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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.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...
The Struggle For Protecting Gains Of Freedom Is Of Supreme Importance Now
By Krishna Jha Independence Day is at our door step. Count down has begun. India has been a country where almost the entire people, as one, irrespective of their caste, creed and community, stood against the mighty British imperialism and came out victorious. The demand for complete independence was...
India’s Preparations For The Third Wave Lack Coordination
By Dr. Gyan Pathak A possible third wave of COVID-19 seems to be the most discussed issue in India. Common people as well as experts, political parties in opposition as well as those in the ruling establishments, governments in the states as well as at the Centre, have been...
‘Human Behaviour’ Will Determine Pace, Intensity Of Third Covid Wave
By Sushil Kutty The delta variant will gallop this month, say US scientists. The prognosis is for the US. But how much it will peak will depend on “human behaviour”. And America has humans of various variants. From the Texas variant to the Florida variant. And landlocked human behaviour...
Anganwadi And ASHA Workers Are Essential Staff And Not Volunteers
By Dr. Suchita Krishnaprasad Approximately 14 lakh women serving under as Anganwadi workers (AWW) under the Integrated Child Development Services Scheme, which is the world’s largest community-based programme for child development, and another nine lakh women working as Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) under the National Rural Health Mission,...
Fear Of Repeatation Of Earlier Taliban Terror Haunts Afghanistan
By Sankar Ray “Throw away your diplomatic acrobatics. Our daughters spend sleepless nights as the Taliban thugs are on the doorsteps. Women’s education is under threat.’ These are the very beginning words of a message from a woman school teacher to a veteran western diplomatic correspondent (choosing anonymity as...
Rahul Gandhi Has Been Finally Emerging As A Mature Leader Of Opposition
By Sushil Kutty Rahul Gandhi raised the cup to the impending ouster of Narendra Modi at a breakfast meeting of opposition MPs, this week. The future is in the womb of time and if anybody must be crystal-gazing at this point in time, it should be Narendra Modi...
Papri Chaat And Pakoda: Which One Is More Parliamentary?
By K Raveendran Copious tears are being shed in the name of parliamentary democracy and the loss of business hours in the august houses, which no doubt is costing the nation dearly. But the accusers are as much at fault, if not more, than the accused as both sides...
Disruption Of Proceedings By Opposition Is Nothing New In Indian Parliament
By Arun Srivastava Political experts and academics are feeling bad at the disruption replacing discussion as the foundation of our legislative functioning and believe the best panacea is to increase the working days of Parliament. It is not that the Parliaments of developed countries sit on the 365 days...
World Of Work And Trade Unionism In Transition In Pandemic
By Gyan Pathak The world of work has been in transition for one and half years. So is the case with trade unionism. There are multiple reasons for it, which began with the outbreak of COVID-19, followed by lockdowns and containment measures put in forced shutdowns of establishments barring...
LDF Government In Kerala Must Listen To The Voices Of Reason
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It is, once again, an unredeeming tale of refusal to learn from past mistakes. A bitter product of the failure to listen to sage advice and the resultant legal snubs from the courts of the country. The Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front Government (LDF) defended...
Mystery Around The Name Of Union Minister Prahlad Singh Patel In Pegasus List
By HariharSwarup For those who have known Union Minister Prahlad Singh Patel, his name figured in Pegasus list, along with Railway & Railways and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, came as a surprise. “After all, he is someone who puts it all out there— where was the need to know...
Former Contra Rebel To Stand In Nicaraguan Presidential Elections On November 7
By Satyaki Chakraborty The political situation in Nicaragua, a country in Latin America, has turned tense, four months before the Presidential elections on November 7 as the present president Daniel Ortega has imprisoned some opposition leaders including a presidential potential candidate and the anti- Ortega parties are putting a...
