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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.Trumpites Planning attacks in all U.S. State capitals on January 20
By John Wojcik Some 20,000 troops are being deployed to the U.S. capital Washington DC in the lead-up to Inauguration Day, January 20, as the nation braces for violence planned by right-wing Trump extremists. No one is at ease, however, because the Department of Homeland Security, the Pentagon,...
Trump Attends the Return of the Remains of the Navy SEAL Who Died in Yemen
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Supreme Court Is Acting As The Tool Of The Modi Government
By Binoy Viswam Since last several days, the country was witnessing the developments around the historic farmers agitation. Since November 26, thousands of them have arrived and camped on the borders of Delhi to urge the government to repeal the three black laws that pose a threat to...
Supreme Court Order On Farm Laws Is Ill-Conceived
By Prakash Karat The order of the Supreme Court on the three farm laws and the farmers struggle against them is ill-conceived and one-sided. The three-member bench headed by chief justice, S A Bobde has stayed the implementation of the three farm laws until further orders....
Central Trade Unions Unitedly Oppose Implementation Of Four Labour Codes
By Satyaki Chakraborty The central trade unions led by the AITUC, INTUC and the CITU have informed the union labour ministry of their opposition to the implementation of the four labour codes passed by the Modi government in Parliament without adequate consultations with the central TUs. The...
Massacre Of Coal Miners In Balochistan Shows Imran Khan In Poor Light
By Sankar Ray The resignation of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader and Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi’s spokesman Nadeem Afzal Chan on Thursday morning over differences on the mode of retaliative strategy in tackling the virulent reaction over the massacre of 11 coal miners of Hazara community in Machh...
Shiv Sena Praising Rahul Gandhi Is A Significant Development In Politics
By Rahil Nora Chopra Shiv Sena has praised Congress leader Rahul Gandhi stating that “rulers in Delhi” fear his return as the Congress president and alleged that a campaign has been launched to defame the Gandhi family. In an editorial in its mouthpiece Saamna, the Shiv Sena said, “Rahul...
Trump Impeached Again, But The Threat To U.S. Democracy Remains
By C.J. Atkins On January. 6, Donald J. Trump secured his place in history by becoming the only president of the United States to ever incite the violent overthrow of the government. His legacy is now further cemented by his becoming the first president to ever be impeached...
President Trump Threatens to Send U.S. Troops to Mexico to Take Care of ‘Bad Hombres’
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Reclaim Our Indian Republic From RSS and BJP
By D Raja While launching a book on Mahatma Gandhi, anathema to the RSS since its inception, its chief Bhagwat said: “If someone is Hindu, he has to be patriotic, that will be his or her basic character and nature. At times you may have to awaken his...
Indian Foreign Policy Under Modi Government Is In Shambles
By Prakash Karat The New Year has begun with a sobering reminder that the foreign policy of the Modi government is in shambles and its pro-US approach has landed the country in a strategic cul-de-sac. The outgoing ambassador of the United States, Kenneth Juster, has in a...
Strong Case For A More Democratic Republic Day
By K Raveendran Every citizen has the right to celebrate or observe the Republic Day, depending on one’s frame of mind and mood. There is no prescribed manner in which to this, although flag hoisting is a common event. As such, the protesting farmers have a right to...
Supreme Court Has Failed In Its Constitutional Duty On Farm Laws
By Arun Srivastava What will Supreme Court do now as the agitating farmers have outright refused to acknowledge the existence of the four-men committee set up by it to find a way out to the present impasse? Will the court pass an order making it obligatory for the...
Corona Pandemic Hits India’s LPG Imports From Bangladesh For North-East
By Ashis Biswas Thanks to recent improvements in road connectivity in the Northeast region, prospects for Indo-Bangla trade and business have brightened considerably. In recent months, Bangladesh companies began exporting liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to Tripura, following an agreement signed between Indian and Bangladeshi Governments in 2015. Prime...
In Parting Blow, Trump Administration Hits Cuba With ‘Terrorism’ Declaration
By W. T. Whitney Jr. In a stunning announcement on January 11, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared that the State Department was designating Cuba “a State Sponsor of Terrorism” for allegedly repeatedly “providing support for acts of international terrorism in granting safe harbor to terrorists.” ...
Supreme Court Judgement On Farm Laws Makes No Forward Movement
By Anjan Roy The Supreme Court’s judgement on the farm laws sounded like a theatre of the absurd. For whom the bell rang. For the government? For the agitating farmers? For neither? By deferring the implementation of the farm laws with its judgment on Tuesday, the...
SC Appointed Panel Of Four Members, Backed Farm Laws In Past
By Nitya Chakraborty Supreme Court of India these days are behaving in bizarre ways. After all the hearings on the petitions challenging the enactment of the three farm laws by the Narendra Modi Government in Parliament in a hurry during pandemic, the three member bench of the ...
Big Tech Giants Make All Powerful Trump Faceless In Social Media
By Sushil Kutty Guess what, the conservative lot in the United States of America, the “greatest nation the world has ever known”, is cursing its lot in the changed outlook since the January 6 “insurrection,” lamenting the hard times POTUS Donald Trump’s lot are getting at the...
