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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.UPA: The One-Way Traffic Towards The Door
By Harihar Swarup On a visit to Mumbai on Wednesday, Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee made two politically significant statements. She said it would be easy to defeat the BJP, should all regional parties come together. And after a meeting with NCP chief Sharad...
India Was Fully Prepared For War With Pakistan On December 3, 1971
By Nitya Chakraborty ‘Gentlemen, I am late because we are at war. Pakistan has attacked India on the western front and we have retaliated. We are officially at war now’. That was what the Information & Broadcasting Secretary of the Government of India R C Dutt, belonging to ICS,...
Covid Response Needs Scaling Up To Meet Omicron Challenge
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though COVID-19 is almost under control in India, the emergence of Omicron variant should be considered as early warning for the challenges ahead. Gearing up for the Omicron challenge must also include scaling up of health infrastructure for making the country fully prepared for any...
Factors That May Have Prompted Unexplained LNG Price Hike
By K Raveendran Neither the government nor the gas companies have explained why the LPG prices for commercial cylinders have been increased, a decision that has caused widespread concern on its effect on the slowly recovering economy. Both seem to believe that they don’t owe an explanation anyway as...
Omicron’s Love Of Children Is Worrisome
By Sushil Kutty The “highly transmissible” Omicron doesn’t spare even children under age 5, said a top medical officer of South Africa. Omicron has been ripping across the African country like it was in a hurry to cross the Atlantic. The Delta variants hadn’t shown any interest in children....
British Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn Extends Solidarity To Lula
By Satyaki Chakraborty British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has extended his support to the Workers Party leader of Brazil former president Lula against the right wing president Jair Bolsonaro in the 2022 presidential elections in the country. Addressing the Latin America Conference on Friday, he said that Latin...
From Elected Autocracy To Fascist Dictatorship
By D Raja “Democracies may die at the hands not of generals but of elected leaders—presidents or prime ministers — who subvert the very process that brought them to power. Some of these leaders dismantle democracy quickly, as Hitler did in the wake of the 1933 Reichstag fire in...
Now Stiff Opposition For Modi’s Bank Privatisation
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Modi’s moves to privatise public sector banks have now met with stiff opposition by bank employees and officers. The Union government has labelled it as much-needed banking reforms, while agitators sense some foul play just to hand over the public sector banks to “crony capitalists”....
MGNREGS Allocation By Narendra Modi Government Is Woefully Inadequate
By Prabhat Patnaik The MGNREGS was introduced by the UPA-I government despite opposition from the neo-liberal lobby within it, owing inter alia to the active intervention of the Left which was supporting that government from outside. It was restrictive from the beginning: it promised a maximum of only 100...
Samajwadi Party Poll Campaign In Uttar Pradesh Unnerves BJP High Command
By Sushil Kutty Fear is eating into the Bharatiya Janata Party that the dark-horse Congress could come from nowhere to upset the BJP’s applecart in Uttar Pradesh. Partly because Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the tip of the Congress thrust, is still an unknown quantity even if she’s a highly recognizable...
Job Creation In Post-Covid India Critical For Growth Revival
By K R Sudhaman Job creation in India is critical for economic revival in the post covid era. This is more so as about 11 million people enter job market every year and, according to CMIE, an additional 121 million people have lost jobs in view of the pandemic....
Trinamool Congress Dominating The Campaign For Kolkata Civic Polls On December 19
By Ashis Biswas Delayed by a year, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation elections on December 19 will be dominated by two somewhat negative features: first, parties opposing the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) are at their weakest and secondly, no party has designated any contestant as the next city Mayor In...
As Mamata Eyes Main Opposition Spot, Congress Cries Foul
By Rahil Nora Chopra Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee is trending. Her political moves with an eye on the 2024 general elections, trying to form a Third Front with the support of regional parties and with the sole aim of alienating Congress as the main opposition party, are...
Mujib Had Won 160 Seats, Bhutto Only 81 In December 1970 Polls In Pakistan
By Sant Kumar Sharma Our western neighbour Pakistan has never prided itself as a beacon of democracy, and first coup was staged there on October 7, 1958, within 11 years of its coming into existence. This coup was effected by President Iskandar Mirza who abrogated the Constitution and declared...
Jack Dorsey Has New Plans To Expand His Payments Company
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Two days after his departure from Twitter as its CEO, Jack Dorsey has announced the change in the name of his other company Square that he founded in 2009 and has been its CEO since 2015 when the company was listed on the New York...
On UPA, Mamata Is Partly Right But She Must Moderate Her Attack On Congress
By Nitya Chakraborty West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s comments on the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) led presently by Sonia Gandhi, after her meeting with NCP supremo Sharad Pawar in Mumbai on Wednesday has created a big row in the political circles, especially among the opposition parties who are...
BJP Has Revealed Its Contempt For Parliament And Democratic Functioning
By Prakash Karat The first day of the winter session of parliament revealed a great deal of what the Modi government’s attitude to parliament is – outright contempt for parliament and its democratic functioning. Contrary to what prime minister Modi had declared, at the outset, that the government is...
Protesting Farmers Are Determined To Continue Till All Demands Are Met
By Krishna Jha The demands of the farmers are yet to be met in full. It is despite the announcement of repeal, followed by its getting passed in the Parliament, which was completed in just few minutes disallowing all debates. In the Monsoon session, which ran only for a...
