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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.Mahatma Gandhi Was Steadfastly True To The Goal Of Social Equality
By Krishna Jha Mahatma Gandhi was one who kept experimenting with truth which meant he never believed in absolutism. For him it was constant change, even the truth for which he laid his life. When the bullet pierced him his last words were “Hey Ram”!It was not a lament...
Priyanka Gandhi Has Given A Big Morale Boost To Congress In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi scored over other opposition leaders byhandling intelligently Lakhimpur Keri leading to killing of farmers. The courage of Priyanka Gandhi who reached Lucknow same night and was arrested at Sitapur on her way to Lakhimpur Kheri to meet families of victims,...
Any Official Investigation Into Lakhimpur Killings Will Not Be Free And Fair
By Sushil Kutty The ‘Yogi Police’ stopped Congress leader Rahul Gandhi from going to Lakhimpur-Kheri and then allowed him to exit the Lucknow airport to go to Lakhimpur-Kheri. Priyanka Vadra Gandhi was also ‘released’ after being “illegally” detained. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel was also told he was free...
Education For Most Marginalized And Vulnerables Compromised
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 of India states that ‘Teachers truly shape the future of our children – and therefore, the future of our nation’. However, the future of our children and the nation is endangered. We lack teachers in large number, many are...
Both Foreign And Indian Companies Are Still Facing Various Difficulties
By Subrata Majumder World Bank has decided to stop Ease of Doing Business (EODB) survey after the scandal revealed to boost China by changing the methodology. It nullified the efficacy of World Bank Ease of Doing Business survey, one of the important surveys for investment destination. Former Union Minister...
Facebook Perilously Close To Founder’s Original Sin Of ‘Name And Shame’
By K Raveendran It is quite ominous that the Facebook outage, which denied over a billion users of their favourite social media platform, coincided with a hearing attended by insider whistle blower Frances Haugen before the US Senate Commerce, Science and Transport Subcommittee. What transpired at the hearing remains...
Assam Is A Story Of Eviction, Impunity And Displacement
By Atreyo Banerjee and Shardha Rajam In his book ‘The Wages of Impunity’, human rights activist K.G. Kannabiran wrote on the interconnectedness of power, law and brutality, focusing on the post-colonial State’s key role in legitimizing and enforcing brutality against its own people. As Kannabiran points out, such brutality...
Former District Governor In Afghanistan Salima Mazari Is A Great Fighter
By Harihar Swarup Salima Mazari — one of three women district governors in Afghanistan — barely survived the brutal Taliban takeover. She opened up from an American base about her escape, on why she despises the Taliban and the challenges she faced in her life and career. Comfort zones...
Pandora Papers Reveal United States Is A Tax Haven For U.S. Super-Rich
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON :A trove of almost 12 million internal documents, e-mails, and memos from tax havens where the rich set up secret trusts to hide from taxes—while using their corporate clout to stick tax tabs to the rest of us—highlight stateside tax havens, notably South Dakota, available...
Congress Leadership Is Gasping, Only Common Party Members Can Save It
By Kalyani Shankar Years ago, a visionary Congress leader predicted that the ordinary party worker would save the party for their survival when they find their leaders ineffective. It looks as if that moment has come now. The party is gasping for breath, and it needs oxygen from solid...
Centre’s Usurping Power Of The States May Face Stiff Opposition
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The letter sent by the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu M K Stalin to the chief ministers of 12 states is just a beginning of the stiff opposition to Modi government’s usurping the powers of the states through central legislations not only on the matters...
BJP Leaders Responsible For Violence And Killings At Lakhimpur Kheri
By Arun Arivastava It was not merely a coincidence that the day the Supreme Court responding to the petition by a noble lady observed that the 10-month-old farmer protests on Delhi’s borders had “strangulated” the city, the Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Kumar Mishra had warned agitating...
Pandora Papers Have Brought Out Misuse Of Offshore Funds By Indians
By Sushil Kutty The buzz is about the ‘Pandora Papers’, leaked files of the hidden wealth of some of the world’s richest people, their money stashed in offshore accounts in tax havens. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalism (ICIJ), a group of global investigative journalists, worked to unearth the...
German National Elections Give A Big Jolt To The Left Party De Linke
By Victor Crossman German national elections held on October 26 gave a rebuff to the ruling centre-right Christian Democrats and made the Social Democratic Party (SPD) the leading party, imparting a swing against the right. But simultaneously, the results showed that the Left Party De Linke got only 4.9...
Mamata Should Restrain TMC Leaders From Making Comments On Leadership
By Nitya Chakraborty The results of the three by polls in West Bengal announced on Sunday indicate major signals for the coming period of the state politics as also the shaping of the opposition unity on national plane to fight the BJP in the coming state assembly elections in...
Domestic Drug Prices Are Going Through The Roof
By Nantoo Banerjee Little is heard of India’s National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) and its Drug Price Control Order (DPCO), these days. This is despite the fact that most drug prices have zoomed by over 60 to 100 percent since last year. Thanks to the lack of actions by...
BJP Is Getting Full Advantage Of Electoral Bonds In Elections
By Gyan Pathak A scheme that overtly or covertly benefits a particular group is partial, and hence for impartiality’s sake it must be struck down. Sale of electoral bond in India falls in this category, since it benefits the party that made it. However, despite concerns expressed by the ...
Narendra Modi Has Big Apathy To Complaints By Opposition Parties
By Sushil Kutty Please nobody should complain. Especially don’t complain about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s programmes and policies. Criticism is okay, but not complaints. PM Modi is extremely sensitive to “complaints”. Especially those from miffed and upset farmers, and those from the opposition parties. The farmers are opposed to...
