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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.Political Posturings In Delhi Turns Interesting, Turncoat Takes Centrestage
By Dr. Gyan Pathak After elections are over in Jharkhand and Maharashtra, the next electoral battlefield Delhi has come into focus, where election is scheduled to be held early next year before the term of its Vidhan Sabha expires on February 23, 2025. Political posturing of the major political...
Results Of Nine Bypolls In Uttar Pradesh To Set The Tone For 2027 Elections
By Rahil Nora Chopra The results in the by polls for nine assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh are geared to be a commentary on the battle of rhetoric between the BJP chief minister Yogi Adityanath (batoge toh katoge or if you stand divided, you will be slaughtered) and the...
Huge Shortage Of Skilled Personnel Hits India’s Renewable Energy Sector
By Tirthankar Mitra India’s aim to achieve 500 Giga Watt (GW) of renewable energy capacity by 2030 is facing a roadblock. At this critical juncture it is faced with a shortage of 1.2 million skilled workers in the renewable energy sector. This target is pivotal for the meeting of...
Ukraine’s Firing Of British Missiles Deep Into Russia Is A Slur On Labour Govt
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Every day, another lurch nearer the precipice. The British Establishment appears bent on dragging the country to war without telling anyone. As anticipated, it seems that Keir Starmer has authorised Ukraine to fire British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles deep into Russia and that Kiev has commenced...
Donald Trump’s Return Reflects The Global Crisis Of Centrism
By Zoltan Zigedy WASHINGTON DC: In the wake of the election, I have read many insightful and thoughtful assessments of how we have arrived at the point where Donald Trump was re-elected. I highly recommend the recent scathing essay by my colleague at Marxism-Leninism Today, Chris Townsend (www.bit.ly/MLTelection), on...
Outcome Of Two Assembly And UP Bypolls Will Have Impact On Choice Of Next BJP President
By Arun Srivastava Muslims have no right to vote: this is the message that was sent by the state machinery and police to the country on November 20, while the elections to the assembly were underway in Maharashtra and Jharkhand and nine by-elections were held in Uttar Pradesh. Nevertheless,...
Big Victory For Left In Sri Lanka Parliamentary Polls Is A Heartening Development
By P Sudhir The National People’s Power (NPP) has won a historic victory in the Sri Lankan Parliament elections. For the first time, a political party has won a two-thirds majority through the proportional representation system. The NPP has won 159 of the 225 seats polling a record high...
President Putin’s Hardening Of Nuclear Doctrine Is Meant For Ukraine’s European Allies
By Anjan Roy As if he needed a doctrine to make a strike, the Russian president Vladimir Putin, has amended the so-called Russian nuclear doctrine. The change provides for Russia to strike even a non-nuclear state with nuclear weapons in case it is “supported” by a country which has...
India Needs Revenue Boost To Remain On Sustainable Fiscal And Growth Path
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Centre and State governments in India are in need of raising both tax and non-tax revenue, dismantling the administered pricing mechanism, reducing subsidies, and reorienting expenditure toward national and state-level priorities. This is essential to ensure India remains on a sustainable fiscal path with higher...
For Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Results Of Nine Bypolls Are Linked To His Future
By Sushil Kutty The results of the nine Uttar Pradesh bypolls will by far be more important than those of Maharashtra and Jharkhand assembly polls, if only because Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who spent a lot of time in both states, cannot afford to lose Uttar Pradesh to Samajwadi...
On November 26, Constitution Day, Indian People Have To Protect Its Core Values
By Krishna Jha On November 26, 1949, our Constitution was adopted and became operative on January 26, 1950. On December 18, 1976, by 42nd Amendment, the term secular was incorporated in the Preamble. It was one of the fundamentals on which the idea of India blossomed with a civil...
Bangladesh Interim Govt Set To Do Away With All Legacies Of Mujibur Rahman And Liberation War
By Kunal Bose A fascist has one too many abominable attributes. But basically, someone to be called fascist will be found to be anti-liberal and anti-left. A fascist leader will be promoting a nationalist dictatorship and he will have a positive disposition to violence. Mass mobilization besides, he will...
Big Dilemma Of Democratic Party Socialists With Biden Administration
By Satyaki Chakraborty The victory of the Republican candidate Donald Trump in November 5 U.S. Presidential elections defeating the Democratic Party nominee Kamala Harris has brought to light the big dilemma of the pro-Bernie Sanders socialist wing of the Democratic Party. Sanders is a long time senator heading the...
1,000 Days Later, Where Is Russia-Ukraine War Heading?
By Nitya Chakraborty The Ukraine war entered its 1000th day on Tuesday, November 19 and on the same afternoon, President Zelensky used for the first time high tech AATCMS missiles for striking inside Russia after getting green signal from the outgoing President Joe Biden only two days before. Soon...
G20 Made Declaration Is Positive But Contains Limited Concrete Steps
By Dr. Gyan Pathak G20 Presidency has called the Rio de Janeiro Declaration “historical” as the leaders committed to taxing billionaires, tackling inequalities, and support for climate action with focus on sustainable growth and fight against poverty, but it has taken limited concrete steps and focus was on long...
Need For Judiciary To Resist Social Media Pressures To Protect Integrity And Independence
By K Raveendran Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud, who recently concluded his tenure as the Chief Justice of India, has brought to light a significant issue confronting the judicial system: the growing influence of social media and lobbyists who target individual judges. His observations highlight a new challenge that the judges...
Conflicting Forces Shaped Voting In Maharashtra Assembly Polls
By Sushil Kutty Cash, Caste, Crop. Add to that Crypto! Right from 7am in the morning on November 20, when voters stepped out in twos and threes and fours and fives to cast their votes, election aficionados have been placing their bets on the three ‘C’ as the moving...
Modern Rice Technology Inventor Philippines Is Now The World’s Top Rice Importer
By Nantoo Banerjee from Manila It may be seen as an irony of fate that the Philippines, a pioneer of the modern rice production technology helping some of the world’s major rice producers, including India, to become self-sufficient in paddy production, has itself become the world’s biggest rice importer....
