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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.COP29 Agreement Has Left Many Gaps In The Final Agreement Needing To Be Tackled
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The UN Climate Conference (COP29), world’s largest climate conference that brought together nearly 200 countries in Baku, Azerbaijan, wrapped up with a hard-fought agreement on climate finance but uncertainties over the climate crisis mitigation still looms large. Tripling finance to developing countries from $100 billion...
Mamata Overrules Abhishek Plan On TMC Revamping Through ‘New Wave’
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Buoyed by a clean sweep in the November 13 by-elections to six assembly constituencies, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has reposed faith on veteran leaders. It puts on ice for the time being, the party’s unofficial number two, chief minister Banerjee’s nephew, Abhishek Banerjee’s rejig...
Increasing Share Of Unpaid Workers Among Labour Force Is Ominous
By Krishna Jha Indian economy, which is passing through one of its worst phases in history, seems set to get another major hit in the coming days. The rating agency Crisil has said the GDP growth is likely to fall to 6.8 per cent in FY25 from 8.2 per...
Lessons Of Bhopal Gas Tragedy Should Have Been A Part Of Our Constitutional Ethos
By Navsharan Singh On this Constitution Day November 26 how do we reflect on the world’s worst industrial disaster in Union Carbide, Bhopal as we approach the 40th anniversary of this carnage on December 2 and 3? It is a tragedy every Indian is familiar with, but over the...
How Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders Proved Right On His Pre-Poll Views?
By David Moscrop NEW YORK: As the United States — and the world — prepares for another Trump administration, revisiting the question of whether Bernie Sanders could have defeated him in 2016 may seem unproductive. Eight years ago feels like ancient history. Yet reframing the question “Would Sanders have...
INDIA Bloc Has To Vigorously Focus On Seven Assembly Elections In 2025 And 2026
By Nitya Chakraborty The last round of the state assembly elections of the country in 2024 along with the by polls ended on November 20 with the results declared on November 23. The massive victory of the BJP led Mahayuti in Maharashtra polls has given a new confidence to...
A Modi Trump Card Might Come To The Aid Of The Embattled Adani Group In U.S.
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court has settled for good the question whether the addition of ‘secular’ and ‘socialist’ in the Preamble of the Constitution was in order. It was immaterial that the Constitutional amendment to do this was passed during Indira Gandhi’s Emergency. The court’s decision could not...
Killings Of Four During Sambhal Violence Is Now Wrapped In Mystery
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Killings of four on November 24, 2024 during people’s violent protest in Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh and subsequent police firing is now wrapped in mystery. A selective leak of the Postmortem report has ruled out ‘police firing caused deaths’, though the report is not made...
Bihar Bypolls Defeat In All Four Seats Reveals Serious Gaps In RJD’s Functioning
By Arun Srivastava It would be presumptuous to construe that the results of the bye-elections to the four assembly seats in Bihar do not reflect the changing economic and social relations at the ground level and point to the emergence of new political equation. In the just concluded Lok...
Testing Time For Uddhav And Sharad Pawar In Post Poll Maharashtra Politics
By Sushil Kutty The future is tense for NCP (Sharad Pawar) and Shiv Sena (UBT), but that doesn’t mean they’ll stop politics, the debilitating results of the Maharashtra Assembly elections, notwithstanding. Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Sharad Pawar and ex-Chief Minister Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray find themselves in a coarse political...
BJP Undergoes A Test Of Coalition Morality In Maharashtra
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Despite leading Mahayuti in Maharashtra to an impressive comeback to power, the BJP and its leadership had to undergo a difficult test of coalition morality within NDA to such an extent that it could not name its chief minister before the term of the Vidhan...
Hemant’s Arrest By ED Irked Voters, Generated Sympathy For JMM
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: It is not just that the Bharatiya Janata Party cut a sorry figure in the electoral battle 2024 for Jharkhand assembly despite a high octane campaigning that had strong communal overtones and in which the party’s money power was all too evident. Some new...
CPI, CPI(M) Fail Miserably In Jharkhand Polls By Fighting Outside INDIA Bloc
By Arun Srivastava With the identity quotient for Adivasis getting electoral prominence and political economic character of the labour force undergoing a major shift from the traditional features, the left parties in Jharkhand appear to be losing ground as is manifest from the votes they could poll. Both CPI...
Genesis Of Sambhal Violence Traced To Yogi Adityanath’s Divisive Slogan
By Sushil Kutty ‘Batenge Toh Katenge’ could have led to the Sambhal violence that claimed four lives. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 23 spoke of how ‘Ek Hain Toh Safe Hain’ had become the ‘Mahamantra’ of our times. It took Nationalist Congress Party heavyweight Sharad Pawar to put...
Uruguay’s Left Opposition Leader Yamandu Orsi Wins Presidential Elections
By Satyaki Chakraborty In a big boost to the Latin American Left, Uruguay’s left wing opposition candidate Yamandu Orsi became the country’s new president after defeating convincingly the candidate of the ruling far right coalition Alvaro Delgado in the presidential elections held on Sunday, November 24. With nearly all...
Bengal BJP Leadership’s Record Dismal In Achieving New Membership Target
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Leadership of West Bengal unit of BJP is nervous lest it gets a rap on the knuckles from its national leadership for failing to fulfil the quota for party membership. The state leadership is in doubt apprehending that people believing in its ideology would be...
Bangladesh Media Turns Against Dr. Muhammad Yunus For His Confused Views
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: It is not often that an interview given by a country’s leader to a foreign media creates a major political controversy at home. But a recent interview given by Dr Mohammad Yunus, Chief Adviser to the caretaker Bangladesh administration, has done just that, generating a...
Madhya Pradesh Citizens Made A Major Contribution In Drafting Constitution
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Stalwarts like Dr Harisingh Gour, HV Kamath, Seth Govind Das and Raghu Vira were among the luminaries from Madhya Pradesh who contributed to the making of the Constitution of India which was passed on November 26, 1949. That way, November 26 is being observed...
