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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.Budget Must Focus On Capacity Building For Health
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The last two years – 2020 and 2021 – have driven us to a crossroads where we need to decide whither to go. Everybody by now might have witnessed how the heath and economic development are in cyclic order and closely interlinked. Our government at...
Biden’s Hoax Summit And A Chinese Brand Of Democracy
By K Raveendran December seems to be the season for democracy. Irrespective of how democracy has been used by rulers and ruling establishments to scuttle democratic principles, there is peaking of interest in singing praise for democracy. What is more curious is that some of these come from the...
Indian Origin Kshama Sawant Taking On Big Capital In Her Own Turf Seattle
By Richard Silverstein In a razor-tight race early this week’ Seattle’s socialist city council member Kshama Sawant beat off a recall attempt bankrolled by the city’s business interests. She won by just over two hundred votes in a race that went down to the wire. The outcome wasn’t determined...
India’s Post-Pandemic Economic Recovery Is Not Sustainable
By Prabhat Patnaik The pandemic alas is not yet over, but there are no economic disruptions in the current fiscal year in the form of lockdowns or workers’ absence. The economy’s performance therefore can no longer be attributed to the prevalence of the pandemic; whatever it is, it is...
Narendra Modi Swears By ’Constitutional Values’ At Democracy Summit
By Sushil Kutty President Joe Biden is a cognitive disaster, say some of his meanest detractors. Two recent polls—one by the Wall Street Journal and the other by Monmouth University—have given Biden no more chance to retain control of the House and Senate in 2022 than Prime Minister Narendra...
Implementation Process Of Labour Codes Is In Advanced Stage
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Implementation process of the Modi government’s four labour codes has reached an advanced stage with 23 states have already notified the rules, and the centre is preparing to notify its rules soon, after which these will be implemented across the country. Despite stiff opposition and...
RBI’s Digital Coin Proposal Is Not A Better Substitute To Cryptocurrency
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav India is going to debate a new bill on cryptocurrencies in the ongoing winter session of parliament. One of the two most important components of the bill relates to providing the legal framework for the launch of a digital coin by RBI. Many countries around...
Shiv Sena Bats For Rahul 2024 After Mamata’s ‘No UPA’ Jibe
By Rahil Nora Chopra After West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee asserted that “there is no UPA anymore”, Shiv Sena batted for Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi to lead the opposition in the 2024 Lok Sabha election. Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut’s back-to-back meetings with the Congress leaders have triggered...
President Joe Biden’s ‘Democracy Summit’ Is Nothing But A Big Hoax
By Ian Goodrum The two day gala’ Democracy Summit’ convened virtually by United States President Joe Biden on December 8 and 9 is nothing but an exercise in hypocrisy by the leader of the capitalist nations extending assistance to the worst authoritarian regimes in the world. The club has...
Sharad Pawar And M K Stalin Must Intervene To Repair Cracks In Opposition
By Nitya Chakraborty In India, political scenarios change very fast. In 1984 Lok Sabha elections, the ruling Congress secured more than 400 seats while the BJP’s tally fell into its lowest two. But the dream rule of the Congress Party did not last for more than two years. From...
Narendra Modi Govt Must Repeal Atrocious AFSPA Law In Totality
By Prakash Karat The killing of 14 civilians in Mon, Nagaland by a special force of the Assam Rifles has brought into sharp relief the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), a lawless law that enables the security forces to act with impunity, which has led to atrocity after...
The Curious Case Of Param Bir Singh And Anil Deshmukh In Mumbai Saga
By Sushil Kutty The lousiest trick the Devil can pull on God’s children is convince them the Devil does not exist. Sacked Police Inspector Sachin Vaze convinced Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and the Maha Vikas Aghadi Government to reinstate him in the Mumbai Police. It took a murder...
Rights Of Children Threatened Like Never Before
By Dr. Gyan Pathak While the number of children hungry, out of school, abused, living in poverty or forced into marriage is going up, the number of children with access to healthcare, vaccines, sufficient food and essential services is going down globally. The widespread impact of the COVID-19 pandemic...
Armed Forces Killing In Nagaland Was A Murder In Cold Blood
By Krishna Jha There was no last minute reprieve. The men were in the pickup truck that kept winding the narrow road climbing up slowly. Unarmed, each of them saw the guns flickering, and in one single moment the horror swept them away for ever. Soon, all of them,...
Time Is Appropriate Now For WTO Waiver On Existing Patent Laws
By Sachin Sathyarajan The Omicron variant, declared as a “variant of concern” by the World Health Organization (WHO) has alarmed the global community, who thought the worst was over. The emergence of the variant had led to the postponement of the twelfth Ministerial conference (MC12) of the World Trade...
Narendra Modi’s Dig At Absentee BJP MP’s Has Got Ominous Signal For Party
By Sushil Kutty What is happening with the Bharatiya Janata Party Members of Parliament, why are many of them absent from Parliament? None other than Prime Minister Narendra Modi noticed this trend and was compelled to speak about it at a BJP Parliamentary Board meeting. It wasn’t just cursory...
Mamata’s Latest Stand Is Sure To Help Congress-Left To Revive ‘Bijemul’ Slogan
By Ashis Biswas Post Bengal Assembly polls 2021, the CPI(M) conceded that its branding of the ruling Trinamool Congress(TMC) as a tricky, undeclared ally of the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)on some major issues, had backfired. Left parties saw the TMC as the Trojan horse within the opposition camp. They pointed...
Indomitable Indian Spirit Takes Corporate Captaincy By The Horn
By K Raveendran Not a day passes these days without the news of one global Indian or the other having done something remarkable. The latest is the story of Indian origin American physician Anil Menon, who has been included in a group of ten to become astronauts for future...
