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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.Trump’s Win Ignites Bitcoin Boom, India Watches From The Sidelines
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Bitcoin has been rising over the past few weeks and it is currently trading at above $90,000. With the $92,000 level breached, Bitcoin seems headed for the $100K mark. Bitcoin has surged 36.33% in 1 month, over 20% in 7-day and 3.45% in 24 hours....
Trump’s Health Secretary Pick Robert Kennedy Jr. Is A Hazard To American Lives
By Mark Gruenberg and C.J. Atkins WASHINGTON DC: Will Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Republican president-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the giant Health and Human Services Department, be—in the words of the warning on cigarette packages—a hazard to your health? Off both his past stands against vaccines, against fluoridation...
Left Coalition’s Sweeping Victory In Sri Lankan Elections Is A Major Event In South Asia
By Nitya Chakraborty Sri Lankan President Anura Dissanayake has led his leftist coalition of 21 parties National People’s Power (NPP) to power in the island nation with a massive victory in the elections to Parliament held on Sunday, November 14. With most of the ballots counted by Friday morning,...
Severe Air Pollution In Delhi Shows Graded Response Action Plan Ineffective
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Air pollution in the National Capital of India is neither a new phenomenon nor the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP). Every year at this season, air quality in Delhi turns severe, and in some places severe plus. A Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) is...
Regime Change: Shah’s Secret Parleys With Sharad Pawar At Adani’s Home
By Sushil Kutty “Oh the games people play now/every night and every day now/Never meaning what they say, yeah/Never saying what they mean…” Politicians play games and grabbing power is the name of the game if elections don’t throw up a clear verdict. A BJP-Ajit Pawar government was formed...
Second Trump Term Is Set To Witness Major Destabilisation Of U.S. Bureaucracy
By Anjan Roy It’s a contradiction in terms. You are creating a new department or agency to study and carry out paring of the size of the government. That’s what the US president-elect, Donald Trump, is up to. And who is to co-lead it, none other than Elon Musk,...
Centre’s Ultimate Insult To Victims Of Wayanad Tragedy
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The people of Kerala would find it difficult to digest it. But it is the grim, unalterable reality. The Union Government’s refusal to sanction any funds to cover the losses caused by the July 30 Wayanad landslide is the ultimate insult to the victims of...
Big Fight Between Yogi Adityanath And Akhilesh Yadav Enters Final Stage
By Rahil Nora Chopra The political temperature is soaring high in Uttar Pradesh as the upcoming by-elections for nine Assembly seats in the state is getting closer where the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Akhilesh Yadav’s stakes are very...
Mahayuti And MVA Are In Closer Contest In Maharashtra Than Expected
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Minister of Home Amit Shah have extensively campaigned in Maharashtra on behalf of the ruling Mahayuti, and the Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and the Congress Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on behalf of the...
Just Retired CJI D Y Chandrachud Showed His Hindutva Bias In Major Judgments
By P. Sudhir A large number of critical appraisals and commentaries have been written on the occasion of the retirement of Chief Justice of India (CJI), D Y Chandrachud. This is but natural as Justice Chandrachud is considered to be one of the most consequential chief justices of the...
Democratic Socialists Of America Need A Unified Strategy Under Trump 2.0
By Sam Datlof NEW YORK: Nearly a decade has passed since Bernie Sanders announced his first presidential run and ignited a democratic socialist electoral wave that has given us Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), the Squad, and democratic socialist officials at every level of government. Since its inauguration, however, the project...
Accused Families Have Much To Thank The Supreme Court For ‘Bulldozer Justice’
By Sushil Kutty Supreme Court justices BR Gavai and KV Viswanathan made it clear to the “Executive” that it cannot ape the “Judiciary” and pronounce judgements. They warned the “Executive” against prejudging the guilt of an accused, even those caught red handed, and delivering ‘bulldozer justice’. The Justices laid...
Supreme Court Strictures Show How SEBI’s Failures Span Both Commissions And Omissions
By K Raveendran Recent interventions by the Supreme Court into actions taken by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) have underscored mounting concerns about systemic issues within the country’s chief market regulator. SEBI’s actions in several high-profile cases—particularly its record of imposing significant penalties and its alleged...
Supreme Court Of India Bulldozes ‘Bulldozer Justice’ But Partially
By Dr. Gyan Pathak A Bench of the Supreme Court of India has bulldozed the ‘bulldozer justice’ on November 13, 2024, but partially, since it does make officials accountable for the damage and the cost for restoration would be recovered from their salary, but the power drunk politicians would...
Will TDP Withdraw Support To The Modi Govt On The Issue Of Waqf Amendment Bill?
By Sushil Kutty Elections come and go. Even these will pass. One nation one election is for the birds and the bees. What will not pass easily is the fracas over the Waqf Amendment Bill 2024. The next big political fight will be when the Joint Parliamentary Committee sends...
India Have Enough Cushion To Deal With Trumponomics In Bilateral Trade
By Subrata Majumder Donald Trump’s thumping victory for USA Presidency for the second term unleashed a mixed bag of signal to India-USA relations. Unlike first term, rising global political tension due to Russia-Ukraine war and western sanctions on Russian have India’s situation a but different from the first term....
Bangladesh Print Media And TV Channels Are Wild At Indian Coverage Of Yunus Regime
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: Rare exceptions apart, diplomats as well as foreign policy spokesmen in Delhi as well as Dhaka have in recent times observed protocol-related niceties and established norms while referring to current developments in Bangladesh. Their mutual restraint has been praiseworthy: Post Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s fall...
There Is No End To The Continuing Violent Ethnic Clashes In Manipur
By Krishna Jha She was running with her all three children when they shot at her. The pain was unbearable as she fell. Arsonists saw her and set her on fire. Zosangkim, a 31-year old mother was turned into ashes. It was November 7, the day when the great...
