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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 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...
Economic Survey 2021-22 Lacks Credibility In Terms Of Growth Forecast
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s Economic Survey 2022 presented in Parliament on Monday somewhat lacks credibility when it comes to the GDP growth forecast of 8.0-8.5 for the coming financial year with certain riders. The projection is based on the assumption “that there will be no further debilitating pandemic related...
Shooting Oil Prices Can Upset Budget Projections
By Nantoo Banerjee High global oil and gas prices seem to have put the government in a fix as it is unable to pass on the increasing import price burden immediately on the country’s retail consumers mainly due to the crucial assembly election in Uttar Pradesh, the country’s largest...
Economic Survey 2021-22 — Economic Hardship Ahead In The Next Financial Year
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The financial year 2022-23 will be bringing hardship to the people of India, as it has been revealed in the data released by the Economic Survey 2021-22 tabled in the Parliament of India on January 31. Indian economy is expected to witness a 9.2 per...
Nirmala Is Saddled With More Problems Than Solutions In Budget 2022-23
By K R Sudhaman Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman is in an unenvious position as she gives finishing touches to general budget 2022 to be presented to Parliament on February one because there appears to be no easy solutions to manifold conflicting issues. At this juncture reigning in on macro-economic...
Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Time Ayega’ In This Budget Session Of Parliament
By Sushil Kutty The first day of Parliament’s Budget Session and our Pradhan Sevak Narendra Modi fervently wished the session will see serious and “engaging” discussions on vital issues. Does that mean Modi, the favourite politician and Prime Minister of opinion polls, will allow a “serious” discussion, engaging it...
Controversy Over Kerala Ordinance On Lok Ayukta Deepens
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The controversy over the ordinance seeking to reduce the Lok Ayukta’s powers has deepened with Left-supported Independent MLA K T Jaleel leveling allegations against the Lok Ayukta. Jaleel, who was a minister in the first Pinarayi Vijayan Cabinet, had to resign following an adverse Lok...
Myanmar Junta Faces Increasing Resistance At The End Of One Year Of Coup
By Sankar Ray The so-called ‘Spring Revolution’, the caption of the military coup on 1 February 2021 in Yangon shows signs of nervous disorder due to an increasing opposition from the global community. Neighbouring countries like Thailand and Bangladesh are uneasy at developments. Multinational oil companies, USA-based Chevron, France’s...
Portugal’s Socialist Party Led By PM Antonio Costa Wins Majority In Snap Poll
By Satyaki Chakraborty Portugal’s centre-left Socialists led by the Prime Minister Antonio Costa won an outright parliamentary majority in Sunday’s snap general election defying all latest projections in the opinion poll. The slim majority in the 230 member Parliament is a big booster for the PM Costa who defeated...
Assam Can Be A Good Conduit For Expanding Trade With Bangladesh
By Ashis Biswas Bilateral trade between India and Bangladesh may have increased steadily in recent times but transactions involving the northern areas of Bangladesh and Northeast Indian states have not really taken off. Progress remains slow despite recent official efforts on both sides to increase overall business turnover, by...
New York Times Report On Pegasus Brings Narendra Modi Near His ’Watergate Moment’
By Nitya Chakraborty The New York Times has finally put the Narendra Modi Government on the dock. India officially bought Israeli spyware Pegasus as a part of the composite defence deal during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Israel in July 2017. For the last six...
Budget 2022-23 To Impact Workforce As Never Before
By Dr. Gyan Pathak It may be worst of times and it may be best of times, for workforce and the employers. Union Budget 2022-23 to be tabled on February 1 is being anxiously awaited by the workforce on the one hand and the employers on the other, for...
