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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.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...
Pakistan Operation Chengiz Khan That Started 1971 War
By Sant Kumar Sharma JAMMU: December 3, 1971, was a Friday (jummah) just like it is in 2021 this year and a day when Pakistan launched Operation Chengiz Khan. It was a pre-emptive strike at multiple Indian air fields, an attempt to damage Indian Air Force (IAF) assets, with...
Collaborative Effort Needed For Peace And Health In South Asia
By Dr Arun Mitra Harbouring nearly one-fourth of the world’s population in 3.5 per cent of the land surface area of the earth, South Asia is confronted with serious issues of health and development. These have been increasing due to persistent tension as well as internal and external conflicts...
Tamil Nadu Shows The Way In E-Vehicles Progress In India
By K R Sudhaman Eco-friendly electric-vehicles might have had a slow start in the country and perhaps faced some policy hiccups as well. But like solar power and other renewable energy, the slow and delayed start notwithstanding, EV manufacturing has been making rapid progress lately. In certain cases solar...
Madhya Pradesh BJP Faces Mini Revolt By Four Cabinet Ministers
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: In the midst of all out massive organisational efforts, Madhya Pradesh BJP faced a sort of mini revolt by four Ministers. These four ministers conveyed their annoyance by staying away from an organisational meeting headed by BJP national organisational general secretary B. L. Santosh...
Former Nepal Prime Minister K P S Oli Reelected Chairman Of CPN-UML
By Sankar Ray A disastrous spell as party chair and prime minister notwithstanding, reelection of 69-year old Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli as the chairman of Communist Party of Nepal –United Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML) at the party’s 10th General Convention on Tuesday, held at Sauraha, Chitwan, was a foregone conclusion –not...
Fraud In The Name Of Free Market: Fit Case For Court Intervention
By K Raveendran It is another instance of the diabolic game of giving by the left hand and taking by the right, the Modi government has played a prank on people by raising LPG prices. After all the hype and hoopla about the excise duty cut, though negligible in...
TRS Breaks Away From BJP, Now A Regular At Opposition Meets
By Sushil Kutty Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) Member of Parliament Keshava Rao sat to the right of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, who had a Covid-19 mask on. As far as the TRS was concerned, all masks were off, Keshava Rao was at the Opposition MPs’ meeting in Parliament with...
Trinamool Campaign Against BSF Is Extension Of Old Policy
By Ashis Biswas In West Bengal, the ongoing tirade against the Border Security Force (BSF) coming from the ruling Trinamool Congress(TMC) is essentially old wine in new bottle. Occasional sideswipes against the Centre-controlled paramilitary forces had always been a part of the political vocabulary of the ruling Left Front...
Vegetable Selling Emerges As A Survival Trade For Many
By Harihar Swarup There are many examples like Mahender Kumar, an autorickaw owner in Delhi. He has grown some 20 varieties of medicinal plants on the roof of his vehicle. He says it is his contribution to the efforts to improve Delhi’s air quality and weather. It also keeps...
Byju’s Post-IPO Market Cap: Something Is Wrong With This World
By Matein Khalid Every time I noticed a Garuda flight in Jakarta airport, visited the ancient Thai capital of Ayodhya or saw the Ramayana frescos in the royal palace complex in Bangkok or bantered with the Sikh ladies in Singapore’s Changi airport, I was reminded about India’s ancient civilizational...
Omicron: After-Effect May Be More Virulent Than Infection
By Anjan Roy Waves of new variants of the old accursed pandemic is bad news for the health of the planet. On top, the economic disruptions that these have been creating is a double whammy. The only silver lining is that people learn fast to tackle new situations, however...
