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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.Akhilesh Yadav Has Improved His Acceptability Through Long Election Campaign
By Harihar Swarup In the Uttar Pradesh’s assembly elections, the overriding perception is that Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is the man most likely to benefit from electoral tide. Akhilesh Yadav is the complete antithesis of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. This is most marked in the language he uses...
BJP Is Banking On Last Minute Mega Road Show Of Prime Minister To Win
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Will the mega road show of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi spin the magic for BJP in the holy city and other constituencies in seventh and last phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh on March 7? During 2017 assembly polls, riding on Modi wave...
A New Global Energy Order Emerging With US Supplies As Pivot
By Matein Khalid If Checkpoint Charlie in West Berlin was the epicentre of the Cold War between NATO and the Soviet Union’s Warsaw Pact satellite states, Ukraine is the crucible of the geopolitical confrontation between the West and Putin’s Russia. Putin weaponized Gazprom’s gas exports to Ukraine as far...
Russia-Ukraine War Poses Big Challenges To Supply Chain Industry
By Subrata Majumder Supply chain has become the core issue in Make in India. In the forthcoming new foreign trade policy, it will play a prominent role to increase exports. But, unless India reinvents its perception towards Free Trade Agreement (FTA) it will be difficult to emerge as a...
India Loses About $80 Billion Forex Yearly On Students Studying Abroad
By K R Sudhaman Indian students going abroad for studies cost approximately $80 billion foreign exchange, which broadly equals forex received by way of NRI remittances annually. This is a staggering figure spent by about 11 lakh students who go abroad for higher studies. This figure is only growing...
Untold Story Of Pitfalls In Medical Education In Ukraine
By K Raveendran Operation Ganga, the evacuation drive launched to bring back Indian students from Ukraine, is by no means comparable to Vande Bharat mounted during the Covid pandemic, in which over 1.8 crore Indians were evacuated from various parts of the world. But the heart-wrenching stories about the...
Global Corruption Loss In Health Sector Is $455 Billion A Year
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Demand for ramping up health expenditures are at an all-time high, and therefore, countries need additional health resources not only for responding to the COVID-19 pandemic but also closing the gaps in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) in health in most emerging and developing...
With Ukraine War On, U.S. Secures Dominance Over Most Of Europe
By Ian Goodrum Russian bombs might be falling on Ukraine cities but many in the United States seem keen on running a victory lap. After Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24 what he termed a “special military operation” in Ukraine following weeks of tensions, the U.S. intelligence...
Financial Sanctions: Bitcoin Is A Big Gainer In The Russia-Ukraine War
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav As the Russian invasion of Ukraine rages on and a catastrophe looks near than ever, Twitter is where the latest news, analysis, and perspectives can be found. These are coming from the powerful and the most cerebral people of our time. It’s fascinating and engrossing...
CPI(M) Calls For The First Time Russian Action In Ukraine As ‘Invasion’
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury has termed the Russian military action in Ukraine as ‘invasion’ and has been unequivocal in mentioning that ’A full-fledged military operation on such a big scale mounted by Russia, whatever may be the provocations and perceived...
International Monetary Fund Played A Crucial Role In Precipitating Ukraine War
By Prabhat Patnaik The security concerns of Russia arising from Ukraine’s intentions of joining NATO have been widely discussed in the media. But the IMF’s link with Ukraine which is a parallel issue has scarcely received much attention. The IMF, as is well-known, “opens up” economies around the world...
Nitish Dismisses Buzz About His Candidature For President
By Rahil Nora Chopra Amid a lot of buzz for the coming presidential elections, names of political veterans such as Sharad Pawar, BSP Supremo Mayawati and a few others have been doing the rounds and discussed as possible candidates for the post. Speculations have been rife of late with...
Rising Unemployment Is Being Ignored By The Modi Govt
By Dr. Gyan Pathak February 2022 data on unemployment is even more frustrating amidst the Modi government’s claim that the employment opportunities are on the rise in India. Unemployment rate actually rose to 8.1 per cent from 6.57 per cent in January showing worsening the condition by 1.53 per...
Bizarre ’Kill Putin’ Hashtag In Social Media Steamrolling Freedom Of Expression
By Sushil Kutty The ‘cancel culture’ that saw Trump’s courtiers crushed underfoot for supporting the former President, and for refusing to state emphatically that the “election was not stolen”, has now transferred to crushing everybody who will not join the “Kill Putin” circus which has been in town for...
India-Bangladesh River Transport Projects Are Facing Problems
By Ashis Biswas India and Bangladesh have profitably introduced bilateral waterways trafficking of goods/cargo in an effort to better integrate their economies some time ago. However, both countries going forward have learnt that future growth may be negatively impacted by natural factors beyond their control. Some days ago, Assam...
Decoding Trinamool Congress’s Massive Victory In Latest Civic Polls In Bengal
By Nitya Chakraborty The massive victory achieved by Trinamool Congress in the latest elections to 108 civic bodies in Bengal covering all the districts is a continuation of the trend which was evident at the assembly elections in 2021.In all the subsequent elections held in the state, first Kolkata...
Russia’s Financial System Takes Big Hits On Eighth Day Of Ukraine War
By Anjan Roy I never tire of recalling what Joseph Schumpeter, one of the greatest economists and scholars, wrote in his monumental tome: The nearer we are to an epoch the less we understand. Our own we understand the least. It is too early to make an assessment of...
Centre Should Reduce Duties On Petro Products To Check Rising Inflation
By Sanjay Roy The tensions between Russia and the US-NATO in the past few weeks and the Russian military attack on Ukraine have sparked a big increase in international oil prices. The oil prices have surged and they stood over 100 dollars a barrel and gas prices have escalated...
