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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.Expert Panel Of Supreme Court Has To Do A Proper Job On Pegasus Issue
By Arun Srivastava The Supreme Court has expressed its desire to set up a committee of experts to study the allegations of illegal surveillance using Pegasus spyware and in likelihood will issue orders next week. The apex court’s observations on constituting the committee assume significance in view of the...
Congress High Command Did Not Act With Tact In Dealing With Amarinder Singh
By Harihar Swarup The Congress, it appears, has a death wish. Otherwise why it should destabilize, the Punjab government, headed by Capt. Amarinder Singh. It is a established norm that the Chief Minister and PCC President should be on same wave length. Why then Navjot Singh Sidhu was appointed...
Stock Market Boom Hides Much More Than It Reveals
By K Raveendran The stock market seems to be in a great hurry to pronounce the end of the Covid crisis. This week headline indices clocked new records, with Sensex soaring past 60,000 and the Nifty inching close to the 18,000 mark. The temporary scare of the collapse of...
Echoes Of Farmers Voice Haunt Political Corridors
By Dr. Gyan Pathak September 26, 2021 will mark the completion of 10 months of farmers’ agitation against Modi’s three controversial farm laws, and the next day on September 27, there will be Bharat Bandh. The call is given by Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), at a time when the...
Confusion Over The Status Of PM Cares Fund Still Continues
By Sushil Kutty So, we are all less than average in the brains department, with our right to information curtailed to boot. The Union Government collects money on our behalf, for our stated welfare, from umpteens of sources, including government conduits, departments, ministries, government agencies. It hides as it...
North Eastern States In Dilemma Over Tackling Refugees From Myanmar
By Ashis Biswas Nine months after the army coup in Myanmar, poor administrative coordination between Government of India and the Mizoram government has emerged as a major problem as a steady stream of political dissidents from across the border continue to arrive in India’s Northeast region. Recent reports suggest...
Labour Market Recovery After Second Wave Now Vanishing
By Gyan Pathak After the second wave of COVID-19 subsided in May, the labour market in India started showing recovery. However, within four months the recovery has started vanishing, salaried jobs diminishing, and employment generation is waning. Moreover, the data on jobs, if we don’t dive deep into it,...
Proposed Bad Bank Will Help Facilitating Wealth Transfer To Corporates
By C P Chandrasekhar The Modi government has laid out one more plan to “clean” the books of banks, especially public banks, by helping them get rid of Rs 2 lakh crore of loans gone ‘bad’. It has announced the creation of two institutions for the purpose. The National...
Modi Govt’s Economic Policies Have Led To Massive Unemployment
By Krishna Jha There is shift in the basics and when the basics change, superstructure also faces change. In a capitalist society, production process is based on the employer and the working class. One regulates the production process, which involves investment, which is scientifically called capital. This capital is...
Governor’s Letter War With Uddhav Over Rape-Cum-Murder Case Is Bizarre
By Sushil Kutty On a Sunday or for that matter on any of the weekdays, Mumbaikars and other Maharashtra citizens can expect a war of words between Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari on anything that is grist for the mill. The two stand ever...
Bhima Koregaon Activists Shoma Sen, Sudha Bharadwaj Facing Threat To Life In Jail
By Satyaki Chakraborty Bhima Koregaon accused activists Shoma Sen and Sudha Bharadwaj who are languishing in the Byculla Jail of Mumbai after being accused of conspiracy against the state by the National Investigating Agency(NIA), are facing serious danger to their lives. At least 20 persons have allegedly tested positive...
Picking Charanjit Singh Channi As Punjab CM Has Revived Congress
By Rahil Nora Chopra It was the ‘game of throne’ that led to Charanjit Singh Channi being appointed Punjab’s first Dalit Chief Minister, who also happens to be the first non-Jat Sikh to be CM since Giani Zail Singh (1972-1977), over four decades ago after the other top contenders...
Supreme Court Has Given A Slap On Modi Govt’s Face On Pegasus Issue
By Nitya Chakraborty The Narendra Modi Government is finally on a mat over the Pegasus issue. On Thursday the Indian Prime Minister was in Washington mingling with Indian diaspora two years after his Howdy Modi extravaganza in the presence of the former President Donald Trump, and had meetings with...
Food Crisis For Children Could Become Worse During Pandemic
By Gyan Pathak The ongoing COVID-19 disruptions could make the food crisis for children worse, especially at a time when there have been little sign of improvement in the last ten years. They were ‘Fed to Fail?’ as the title of the new UNICEF report released ahead of the...
Maskless Narendra Modi Mingling With Indian Diaspora In Washington
By Sushil Kutty It’s but natural for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to set the stage for India. Therefore, when he takes a flight to the United States after a long Covid absence from travel, he’s signalling to all the rest of us that no more should we spend time...
Air Of Uncertainty Over Sabarimala Airport In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Sabarimala airport project has become a bone of contention between the Union Government and the Kerala Government. There is an air of uncertainty over the project with the Civil Aviation Ministry expressing misgivings over the State’s proposal to construct the Greenfield airport. The project...
British Labour Party’s Annual Conference This Week End Will Be Stormy
By Arun Srivastava Ahead of the British Labour Party conference this weekend, many are hoping for resolution of the inner party crisis surrounding Jeremy Corbyn. The conference scheduled to be held on September 25 would witness a magic leader’s speech to turn the tide overnight. This has gained immense...
Canada Just Voted For More Of The Same In National Elections
By Mitchell Thompson On Monday, September 20, Canada reelected Justin Trudeau’s Liberals to another minority government over the opposition Conservative Party. Both establishment parties promised working-class constituencies a recovery from the ravages of the pandemic. But a look at the fine print reveals that the results of this election...
