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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.Is Shrikant Shinde, Son Of Eknath Becoming Deputy CM Under Devendra Fadnavis?
By Sushil Kutty Is there a trade-off — BJP’s Chief Minister in exchange for the Deputy Chief Minister post to Eknath Shinde’s son Shrikant Shinde, who will then serve under Fadnavis? Everybody in the building will be happy and UBT Sena’s ‘dynast’ Aditya Thackeray’s allegation of “total anarchy” in...
Ceasefire In Lebanon Is A Welcome Relief In The Midst Of War In Middle East
By Asad Mirza The ceasefire in Lebanon apart from giving respite to the beleaguered Lebanese, will also be a litmus test for the Hezbollah on whether it can continue to flourish as a political and militant outfit in Lebanon or not. It would not be wrong to say that...
On 40th Anniversary Of Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Victims Are Still Deprived Of Their Due
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: On December 3, 2024, it will be forty years since the lethal Methyl Iso-Cyanate gas spewed out from the Pesticide-manufacturing plant of American transnational Union Carbide Corporation on the outskirts of Bhopal, killing thousands and maiming lakhs. For the gas victims of the city,...
Syria’s Reigniting Civil War Has Been Kept Simmering By The NATO Powers
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Reignited civil war in Syria is down to destabilising shockwaves from Israel’s wars of aggression in the Middle East and the malign role of NATO powers in shielding the jihadist forces in Idlib now terrorising Aleppo. There is no ignoring the overlapping alliances which shape...
Govt Defence Of Adani Betrays Desperation To Protect Corporates From Scrutiny
By K Raveendran The defence mounted by the Adani Group, both by its leadership and by the Indian government, in the face of damning allegations of corruption and irregularities levelled by U.S. authorities, raises serious questions about the interplay between corporate interests and political power in India. While the...
India Falls Into A Vicious Circle Of Wage And Growth Decline
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Slowing down of GDP growth to seven quarters low of 5.4 per cent during second quarter of the financial year 2024-25 and contraction of the wages during the same period for the first time since the pandemic (March 2021) shows that India has fallen into...
Shinde’s Overpowering Dilemma Holds Up Government Formation
By Sushil Kutty The Mahayuti got a historic mandate, but there’s no government yet! Is it Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s obfuscation or Eknath Shinde’s “reluctance strategy” that is holding up Devendra Fadnavis’, who Modi said is his “param mitr”, appointment with the Chief Minister’s chair? Is it Eknath Shinde’s...
ICC Warrant Of Arrest Against Myanmar Junta Chief Is Positive For Rebel Forces
By Tirthankar Mitra International Criminal Court (ICC) has decided to pursue a warrant of arrest against Myanmar military leader General Min Aung Hlaing for crimes against humanity. The atrocities committed against the Rohingya people have gone unpunished far too long. Leaving survivors in limbo, it sent a wrong message...
Trump’s Project 2025 Includes Large Scale Cutting Of Public Sector Jobs
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON DC: Fouled up weather forecasts. Staff shortages slowing services. More workers dying of heat stroke on the job. More pollution, which leads to more asthma and unclean water. Cut down school lunches, with none in the summer. Veterans not getting VA health care. More hate...
Assembly Election Setback Shows Congress Has Critical Tasks Ahead
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Electorate of the country has been tossing Congress up and down for quite some time, and the trend is more pronounced in the last one and half year ever since Karnataka elections in May 2023 when people brought the Congress with overwhelming majority throwing the...
Rahul Gandhi’s Political Narrative Has To Be Finetuned To Meet BJP Challenge
By Arun Srivastava Merely an ideological rhetoric for fighting the rightist forces is not enough to motivate the people and build a robust and uncompromising public opinion against these forces, instead the struggle should have an indestructible ideological base. Rahul Gandhi has been consistently describing his new narrative, his...
Bitter Fight For The Udaipur Palace Is A Lesson For Sambhal And Ajmer
By Sushil Kutty Every human has a funny bone. But people fighting among themselves doesn’t bring smiles. The Royals of Rajasthan used to fight. And who hasn’t forgotten the Battle of Haldighati? Nowadays, there is the Battle for the mosque and the temple. There is Sambhal and Ajmer. There...
Uncertainty Over The Appointment Of New BJP State President Damages Party In Bengal
By Tirthankar Mitra Ruling Trinamool Congress and principal Opposition BJP camps in West Bengal are studies in contrast. Apart from the former being on a winning streak, party supremo Mamata Banerjee has the last word in TMC while dissenting voices are being raised in the state BJP unit seeking...
BJP Soon To Pick Nadda’s Replacement, Possibly From OBC, SC Community
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is proceeding and progressing with its internal organisational elections. By the end of this month, states are required to complete elections for booth, district, and division presidents. Following this, new presidents will be elected in half of the states by...
Supreme Court Has Opened A Pandora’s Box Through Its Ayodhya Verdict
By Rashika Bodh On November 25, 2024, the Supreme Court of India upheld the inclusion of the words ‘socialist’ and ‘secular’ in the Preamble of the Constitution. The court, while dismissing a batch of petitions in its seven-page Order, observed, “In 1949, the term ‘secular’ was considered imprecise, as...
Exposure Of Bolsonaro’s Plot To Kill President Lula Shows The Fascist Nature Of Far Right
By Olavo Passos de Souza NEW YORK: Last week, two major events dominated Brazilian public discourse: the G20 summit, and the exposure of an assassination plot that targeted the country’s president, LuizInácio Lula da Silva. Taking place from November 18 to 19 in Rio de Janeiro, the latest summit...
The Rise And Rise Of Another Dynast Priyanka Gandhi Vadra In Indian Politics
By Sushil Kutty Another Nehru-Gandhi made her presence felt in the Lower House of the Indian Parliament on November 28. — Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, with her mother Sonia Gandhi and her brother Rahul Gandhi, also Members of Parliament, she makes up the Gandhi trio, a rare constellation, except that...
Sambhal Events Underline That Supreme Court Must Uphold Sanctity Of Places Of Worship Act
By P Sudhir The recent events in Sambhal and the deaths of five young Muslim men underline the importance of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, l991 enacted by Parliament in that year. This legislation prohibits “conversion of any place of worship” (Section 3) and provides for “the...
