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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.Imran Khan’s PTI Tastes Defeat In Local Body Polls
By Sankar Ray The Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi and his party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has suffered a major setback in the local body elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where PTI is being mauled by Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam. JUF-I is already set to get the mayorship of Peshawar,...
Saudi Ban Exposes Real Face Of Tablighi Jamaat
By Manish Rai Tablighi Jamaat (TIJ) is currently grabbing the headlines for getting banned by Saudi Arabia. Saudi government official statement called Jamaat a danger to society and one of the gates of terrorism. In a tweet on December 6, the country’s Ministry of Islamic Affairs said Minister of...
Indians Will Have To Live With Covid Variants During 2022 And Beyond
By Kalyani Shankar It has been two years since Covid-19 emerged in China and spread worldwide. Since then, the globe has faced upheaval. As we enter 2022, what does the crystal ball say about the covid? Will the New Year see the end of the pandemic, or will it...
Contour Of Politics In J&K Set To Change The Next Year
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The contour of politics in Jammu & Kashmir is set to change again the next year 2022. The J&K Delimitation Commission has set December 31 as the last day for submitting objections on its proposal, and as per the brief the Commission is expected to...
Trinamool Congress Sweep In Kolkata Civic Polls Is Ominous For BJP’s Future
By Ashis Biswas As expected, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) swept the 2021 Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), the results of which were available on Tuesday afternoon. Trinamool decisively won over 90 per cent of the 144 wards. The margins separating the TMC victors from their nearest opposition challengers from...
Battle Between Upyogi And Unupoyogi In Uttar Pradesh Has Turned Bitter
By Sushil Kutty Modi, Yogi and Akki! The last is Akhilesh Yadav— the ‘lal topi’ up against the ‘kamal ka phool’. The Samajwadi Party chief doesn’t ordinarily spill wisdom. But when he does, he does not do it for effect—he does it for keeps! Mulayam Singh Yadav’s son is...
RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat Providing Safety Cover To Narendra Modi
By Arun Srivastava Indians are naive and gaullible to such an extent that they are carried away even by microscopic lies of the politicians. It is an open secret that Narendra Modi and BJP diligently follow the diktats of the RSS. The policies and programmes of the Modi government...
Data Protection Bill Has Many Gaps Needing Full Discussion
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Among the bills taken up for discussion during the ongoing winter session of parliament, the Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill, 2019, is making some noises in relevant quarters. After two years of deliberations, the JPC report on PDP Bill was tabled in both houses of...
India’s Treatment Of The Rohingya Reaffirms The Need For A Refugee Law
By Gauri Anand Throughout its history, India has accepted refugees, including Jews escaping persecution, Sri Lankan Tamils, Tibetans, and Afghans, all escaping violence. However, India’s treatment of the Rohingya has been conspicuously different. The country is now home to approximately 40,000 Rohingya, of whom only around 16,500 have been...
Marx Scholar Pradip Bakshi Is Getting International Recognition
By Sankar Ray Many participants among 200-plus at the very recently held international conference on innovation in the social sciences and humanity, hosted by Ton DucThang University, Ho-chi Minh City were epistemologically surprised to learn that Karl Marx deeply studied the concept of ‘nothingness’ of Gautama Buddha in a...
India’s Semiconductor Ecosystem Is Finally Ready
By Nantoo Banerjee There is little to be excited about the government’s latest announcement of a comprehensive strategy to put India firmly on the world map of semiconductor manufacturers at a time when the global industry is silently cerebrating its diamond jubilee of existence. The world’s first semiconductor maker,...
Boric’s Victory In Presidential Poll In Chile Is A Big Boost To Latin American Left
By Satyaki Chakraborty Leftist and former student leader Gabriel Boric won on Sunday the Presidential elections by getting 55.8 per cent of the votes as against 44.1 per cent received by the extreme right candidate Anronio Kast, thereby giving a major boost to the left and progressive forces in...
Shaheenbaghs May Reappear Across India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Completion of two years of anti-CAA movement by protesters at Shaheenbagh on December 15, 2019, which the March 24, 2020 nationwide lockdown to contain COVID-19 outbreak forced to an end, could not erase the anti-CAA sentiment among the people. Rather, the movement like this is...
Omicron Virus Has Become Deadly In United States Panicking Joe Biden
By Sushil Kutty United States President Joe Biden has warned of a “winter of death.” Mad at unvaccinated Americans, Biden said many of them “will soon overwhelm” hospitals and there will be “a winter of severe illness and death.” Biden’s “direct message to the American people” didn’t seem to...
Politics Of Murder Revisits Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The people of Kerala woke up to this Sunday soaked with blood. The recrudescence of murder politics – two killings in 12 hours – has given a rude jolt to the state. Both the murders took place in Alappuzha district. While Social Democratic Party of...
Smuggling Of Animals To Bangladesh From Border Areas Is A Big Political Issue
By Ashis Biswas In Assam the illegal smuggling of cows will get more difficult: The Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled State Government has decided to ban the transporting of cattle to any district that shares the international border with Bangladesh. This is the main feature of the new Cow Protection Bill...
Farm Laws Withdrawal Episode Gives Many Lessons On Pursuing Reforms
By Harihar Swarup What lesson can we learn from the farm laws episode for navigating reforms in the future? The Prime Minister himself alluded to one big lesson when he admitted in his concession speech that his government failed to disseminate the benefits of the proposed reforms. He was...
Election Commission’s Meeting With PMO Officials, Is Preposterous
By Sushil Kutty “How can we expect polls to be impartial?” asked Mallikarjuna Kharge, Congress Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha. Rightly, his question is for the Election Commission, but the EC no longer has the courage—not under this dispensation which has been chipping away at the...
