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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.Dangerous Plans To Escalate The Ukraine War Before Biden Steps Down
By Ben Chacko LONDON: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer could respond to a renewed Donald Trump presidency by confronting the far right in Britain and internationally. He could have used his meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss the common causes of the rise of Reform UK in...
Lithuania’s Social Democrats Forge New Coalition To Form The Government
By Jurgis Valiukevičius LONDON: Confirming the trend in many countries in 2024, in Lithuania’s general election voters opted for change rather than more of the same. In the two-round contest that ended on October 27, the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) won a landslide victory, capturing fifty-two out of...
America Under Trump 2.0 May Turn Into 19th Century Buccaneering Capitalism
By Anjan Roy As president elect Donald Trump is edging towards taking over powers in America on January 20 next year, the country is lurching towards becoming a typical case of a plutocracy. Money bags, as opposed to public spirited men and women who have devoted a life time...
COP29 Must Deliver Agreement On Increased Climate Financing Target
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The 29th Conference of Parties (COP29) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at Baku in Azerbaijan must deliver an agreement on increased climate financing target up to the level that is at least necessary, if not enough, to tackle the present climate...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Is Keeping A Distance From Yogi’s Latest Slogan
By Sushil Kutty Everybody in the saffron ecosystem supports Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s unity call ‘Batenge toh katenge’ for the Maharashtra and Jharkhand assembly elections as well as for the Uttar Pradesh bypolls. The RSS picked it up, BJP spokespersons trotted it out on television news channels...
The United Nations Charter Is Outdated And Unfit For Serving The Purpose
By Shreya Bansal From signing the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 to the United Nations (UN) Charter in 1945, the world has come a long way in its struggle to establish an organisation subordinated to no Earthly authority that upholds dignity and keeps a check on the untrampled exercise...
BJP’s Big Drive For Freebies To Voters Before Jharkhand Polls
By Rabindra Nath Sinha RANCHI: Hogging the limelight in the Jharkhand Assembly elections this time round are the women voters the sheer number of whom has compelled the two main contending coalitions the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-led ruling side and the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Opposition – to be generous in...
The Many Twists And Turns In The Career Of Bangladesh Head Dr. Muhammad Yunus
By Kunal Bose KOLKATA: Rajakaar is a pejorative term. This is used to describe pro-Pakistani collaborators during the war of independence of Bangladesh. Enraged by student protests, which at an advanced stage were joined by people from different walks of life, against the quota system reserving 56 per cent...
Playwright And Actor Manoj Mitra Was An Icon In Bengali Theatre For Five Decades
By Satyaki Chakraborty Leading playwright and actor of Bengal, Manoj Mitra dominated the Bengali theatre scene for more than five decades making his distinctive mark as a writer, actor, teacher and director. He passed away at the age of 86 in Kolkata on November 10 morning following a brief...
Donald Trump’s Return Threatens Renewed Assault On Venezuela
By Tim Young LONDON: The US election result raises the spectre of Trump renewing the assault on Venezuela that his loss to Biden interrupted in 2020. In office between 2016 and 2020, Trump’s approach to Latin America showed an implacable hostility towards Venezuela, as well as other governments in...
Thousands More People Dying In Poverty In Britain, Research Reveals
By Peter Lazenby LONDON: Thousands more people are dying in poverty in Britain, including fuel poverty, shocking new research has revealed. Victims include people suffering end-of-life illnesses who are suffering the highest increases in poverty and cannot afford to heat their homes. The research by Loughborough University for end-of-life...
Bangladesh Interim Head Dr. Muhammad Yunus Is On His Way Out By March Next
By Nitya Chakraborty Three months after the installation of the interim government in Bangladesh headed by chief adviser Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the politics of the 18 crore-nation has landed in fresh turmoil after the win of the Republican candidate Donald Trump in the just concluded November 5 presidential elections....
INDIA Bloc Has An Edge Over BJP Led NDA In First Phase Of Election In Jharkhand
By Dr. Gyan Pathak At the end of election campaign for the first phase of Vidhan Sabha Election in Jharkhand scheduled to be held on November 13, 2024 for 43 of 81-member Vidhan Sabha, INDIA bloc led by JMM seems to have an edge over BJP led NDA. Threefold...
Are The Indian Muslims Taking Their Destiny In Their Own Hands Now?
By Sushil Kutty With the Winter Session of Parliament due to begin its session on November 25, there is mounting panic in secular parties and in the Muslim community, which never votes for the BJP. Today, 78 years after India’s independence, Muslims are afraid they’re losing their special status...
Sri Lanka To Go To Crucial Elections On November 14 To Choose New Parliament
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav On November 14 this year, Sri Lanka will witness voting to elect a new parliament. In September, left-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the People’s Liberation Front, or Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), won the presidential election. JVP is part of a 21-party alliance, the National People’s...
Centre Is Lacking In Facilities For Elephant Counting In A Scientific Manner
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Elephant count in India is in doubt. Reliable population estimation of these huge land mammal is not easy as it is often in camouflage or on the move. The government read the Union ministry of environment and forests have shelved the latest census count of...
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders Is Right To Be Incensed At The Democrats
By Branko Marcetic WASHINGTON DC: If you want to see the two competing visions of the Democratic Party’s future coming out of Tuesday’s electoral catastrophe, just compare the responses to the Democrats’ thumping from Vice President Kamala Harris and Sen. Bernie Sanders. Harris’s concession speech was part and parcel...
Trump 2.0 Administration Will Have Varying Impact On Muslim Nations Of The World
By Asad Mirza Donald Trump’s re-entry in the White House is seen with a bated breath all over the world, especially the Muslim nations across the globe, as the world waits to see in which manner his current presidency will run. Will it be “America First” like the previous...
