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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.Bihar Verdict Has Got Big Relevance At National Level
By Sagarneel Sinha The Bihar verdict has compelled many political commentators to wonder how come the incumbent National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government led by chief minister Nitish Kumar of JD(U) was able to come back to power again amid the coronavirus pandemic. After all, it’s a fact that...
Peoples’ Perceptions Not The Ideologies Define The Politics In Bihar
By Arun Srivastava Every election has a winner and a loser, but the recently held election to the Bihar assembly has only losers. The first major loser has been the Chanakya of Bihar politics, Nitish Kumar who was today elected as the leader of the Bihar NDA legislator...
Covid-19 Complexities Pose New Challenges To India Govt
By Dr Arun Mitra It is almost a year that the news of first case of COVID-19 in Wuhan in China became known to the world. There has been much research since than about how this virus has grown to spread as a Pandemic. There have been blames...
Exit Of Kodiyeri Balakrishnan: An Opportunity Lost
By P Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It is, once again, an unredeeming tale of missed opportunities and timing gone terribly wrong. The reference is to the CPI(M) state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan stepping down from the top party post on health grounds. The party secretary’s exit should have come...
Sitharaman Will Do Well To Learn Some ‘Jugad’ Art
By K Raveendran Jugad is a classic manifestation of Indian ingenuity. The word itself may be north Indian, but both the concept and the practice are pan-India. For centuries, Indians have improvised on simple things to make them capable of handling complicated tasks. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman,...
Modi’s Claim On Success Of Demonetisation Is A Blatant Untruth
By Prabhat Patnaik ON the fourth anniversary of demonetisation, Narendra Modi has claimed that it succeeded in curbing black money. He probably believes he can get away with making this claim because of the passage of time. But most people in the country know this to be...
Indian Economy Is Finally Showing Signs Of Some Recovery
By Anjan Roy In the wake of the pandemic it is the sheer suffering of the most vulnerable sections of society which takes the uppermost priority, the numbers about GDP growth or shrinkage would automatically gets addressed when the activity tends towards normality. In this context employment...
Congress Working Committee Will Now Review Bihar Poll Results
By Rahil Nora Chopra Congress party will review it’s poor performance of Bihar assembly election results in the coming Congress working committee (CWC) meeting. According to CWC member Tariq Anwar, Congress party’s weak show prevented the Mahagathbandhan from reaching the half way mark and he said “that there...
Republicans Close To Trump Still Refusing To Recognize Biden Win
By C.J. Atkins When announcing his coronavirus task force on Monday, President-elect Joe Biden forcefully declared, “This election is over.” That reality—already proven in the vote count—is not stopping Republican leaders from joining outgoing President Donald Trump’s dangerous game of refusing to recognize the results. Secretary of...
Congress Is Mainly Responsible For BJP Gains In Bihar Assembly Poll
By Arun Srivastava Now the NDA has won the Bihar assembly elections .but an insight into the BJP win would make it clear that three completely different factors were responsible for the defeat of Mahagathbandhan. Of the reasons the first was incompetent handling and marshalling of his...
Tale Of Two Arrests: Anchor Arnab Goswami & Activist Stan Swamy
By Revati Siva Kumar Star anchor Arnab Goswami’s arrest on November 4, 2020, from his home in Mumbai and his bail process, has sparked off a political war and protests in many places. But the nation sadly does not seem to want to know why 84-year-old Stan Swamy...
Mahagathbandhan In Bihar Has To Continue Its Issue Based Struggle
By Krishna Jha Marx had once said while explaining dialectics that history repeats itself, but always acquiring new levels, of unity and the struggle of opposites. NDA has won the polls defeating the Mahagathbandhan. It was a close fight and anti-incumbency factor had been a driving...
BJP Government Must Not Rush On Dangerous Course
By Gurnam Kanwar CHANDIGARH: The BJP central Government and BJP leadership are jointly pushing the Punjab and All India farmers struggle against 3 black agrarian laws to dangerous proportions which are fraught with catastrophic consequences for Punjab as well as India. Whole Punjab, except BJP, has arisen...
Online Traps For Women And Girls Expanding
By Gyan Pathak Online traps for women and girls have been expanding and have become stronger in the recent months. Social media platforms are being used for trafficking and recruiting potential victims. Despite the plethora of existing anti-trafficking legal and policy frameworks at the national, regional, and...
Biden Economic Recovery Plan Emphasizes Labour Law Reform
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—Congressional passage of the Protect the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, the most pro-worker rewrite of U.S. labour laws since the original 1935 National Labour Relations Act, is high among Democratic President-Elect Joe Biden’s economic priorities, assuming he successfully takes office on January. 20. Next...
Cuban Report says U.S. Blockade Still Causing Immense Economic Loss
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Cuba’s Foreign Ministry every year prepares a report on Cuba’s experience with the U.S. economic blockade of the island, in force since 1962. On October 22, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez presented this year’s report at a press conference in Havana. The Ministry releases...
Congress Eyes Assam To Regain Its Lost Status In The Northeast
By Sagarneel Sinha With the end of the Bihar elections, the focus now shifts to the four states — West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Assam — which are expected to go to polls together by April and May next year. In the north-eastern region, Assam is politically...
Dipankar Bhattacharya Is Right On His Strategy For Bengal
By Nitya Chakraborty CPI(ML) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya is perfectly right when he said in an interview to a leading national daily after Bihar assembly poll results on Tuesday night that the lesson from the Bihar results is that the number one priority of the Left must be...
