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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.Wordle Is Now The New Mind Game Engaging Attention Of Senior Citizens
By Kalyani Shankar The Covid pandemic has posed a challenge to many people feeling isolated. We are amid the third wave Omricron. People look to new games during the pandemic. For the past two years, I too got clued into New York Times crossword puzzle, mini crossword, Sudoku, letterboxed,...
Inordinate Delay In SC’s Hearing Of FCRA And Electoral Bonds Cases
By Md Tasnimul Hassan The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 , originally enacted in 1976, mandates for all NGOs, associations or groups which intend to receive foreign funding, to obtain a certificate of registration under FCRA. Recently, it was reported that nearly 6,000 organisations including Jamia Millia Islamia, Indian...
Drug Pollution In Rivers Is The Next Danger
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Access to clean water is not a basic human right in India, nor will be in near future, given Modi government’s lenient attitude towards polluters. It had even abstained last year when a motion was moved in the United Nations Human Rights Council that recognized...
Trinamool Congress Further Consolidates Its Position In Bengal
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: In West Bengal, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) made a flying start towards winning the civic polls: blowing away all opposition at Siliguri, Asansol, Chandannagore and Bidhannagar (Salt Lake City). In the first phase of polling, out of 226 urban wards in contention, the TMC...
Philosopher-Politician Debi Prasad Chattopadhayay Is No More
By Sankar Ray Quietly passed away Professor Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya, former Union minister of commerce in the 1970s on 13 February in Kolkata – known as DPC and also ‘Chhoto Debida’ among his juniors in the academia to be differentiated from the older DPC, a Marxist, famous for his...
Global Brands Taking Part In Local Politics Is Unethical And Risky
By Nantoo Banerjee The social media tweets and Instagram/Facebook posts sent out by dealers and outlets of some top order multinational consumer brands in Pakistan in support of ‘Kashmir Solidarity Day’ and ‘Right to Freedom’ are simply shocking and deserve universal condemnation. Such posts by dealers of those popular...
Chief Ministers Meeting To Save Federalism Is Significant
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s stand for a stronger Centre is well known by now, and also how these are undermining and weakening the very provision of federalism in the Constitution of India, both in letter and spirit. We also have examples when the Modi government...
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekara Rao Is Taking Away Modi’s Sleep
By Sushil Kutty Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekara Rao is emerging as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s nemesis, not the soft-spoken Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray nor the fire-breathing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee—‘KCR’, as he is called, is an adversary with the ability to get under the skin....
Balochistan Is On The Verge Of Eruption By Rebels
By Manish Rai Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest province in terms of area, in the last few weeks has witnessed a drastic increase in attacks against the Pakistani security forces, with Baloch rebels having caused heavy casualties to the state forces in different operations. Baloch insurgents are usually involved in scattered...
Mandatory Pre-Legislative Review Could Enhance Constitutional Culture
By Madhavi Gopalakrishnan and Trisha Choudhary Constitutional culture may be understood as the interactions between the citizens and officials of a State concerning the meaning of the Constitution. It refers to the belief that the exercise of State power is limited by the Constitution, a document which derives its...
Ukraine President Has Been Dismissing The War Scare Spread By USA And Britain
By Ben Chacko “The biggest enemy is panic,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said this weekend, adding that if US and British claims that Russia is about to invade his country are based on evidence, he would like to see it. What is going on? Could Washington and London be...
Samajwadi Party Needs To Have A Big Lead Against BJP In First Two Phases Of Polls
By Harihar Swarup Much awaited Uttar Pradesh assembly polls have started and key implications are already clear. If Samajwadi Party has to win Uttar Pradesh, it has to open up a substantial lead against BJP in western UP, in the first two phases of the polls that cover a...
Court Ambivalence Allows BJP Scope To Use Civil Code For Polarisation
By K Raveendran A coincidence of events, deliberate or otherwise, has forced the issue of uniform civil code to the fore in time for the crucial assembly elections, so as to help BJP with its agenda of polarisation of voters on religious lines, particularly in the all-important Uttar Pradesh....
Samajwadi Party-RLD Alliance Has An Edge In Second Phase Of Polls
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP is facing big challenge from Samajwadi Party and RLD combine in second phase of UP Assembly elections in Western UP due to domination of Muslim population in this region. Already on a slippery wicket witnessed in first phase in jatland of Western UP due...
Reimagining A Justice And Legal System Which Eliminates Hierarchies
By Indira Jaising One of the many things that really hurt when I was arguing the case of Ms. X versus Registrar General, High Court of Madhya Pradesh and Another (Writ Petition (Civil) No. 1137 Of 2018) was the hierarchical relationship between what is referred to as “the subordinate...
More Extensive And Intensive Agitations Of Working Class Are Ahead
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India seems to be heading toward a more turbulent industrial relations in the country in 2022 with the working class planning for more extensive and intensive agitations against Modi government’s economic and industrial policy in general and labour policies in particular on the one hand...
Finance Ministry And RBI Are Now At Tandem On Major Policy Issues
By Anjan Roy Two major policy statements which were presented in the last two weeks, the union budget and the post-budget monetary policy, have kicked up debates among economists and concerned public about the risks that the policy stances underwriting. These are mainly risk of a fiscal flare-up and...
Time For States To Balance Social And Industrial Development For Growth
By K R Sudhaman Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been advocating Gujarat Model of development for backward states to leapfrog in economic development. The left parties advocate Kerala model of development which is role model in social development particularly in health and education. But in reality if one goes...
