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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.Priyanka Gandhi Can Spring Some Surprises In Uttar Pradesh Elections
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Priyanka Gandhi with her strategy, road shows and public meetings in fourth phase constituencies in assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh on February 23, can give surprise results for the Congress party. Priyanka Gandhi worked very hard to save Nehru -Gandhi bastion in Rae Bareli and...
Kerala Govt Petition To Centre On Right To Recall Governor Makes Sense
By Sushil Kutty To expect the Modi Government to hand over powers to recall a governor to a state government is naïve. Governors are appointed and function at the pleasure of the Centre. They can be recalled only by the Centre, in which case “recall” is a synonym for...
Kerala Government’s Commendable Conflict Resolution
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It was a classic example of commendable conflict resolution in the face of extreme provocation. The Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government’s efficient handling of the explosive situation averted a confrontation with Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan. The confrontation came about when the Governor refused to...
‘Communist Manifesto’ Is More Relevant Now On Its 175th Year Of Publication
By Nadia Urbinati The Communist Manifesto, first published on February 21 in 1848, doesn’t suggest that we should imagine the future. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels tell us that the future is harbored within things themselves, and that is why it is rational to desire it. So it makes...
Remembering Martyrdom In East Pakistan On Language Issue In 1952
By Sankar Ray Nearly four years before the martyrdom of Abul Barkat, Abdul Jabbar, Rafiquddin Ahmad, Abdus Salam and Shafiur Rahman on 21 February 1952, polymath Syed Mujtaba Ali, linguist and Bengali litterateur predicted dismemberment of Pakistan. At a meeting of Sylhet Sahitya Sangsad (Sylhet Literary Council on 30...
Bad Loans Of Indian Banks Leapfrogged In Last Seven Years
By Nantoo Banerjee Business is rarely risk free. So are bank loans. There is nothing unusual about non-performing loans or assets. They exist in every economy. But, when business promoters collude with bank management to manipulate loans in their personal favour, they become a matter of serious concern. And,...
Regional Chief Ministers Are Positioning For Post March 10 Scenario
By Nitya Chakraborty The non-BJP chief ministers belonging to the regional parties have become most active in the ongoing phase of the state assemblies elections getting the smell of a weakened BJP after the results are out on March 10.Telangana chief minister K C Chandrasekhar Rao has emerged as...
Cashing In On Digitisation, India Should Now Promote Service Led Growth
By K R Sudhaman At a time when India’s goods exports surged towards $400 billion mark and services exports $250 billion mark this financial year, it is really a welcome development that India has signed a comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement (CEPA) with United Arab Emirates (UAE). This is expected...
BJP Is Mobilising All Its Resources To Defend Its Bastion In Fourth Phase Of Polls
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP is under tremendous pressure to save its hold over Awadh and neighbouring areas from Samajwadi Party and alliance in fourth phase polling on February 23. Since BJP had won maximum seats out of total 59 seats in 2017 in nine districts Lucknow, Hardoi, Lakhimpur...
Cryptocurrency Getting More Respectability In American Market
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav A harsh critic of cryptocurrencies is becoming a part of it today! In 2019, US President Donald Trump had said that he was not a fan of bitcoin and asked Facebook to seek a Banking Charter if it wanted its digital currency Libra to work...
Indian Telephone Industries Management Is Violating All Labour Laws
By Madhulika In Bengaluru’s 80 workers have entered their third month of protest against Indian Telephone Industries Limited, one of the India’s largest public sector undertakings . The workers, many of whom, are women and belong to the Dalit community, have been on protest since December 1 of...
Massive Rush Of Political Opportunists To Trinamool Makes Mamata’s Task Difficult
By Ashis Biswas Despite marginalising opposition parties to near extinction in the ongoing Bengal civic body polls, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) remains an acutely divided house. As in 2018, hordes of TMC dissidents angered over not securing nominations ,are fighting the 2022 elections too as ‘independents’, in many...
Internet Suspension For Quelling Protests Cost India $4.7 Billion
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Modi government resorted to large scale shutdowns of internet connections to quell protests by people against its policies adopted between 2019 and 2021 is now well known, but what is little known is that the internet suspension was effected for 14,280 hours during this period...
Using Minority Rights To Stonewall Professionalism
By K Raveendran An important case to decide how far minority rights can be cited to claim to take cover from professional standards in the conduct of aided educational institutions is coming up for the consideration of the Supreme Court shortly. The case relates to the question whether the...
Congress Flip Flops In Election Campaign May Damage The Party Prospects
By Harihar Swarup A columnist has aptly summed up the poll scene in Punjab and how the ruling congress party committed gaffe after gaffe. “The Congress’s campaign in Punjab is a lesson how not to win elections”, he wrote. Chief Minister Charanjit Channi, appears to be a general without...
Amit Shah’s Assurance To Channi To Probe Kejriwal Is Nothing But Bizarre
By Sushil Kutty Union Home Minister Amit Shah has promised Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi that he will “personally look into” former AAP leader Kumar Vishwas’s allegations that Delhi Chief Minister and AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal sups with terrorists and separatists and wanted to become “first Prime Minister...
Indian Constitutional Ethics Including Secularism Are Under Attack
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi ever since he came to occupy the office of prime minister has been insinuating worst nature of jibe against Jawahar Lal Nehru. This is the greater part of the RSS design to portray Nehru as an enemy of Hindus. RSS for pretty long time...
By Using Hijab Issue, Sangh Parivar Is Trying To Assert Hindu Supremacy
By Kavita Krishnan To understand the true meaning of the ‘hijab issue’ playing out in Karnataka and other states, one only needs to pay close attention to the way in which it is being invoked in poll-bound states by Bharatiya Janata Party leaders aiming to create and consolidate...
