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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.IUML Calls The Shots On Scholarship Issue In Kerala UDF
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There is no mistaking it. It is the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) which calls the shots in the United Democratic Front (UDF). The Front may be led by the Congress. But when it comes to taking decisions on crucial matters, it is the IUML...
Supreme Court Must Course-Correct From Its Kedar Nath Singh Ruling
By Md Zeeshan Ahmad and Zain Haider The sedition law is once again under fire. This is not for the first time that the sedition law is in the proverbial eye of the storm. The legal history of independent India shows that the sedition law (that is, Section 124A...
Decoding Mamata’s Opposition Unity Strategy Against BJP For 2024 Lok Sabha Polls
By Nitya Chakraborty The national political situation is presently volatile and every day, new revelations are coming out exposing the authoritarian character of the Narendra Modi Government which is in power at the centre for the last seven years. The exposure in the media about the Pegasus snooping covering...
Steep Rise In Fuel Prices During Pandemic Has Hit The Poor And Jobless Most
By Krishna Jha The cost of living for people from all economic strata except the favoured few gets shockingly high with every rise in petrol and diesel prices. According to SBI findings, there is a 50 basis points increase in consumer price inflation whenever the hike comes. The latest...
‘Farmers Parliament’ Is Yet Another Milestone, Many More To Come
By Gyan Pathak Farmers assembled at Jantar Mantar, staged protest, and organized their own parliament ‘Kisan Sansad’ on July 22, not far from the Parliament of India, which is in session. While the farmers’ parliament debated the APMC Act in two session, punctuated by a ‘langar’ on the first...
Income Tax Raids On Dainik Bhaskar Are Meant To Punish The Paper For Covid Coverage
By Sushil Kutty Remember Arvind Subramanian? He was Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chief economic advisor. Then he quit. Nowadays, he’s with Brown University, US. He also has links with think-tank ‘Center for Global Development (CDG)’, which in a study claims that India’s Covid death count till June 2021...
Nationalisation Of Banks In 1969 Brought Big Benefits To Agriculture
By Prabhat Patnaik On July 19, 1969, 14 major banks were nationalised in the country. Today, after 52 years there is some talk again of privatising the nationalized banks, which naturally raises the question: why were banks nationalized at all? The answer to this question is usually given in...
AIBEA Has Been Fighting For People’s Welfare Through Public Sector Banks Funds
By C H Venkatachalam On the eve of independence of our country, on August 14, 1947, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru spoke in the Constituent Assembly that India has a tryst with destiny. Similarly, AIBEA made a tryst with destiny on the April 20, 1946 when AIBEA was founded....
Two Accidental PM And FM Steered India Out Of Economic Crisis In 1991
By Anjan Roy At the launch of his six volume collected works, Dr Manmohan Singh remembered his days as finance minister. He had observed, he was not only an “accidental prime minister”, as some people had written, but he was “an accidental finance minister as well.” That was...
Can Priyanka Gandhi’s Leadership Topple Yogi Raj In UP?
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Congress general secretary in-charge of UP, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, has geared up in Uttar Pradesh, her kharambhoomi, with a mission to rebuild the Congress in UP ahead of 2022 assembly polls. She landed in Lucknow on 16 July for a three-day visit after...
Pegasus Is The Cyberweapon For Authoritarianism In India
By Prakash Karat The chronology suggests new security collaboration initiated with Israel during NSA Ajit Doval’s visit in March, 2017 preparatory to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to that country. The Pegasus spyware scandal is not just a case of violation of privacy, or illegal surveillance or snooping by...
Death Happened Without Oxygen But Not Reported Due To Design
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The nation was shocked. First, the Union Government of India denied death due to shortage of oxygen, and then several states of the country, as against witnesses of such happening. We have a section in the Indian Penal Code (IPC) to deal with ‘culpable homicide...
Vaishnaw Must Thank Pegasus For His Good Fortune
By K Raveendran It was the ultimate comedy of errors that when information minister Ashwini Vaishnaw was defending the government in the Pegasus snooping case, media units were preparing to release a list of targeted persons, who curiously included himself. It can be safely assumed that Vaishnaw has lost...
Supreme Court Must Order A Suo Motu Probe Into Pegasus Role In India
By Arun Srivastava While Indians are stretching and splitting their hair to make out the inference of home minister Amit Shah’s suggestion “chronology ko samjhiye” (understand the chronology), the international media is agog with the information that it was Narendra Modi who during his first visit to Israel in...
Pegasus Scandal Has The Potential To Unsettle Narendra Modi
By Devasis Chattopadhyay Just when the monsoon session of the Indian parliament was about to begin, the Pegasus scandal resurfaced and created a political row in the country, two years after it initially came to light. For record, Pegasus, the sophisticated spyware developed by the Israeli cyber-security and tech...
In Covid Period, Vietnam Is Emerging As An Alternative To Chinese Goods
By Subrata Majumder China has re-emerged as the biggest trading partner of India in 2020-21 outplaying USA, after a break of two years. Prior to these, China was also the leading trade partner for five years from 2013-14 to 2017-18. Notwithstanding, China loses primacy in trade in the post...
P K Warrier Was A Pioneer In Modernising Ayurveda, Traditional Indian System
By Harihar Swarup Rare are the people like P K Warrier, who have seen so many facet of life, achieved so much in life and lived over 100 years. He popularized Ayurveda, died in Kerala’s Kottayam a month after celebrating his 100th birthday on June 8. Decorated with India’s...
Population Policy Of BJP Led States Have Generated Many Apprehensions
By Kalyani Shankar There is a raging debate going on about regulating the population growth in India. Ahead of the Monsoon Session of Parliament, three BJP-ruled states — Uttar Pradesh, Assam, and Karnataka — brought a two-child policy norm with incentives and disincentives. Even though they have not openly...
