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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.London Film Festival 2021 Showed Variety Of Subjects Of Big Interest
By Maria Duarte Panah Panahi’s debut Iranian family road trip movie Hit The Road won the top award at this year’s BFI London Film Festival which returned in full swing despite the ongoing pandemic. It opened with London-born musician and film-maker Jeymes Samuel’s debut feature, bold and stylish Western...
Centre’s Questioning Of Global Hunger Index Methodology Is Shocking
By Prabhat Patnaik The Modi government’s attempt to “explain” away India’s slipping from being 94th on the world hunger index in 2020 to 101st in 2021, a rank well below that of neighbours Pakistan, Nepal or Bangladesh, by questioning the “methodology” of the index, is jejune enough;...
Coming Climate Summit Must Take Due Care Of The Woes Of Developing Countries
By Dr Soma Marla Aftermath of the Paris Agreement in 2015, Conference of Parties( COP) meetings are being held every two years, attended by heads of state, diplomats, business leaders, campaigners and journalists from all nations to discuss the progress achieved since the last conference on various steps taken...
World Bank’s Ease Of Doing Business Index Is Misleading
By N Shankar World Bank was publishing its Ease of Doing Business Index and Ranking of countries every year after its so called study and World Bank and Its Misleading Ease of Doing Business Index researches. Such rankings and index were based on various parameters, relating to countries...
Unbriddled Lust For New Profit Endangering Human Rights
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Greed always makes victims – both the person who is carried away by it and the persons targeted. Shrewd ones camouflage it in the name of development, nationalism, new source of capitals, and public welfare, while the unsuspecting innocent common people become their victims....
Political Parties Have Become Family Properties In Tamil Nadu
By K R Sudhaman Durai Vaiko, son of regional party in Tamil Nadu, MDMK general secretary Vaiko, has been appointed as headquarters secretary of the party lately. This move paves the way for the mantle to fall on the son. MDMK is a breakaway fringe political party in...
40 Per Cent Of Seats For Women Candidates: Priyanka Leads The Way
By Rahil Nora Chopra In a bid to woo women voters into its fold and consolidate its support base in Uttar Pradesh, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has declared that the party will be giving out 40 per cent of its tickets to women candidates in the upcoming...
India’s Present Distorted Economic Recovery Is Widening Inequality Further
By Nitya Chakraborty Two recent reports – one the World Economic Outlook (WEO) released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the other on employment status study made by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) have once again shown how the present economic policies of the Narendra Modi...
Fundamentalist Forces Are Posing Serious Threat To Secularism In South Asia
By Prakash Karat The series of targeted killings of minorities and migrant workers by terrorist groups in the Kashmir Valley have pushed the besieged territory of Jammu & Kashmir into new depths of despair and gloom. The diabolical aim of killing school teachers, street vendors and migrant workers is...
Global Hunger Index Ranking Of India Has Shattered Modi’s Propaganda
By Binoy Viswam The Global Hunger Index (GHI) has shattered the propaganda fanfare of the Narendra Modi government. The government along with its army of pracharaks was claiming that it has successfully resolved all the burning issues of the country. Some of the enthusiasts among them even went to...
Milestone That Reminds India The Cost Of Unpreparedness
By Gyan Pathak India achieves a milestone by administering 100 crore doses, including both the first and second doses, of anti-corona vaccines. The achievement is celebrated across the country, and it was good. However, it still reminds the cost of unpreparedness the country has paid since the first case...
Centre Can’t Just Extend Jurisdiction For BSF Without Consulting States
By Sushil Kutty The Border Security Force told to patrol away from the international border is of no use. Its jurisdiction limits should be in sight of the border. The Centre’s order to extend the BSF’s jurisdiction is, therefore, even if not out of New Delhi’s jurisdiction, not going...
BJP Is Trying To Consolidate Its Position Through Bypolls In Assam
By Sagarneel Sinha Only six months before Assam witnessed assembly elections, where the BJP led NDA returned back to power for the second consecutive time by defeating the Congress-led Grand Alliance. Within a short period, election season is back as the state readies itself for the bypolls for five...
Cryptos Record A Milestone In Integration With Global Finance
By K Raveendran The crypto ecosystem has recorded a milestone in integrating itself into global finance, with the first Bitcoin-based exchange traded fund (ETF) having debuted trading on the Wall Street. This means the completely unregulated Bitcoin is getting a regulatory interface in the sense the ETF market is...
Shoojit Sircar’s ‘Sardar Udham’ Is A Fabulous Biopic Setting High Benchmark
By Nitya Chakraborty I have always been an admirer of Shoojit Sircar for choosing varying themes for his films, always offering to the viewers something interesting content wise. Sircar showed his directorial talent in choosing an offbeat content in Vicky Donor and in a different manner, he portrayed the...
Stark Disparities Revealed In Indian Workforce
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Disparities among Indian workforce are stark. Gender and educational inequalities are alarming. It has been revealed at a time in the Annual Bulletin on Additional Indicators based on data collected in Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), July 2019-June 2020 released recently, which it could not...
Congress Decision To Allot 40 Per Cent Seats To Women Is Having Impact In Uttar Pradesh
By Sushil Kutty Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati called it “sheer drama”, nothing else. “Why did the UPA government not reserve 33 per cent seats in parliament for women when it was in power at the Centre,” asked ‘behan Mayawati’, one woman to another, honest to honest. Priyanka Gandhi...
Data Suggests 10 Per Cent EWS Reservation Scheme Is Unsubstantiated
By Vineet Bhalla The Supreme Court, earlier this month, while hearing petitions against the reservation of seats for Other Backward Classes (OBC) and Economically Weaker Section (EWS) in admissions to post-graduate medical courses through the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Postgraduate) (NEET PG), sought an explanation from the union...
