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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.Corona Pandemic Hits India’s LPG Imports From Bangladesh For North-East
By Ashis Biswas Thanks to recent improvements in road connectivity in the Northeast region, prospects for Indo-Bangla trade and business have brightened considerably. In recent months, Bangladesh companies began exporting liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to Tripura, following an agreement signed between Indian and Bangladeshi Governments in 2015. Prime...
In Parting Blow, Trump Administration Hits Cuba With ‘Terrorism’ Declaration
By W. T. Whitney Jr. In a stunning announcement on January 11, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared that the State Department was designating Cuba “a State Sponsor of Terrorism” for allegedly repeatedly “providing support for acts of international terrorism in granting safe harbor to terrorists.” ...
Supreme Court Judgement On Farm Laws Makes No Forward Movement
By Anjan Roy The Supreme Court’s judgement on the farm laws sounded like a theatre of the absurd. For whom the bell rang. For the government? For the agitating farmers? For neither? By deferring the implementation of the farm laws with its judgment on Tuesday, the...
SC Appointed Panel Of Four Members, Backed Farm Laws In Past
By Nitya Chakraborty Supreme Court of India these days are behaving in bizarre ways. After all the hearings on the petitions challenging the enactment of the three farm laws by the Narendra Modi Government in Parliament in a hurry during pandemic, the three member bench of the ...
Big Tech Giants Make All Powerful Trump Faceless In Social Media
By Sushil Kutty Guess what, the conservative lot in the United States of America, the “greatest nation the world has ever known”, is cursing its lot in the changed outlook since the January 6 “insurrection,” lamenting the hard times POTUS Donald Trump’s lot are getting at the...
Congress To Corner Yogi Govt On Malnutrition And Unemployment
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Mrs Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee are confronting Yogi Adityanath Government on the issues of unemployment, malnutrition and atrocities on women. Under the direction of Priyanka Gandhi, UP Congress Committee has decided to reach out to masses to spread...
Biden’s Nomination Of A Trade Unionist As Labour Secretary Is Significant
By Mark Gruenberg Organized labour of the United States of America, for the first time in years, will have a unionist at the president’s Cabinet table, as Democratic President-Elect Joe Biden nominated Boston Mayor Marty Walsh as U.S. Labour Secretary. This is a major appointment and the selection...
Capitol Hill Riot On January 6 Was A Major Blot For American Democracy
By Kalyani Shankar How does the largest democracy India compare with the oldest democracy US on practicing democracy? There is a WhatsApp message doing the rounds“ Americans recently found out that it’s much easier for them to change presidents in other countries than they can do in...
Vaccine Rollout Plan Has Serious Shortcomings
By Gyan Pathak With the launch of the World’s biggest immunization drive on January 16, India is all set to create a history, but with several ominous signs too. The whole vaccine rollout plan, as stands after the meeting of our Prime Minister and Chief Ministers of...
UDF In Kerala Struggling To Get Its Act Together
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An utterly demoralised front led by a party that has been blighted by a crisis of identity. That is the fate which has befallen the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) still smarting under the local body poll debacle. The defeat is being...
EU Drops Fictional Claim That Juan Guaidó Is President Of Venezuela
By Dustin Noga The European Union has de-recognized Juan Guaidó as the “Interim President” of Venezuela with effect from January. 6. The move came after Guaidó lost his position as the head of the Venezuelan National Assembly following the December 2020 parliamentary elections. The European Commission declared...
BJP Advantageously Placed Now For Assembly Elections In Assam
By Sagarneel Sinha Assam, being the largest of all the northeastern states in terms of population, has often been considered as the key to consolidation in the region. The political activities are almost in the final stage — as the elections in the state are only three months...
High Petrol, Diesel Prices Are Choking Economy
By Nantoo Banerjee Nothing is more untrue and misleading than the official statement that the near record surge in current domestic petrol and diesel prices is linked with hardening crude oil prices in the international market. The retail prices of petrol and diesel have almost touched their peak...
Shiv Sena’s Hindutva Card Threatens Maharashtra Alliance
By Amulya Ganguli “East is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet.” What Rudyard Kipling said about India and England is applicable to the seemingly irreconcilable differences between the secular and the Hindutva camps in Maharashtra where they have constituted an unlikely alliance to...
Fusion Politics, Protests, Polls Make Some Interesting Books In 2020
By Papri Sri Raman History repeats itself. At least that’s what books say. Which means, history warns us that all that happened in the far or near past will happen again. Biographies of persons or organisations recap histories, retell stories, open our eyes to the politics of the...
Liberal Americans Underestimated The Far Right At Their Own Peril
By Benjamin l. McKean What happened on January 6 in Washington? In one sense, it’s easy to say. Trump supporters, many of them armed, stormed the Capitol Building and forced Congress to recess, delaying the certification of Joe Biden’s election as president for several hours. It was...
Left In Labour Party In Britain Can Hope For Advance In 2021
By Andrew Scattergood Over the last year, the left has seen its power in the Labour Party wane. This has been a shock to many who found their feet in party politics under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. But for those of us who remember the days before Corbyn, it...
Pranab Mukherjee’s Memoirs Give Deep Insight Into Indian Political History
By Harihar Swarup India needs to tackle Pakistan through “deft handling” rather than “romanticising its political approach” and the country gained little by “over-talking” the surgical strikes of 2016, the late Pranab Mukherjee has written in his memoirs that also recall his “very cordial ties” with PM Narendra...
