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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.Omicron Adds New Uncertainty To Global Oil Outlook
By K Raveendran With the omicron variant of coronavirus is spreading at unprecedented rates, creating new records for the intensity of infection, the oil market is seeing greater uncertainty as assessment of the market outlook is being constantly overridden by the fast pace of developments. Many countries, even those...
As State Poll Approaches, PM Modi Gets Active To Develop Uttar Pradesh
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Election is Uttar Pradesh is round the corner and our Prime Minister Narendra Modi is trying his best to develop the state by inaugurating development projects worth thousands of crore. He seems to have risen from the slumber he was in only couple of months...
Big Jolt To Shivraj Singh Chauhan Ministry Over Repealing Of Ordinance
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Year 2021 said good bye to Madhya Pradesh government on a bitter note. The bitter note gave a major setback when the BJP government was forced to repeal an ordinance promulgated by it to facilitate three-tier Panchayat elections. That decision was taken because the government...
A Clear Case Of Gubernatorial Misconduct
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The confrontationist ambience between Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan and the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government worsened with the Governor refusing to budge from his position. A dispute has been simmering between the Government and the Governor over what the latter called the former’s alleged...
Namita Gokhale Wins Sahitya Academy Award For Her Book On Kumaon Region
By Harihar Swarup Tamil feminist writer Ambai, Kannada biographer DS Nagabhushan, Telugu poet Coreti Venkanna and English author Namita Gokhale, among others, are this year’s winners of Sahitya Akademi Award. The Award was announced for literary works in 20 languages. This year seven books of poetry, two novels, five...
Remembering South African Icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu
By Ed Rampell There are two top things about my profession. For me personally, a great benefit is being able to cover in person and even have access to great newsmakers whom I’d probably never have the opportunity to meet and even talk to if I weren’t a journalist....
Kazakhstan Fears It May Be Putin’s Next Stop After Ukraine
By James M Dorsey With Russian troops massing on Ukraine’s borders, it’s not only Ukrainians who worry about what President Vladimir Putin may have in store for them. It’s Kazakhs too. For now, Kazakhs don’t have to be immediately concerned about Russian troop movements. What unsettles them is years...
Poll On Schedule Is A Sure-Shot Superspreader
By Kalyani Shankar Many people doubt whether it is necessary to hold the upcoming Assembly polls in the poll-bound states next month or postpone, as the Allahabad High Court has suggested. During the earlier round of elections this year, another court- the Madras High Court- had held the Election...
Samajwadi Party Is Catching Up With BJP In Election Campaign In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national President Akhilesh Yadav is giving tough fight to ruling BJP in assembly polls which is evident from sharp attack by top BJP leaders during campaign meetings in different parts of Uttar Pradesh during recent weeks. Massive turn out during Vijay rath yatra...
In Uttar Pradesh Poll Campaign, Competition Is On Proving Who Is Better Hindu
By Sushil Kutty Yogi Adityanath, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, has discovered he is ‘Hindu’ and has told it to the world, too, especially the electorate of Uttar Pradesh, which is going to polls and the Yogi may or may not continue to rule Uttar Pradesh if he fails to...
Gross Bank Credit Deployment Improves A Little But Still Lopsided
By Dr Gyan Pathak Gross Bank Credit in India has witnessed only a little improvement compared to last year. The latest data release by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) shows that both food and non-food credit deployment grew by only 7 per cent during November 2020- November 2021...
Raising Minimum Legal Age Of Marriage For Women, Is A Welcome Step
By Jeeval Chadha On December 16, the union government decided to raise the minimum legal age of marriage for women from 18 to 21. Pursuant to this, the Union Cabinet introduced a bill of amendment to the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 in the Indian parliament. It aims...
German War Hawks Beat The Drum For War On Russia
By Victor Grossman and John Wojcik BERLIN: Political leaders in Germany are using the results of the recent September elections here to build support for the anti-Russia hysteria being pushed now by NATO and the U.S. The armament makers and militarists in Germany are backing the Pentagon’s dangerous push...
A Year Of Struggle In Europe And Victory In Latin America
By Tom Blackburn Another pandemic-dominated year has ended, and a demoralized and fragmented British socialist left remains embattled, to say the least. A bipartisan establishment backlash has seen a relentless drive to return socialists to the margins of political discussion; one all the more determined because, in 2017, we...
China’s Growing Presence In Central Asia Should Worry Old Allies
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s External Affairs Ministry may disagree, but the country’s attempt to make its presence felt in Central Asia has come rather too late. The initiative should have started three decades ago. India could probably rope in Russia to launch a joint trade and economic cooperation programme...
Arresting BJP Decline In UP Turning Difficult For Modi
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Successive surveys, month after month, have been recording sharp fall in BJP’s political fortune, and also a miraculous rise of Samajwadi Party (SP) in Uttar Pradesh, especially since September 2021. The steep slide of the BJP led by Yogi Adityanath in Uttar Pradesh has necessitated...
Modi Assurances Not Good Enough To Scare Omicron Away
By Sushil Kutty The greetings and the good wishes have piled up at the entrance alongside dire predictions. Among the second lot are those which are related to the coronavirus. The coronavirus morphed several times and its latest variant Omicron is mildly severe compared to the horrendous Delta and...
Urgent Need To Strengthen Democracy And Democratic Structure
By Arun Srivastava In its desperation to prove secularism irrelevant and worthless the rightist forces. BJP and RSS, are creating a Frankenstein monster by making the police into an arrogant force that turns democratic institutions into a ramshackle. The saffron outfits are trying to depict secularism as fragile...
