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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.Kareena Kapoor Khan’s ‘Pregnancy Bible’ Creates A Big Storm
By Sushil Kutty Actor Kareena Kapoor Khan is under fire, again! Every time she gets pregnant, she delivers a bombshell, so to speak. Naming her firstborn ‘Taimur’ got her into the bad books of Hindu Indians. Now, after she delivered a second boy, a bunch of Christian Indians are...
Prashant Kishor Meeting Congress Bosses Sets Stage For Poll Battles
By Rahil Nora Chopra As Congress’s Punjab drama continues to play out, election strategist Prashant Kishor on Tuesday met former Congress president Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra amid speculation that he was involved in finalising a truce deal between Punjab Chief Minister Captain (retd.) Amarinder Singh and his...
Labour, Allies Hail Biden Order Cracking Down On Corporate Greed
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON: The Communications Workers, the National Consumers League, and Public Citizen are leading the cheers for President Joe Biden’s sweeping executive order to federal agencies telling them to crack down on corporate greed and monopolistic practices that drive down workers’ wages and drive up prices. Biden’s...
Prashant Kishor’s First Task Is To Frame Winning Strategy For U.P. State Poll
By Nitya Chakraborty The ace poll strategist Prashant Kishor has finally entered the national arena of Indian politics, ready to advise the opposition parties for framing a winning strategy against BJP for both the state assembly elections in 2022 and 2023 and the Lok Sabha elections in April/May 2024....
India Should Be A Part Of Regional Collective To Deal With Afghan Crisis
By Prakash Karat The situation on the ground in Afghanistan is changing fast. With the US troop withdrawal more or less complete, the last few weeks have seen the Taliban advancing all across the country. The Taliban have claimed that 85 per cent of the territory is now under...
Uttar Pradesh Population Bill Is A New Agenda Of Far Right
By Binoy Viswam The RSS-BJP led Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh is set to register its place in the far right Hindutva politics in the country. The population policy of UP proclaimed on the world population day signifies the new agenda of the political Hindu right. Several weeks...
Yogi Adityanath’s Nod To Kanwar Yatra Sends Ominous Signal
By Sushil Kutty ‘Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’ is his name. But let’s just leave it at ‘Tedros’. Easier on the tongue. Easier to forget! Tedros is WHO chief. And the WHO says we’re in the early stages of Covid-19 third wave. As if it’s a milestone! Nothing like that. There...
Bank Credit Deployment Insufficient For Revival Of Corona-Hit Economy
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Bank credit deployment in the economy have been one of the key measures for economic revival of India ever since the outbreak of COVID-19 and announcement of general lockdown on March 24, 2020, but the level of deployment is still lower than one year before...
Time Is Ripe To Promote Litigation Funding In Covid-Hit India
By Kundan Shahi Several companies are insolvent or either staring at bankruptcy amid the economic downturn, caused by Covid-19. Even law firms with ample cash reserves have a bleak outlook and could face a financial crunch. In this dire situation, legal financing (also known as ‘lawsuit funding’) has become...
Sophistry In Court Proceedings Amounts To Negation Of Justice
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court has issued yet another verdict, in which it has shown that when it is time to take sides, it will stand for the common man. In a postscript to its judgment, refusing to strike down the Delhi Assembly’s summons to Facebook India head...
Nepal Political Situation Is Unstable But Things Are Looking Up For India
By Barun Das Gupta The political kaleidoscope has turned again in Nepal, throwing up yet another government. The Nepal Supreme Court on Monday restored Parliament which was dissolved by President Bidya Devi Bhandari on May 21, after Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli lost majority in the House. The...
Reopening Of Schools Needs Foolproof Follow Up Measures
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Education for millions of children is still disrupted. As of today, almost about 18 months after the closures of educational institutions, primary and secondary schools are shuttered in 19 countries affecting over 156 million students. The losses children and young people incur from missing out...
U.S. Sanctions Have Intensified Economic Crisis In Pandemic Hit Cuba
By Nitya Chakraborty Cuba is in turmoil. The continuing blockade of the Caribbean nation by the United states has hit the country’s economy badly and after a long time, there were big demonstrations on Sunday in Havana and other big cities in Cuba demanding the supply of the essential...
Pakistan May Face Big Refugee Crisis As Taliban Forces Advance
By Sant Kumar Sharma Perhaps no clear answer is right now available to what may look like a straightforward question. Is the pace of US moving out from Afghanistan more, or is it the pace of Taliban moving in? Well, it is not a question that will hang in...
Insurance Based System Has Failed To Meet India’s Health Needs
By Dr Arun Mitra The COVID-19 Pandemic has exposed the weaknesses in our healthcare system. Complications of the disease apart, unprecedented number of people lost their lives due to lack of basic needs like Oxygen, ventilators, medicines and hospital beds. Over and above exorbitant cost of treatment has become...
Akhilesh Yadav Has To Be Aggressive Enough To Take On BJP In State Polls
By Arun Srivastava In a state where demagoguery is the key component of the politics and mercenaries dictate the character and rule of the governance, the politics of identity and idiom of democracy are the worst victims Actually this has been happening in Uttar Pradesh from some years and...
Congress Ups The Ante Against BJP In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Congress in Kerala has decided to harden its stance against the Modi Government to erase the impression that the party is soft on the BJP in the State. That is the unmistakable message from the statewide satyagraha the party organized to protest against the...
Dilip Kumar Was A Left Liberal Who Had Always India’s Interests In Mind
By Harihar Swarup The evergreen film hero Dilip Kumar has passed away but he will ever remain alive in people’s memory. “Saheed” was his early film which portrayed him in the lead role of a martyr. Son of a DIG, the hero turned a revolutionary during the British Raj...
