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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.Trump’s Convincing Win Was Possible Due To Shift Of More Voters Of Colour On His Side
By Kalyani Shankar from Dallas (USA) The much-awaited U.S. presidential election ended on November 5, and former President 78-year-old Donald Trump triumphed by winning the White House. This would be his second innings and an extraordinary comeback for Trump. He will be the 47th president of the U.S. Reactions...
Congress Leaders In Madhya Pradesh Aggrieved At Pradesh Congress Committee Revamp
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: While Congress and BJP are engaged in a bitter electoral fight in two Vidhan Sabha constituencies in Madhya Pradesh, both parties are finding it difficult to explain inconvenient questions raised by their two powerful leaders. Laxman Singh, former M.P. and MLA has publicly said...
American White Voters Still Have Reservations On Electing A Woman At The Top
By Kalyani Shankar DALLAS (USA): Why is America hesitant to see a woman as President in the White House? The potential is undeniable, as seen in Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential polls, but Trump emerged victorious. There is immense potential for women in leadership roles. Ninety-six years after...
Donald Trump’s Second Presidency Is Globally Disruptive But Damage May Be Contained
By Nitya Chakraborty Finally, the U.S. election results are out. The Republican candidate Donald Trump has swept the polls by winning convincingly in the presidential contest as also leading the Republican Party to majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. There is no grey area. It...
CJI Chandrachud’s Last Days In Office Overshadowed By Unseemly Controversies
By K Raveendran It is as though the most controversial, at times even messy, part of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud has been reserved for the last few days of his tenure. The revelation about his prayer to the deity to help the Supreme Court come up with a...
Tightrope Walk Ahead For India Between National Unity And Aspirations Of J&K
By Gyan Pathak With passage of resolution for restoring Article 370 in the Legislative Assembly of Jammu & Kashmir on November 6, 2024, a tightrope has been stretched through national unity of the country and the legitimate aspirations of the people of the state on which India will have...
MSP Should Be Judiciously Used By The Centre To Take Care Of The Welfare Of Farmers
By Kunal Bose Food prices remain a major concern for the Reserve Bank of India as it uses its monetary policy handle to bring inflation continuing to play truant within the desired ambit while supporting economic growth. Policymakers will, therefore, be drawing some comfort from the agriculture ministry’s first...
Middle Class In India Is Suffering Badly In Terms Of Maintaining Living Standard
By Krishna Jha Country is swallowed up by impoverishment. Hunger, unemployment, and absence of any possibility of respite from the hurting present have left the entire people in the throes of depression. The middle class is also suffering along with those called the ‘have not’, though they never identify...
Trump’s Critique Of Bangladesh And Its Implications For Relations With U.S.
By Tajul Islam Donald Trump’s recent critique of Bangladesh on social media, branding it as a nation rife with “barbaric violence” against religious minorities and claiming it exists in a “total state of chaos,” has drawn significant attention. This statement, made just days before the US presidential election, appears...
Trinamool Mobilises Three Leading Football Club Chiefs In Support Of Its Naihati Bypoll Candidate
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Football and electoral politics make strange bedfellows though a few politicians have been in sports bodies and ran them almost as their fiefdom in West Bengal. But heads turned and eyes were raised in amazement when the men heading Mohan Bagan, East Bengal and Mohammedan...
PM Narendra Modi And Amit Shah Opening Old Wounds In Jharkhand
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Wittingly or unwittingly, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah have been continuously raising the issue of infiltration during their election campaigns. They talk about “Bangladeshi Muslim infiltration” in their rallies, but little knowing the tribal psyche that has developed during the...
Left Wing BSW Participates In Formal Talks For Forging Anti-Right Coalition In Thuringia
By Satyaki Chakraborty Nearly two months after the holding of the elections to the German state of Thuringia for the state parliament, formal talks started on Monday between the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the left wing BSW for the formation of a coalition government...
Andhra Pradesh Politics Hit By Yogi’s ‘Batenge Toh Katenge’ Syndrome
By Sushil Kutty A sibling rivalry and a mother’s appeal to be true to a father’s legacy. Then, there’s a Chief Minister out to make hay from the family feud. Then, his Deputy Chief Minister applauds another state’s Chief Minister and asks his state’s Home Minister to adopt this...
BJP’s Kerala Unit Badly Battered By Hawala Expose
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Kerala unit has been shaken to the core by the ‘expose’ by the former office secretary of the party in Thrissur, Tirur Satish. The damning disclosure is that the Rs 6 crore of “black money” stolen from a car at...
Surging Global Gold Prices Are Setting Records Almost Daily
By Nantoo Banerjee With geopolitical tensions rising in Europe and Asia and central banks across the world buying gold like never before are mainly behind the near continuous rise in gold prices since last year. The surging gold price trend may continue through the coming months unless peace and...
Maharashtra Administration Asked By Election Commission To Remain Neutral
By Dr. Gyan Pathak November 4, 2024, the last day for withdrawal of nominations for the Vidhan Sabha Election in Maharashtra is marked by Election Commission of India’s (EC’s) orders of transfer of Maharashtra DGP and asking the chief secretary to send a panel of names of three IPS...
Amit Shah’s Tirade Against Bangladeshi ’Immigrants’ Is Aimed At Jharkhand Polls
By Arun Srivastava Once again, with elections to Jharkhand assembly knocking at the door, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has fired his salvo of lies, with the promise to introduce uniform civil code (UCC) for the state while exempting tribal communities from its implementation, once it comes to power....
Newly Elected Conservative Party Leader Kemi Badenoch Is Sure To Give A Tough Fight To Starmer
By Asad Mirza The election of Kemi Badenoch, as the new leader of Britain’s Conservative Party seems to have rattled not just the common public but even the diehard Tories. But this should also be seen as the last-ditch efforts by the Conservatives to revive the party’s fortunes to...
