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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.Farmers ‘Modi Gaddi Chhodo’ Movement To Impact National Politics
By Gyan Pathak Farmers have begun ‘Modi Gaddi Chhodo’ (Modi Quit the Seat of Power) from today, the 9th of August, 2021. It is most likely to impact national politics, beginning with Punjab and Uttar Pradesh where elections to the state legislative assemblies are due early next year by...
United Nations Report Sets Out Stark Reality Of The Climate Crisis
By Niall Christie A new United Nations report sets out a stark message on the state of the climate crisis, raising pressure on governments in the run-up to the crucial COP26 summit in Glasgow this November. The report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published on...
Lalu-Mulayam Meet Signals Four-Fold Strategy To Counter BJP
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav’s meeting Samajwadi Party (SP) patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav has clearly signaled a four-fold strategy to counter BJP’s political narrative in the country, and Uttar Pradesh will be the first testing ground for the moves and counter moves...
Congress And Trinamool Are Cosying Up Despite Differences In Bengal
By Harihar Swarup Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was in the Central Hall of Parliament, catching up with members of the house. The country was gearing up for the Lok Sabha elections, and Mamata was in Delhi on a mission to prop up a ‘United India Opposition’. She bumped into...
Indian Sports Persons Have Potential To Get Not Just Bronze But Gold Medals
By K Raveendran Bronze seems to be the overbearing flavour of this year’s Independence Day celebrations. There is so much of hype about bronze that one is tempted to go back to the market screens and check if prices of silver and gold have crashed, only to find that...
BJP Sees Dip In Popularity In Tripura But CPI(M) Not Yet Gaining Much
By Sagarneel Sinha There has been a view across the state that the ruling BJP under chief minister Biplab Deb has been witnessing a dip in popularity, although it’s influence largely remains intact. There have been allegations of a declining law and order situation since the saffron party came...
Nitish Kumar Repositioning Himself Afresh In National Politics
By Arun Srivastava Instead of surviving on borrowed human resources and strength the JD(U) supremo Nitish Kumar has started the exercise of reworking his old trickery and the first step he took in this regard was to install the upper caste Bhumihar face Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh...
Indian Employment Market Is In Acute Crisis Due To Jobless Growth Strategy
By Nilanjan Banik COVID-19 has taken a toll on the Indian economy. The size of the economy (read, GDP) shrank from $2.87 trillion in 2019-20 to $2.66 trillion in 2020-21. GDP growth also slowed from around 4 per cent in 2019 to -8 per cent in 2020. Starting from...
Narendra Modi Played Political Game Over Renaming Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi eased himself between Rajiv Gandhi and hockey wizard Major Dhyan Chand. The Congress says it’s a sly man who does this. Rajiv Gandhi if he was alive would have swatted the fly away with a flick of his wrist. The wrists are...
Mega Success Of Cycle Yatra Has Boosted Morale Of Samajwadi Party
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The mega success of cycle yatra of Samajwadi Party has boosted the moral of the party leaders and workers who waited so long for this event. With his cycle yatra Akhilesh Yadav cleverly played the Brahmin card as it was deliberately organised on the birth...
Withdrawal Of Provision For Retrospective Taxation Is A Pragmatic Step
By Anjan Roy The union government has in effect extended an olive branch to global investors to pour fresh investments into India with its withdrawal of the provisions for retrospective taxation. Government had promised to waive all retrospective tax claims against corporates, in this case, Vodafone and Cairn, on...
Supreme Court Must Order A Judicial Probe Into Pegasus Scandal
By Arun Srivastava It is a good omen that the Supreme Court has agreed to the fact that the allegations of snooping are serious if the reports regarding it are correct in the course of the hearing on Thursday. While hearing pleas seeking an independent probe into the alleged...
Essential Defence Services Bill Violates ILO Policy On Strikes
By Dr K R Shyam Sundar The Lok Sabha has passed the Essential Defence Services Bill, 2021, with a sunset clause, by a voice vote without any debate. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has assured the House that after parliamentary assent and presidential nod, the Act will be effective for...
RBI Licensing Policy Is Favouring Private Sector Under Modi Regime
By N Shankar The Reserve Bank of India being a regulator has been given the authority to give banking licences. It had framed its licensing policy to grant licenses for establishing new banks with due process of diligence, fit and proper criteria and with no conflict of interest, etc....
Rahul Steps Up, But Will He Lead United Opposition Against Modi?
By Rahil Nora Chopra After Congress leader Rahul Gandhi drove a tractor to the Parliament and asked the government to repeal farm laws at the earliest, he led a meeting of opposition leaders on August 3 to formulate a pan-India strategy to take on the BJP in the 2024...
Remembering Hiroshima Day Seventy Six Years After U.S. Atomic Bombing
By Ben Chacko To date, the US bombings of Hiroshima on August 6 1945 and of Nagasaki three days later — war crimes that between them killed more than 200,000 civilians — remain the only occasions on which these terrible weapons, capable of destroying entire cities and of poisoning...
Govt Persists With Pegasus Intransigence In Supreme Court
By K Raveendran The take-off for the hearing on a batch of petitions in the Supreme Court is certainly a setback for the Modi government. Chief Justice N V Ramana, while asking pointed questions to the petitioners, however, made it clear that the allegations about the use of Pegasus...
Modi Govt Stand On OBC Reservation In Medical Courses Is Dubious
By Prakash Karat The announcement by the Modi government providing for 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and 10 per cent reservation for Economically Weaker Sections in the all-India quota for undergraduate and postgraduate medical and dental courses from the current academic year is being hailed...
