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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.Stan Swamy’s Crime Is His Solidarity For The Downtrodden
By Annie Domini If you look at the bodypolitick of the country without saffron-tinted glasses, if you truly see, you will find a very, very sick organism indeed. An organism that’s cannibalising on its own heart, brain and lungs to feed a massive belly of unrestrained State power....
Time For Reality Check On Covid Management- Not Rhetoric
By Dr. Arun Mitra In his address to the nation on 20th October the Prime Minister warned the countrymen not to let loose the precautions against Corona Virus and that till there is a medicine we cannot be careless towards this virus. Therefore precautions like using masks, maintaining...
Changing Nature Of The Election Scenario In Bihar In 2020 Assembly Poll
By Arun Srivastava In the electoral political history of Bihar, this is for the first time the manifestos or “Sankalp Patra” of political parties have emerged as the most favourite issues for political discourses. The discussion is not confined to the living rooms of the rich or middle...
Many Challenges In Setting Up Virtual And Online Courts In India
By Yash Agarwal How do we integrate virtual courts and digital justice delivery into the broader legal ecosystem of India? The urgency for developing some methodology or procedure for this has gained new relevance in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC) of...
In Pandemic, Billionaires Wealth Increases While Common People Suffer Most
By Prabhat Patnaik Wealth distribution data are notoriously difficult to interpret. This is because variations in stock prices affect wealth distribution, so that a stock market boom suddenly makes the rich appear much richer, while a stock market collapse makes wealth distribution less unequal overnight. In other...
BJP’s Campaign In Bihar Elections Has Turned Cynical
By Arun Srivastava The constitutional commitment of the Union government to provide “free coronavirus vaccination for all” was offered on Thursday in the form of bribe to the voters of Bihar. Narendra Modi led the BJP government is under Constitutional obligation to make available coronavirus vaccine...
A Grave Constitutional Impropriety By Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister
By Indira Jaising The letter addressed by the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, YS Jaganmohan Reddy, directly to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) raises issues of grave constitutional importance. Does such a direct approach interfere with the independence of the Judiciary from the Executive? A Chief...
Kerala LDF Produces A Political Quickie
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It was well and truly a quickie, to put in cricket parlance. The ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF)on Thursday formally inducted the Kerala Congress(M) Jose K Mani faction as an ally, making out a strong case for entry into the Guinness Book of World...
Will Nitish Do A Role Reversal And Join Lalu After Polls?
By Rahil Nora Chopra The most discussed gossip in Bihar at the tea stalls and pan shops is that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar might re-align with Lalu Prasad Yadav of RJD, which he had dumped a few years ago to return to the NDA. In the last assembly...
Imran Khan’s Battle With People’s Party Run Sindh Govt Has Hotted Up
By Sankar Ray Though there is no civil war like situation in Karachi, according to the Pakistan media and all the leading Pak papers are alleging that Indian media is manufacturing news, the standoff between the ‘miltablishment-backed federal government, led by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in Islamabad and Pakistan...
Militarising the quad to suit U.S. Geo-Political Interests
By Prakash Karat The forthcoming Malabar exercises in the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal in November will feature all the four countries of the quadrilateral grouping (Quad) – the United States, India, Japan and Australia. The Malabar exercises had begun as joint exercises of the Indian...
India Has To Work Hard For Building A Multipolar World
By D Raja When the world is struggling with arguably the worst health crisis of modern history, there are some other long-term issues that are raising their heads. The tension between India and China in Ladakh and the plans for the annexation of the West Bank by Israel...
CBI’s Sudden Entry Into TRP Investigation In Lucknow Has Political Considerations
By Sushil Kutty The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena are no longer handshaking friends and won’t be unless the Shiv Sena returns to the earlier nuptial arrangement – BJP on top! The two have been at war since after Uddhav Thackeray dumped his dead father’s legacy...
Farmers Continuing Agitation Against Centre Has Stirred The Nation
By Binoy Viswam The wave of resistance unleashed by the peasantry against the farm bills has conveyed a message to the nation. The people who feed the nation through their sweat and labor have the courage to fight back injustice. The Modi government was under the illusion...
State Have Valid Reasons To Be Angry With Centre On GST Compensatin Issue
By Rohan Deshpande Prior to the roll-out of the Goods and Service Tax (GST) from July 1, 2017, states had substantial power to levy origin-based indirect taxes and levies such as sales tax or VAT, octroi, entry tax, entertainment tax, etc. GST introduced a consolidated levy of...
India-U.S. Relations Under A Biden Presidency
By Nitya Chakraborty With less than two weeks to go for the Presidential elections in USA scheduled on November 3, talks have started about what is going to be the impact of the coming to the White House of Joe Biden as President and Kamala Harris as Vice-President...
BJP Aims At Changing Games In Tamil Nadu
By S. Sethuraman The road to Tamil Nadu Assembly poll, still six months ahead, for May 2021, is full of uncertainties though the ruling AIADMK has decided its Chief Minister Mr E Palaniswami will lead the party seeking a third successive term in a post-Jayalalithaa era. In this,...
India Heads List Of Covid-Related Abuses By Authorities
By K Raveendran US think-tank Freedom House has catalogued the abuse of power by governments all over the world in the name of fighting the coronavirus pandemic and heading the table is India. Perhaps a point of consolation is that the likes of United States, the United...
