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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.Election Commission Has Been Following Diktat Of Modi Government
By Prakash Karat The subversion of constitutional bodies under the Narendra Modi regime is proceeding apace. Nothing exemplifies this more than what has happened to the Election Commission of India (EC). The EC’s stand on the elections for three vacant seats from Kerala in the Rajya Sabha has brought...
Narendra Modi’s Rafale Deal Never Goes Into Oblivion
By Krishna Jha It is again Rafale at our door steps as the controversy lands in Supreme Court for the third time. Apart from other issues, question involves also the fact that the deal was made at 41.47 percent higher a rate than the one made earlier. Dassault claimed...
Kerala Minister Jaleel Gets The ‘Jab’ Of Resignation
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In politics, as in life, if you repeat mistakes ad nauseam, you end up paying a heavy price. It is once again a case of timing gone terribly wrong in the case of the CPI(M) and the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government. The latest lapse...
Bhima Koregaon Accused, Prof Shoma Sen Challenges Prosecution
By Satyaki Chakraborty An accused in the Bhima Koregaon case, Professor Dr. Shoma Sen, has petitioned the Bombay High Court challenging her prosecution under the stringent anti-terrorism Unlawful Activities (Prevention) (UAPA) Act. Sen, a former Head of Department of English at Nagpur University, alleged that that the case against...
Solar Costs Reverse A Falling Trend, To Hit New Projects
By K Raveendran Solar energy costs, which have been consistently coming down over the past several years, are suddenly reversing the trend, with the result that the cost of setting up solar farms is again going up. This is attributed to an increase in the cost of modules, shipping...
Labour Party On Decline Under The Leadership Of Keir Starmer
By Arun Srivastava A recent poll suggesting Labour could lose Hartlepool byelection has sent tremors through the party. A major section of the labour leaders, who played key role in installing Keir Starmer as the leader of the party feel that he has not been able to lead it...
Ending The United States’ 20-Year War In Afghanistan By September 11
By Karl Engels A war that never should have happened is finally coming to an end. By Sept. 11, 2021—twenty years to the day since the 9/11 terrorist attacks—the final U.S. troops will supposedly be leaving Afghanistan, according to an announcement coming from the Biden administration. It is the...
2021 Bengal Poll Has Some Similarities With 1987 Assembly Elections
By Nitya Chakraborty The current assembly elections in West Bengal are showing some similarities in tenor of campaigning and the participation of the Prime Minister as was evident in the 1987 assembly elections. But the actors are different. In 1987, Rajiv Gandhi as the Congress Prime Minister took it...
Taming The Second Covid-19 Wave Has Just Got Tougher
By Gyan Pathak Vaccine net expansion in India’s arsenal in fighting the COVID-19 battle is certainly a wise decision of the Modi government, though taken only after a great loss of lives and livelihoods, and tremendous pressure from the people, experts, and the opposition. However, it may not prove...
Modi-Shah’s Aggressive Polarising Campaign In Bengal Has Hurt Voters
By Arun Srivastava It was a protest with a difference on Tuesday by Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee. If opposition leaders appeared at the dharna place to express their solidarity with Mamata Banerjee, Hindu religious leaders and Muslim clerics were also present. The woman general secretary of the Hindu Maha...
Britain’s Local Elections See Largest Number Of Communist Candidates
By Ben Chacko LONDON—On May 6, voters in Britain will go to the polls in local elections that will see the largest number of candidates representing the Communist Party since the early 1980s. Candidates will be campaigning in the Welsh Senedd, Scottish Parliament, and London, Assembly as well as...
Keshubhai Patel Was One Of The Tallest BJP Leaders In Gujarat
By Harihar Swarup Keshubhai Patel, awarded Padma Bhushan posthumously, was one of the tallest leaders of Gujarat. Towards the fag end of his career, he gave a fight to Narendra Modi before he (Modi) became the Chief Minister for the first time. Modi, having ruled Gujarat for 13 years,...
Ambedkar Was One Of The First In India To Discuss History Shaping Identity
By Urvi Desai The writing of history is a sea of thought that encompasses labour and mobility, gender and sexuality, the local and global. It borrows from the prior academic work and historical imagination of the writer. In many cases, the writing of history dialogues with political and social...
Centre And State Governments Have To Jointly Combat The Second Covid Wave
By Kalyani Shankar Should political parties in India play politics over Covid 19? That is what is happening on vaccines’ delivery in the past few days when a dangerous second wave is endangering to attack the country. It has resulted in a fight for more doses of vaccines between...
New CEC Sushil Chandra Must Show The Guts To Discipline Modi And Shah
By Sushil Kutty India has got a new Chief Election Commissioner. Sushil Chandra moved to the top post April 13, a Tuesday and notably ‘new year’ in the Hindu calendar. What’s striking is that in photographs, he looks like a 1960s Bollywood movie actor. One of those oily characters...
Election Commission Has Compromised Its Character In Bengal Polls
By Barun Das Gupta Amid all the heat and hype of electioneering in West Bengal, one fact stands out prominently and incontrovertibly. The Election Commission has totally failed to conduct peaceful polls in West Bengal. What happened at Sitalkuchi in North Bengal on April 10 has got nationwide publicity...
Kerala High Court Order Is A Shot In The Arm For LDF Govt
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala High Court’s order that elections to the three Rajya Sabha seats, which will fall vacant in the State on April 21, be held before the current Assembly’s term expires, has come as a big relief to the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF)...
The Left Needs New Leadership To Revive Itself In Tripura
By Sagarneel Sinha The Left politics in the country presently is in a never-ending crisis. The leadership of the Left tries to talk more about development, providing jobs to the youth and improving the social conditions of the poor. However, when it comes to votes, the Left fails to...
