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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.Government’s Insensitivity Towards Drug Price Control Sceptical
By Dr. Arun Mitra Statement by the Minister of Chemicals & fertilizers DV Sadananda Gowda in the Parliament that the Union government has no plans to make the Uniform Code of Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices (UCPMP) mandatory is very disappointing. He said this in reply to a question by...
Internal Rebellion Amid Upcoming ADC And Urban Polls Is A Big Worry For Tripura BJP
By Sagarneel Sinha There is a high probability that the postponed elections of Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) will be held this year, if everything goes on expected lines. Although there were speculations in political circles that it may be held after Durga Puja, during the...
Uddhav Thackeray Fights Covid-19, Hindutva And The BJP
By Sushil Kutty Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray appears to be still learning on the job and his teachers in school are unwilling to give him slack. Like the one setting the periodical paper for Covid-19! CM Thackeray’s performance has ranged from dithering to dismal. So much so,...
Two American Practical Economists Win Nobel Prize For Auctioning Model
By Anjan Roy This year’s Nobel prize for economics has been awarded to two academics who have made a great deal of difference to sale of publicly owned resources. If the precepts and formats suggested by the economists are genuinely followed, then many of the political controversies in...
Fight For Right To Information Has Become Imperative Now
By Shailesh Gandhi Fifteen years back, the Right To Information (RTI) Act became operational on October 12, 2005. It was the auspicious day of Vijayadashmi. It appeared to herald a new evolution in Indian democracy. Citizens who had been advocating this law saw an opportunity of converting...
Bolivia Goes To Crucial Presidential Polls On October 18
By Steve Sweeney BOLIVIA is on the verge of a bloodbath, after details emerged of another plan by right-wing forces to derail next week’s presidential and parliamentary elections. The elections are scheduled on October 18 and the MAS candidate supported by the deposed President Evo Morales is...
Indian Economy Is Finally Showing Signs Of Looking Up
By Nantoo Banerjee It is good to note that the country’s Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection is back on the growth track, first time since March. The gradual normalisation of economic activities and moving out of the lockdown restrictions and changing the definition of containment zones...
Supreme Court Chief Justice Must Take Note Of Andhra Chief Minister’s Allegation
By Arun Srivastava Probably this is for the first time in the history of Independent India a chief minister of a state has cast aspersion on the sitting justice of the Supreme Court N V Ramana and lodged a complaint against him of conspiring against his government....
Social Security Code: Another Historic Opportunity Missed
By Dr K R Shyam Sundar and Rahul Suresh Sapkal The eventual Social Security Code (SSC) gazetted on September 29, 2020, is a much-diluted version of its earlier somewhat comprehensive draft presented before the Parliament in 2018. The 2018 draft was comprehensive as it sought to cover, though...
Employment Market In India Showing Conflicting Trends In Covid Era
By Satyaki Chakraborty The employment market in India after nearly seven months of varied phases of lock down and the surge in covid pandemic, is showing conflicting signs. Labour market statistics improved somewhat in September 2020. The unemployment rate fell sharply from 8.4 per cent in August...
American Rightwingers Are Fusing Anti-Semitism With Anti-Communism In Poll Campaign
By Amiad Horowitz It’s hard for anyone reading any reactionary publication to avoid the name George Soros. Many right-wingers claim that Soros, a billionaire Jewish businessman, is funding radical leftists. They claim that Soros pays Black Lives Matter protesters, and some say he helps coordinate leftist activities...
Uttar Pradesh Has Dipped New Low In Terms Of Law And Order
By Harihar Swarup Uttar Pradesh is India’s badlands, both in terms of crime and police atrocities. But even by its abysmal standards, the state has plumbed new depths with the Hathras rape case and its aftermath. A Lakshman Rekha was crossed that night in Boolgarhi village when...
BJP Govt Re-Invents Indira’s Foreign Hands Bogey
By K Raveendran Foreign hands was a bogey used by Indira Gandhi to denounce anything that was not to her liking. She saw a foreign hand in everything, from changing weather to large populations of India remaining poor, poverty having been a most favourite theme that she...
BJP On The Mission To Teach Nitish A Lesson In Politics
By Arun Srivastava Ram Vilas Paswan’s death just days before Bihar votes will inevitably cast a shadow on the polls, but one thing is absolutely certain that it will not have major impact on the electorate scenario and the political equations. He has been a dalit icon...
Mayawati Losing Support From Core Dalits In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Why is BSP national President Mayawati afraid of Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Ravan.? Mayawati recently charged the political rivals of financing organisations to damage the cause of the bahujansamaj. BSP national President Mayawati is aware of the damage done to her vote...
Other Viruses At Play In The Country More Dangerous Than Coronavirus
By Sushil Kutty The circus continues to rock. From deep inside Mumbai, it’s like the Centre’s nowhere in the picture. But push aside the facade like you do a curtain and the door opens to a vista wide open. You’ll spot the footprints of the Centre as clearly...
Large Resources Are Needed For Making Judciary More Performance-Oriented
By Yash Agarwal The first sentence on the Ministry of Law and Justice’s website states “Ministry of Law and Justice is the oldest limb of the Government of India dating back to 1833 when the Charter Act 1833 enacted by the British Parliament.” Why is the oldest limb...
NEO-NAZI Party Golden Dawn Declared A Criminal Organisation In Greece
By Kevin Ovenden At least 20,000 people gathered outside the central court in Athens on Wednesday to hear the long-awaited verdicts in the trial of Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn. Cheers went up when a guilty verdict was announced and the party was declared a criminal organization. Eighteen...
