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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.Coalition Making Process In Germany After National Elections, Will Be Long
By Nitya Chakraborty The German voters gave a decisive rebuff to the ruling centre right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the national elections on September 26 as the party of the present chancellor Angela Merkel got only 24.1 per cent of the votes as against 25.7 per cent by...
The Curious Story Behind Google Turning 23 This Week
By Devasis Chattopadhyay The Google Doodle showed that the organization turned 23 on September 27. Is that really so? How interesting. Fascinatingly, even before Google was incorporated in 1998 as a formal corporate entity, the idea of the Doodle was born when Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the co-founders...
CJI N V Ramana’s Emphasis On Indianisation Of Justice System Is Welcome
By Vikram Hegde As the Constituent Assembly Debates were drawing to a close, on November 17, 1949, Mr Kengal Hanumanthaiah, who would later become the first Chief Minister of united Mysore State (now Karnataka) remarked: “We wanted the music of Veena or Sitar, but here we have the music...
Can Left Policy Wins At British Labour Party Conference Be Made To Stick?
By Ben Chacko Yawning contradictions between the radicalism of delegates and trade unionists at Britain’s Labour Party s conference and careful hedging from the top table tell us a lot about the state of the Labour Party. The five day conference beginning from September 25 has been eventful despite...
Asia And The Pacific Are Set To Witness Fierce Arms Race
By Nantoo Banerjee The brewing rivalry between the United States and China over the strategic control of parts of Asia and the Pacific region is set to scale new heights in the coming years. This may altogether change the character of the global arms trade which has been increasingly...
India Has Still A Long Wait For Becoming Member Of UN Security Council
By Kalyani Shankar India has been in quest of a place at the UN high table for long. The issue has arisen again during last week’s bilateral meeting in Washington between US President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. India has been lobbying for the Security Council’s expansion...
Bharat Bandh Marks The Changing Contours Of Politics
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Much water has flowed down the Yamuna in one year after September 27, 2020, when the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind had given his assent to Modi’s three controversial farm laws. To mark one year of the assent, the Bharat Bandh observed on September...
Centre’s Talk Of Development To Combat Naxalism Is Welcome
By Sushil Kutty How Mamata Banerjee tamed the Naxals of Junglemahal in 2011 is still lore in West Bengal. Today, Union Home Minister Amit Shah wants to emulate Mamata. True, at that time, it was indeed “Banerjee (who) single-handedly wiped out” the Maoists from West Bengal, but she disappointed...
Ministry Expansion Is A Part Of Mandal Card Of BJP For Assembly Poll
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP has played aggressive mandal card with induction of with three OBCs, two Scheduled Castes, one Scheduled Tribe in Yogi Adityanath ministry . One brahmin was also inducted the ministry. Since BJP is playing both kamandal and Mandal cards to win over support of voters...
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...
