeep Kapoor Will the recent mobilisation of party workers all over the country by the national president of the Bahujan Samaj Party, Mayawati, to protest the alleged degrading comments on Dalit icon BR Ambedkar by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, help the revival of the BSP? Known for...
2024: Few Positives, Some Negatives, And Judicial Change Of Guard
By Indira Jaising This year began on a positive note. A Bench of Justice B.V. Nagarathna and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan delivered the judgment setting aside the remission granted by the government of Gujarat to the convicts in the Bilkis Bano case. The case was of great significance not only...
Belagavi Extended CWC Meet Signals New Wave Of Congress Politics
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Indian National Congress has postponed the grand convention – Jai Gandhi, Jai Bhim, Jai Samvidhan – on the second day of the Extended Congress Working Committee Meet at Belagavi in Karnataka. Instead, a condolence meeting was held to mourn the sad demise of the...
34 Days From June 21 To July 24, 1991 That Shook The Indian Economy
By Nitya Chakraborty On June 21, 1991, the 70-year-old Congress veteran P V Narasimha Rao took oath as the Prime Minister of a minority government amidst massive political uncertainty over its survival. The Congress had got only 232 seats as against the usual majority of 272 in the Lok...
Folk Artist Devi Had To Apologise For Singing Bapu’s Bhajan
By Arun Srivastava Hindu zealots have been busy tearing India and its cultural and social ethics apart, but now they are out to Talibanize India and its social and cultural order. What happened in Patna at the Bapu Sabhagar auditorium to celebrate the 100th birth anniversary of former Prime...
Trump’s Threat Of A Tariff Wall Has Grave Economic Implications
By Prabhat Patnaik Donald Trump is threatening to use tariffs as a weapon against other countries. He has already made three threatening statements: first, he threatened the BRICS countries that if they dared to move away from the dollar, then they would have to face 100 percent tariff in...
Is Bihar CM Nitish Kumar Sulking For The Bharat Ratna?
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Bihar Assembly elections are to take place in October-November of 2025. Union Minister Giriraj Singh is asking for the Bharat Ratna for Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and former Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik. In October 2024, the JD(U) had put up a poster outside...
Myanmar’s ‘Tarbuj Brigade’ Gets Set To Enact A Regime Change
By Tirthankar Mitra Longevity of a regime, democratic or otherwise, rests on its popularity. A dispensation has its days numbered after meting out reprisal to its people for what it considers to be acts of defiance. Myanmar’s military junta is one such dispensation. Once feared as a monolithic regime,...
Live-Streaming Has Improved Courtroom Accountability
By Shivam Jadaun The judicial system has not been left untouched in a world increasingly defined by digital transparency. Courtroom live-streaming, once unthinkable due to its perceived threat to the sanctity of judicial proceedings, is now rapidly gaining momentum as a tool to enhance accountability and transparency. At the...
The Real ‘War On Christmas’ Is A Class War Waged By Bosses
By Liza Featherstone In the right-wing imaginary, the War on Christmas had a good run. Fox News host John Gibson alleged in a 2005 book that liberals were planning to “ban the sacred holiday,” and a moral panic was born, yielding outrage after outrage almost every year. This year,...
Governance In Delhi Being Sabotaged Before Election By Officials Themselves
By Dr. Gyan Pathak A Joint Director of the Department of Woman and Child Development and the Special Secretary of the Health and Family Welfare Department of the National Capital Territory of Delhi placed public notices in newspapers on December 25, 2024, stating that two state government schemes of...
Bihar Set For Political Change After Arif Mohammad Khan’s Entry
By Arun Srivastava The National Democratic Alliance meet of Wednesday had convoluted implications. It was meant to evolve a mechanism to counter opposition narratives, primarily to work out a to protect BJP strongman Amit Shah from Congress from attacks on his insinuations targeting Dr B.R. Ambedkar, the architect of...
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly In The Delhi Assembly Elections
By Sushil Kutty Three political parties. Three sets of politicians. All three fighting for control of the warren called Delhi. Biting, sniping and snapping at each other’s heels. Calling each other names. Enticing, inducing and bribing the voters with ‘schemes’. Lying and casting aspersions at each other, this is...
Globally, 2024 Was Marked By Intensifying Conflicts With No End In Sight
By Dr Arun Mitra A year back when we entered the New Year 2024, we all hoped that the year would bring an end to the conflicts around the world and reduce the threat of nuclear weapons, even though this hope was filled with fear and scepticism. Despite the...
