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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.Priyanka Must Blend Kheri Gains With The Party’s Support Base
By Arun Srivastava With Mamata Banerjee getting ready for a major intervention in the national politics and project her Trinamool Congress as the only genuine dynamic organization with Congress legacy , Rahul Gandhi has acquired a proactive stance and working tirelessly to present the Indian National Congress, the grand...
American Corporate Interests Dictate President Hernandez Of Honduras
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Chilean author and human rights advocate Ariel Dorfman recently memorialized Orlando Letelier, former Chilean President Salvador Allende’s foreign minister. Agents of dictator Augusto Pinochet murdered Letelier in Washington in 1976. Dorfman noted that Chile and the United States were “on excellent, indeed obscenely excellent,...
Divided Left In Greece Is Struggling To Emerge As An Alternative To Right
By Aliki Kosyfologou and Thanos Andritsos Greece is facing big challenges in terms of the country’s political situation as also the economic directions. For the last two years, Greece has seemed as if it is switching between two national costumes. The winter one consists of rising coronavirus deaths, decimated...
Energy Crisis Part Of An Emerging Post-Covid Phenomenon
By K Raveendran The shift in the national focus from covid to coal has been prompted by fears of a nation-wide power blackout in the face of disruption in the movement of the vital commodity from the mines due to excessive rainfall, but the fact is that the energy...
Narendra Modi’s Defence Of Human Rights Record Of His Regime Is Ludicrous
By Sushil Kutty Human rights are routinely violated in our country. But rarely do ministers’ sons drive a jeep over human beings, deliberately. Lynching of human beings, they say, became frequent after 2014. Mostly because of the cow. Lakhimpur-Kheri saw four farmers killed by a rampaging jeep driven by...
Sudden Energy Crisis Grips The World Economies Including India
By Anjan Roy It is suddenly energy crisis all over the world. In India we are facing a coal shortage of epic proportion which is threatening to upend the entire power situation. Talks are about impending shut down of a string of thermal power stations strewn around the country....
Mass Movement In India For Public Health As Fundamental Right Is Needed
By Dr Arun Mitra That out of a population of 100000 in our country 32 persons die due to Tuberculosis every year, is a matter of grave concern and shame. Recently we have seen death of large number of children having fallen prey to Dengue fever and Encephalitis in...
Opposition Parties In Uttar Pradesh Make Lakhimpur Killings A Major Poll Issue
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Battleground Uttar Pradesh is ready for assembly polls with three important opposition leaders former chief ministers Akhilesh Yadav of Samajwadi Party and Mayawati of BSP and Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi launching their election campaign. Former chief minister and national President of Samajwadi Party Akhilesh Yadav...
Pakistan’s Father Of Nuclear Bomb Dr. A Q Khan Has An Amazing Life Story
By Harihar Swarup Pakistan’s father of nuclear science, Abdul Qadeer Khan, who died recently was born in Bhopal. “This child appears to me prodigy…. Look in his eyes.” In 1936, these were the words of Maharani of Narasinghar, a tiny princely state, 45 kms from Bhopal. Zulekha Begum, mother...
Mohan Bhagwat Is Totally Confused In Understanding New Hindu Youth
By Arun Srivastava The RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has blamed the Hindu parents, the Hindu families, for not giving their children the values of pride for one’s religion and traditions. He was not far from the youth. The Hindu parents in recent times have lost control on their wards...
Repealing Of Sedition Law And UAPA Is A Major Demand Of Indian Jurists Now
By Satyaki Chakraborty The demand for the repeal of the sedition law and the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act(UAPA) has now come to the fore once again with the former Supreme Court Justice Rohintan Nariman forcefully stating that the time has come for the apex court to let citizens...
The New Service Rules In Jammu And Kashmir Open The Doors To A Witch Hunt
By Dr Radha Kumar On the September 16, 2021, the administration of Jammu and Kashmir, headed by lieutenant-governor Manoj Sinha, issued an administrative order titled ‘Verification of Character and Antecedents of Government employees’ (GO No. 957-JK (GAD) of 2021). Under the order, a government employee can be dismissed...
Modi Govt’s Decision To Abstain From Voting On UN Resolution Is Wrong
By Gyan Pathak Deshbhaktas’ beating their drum of ‘nationalism’ reached such a high decibel that has become deafening. India’s leadership, in the name of nationalism, reached even such a point when it decided to abstain from the voting in the United Nations which passed the resolution that...
Kashmir Situation Needs Thorough Review By The Govt Leadership
By Sushil Kutty Fear is the key! That’s the title of a James Hadley Chase novel. It had a Native American doing targeted killings of rich pokes. The first killing is followed by a second. The third body gets the cops thinking: This killer is killing only the...
Minority Targeting By Terrorists In J & K Is A Measure Of Frustration
By Ashok B Sharma Union Government needs to carefully develop appropriate stratagems on how best to counter the recent lone wolf attacks by terrorists in the Kashmir valley. The developments in Afghanistan with Taliban in power have posed a new challenge. Of course Taliban has assured that its...
Economic Buoyancy Is Back With A Bang In India
By Nantoo Banerjee It is good to see that buyers are no longer willing to wait. This October-December festive season hopefully promises to be a buyers’ paradise. The country’s marketing and sales firms have long been waiting for such a situation. Buyers are no longer scared of the pandemic,...
Is Mamata Banerjee Working On 1996 Scenario After 2024 Lok Sabha Poll?
By Nitya Chakraborty New winds are blowing in the political landscape of the country, seemingly contradictory, for the emergence of a strong front of the opposition parties to fight the BJP in the coming assembly as also in the Lok Sabha elections in 2024 The latest positive development for...
At Long Last, Amit Shah Has To Declare Our Prime Minister Is A Democrat
By Sushil Kutty It took Home Minister Amit Shah seven years to tell countrymen that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the “most democratic leader” he has known in 20 years. But why believe Shah? After all, Shah and Modi are not very different. If Modi is “democratic”, then Amit...
