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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.Baneful Effect Of Fear And Bhakti In India In 2021
By Amulya Ganguli It will be simplistic to believe that fear alone prompted the luminaries in the entertainment and sporting world in India to fall in line with the government’s critical view of the support extended to the farmers by several foreign celebrities. True, few among either...
Rajnath Statement Does Not Give True Picture Of India-China Disengagement
By Barun Das Gupta Defence Minister Rajnath Singh informed the Rajya Sabha last week that after nine rounds of talks with the Chinese side, “we have now been able to reach an agreement on disengagement in the North and South Bank of the Pangong Lake.” The agreement...
Modi Govt And BJP Are Trying To Divide Agitating Farmers On Caste Lines
By Arun Srivastava A fresh round of insinuation campaign against the farmers’ movement has been launched by a group of intellectuals, academics and political activists, the so called conscience keepers. This is being done precisely at the behest of the BJP and RSS with the mission to weaken...
Madhya Pradesh Budget Will Focus On Immediate Woes Of Farmers
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Inclusion of such projects and schemes which may make farmers happy and also help in wooing voters in the forthcoming local elections may be the highlights of the Madhya Pradesh. Budget, Atmanirbhar Madhya Pradesh. Farmers and government employees would be the priority areas...
22 Year Old Climate Activist Is Now Modi Regime’s Latest Target For Sedition
By Sushil Kutty ‘Disha’ in the vernacular is ‘direction’ in English. And climate activist Disha Ravi is in a police lock-up in Delhi for taking the direction Greta Thunberg took. The Indian climate activist is charged with aligning alongside enemies of India – lousy rotten Khalistanis who...
Emaar posts AED2.67b net profit for 2020
Arabian Post Staff Emaar Properties , the master developer of the Burj Khalifa, reported a revenue of AED 19.710 billion (US$ 5.366 billion) and net profit of AED 2.617 billion (US$ 712 million). Overall property sales were worth AED 10.902 billion (US$ 2.968 billion) of which AED 6.321 billion...
Narendra Modi Is Wrong In Quoting Charan Singh’s Views In His Support
By Harihar Swarup Prime Minister Narendra Modi has defended his government’s agricultural reform laws by invoking Chaudhary Charan Singh and pointing to the “dayaniya sthiti (sorry plight)” of marginal farmers. These below-one-hectare cultivators accounted for 51 per cent of India’s total operational holdings in 1970-71, a share that...
When Law And Its Interpretation Do Not Quite Tally
By K Raveendran When we hear about China debarring BBC from airing its world news in the country, we feel sorry for both the broadcaster and indignation at the challenge to the cherished freedom of expression. This is very much the same when the world hears about...
New Farm Laws Will Push India Into Serious Hunger Crisis Once Again
By Dr Arun Mitra Hunger is the biggest curse in life. It is only when one has experienced it one can realise the agony and humiliation hunger can cause to a person. This can be easily gauged by long queues at the free or cheap food stalls...
Rahul Gandhi Has Matured As A Speaker Showing Grit And Confidence
By Sushil Kutty Rahul Gandhi loves stirring up the hornet’s nest. And you can forgive Prime Minister Narendra Modi for thinking that Rahul has a bee in his bonnet. At times Rahul does give the impression he’s all over the place. That’s till Modi loses track and...
BJP’s Call For Double Engine Is Not Getting Responsse In Poll Bound Bengal
By Arun Srivastava Having lost the first electoral bout to weaken the Trinamool Congress and its leader Mamata Banerjee by engineering massive split, the BJP is now planning to implement its second plan to project the election as the war between Narendra Modi’s “development model” and Mamata Banerjee’s ...
New Stirrings In The Political Activities In Kashmir Valley
By Sagarneel Sinha It has now been around one and a half year that the Narendra Modi led BJP government has scrapped the special status of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state — which presently is a union territory — by abrogating Article 370. There have been signs of...
windeln.de SE: windeln.de launches WeChat Mini Program in China
MUNICH, GERMANY – EQS Newswire – 12 February 2021 – windeln.de SE (“windeln.de”, “Group” or “Company”; ISIN DE000WNDL201 and DE000WNDL128) has launched its own WeChat mini program (accessible directly via WeChat) and the corresponding affiliate program, thereby further expanded its offering to customers in China. WeChat mini program is a...
Prime Minister Must Abandon His Obduracy And Repeal The Farm Laws
By Sitaram Yechury In an hour and a half long speech, replying to motion of thanks to the president’s address to the joint session of parliament Prime Minister Narendra Modi spent most of the time patting himself and his government on the back hailing the president’s address. The...
Draft Labour Rules Have Dangerous Implications
By Gyan Pathak The new draft labour rules prepared by the Union Ministry of Labour and Employment are one of the most dangerous ones for India in general and working class in particular. These are being framed in the name of much ‘desired labour reforms’, as the Modi...
Sitharaman’s Third Budget Has No Means To Effect Desired Recovery
By Prabhat Patnaik Voltaire had said “one can always kill a man with incantations, plus a little poison”. Voltaire was a rationalist which the BJP government alas is not. It believes that one can revive an economy with incantations alone, for that is what the budget for...
BJP’s Dream Of “Capturing” West Bengal Is Becoming A Nightmare
By Barun Das Gupta Union Home Minister and BJP’s second-in-command after Prime Minister Modi has set his party’s electoral target in West Bengal – 200 seats, not one less. But the dream is slowly turning into a nightmare. Ominously for the party, attendance at its election meetings is...
Withdrawal Of US Troops From Afghanistan By May 1 Uncertain
By Sankar Ray The scheduled withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan by May 1 2021 in sync with the agreement, inked by the erstwhile US President Donald Trump is mired by a set of uncertainties, although currently there are about 2500 troops in contrast to 100,000 in...
