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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.A Week After Indian Foreign Secretary’s Talks, Dhaka Regime Still To Take Follow Up Steps
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: Now that Indian Foreign Secretary Mr. Vikram Misri’s trip to Dhaka is done and dusted, it can be safely asserted that during the somewhat tense bilateral exchanges that followed , despite their poor governance in dealing with the recent anti-Hindu riots, there was no noticeable...
Arvind Kejriwal Is Upbeat On Delhi Assembly Elections As He Releases The Final AAP List
By Sushil Kutty Pre-poll ablutions for the Delhi assembly elections are in full swing with the Aam Aadmi Party first off the block along with Delhi’s YouTubers and social media influencers who aren’t consuming the aftermath of the Maharashtra assembly elections, the Winter Session of Parliament and the brouhaha...
India’s Flagship ELI Scheme For Decent Job Creation Has Not Taken Off Yet
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s flagship Employment Linked Incentive (ELI) scheme announced in the Union Budget 2024-25 for decent job creation in the country did not take off even in mid-December 2024. Union Ministry of Finance is busy in making next Union Budget 2025-26, which will be tabled on...
Trump 2.0: India’s Real Concern Lies In Domestic Distortions, Not Tariffs
By Dr. Nilanjan Banik On November 30, Mr. Donald Trump posted a threat on his social media, warning that if BRICS countries abandon the US dollar, they would face a 100% tariff. This is not a new threat; similar warnings have also been directed at other regions, including nearshore...
Ex-CJI’s Pandora’s Box And The Sacred Line Between Judicial Principles And Faith
By K Raveendran It was former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju who a month ago raised an alarm about former CJI Chandrachud’s role in unleashing the controversy surrounding the Places of Worship Act, 1991, which has manifested in the form multiple demands for the survey of mosques, claimed to...
South African Communists Break Electoral Alliance With African National Congress After 30 Years
By Satyaki Chakraborty The politics in South Africa underwent a significant change on Thursday December 12 when the general secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP) Solly Mapaila announced the decision of his Party to fight solo in the local elections in the country in 2026 breaking the...
Turkish Delights And Strike Back By The Empire In Syria
By Matein Khalid The dramatic events of last week in Syria have only boosted President Erdogan’s role as the preeminent regional powerbroker in the heart of the Arab Levant as Turkish armed/financed Sunni militias engineered their collapse of the 54-year-old Assad dynastic tyranny in Damascus. Syria is once again...
Upendra Baxi’s Latest Book ‘Of Law And Life’ Is A Fascinating Story Of Scholarship And Activism
By Saquib Rasool Rudyard Kipling famously writes, “If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” This quote perfectly captures the book under review. The book titled Of Law and Life: Upendra Baxi in Conversation with Arvind Narrain, Lawrence Liang, Sitharamam Kakarala, and Sruti...
Halt Order On Places Of Worship Act Kindles Hope For Survival Of Secularism
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Halt all fresh suits, proceedings, and orders in relation to the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act 1991, ordered a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India on December 12, implications of which will be far reaching since it would transcend beyond the legal...
JD(U) Demands Bharat Ratna For Nitish Kumar, BJP Sees Opportunity
By Rahil Nora Chopra With the Bihar Assembly elections scheduled to be held next year in the month of October-November, JD(U) has reiterated its demand for awarding Bharat Ratna to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar saying he deserves the highest honour. Earlier in October 2024, the party had put...
Alternative Global Currency Replacing U.S. Dollar Is Still Far Away
By Prabhat Patnaik Liberal opinion holds that the international monetary and financial system is a device for promoting the interests of all participating countries by providing a convenient payments arrangement within which trade can be carried on. The reality however is altogether different: the international system is founded upon...
Unredeeming Tale Of Political Bias Against Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There is absolutely no let-up in the Union Government’s attempts to deny funds Kerala is entitled to despite judicial raps. The latest instance relates to the Centre’ denial of funds meant for the education of differently abled. It is yet to release two instalments amounting...
Rival Romanian Parties Form Coalition Government To Shut Out The Far Right
By Satyaki Chakraborty The East European nation Romania is in a big political turmoil following the postponement of the final round of the Presidential elections and also the holding of the national elections n December 1. Rival political parties in Romania agreed on December 12 to form a majority...
China’s Deployment Of Security Forces In Myanmar Poses A Challenge To India Also
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The recent news of China deploying private security companies to protect its infrastructure and other projects in Myanmar is alarming. Myanmar has been embroiled in a civil war since the 2021 coup, creating a politically volatile environment. The entry of Chinese nationals as security guards...
Kwame Nkrumah’s Ideological Successors Win Ghana’s National Polls
By Dennis Laumann NEW YORK: Voters in the West African nation of Ghana repudiated the right-wing government of President Nana Akufo-Addo with a historic, massive win for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in elections on December 7 . The NDC’s candidate, former President John Mahama, resolutely defeated Mahamudu...
Israel Should Not Be Allowed To Use Syria As A Theatre For Its Power Game
By P. Sudhir The rapid advance of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and other armed factions led to the fall of Bashar al- Assad’s government in Syria. With this, the US has succeeded in toppling the last of the secular regimes in West Asia. US military interventions resulted not only in...
Cabinet Formation Delay In Maharashtra Indicates Deeper Political Trouble
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Maharashtra’s Mahayuti, the ruling NDA in the state, is still struggling to overcome a deep political trouble from within. The most serious political development is that Shiv Sena believes BJP and NCP are hand in glove in clipping the wings of their party and leader...
No Clear Indication About The Nomination Of Next BJP President Replacing J P Nadda
By Arun Srivastava The BJP is in hurry to appoint a new national president by December end. Electoral process for the election of the new president is underway. But the contentious issue whose candidate, either of the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat or of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will...
