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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.SC Makes Another Decisive Intervention To Bring Relief To People
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court has once again taken a proactive step to bring succour to the disadvantaged people by declaring that the dependents of those who lost their lives due to Covid pandemic are entitled to receive compensation from the government just like victims of other natural...
Centre’s Apathy On Migrant Workers “Unpardonable”
By Gyan Pathak The Centre’s “apathy and lackadaisical attitude” on extending welfare measures to migrant workers have now been noted even by the Supreme Court of India, which termed it “unpardonable”, and then passed an order that the very instrument – the National Database for Unorganised Workers (NDUW) –...
Govt Failure To Counter Prashant Bhushan Will Hit Vaccinations
By Sushil Kutty Anti-vaxer Prashant Bhushan and the gang arrested in Gujarat while spreading vaccine disaffection in the streets are among those who believe that vaccines are “spike protein bioweapons” and “those dying from Covid are who have been vaccinated”, and that vaccines “don’t really work.” Ergo “natural immunity”...
Opposition Alleges Misuse Of Power For UP Zila Panchayat Polls
By Pradeep kapoor LUCKNOW: Opposition parties have accused ruling BJP of misusing the official machinery to capture maximum number of zila panchayats. BJP has already won zila panchayat presidents in 21 districts unopposed while there would be direct fight between BJP and Samajwadi Party in 53 districts on July...
Sajan First Indian To Make An Olympic Cut In Swimming
By Harihar Swarup Last year when the pandemic caused countries to shut their borders, Sajan Prakash was stuck at his training base in Phuket’s Thanyapura Aquatic Centre. The lockdown in Thailand was so strict that, forget about swimming, Prakash could not even venture out of his room for close...
Government Must Take Back The Draft Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill
By Siddharth Chaturvedi On June 18, the Union Government proposed to introduce new changes into the existing Cinematograph Act, 1952. Its draft amendment bill for the same is open for public comments till July 2. However, many of the changes proposed by the bill are being seen as problematic....
U.S. Progressive Groups Gather Support For $6 Trillion-Plus Budget
By Mark Gruenberg Progressive organizations, led by the Poor People’s Campaign, the Institute for Policy Studies, and the Economic Policy Institute, are gathering organizational—and later individual—support for a $6 trillion-plus budget bill that “would meet all of our needs” in domestic spending, in United States “Budgets are moral statements,”...
Anti-BJP Front Has Possibilities Of Success With Participation Of Congress
By Kalyani Shankar The idea of an alternate front has emerged once again after the meeting held at the Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar’s residence recently. Why is the idea gaining ground though there are three more years for the next General elections? Some opposition leaders believe that...
New Economic Package Cannot Mitigate The Devastation
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With announcement of some new measures to mitigate the destruction caused by the second wave of COVID-19, the size of the assurance for small businesses including the MSMEs and needy households till date has swelled to Rs 6.3 lakh crore, which is indeed an impressive...
Political Churning Is On In Bihar Over Chirag Paswan’s Coming Yatra
By Arun Srivastava Refusal of Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, to keep his promises made to Chirag Paswan, son of late Ram Vilas Paswan and insulting him in full public view at the insistence of the Nitish Kumar and a section of Bihar BJP leaders is leading to a massive...
Mahagathbandhan Under Rahul Gandhi Is The Best Option For Opposition
By Sushil Kutty For want of a better description, they’re the ‘non-BJP, non-NDA opposition’. The goal is to transform to the ‘non-BJP, non-NDA ruling alliance’. They have to corner 273 Lok Sabha seats in 2024, what a bright old spark, called a ‘journalist’, says is ‘half of half’ of...
Doctors Day On July 1 Is A Reminder Of Dedication And Sacrifice
By Dr Arun Mitra On the Doctors Day the 1st July it would be appropriate to pay homage to those who sacrificed their lives to save the mankind from the catastrophic damage of the COVID-19. In addition to taking care of the sick in the hospitals, risking their lives,...
Far-Right Le Pen Fails Miserably In French Regional Elections
By Satyaki Chakraborty The French far-right party National Rally led by Le Pen, who is a front-runner in the opinion polls for the presidential elections next year, suffered a major jolt in the regional elections held on Sunday when NR failed to win even a single region out of...
Should Twitter Have The Power To Lock An Account?
By Prajjwal Kushwaha and Kanishk Garg The recent action taken by Twitter against Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad’s account has rekindled debate on the company’s power to lock or suspend a user’s account. In response to a copyright complaint sent on behalf of Sony Music Entertainment by the...
SAIL’s Raw Materials Division Must Remain In Kolkata
By Nantoo Banerjee There is little business or commercial reason behind the government’s move to dismantle the age-old Kolkata-based raw materials division (RMD) of public sector Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL). The move appears to be totally political and engineered by the national government. The division has done...
BJP’s “Walk Back” In Kashmir Marks A Change In Its Hard Hindutva Stance
By Amulya Ganguli The BJP’s “walk back” on Kashmir – to use a polite term for “retreat – must have made it appreciate the difficulty of implementing a religion-based agenda in a democracy. At the root of the Narendra Modi government’s decision to scrap Articles 370 and 35A of...
Farmers Unions Are Engaged In Crucial Struggle For Gaining Power
By Arun Srivastava On June 26, the dayafter Indira Gandhi had imposed emergency 46 years ago, the farmers’ movement entered into its 8th month of survival. Though yesterday Narendra Modi took to twits to recollect the tyrannies “he had to face” during the Emergency days, he did not mention...
Dying MSMEs And Consequent Jobs Loss Is Frightening
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in India have been dying for a long time even before the outbreak of COVID-19 resulting in large number of job losses. The lockdown announced on March 24, 2020 and the containment measures aggravated the situation further. Announcement of...
