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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.Presidential Poll Campaign Begins In Colombia Amidst Continuing Violence
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Campaigning in Colombia began on January 15 for congressional elections on March 13, and for first-round voting for a new president on May 29. Gustavo Petro, leader of the progressive Humane Colombia movement, will likely be the Historical Pact coalition’s presidential candidate. A former...
Modi Government’s Ninth Budget Proposals To Widen Inequality Further
By Nitya Chakraborty How does one characterize the budget 2022-23 of the Narendra Modi government presented by the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1 in Parliament? The budget was presented when the third wave of the pandemic is not yet over, but certainly the intensity is on decline...
Narendra Modi Has Shown No Concern For The Joblosers In Pandemic
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Hit hardest by the COVID-19 crisis and mishandling of the situation while implementing the containment measures for the last two years, the workforce in India have been keenly awaiting for relief in the Union Budget 2022-23, but the Modi government has let them down, at...
Dance And Despair For India In Memory Of Murdered Journalist Gauri Lankesh
By Teesta Setalvad Dear Gauri, Two days from today you turn 60. What would we have done to celebrate this key milestone? There would surely have been anger and tears with the joys and spirits of celebration. We would have argued and bickered about how to be together in...
BJP Leaders Finding It Tough To Push 80 Per Cent Plea In Uttar Pradesh
By Arun Srivastava Kairana Mission of BJP top leaders Narendra Modi and Amit Shah has failed to yield the desired result of polarisation of Hindu and Muslim. The back ground materials and the action paper which the saffron think tank and top intellectuals had prepared after putting nearly a...
Govt Wriggles Out Of A Tight Spot By Announcing 30% Tax On Crypto Profits
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made some much-awaited announcements about income from crypto transactions in the Union Budget 2022-23 presented on February 1, 2022. As per the budget proposals, the government intends to levy a flat 30% tax on profits earned on crypto transactions. This is...
Modi Government Presents Its’ Dharmic’ Budget With Technology Overtone
By Anjan Roy Finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, has delivered a muscular and masculine budget with lots of enthusiasm in it. She has been ambitious and seeking to set the court for the country for the next 25 years, hidden in platitudes of Amrit Kaal. Ignoring the rising fiscal deficit...
Bhagwant Singh Mann, AAP’s CM Face In Punjab Is Popular At Every Level
By Harihar Swarup On the face of it, Bhagat Singh Mann, the newly anointed chief ministerial face of the Aam Admi Party in coming election in Punjab has a razor sharp wit directed towards the ruling dispensation, and the bluster. Be it in a village, a dhaba or a...
Honduras’s First Woman President Is A Socialist With A Long Term Vision
By Medea Benjamin It’s a historic new era for Honduras, where the people managed to defeat Juan Orlando Hernández’s narco state and elect Xiomara Castro, the country’s first-ever woman president, and a progressive to boot. As presidential candidate of the left-leaning Libre Party, Xiomara Castro won a landslide victory...
Iran’s Soccer Curse: How Politics Plagues Its Football
By James M. Dorsey Iran recently scored not one but two soccer successes. Fans celebrated after the country’s national team qualified for the third consecutive time for the World Cup after beating Iraq 1:0 last week. It wasn’t just men celebrating. It was men and women mingling freely in...
Capex Focus Is Bound To Have Positive Impact On Economy, Employment
By Nantoo Banerjee The massive outlay for capital expenditure in the union budget is the boldest and most timely step taken by the government to ensure a speedy economic recovery. It will address the issue of unemployment and loss of individual income which plagued the economy through the two...
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Has To Show Concrete Results In Uttar Pradesh Polls
By Kalyani Shankar Every leader takes advantage of a crucial moment to settle down. The current Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections will be a decisive moment for the political future of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. Once considered a trump card, she now faces a massive challenge in the present elections. The...
Budget 2022-23 Would Not Make Life Easy For Commoners
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Union Budget 2022-23 provisions and allocations for health, education, and labour are too little to initiate ease of life in the next fiscal. Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman has claimed that the budget has laid foundation for economic growth for the next 25 years which...
Despite Heavy Tax, Crypto Ecosystem Wins Legitimacy
By K Raveendran Nirmala Sitharaman’s 2022-23 budget has a number of digital initiatives. But the main highlight is the introduction of Digital Rupee based on blockchain, a technology that drives the cryptocurrencies. The digital rupee will be a digital depiction of an Indian rupee supported by the Reserve Bank...
India Is Now In Competition With China In Launching Official Digital Currency
By Anjan Roy Nirmala Sitharaman in her fourth budget presented on Tuesday February1 has straightaway kicked off an agitated debate with her proposal for taxing profits on trading of digital assets. Along with this proposal, the finance minister has also announced that the Reserve Bank of India will work...
Human Rights Abuses At Peak In Yogi-Led Uttar Pradesh: PUCL
By Annie Domini Human rights collective, People’s Union for Civil Liberties, UP, has been meticulously documenting and putting together reports on the unprecedented theatre of violence against minorities, Dalits and women that is the state of Uttar Pradesh. As India’s most populous and perilous state, led since 2017 by...
For A True Global Recovery, We Need To Look Beyond Vaccinations
By Divesh Kaul The United States and several industrialized countries are in the grips of a supply chain hiccup, and explaining it appears to get mired in heated ideological debates that tend to miss the impact the pandemic had on much of the world’s poor, people and households who...
Killing Of A Buddhist After Attacks On Hindus Embarrasses Bangladesh Govt
By Ashis Biswas Despite the its best efforts, the Awami League-run Bangladesh Government is seemingly unable to stop selected attacks targeting an already shrinking minority population. After Hindus, it is the turn of the much smaller Buddhists community to come under fire. On Sunday night (Jan 30), Mr Visudha...
