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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.Spymasters Tales Dominate Good Reads Of Year 2020
By Papri Sri Raman Year 2020 has been a bad year for the publishing industry. Retail buying has gone down to near zero. For six months, from March to September, online sales of books too could be counted on the fingertips. It is books that have been on...
Lawyers And Activists Join Farmers To Fast In Solidarity
By Niharika Ravi Lawyers from across the country have announced that they will observe fast along with the farmers to show solidarity. Farmers protesting near the Delhi borders announced that they would observe fast on Kisan Diwas (National Farmers’ Day) on December 23 to commemorate the achievements...
Election commission doing PR work for ‘One Nation One Poll’
By K Raveendran With Prime Minister Narendra Modi pitching more loudly in favour of his idea of ‘one nation one poll’, the Election Commission seems to have started a process of federating the idea further. The other day chief election commissioner said in an interview that the...
Poor Girls Must Be Provided Special Assistance During Pandemic
By Gyan Pathak There is no species known in this world whose women kind are so badly treated by its men kind as our own species called human beings. At times of crisis it is women and girls who lay down their lives for wellbeing of rest of...
Muslim Voters Behaviour Is The Determining Factor In Bengal Assembly Polls
By Sushil Kutty Nearly 30 per cent of West Bengal is Muslims. And Muslims are the deciding factor in all elections. The Congress benefited with Muslims votes. The Left profited with Muslim votes. Trinamool worsted the Left with Muslim votes. Now what? There’s no other ‘secular’ party left...
Socialist Nations Have Set Models In Covid Management In 2020
By Satyaki Chakraborty The year 2020 is approaching its end next week making it the biggest health disaster in the 21stcentury.In the last two decades of this century, there were epidemics like Sars, Hini and Ebola but the Covid-19 pandemic has surpassed all those in its global impact...
Bhagidari Sankalp Morcha May Split Secular Votes In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: With Asaduddin Owaisi joining hands with Om Prakash Rajbhar and other smaller caste parties, the Bhagidari Sankalp Morcha could pose some damage to Samajwadi Party, Congress and BSP in 2022 assembly polls. The rainbow coalition of smaller castes groups with the initiative of...
Centrist Democrats Are Not Acting Enough To Bring Positive Change
By John Wojcik Quick to condemn progressive Democrats for not exercising enough care to build party unity, centrist and conservative House Democrats, when given their chance to preserve party unity, instead voted by secret ballot on Friday to bar New York’s progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from securing...
New Year 2021 Will Be A Challenging Period For Bjp In Polity, Economy
By Kalyani Shankar What does the crystal ball say about the year 2021? The famous French astrologer, physician, and prophet Nostradamus predicts that it will be the year of catastrophe, as the pandemic will continue though many optimists expect it to be better than 2020. When...
Grounds Being Prepared By BJP For Head On Collision With Mamata
By Arun Srivastava The challenge to Sunday’s hegemonistic assertion of Home Minister Amit Shah that the TMC chief would remain alone just ahead of the ensuing assembly election has come from an unexpected quarter. Usually the professionals do not join issues or enter into unsolicited tiff with...
Personality Clash In Ruling Communist Party Has Landed Nepal In Crisis
By Barun Das Gupta The continuing feud between two factions of the Nepal Communist Party (CPN), one led by Prime Minister K, P. Sharma Oli and the other led by party chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, better known as Prachanda, has landed Nepal in a first class political...
2021-22 Budget Of Nirmala Needs A Big Push For Employment Generation
By K R Sudhaman With green shoots visible after economic slowdown for several quarters at the beginning of 2020, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman unleashed a medium term reform agenda in February Budget this year to make India a $5 trillion economy. But this plan went awry with...
MGNREGA Study Shows Regional Variation In Impact Of Programme
By Nilanjan Banik The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)is the largest workfare programme in the world with an average annual expenditure of over USD5 billion. And in recent times, the need for expanding the programme has gained prominence. MGNREGA is expected to provide employment...
Bangladesh Celebrates Its Fifty Years Of Freedom As A Confident Nation
By Ashis Biswas Bangladeshis, celebrating the 50th anniversary of their Independence are pining for happier times as the Covid 19- ravaged 2020 limps to its end. But the sombre national mood has been leavened by a quiet pride, in that the country defying all odds, has economically out...
Congress In Kerala To Take The Groupism Bull By The Horns
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Battered and bruised by the drubbing it received in the local body elections, the Congress seems to have decided to attempt the Mission Impossible: Selecting candidates not on the basis of groups but solely on the winnability criterion. It is a welcome move...
PM’s Make In India Programme Faces Roadblock
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s economic growth target faces a new challenge. The manufacturing sector is not growing. There is no new large investment in manufacturing in recent years. Nor there are signs of new initiatives from the existing companies and business houses to expand manufacturing activities. Even foreign...
BJP Is Going The Whole Hog In Focusing On Mamata’s Failures In Bengal
By Amulya Ganguli Having routed a redoubtable adversary like the Left Front in West Bengal in 2011, Mamata Banerjee must have considered herself to be invincible for much of the past decade. Her belief in her own prowess was such that at one time she was even being...
Home Minister Amit Shah Is Leading Disinformation Campaign Against Mamata
By Arun Srivastava Union Home Minister Amit Shah was not far from the truth when on Sunday he told that the politics of “cut money” that acquired a menacing character during the TMC government would be one of the primary reasons for Mamata’s defeat in the ensuing Bengal...
