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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.Vaccines Are Another Sign Of Public Sector Success In Britain
By Solomon Hughes British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to get a big political bounce from the vaccination programme. But the success of vaccination, just like the failures of most of the Tory Covid-19 responses, shows that Johnson’s “free market” policies have let the virus run...
2021 Will Be A Make-Or-Break Year For Norway’s Left
By David Toms Norwegians will go to the polls in autumn 2021 to elect a government for another four-year term. Since 2013, Erna Solberg and her Conservative Party (Høyre) have led the country with support from a medley of coalition partners: first, the hard-right Progress Party from...
Narendra Modi Is Having The Taste Of His Global Digital Fame
By Sushil Kutty We’re in the golden age of content, and this content has nothing to do with content as in quite satisfied, or as in completely at ease, though with adequate amounts of the right content all media would sail through without a hitch. Are tweets content?...
Tripura CPI(M) Leader Manik Sarkar Has Exposed Real Colour Of BJP
By Arun Srivastava The Bengal CPI (M) has decided to use former Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar’s revelation as campaigning tool to alert people about the situation in the north eastern state after the BJP came to power in 2018 and also to show the voters how the...
2021-22 Budget Proposals Help More The Corporates Than Common People
By C P Chandrasekhar In an attempt to persuade listeners into believing that Budget 2021will complete the conquest of disease and unleash an era of post-Covid expansion, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman placed special emphasis in her budget speech on two sets of initiatives. The first was a...
Farmers Are Making History In India’s Long Battle For Democratic Rights
By Dr Somu Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci in his Prison Notebooks, noted “…a state remains democratic only when it is able to draw voluntary consent to its policies through reasoned persuasion. When it fails to do so, it takes recourse to governing through an apparatus of coercions, including...
S P Balasubramanyam Was A Great Musical Legend Of India
By Harihar Swarup This year’s Padma Vibhushan winner, the second highest civilian Award of the land, S P Balasubrahmanyam was a musical legend. He developed an interest in music at an early age, studied musical notations, and learned music. He enrolled at the JNTU College of Engineering...
Cuba Develops Covid-19 Vaccines Based On Its Own Technology
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Cuba’s socialist approach to developing vaccines against Covid-19 differs strikingly from that of capitalist nations of the world developing vaccines. Socialist Cuba’s production of four vaccines is grounded in science, in a dedication to saving the lives of all Cubans, and in...
JD(U)-LJP Feud Creates Political Hurdles FOR BJP
By Rahil Nora Chopra With the feud between Janata Dal (United) and LJP is getting deeper, it has become the latest headache for the BJP leadership. After he had to skip a crucial NDA meeting for which he had received an invitation, LJP leader Chirag Paswan has left no...
Microsoft unveils new Employee Experience Platform — Microsoft Viva — to help people thrive at work
Company reimagines fragmented $300 billion market to bring tools for employee communications, wellbeing, learning and knowledge discovery into the flow of work SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 5 February 2021 – Microsoft Corp. on Thursday announced Microsoft Viva, the first employee experience platform to bring tools for employee engagement, learning, wellbeing...
SunMirror AG: SunMirror AG receives letter of intent from Barracuda Group Ltd. to subscribe to CHF 70 million capital increase
ZUG, SWITZERLAND – EQS Newswire – 5 February 2021 – SunMirror AG (“SunMirror”; XETRA Vienna: ROR1; ISIN CH0396131929), the mining and exploration firm specialising in raw materials such as gold, lithium and other metals and minerals, announces that it has today received a letter of intent to subscribe to...
Bairro à Portuguesa, a comprehensive shop for quality products from Portugal
HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 5 February 2021 – For everyone, travelling in the recent months has been restrictive. However, you can in fact satisfy your wish of travelling abroad while staying in Hong Kong! For example, if you are missing Macau and its strong Portuguese flavours, you must pay...
NTUC LearningHub Survey Reveals Accelerated Business Needs In Cloud Computing And Machine Learning Outpacing Singapore Talent Supply; Skills Gap A Hindrance To Implementing These Technologies
89% of Singapore employers say that the pandemic has accelerated the adoption of Cloud Computing/ Machine Learning technologies in their companies They cite the obstacles to adopting Cloud Computing/ Machine Learning technologies are ‘the shortage of relevant in-house IT support’ (64%), ’employees lack of relevant skill sets’ (58%) and...
Joinland Group Adjusts To COVID Impacted World
Employee Welfare A Company Priority KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach – 5 February 2021 – The Joinland Group, a diversified Malaysian conglomerate of varied business interests, led by Dato’ Sri Thomas Hah Tiing Siu, has been adjusting its strategies as the COVID-19 pandemic has progressed, putting a major focus on...
How to Protect Yourself Against Identity Theft Online
When most of us think about identity fraud, we might imagine somebody physically getting access to our passport or driver’s license, cloning it, and posing as us from then on. But while this extreme form of identity theft certainly does happen, more often than not it is a crime...
China Has Big Stake In Myanmar Developments After Army Coup
By Barun Das Gupta Myanmar’s decade-old dalliance with democracy has ended. The army has seized power again and a national emergency has been declared for one year. This can be further extended if the army so wishes. The army had ruled for fifty years till 2011, when the...
Farmers’ Protest Acquiring A National Movement Character
By Arun Srivastava After infusing a new life into the farmers’ protest which after the January 26 unfortunate development was gasping for survival, Rakesh Tikait, the leader of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, on Wednesday sought to know from the Prime Minister Narendra Modi “what will you do if...
Nirmala Sitharaman’s Third Budget Is Meant To Appease Corporates
By Krishna Jha It is time to take account of the damages, and the repairs. The year of ruination with its pandemic, uprooting of the almost entire toiling masses, horror advent of four labour codes limiting the entire gamut of labour laws, each one won after blood...
