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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.Sangh Parivar Has Some Ulterior Motive Behind Love Jihad Laws
By Amulya Ganguli One of the time-tested methods of extremist politics is checking the resilience of a constitutional order. If the system shows signs of succumbing to pressure, the rebels with a subversive cause can then push ahead to bring it down. The propagation of the concept...
Simplistic Plan Of Vaccination In Compex Scenario Is An Error
By Gyan Pathak People most at risk should get COVID-19 vaccine before those who are running a lower risk of the contagion. This is the principle of priority – seemingly very simple, but very difficult to implement. India, undergoing the process, is now faced with several impediments...
Economy And Earnings Are On A Recovery Track After Lock Down
By Satyaki Chakraborty About 75 per cent participants in an exclusive Economic Times CEO poll said the economy and earnings are set to recover faster than expected from the pandemic-induced recession. Nearly half the CEOs polled, who include some of the biggest names in India Inc, believe...
Farm Laws Have Been Framed Without Consulting Stake Holders
By Megha Katheria The Bharatiya Kisan Union has approached the Supreme Court to challenge the constitutional validity of the three farm laws. Many State Governments, including Kerala, have also announced that they shall challenge the bills before the court. This comes after talks between the farmers’...
Republican Party Has Morphed Into An Anti-Democratic Institution
By John Wojcik The decision by the majority of Republican lawmakers in the House to sign onto Donald Trump’s fascistic push to overturn the 2020 elections will go down in history. It marks the day that the Republican Party officially becomes a new type of political party...
New Parliament Building Is Okay But What About Democratic Functioning
By Harihar Swarup Every nation has a message to deliver, a mission to fulfil, a destiny to reach. The mission of India has been to “guide humanity”, Shri Swami Vivekananda rightly said. India is striving hard to achieve the objective of social welfare through its parliamentary democracy. ...
EU-DisinfoLab Report 2020 Exposes A Transnational Political Scam
By Annie Domini Resurrecting a dead professor from Harvard Law School to suit ultra-nationalist interests is only the tip of the scam-berg that has been exposed in the recent EU DisinfoLab 2020 report, called the “Indian Chronicles”. A vast transnational political scam, funded by a certain Srivastava Group,...
Indian Fuel Consumers Get Hit From Both Sides
By K Raveendran Unless the Modi government shows mercy, which is most unlikely, the plight of fuel consumers is set to worsen in the days to come. Already, prices are near all-time highs and going by current indications, the upward movement will continue without any reprieve. The...
Guv Dhankhar, Chief Minister And The ‘Nautanki’ In West Bengal
By Sushil Kutty History is full of governors and chief ministers going hammer and tong at each other, producing fireworks which at first regale and then rock the boat with repercussions felt far and wide. That said, there are no two excuses for a governor if he turns...
Election Fever Grips Again Madhya Pradesh Over Local Polls
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Only after the lapse of one month since the declaration of 28 Assembly by-poll results the state has started going in the election mode again. This time it is the turn of election to local bodies particularly Municipal Corporations. With the process of reservation...
India Muscled Out Of Bangladesh Railway Upgrade Orders
By Ashis Biswas An Indo-Japanese joint venture (JV) initiative recently winning a $500 million (Rs 31.9 billion) lump sum contract in the construction of the Dhaka Metro has brought justifiable satisfaction among Indian Railways officials. Such news allays recent fears expressed in some quarters as to whether...
Georgia Run-Offs Are Next Gop Target As Trump Pushes For Fraud Narrative
By Chauncey K. Robinson Although Donald Trump’s legal team is losing court battles left and right, its false narrative of voter fraud run amok has emboldened the Republican party’s ongoing strategy of voter suppression. This suppression poses not only a threat to the upcoming Georgia run-off...
Only A Joint Struggle Of Farmers And Workers Can Take On Centre
By Prakash Karat The big success of the Bharat bandh called by the farmers’ organisations on December 8 was a display of people’s support and sympathy for the cause of the farmers. The spontaneous response to the bandh call in many places and the support extended to...
Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Dev Is In Serious Trouble Due To Dissidence
By Sagarneel Sinha The internal rebellion in the ruling party of Tripura is refusing to die down. Just two months ago, around 7-8 MLAs from the ruling party flew to Delhi to register their complaint against chief minister Biplab Deb to the party high command. These MLAs included...
Free Market Solution Of Centre Is Against Interests Of Indian Farmers
By Prabhat Patnaik In the context of the on-going country-wide kisan movement for repealing Modi’s three agriculture bills, while an overwhelming majority of commentators have stood with the position taken by the kisans, a few, though not necessarily agreeing with Modi, have raised the question: why shouldn’t agriculture...
Kerala Assembly Speaker In The Eye Of A Storm
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANTHAPURAM: Kerala’s political waters have been muddied further with the Opposition accusing Kerala Assembly Speaker P Sreeramakrishnan of helping the gold smuggling case accused and corruption in running the Assembly. The timing of the allegations against the Speaker is significant. The allegations made...
Ashok Ghelot To Expand His Cabinet In First Week Of January
By Rahil Nora Chopra After Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s allegation that the BJP was conspiring to topple his government, BJP leaders have questioned Gehlot’s ability to lead the Congress. Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat who was in the forefront in attacking Gehlot during the recent crisis in Rajasthan...
Imran Khan’s Talk Of National Reconciliation Has Caused Furore
By Sankar Ray Democratic polity in Pakistan is endangered once again as the Prime Minister Imran Khan suddenly talks of the infamous National Reconciliation Ordinance, introduced by the last dictator-President Pervez Musharaf on 7 October 2007, granting amnesty to politicians, political workers and bureaucrats who were accused...
