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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.August 15 This Year Is A Reminder To Fight For The Values Of Our Freedom Struggle
By D Raja On the day of August 15, more than seven decades back, in 1947, our nation began her tryst with destiny. The political independence achieved by us is the result of decades of struggles by the people of our country. Recognising the exploitative nature of the British...
Govt’s Pegasus Denial Amounts To Confirmation Of Complicity
By K Raveendran Solicitor General Tushar Mehta’s plea to the Supreme Court hearing the Pegasus snooping case amounts to virtually admitting that the government has things to hide. The Modi government’s approach in this highly sensitive issue has been suspect right from the beginning and every new development is...
French And Israeli Governments Are Doing Investigations On Snooping By Pegasus
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah are the ones who can talk on Pegasus. But Modi doesn’t have the time to spare. That leaves Amit Shah in the lurch. And he’s acting as if he was never at ‘Home’. The Home Minister spoke...
Bringing Students Back To School Safely Is A Challenging Task
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With the general opinion, both global and domestic, that schools should now be reopened as soon as possible, India is also gradually trying to open its schools. However, bringing students back safely to schools is in itself a challenging task that is felt both at...
Karnataka Chief Minister B Bommai Has A Chequered Political Career
By Harihar Swarup On July 28, shortly after he had taken oath as 23rd Chief Minister of Karnataka, Basavaraj Bommai, 61, took his first decision at a one-man Cabinet meeting. He allocated Rs 1,000 crore for scholarship for children of farmers of state. With this step, Basavaraj sent out...
Unequal Vaccination Raises Questions On Vaccine Passports
By Sidra Javed A Covid vaccine passport is a digital or paper document that certifies its holder is completely vaccinated against the virus and allows access to physical spaces and travel since it is considered ‘safe.’ The idea is based on the proof of vaccination that several countries required...
Global War Starts Between Streamers And Entertainment Companies
By Dennis Broe An “epic” battle being waged, or rather being reported on in the corporate entertainment press, is between streamers and theatres or between various streamers. However, this is a battle now being fought not just in the United States.— Netflix is already losing U.S. subscribers to its...
Parliament Has Been Losing Its Value As Forum Of Issue Based Discussions
By Kalyani Shankar Has the Indian Parliament lost its relevance? Has the Opposition failed to perform their duties of holding the government accountable? Has the government been stubborn and not reaching out to the Opposition? The answer to all these questions is a grand “YES” as of now. There...
BJP’s Official Income Is Peanuts Compared To The Party’s Actual Resources
By Nitya Chakraborty The Election Commission Report on income of the national political parties in India released on Monday shows that the ruling party at the centre and in most of the states, the BJP has made an income of Rs. 3,623 crore in 2019-20 recording a jump of...
Climate Change Is Already Here, No Luxury Of Taking Measures Later
By Anjan Roy Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change — better known by its short acronym, IPCC — has raised a red alert on the grievous situation of earth’s climate. The IPCC’s sixth report, released by the UN on Monday, clearly pointed out that the earth is warming up faster...
Between Elimination Of Poverty And Mitigation Of Climate Change
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India is caught between the two immediate responsibilities – binging out millions of its citizens from extreme poverty and mitigating the vagaries of climate change that has threatened the very survival of millions in short term and the whole humanity in general in the long...
India Face A Formidable Task In Achieving The Climate Goals In Next Two Decades
By Sushil Kutty Donald Trump reckons climate does not change, in the sense that global warming is a trick played on earthlings. He dumped both Paris and the Accord. He also christened the United Nations as a useless body. Now, we’ve been warned by the UN’s intergovernmental panel on...
Changing Equations In Indian Union Muslim League In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The all-powerful general secretary of the Indian Union Muslim League, P K Kunhalikutty, is no more the monarch of all that he surveys. The IUML strongman, who has enjoyed unchallenged supremacy in the party for four decades, is losing his grip on the IUML, which...
No Discussion, Few Disclosures: How Centre Puts Democracy At Risk
By Arsh Rampal In January, the Supreme Court mentioned in Rajeev Suri vs Delhi Development Authority, also known as the Central Vista judgment, that India is a representative democracy with aspects of participatory democracy. It noted two integral elements of participatory democracy, i.e., public involvement in decision-making and open...
Big Pandemic Push For India’s Flourishing Porn Trade
By Nantoo Banerjee Like it or not, the Covid-19 pandemic has been a blessing in disguise for India’s fast growing porn film industry, reaching practically every household using 4G cellphones and computers, desk or laptop. For India’s millions, forced to stay at home under lockdown conditions, porn films are...
Mamata’s Delhi Visit Has Galvanized The Congress’s First Family
By Amulya Ganguli It is not so much the threat from the BJP that has made the Congress bestir itself as the possibility of Mamata Banerjee emerging as the front-runner in the race for leading the opposition camp against the ruling party at the centre. Prior to the West...
Healthcare Must Get Top Priority As India Celebrates 75th Independence Day
By Dr Arun Mitra On 15 August 2021 when we celebrate 75th day of independence from the colonial rule, it is important to review what we have achieved in these 74 years. Even though health forms an important issue to be discussed but not much has been talked about...
Left Has To Be More Proactive In Harnessing Unity Of Opposition Parties
By Arun Srivastava The people of Bengal reposed their faith in the leadership of Mamata Banerjee, struck a severe blow to the BJP in the electoral battle of 2021 and in the process also catapulted her as the most potent alternative face to Narendra Modi. This happened at a...
