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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.Crude Oil Faces Heightened Pressures Despite Flare-Up In Middle East Tensions
By K Raveendran With clear indications that Israel is sparing Iranian oil facilities from attack, the downward pressure on oil has further increased and there is renewed talk of oil settling down around the level of $50 to the barrel. Crude has already fallen to early 70s and the...
Russian Revolution In 1917 Had Big Impact On India’s Struggle For Freedom
By D. Raja The current geopolitical landscape is marked by a multifaceted web of conflicts and alliances, with US imperialism acting as a destabilizing force. The United States’ interventionist foreign policy—characterized by military interventions, economic sanctions, and the promotion of regime change—has contributed to regional instabilities, particularly in the...
Steep Price Rise In Food Prices Badly Hurting The Livelihood Of Common People
By P. Sudhir In September this year, average price rise hit a nine-month high of 5.5 per cent. More significantly, prices of food items crossed 9.2 per cent. A majority of Indians spend nearly half of their income on food. So, food inflation hurts the most. Among food items,...
BJP’s Stand On Nawab Malik’s Nomination Takes Bizarre Turn In Maharashtra
By Sushil Kutty With the last day of filing nominations history, the Bharatiya Janata Party has been reduced to defending itself from going against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister’s ‘Batenge toh katenge’ campaign call. The day after, the Mahayuti stood divided with the BJP unable to stick to its stance....
Remembering Lenin Led October Revolution In Russia 107 Years Ago!
By Krishna Jha It was the beginning of the last century. Transition was already in the process. The context in Russia was maturing up for the October Revolution. It was one of the greatest events in human history when workers and the oppressed started rising to throw off feudal-capitalist...
In Uttar Pradesh Bypolls, It Is The Big Fight Between Yogi Adityanath And Akhilesh Yadav
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: After debacle in 2024 Lok Sabha poll, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has staked his prestige in crucial by-elections on November 13 for nine assembly seats in the state. In the absence of Congress, it is going to fight between UP Chief Minister Yogi...
Home Minister Amit Shah’s Kolkata Visit On October 27 Disappoints Bengal BJP Leaders
By Arun Srivastava KOLKATA: West Bengal has been favourite tourist destination for Narendra Modi’s most reliable lieutenant and Chanakya of BJP, Home Minister Amit Shah. But Sunday, October 27, visit was different. He used the occasion of an official engagement to launch the election campaign though the assembly elections...
Japanese Investment Is Crucial Now For India’s Manufacturing Growth
By Subrata Majumder India-Japan relation has always been politically undeterred and peaceful as well as non-controversial. Eventually, the relation between the two nations tilted more to economic partnership, with Japan depending on India for natural resources and India harping on technology transfer through Japanese investment. In other words, there...
India-China Border Issue Is Sensitive, Will Take Long Time For An Agreement
By Ashok B Sharma The relationship between India and China is a contentious issue. The boundary issue between the two nations is a longstanding problem. China has the concept of expansionism. It does not follow the Mac-Mahan Line and Johnson Line drawn by the erstwhile British colonial rulers in...
Iran And Israel’s Love-Hate Relationship: From Shah To Ayatollahs
By Divya Malhotra Middle East has turned into a ticking time bomb as Iran and Israel stand on the verge of a full-blown war. A lot has transpired between the two countries since the October 2023 Hamas attack on Israel and the ensuing Gaza war. Israel is more than...
Turkey’s Closeness With BRICS Shows NATO Alliance Is On Shaky Grounds
By Nitya Chakraborty The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), the security alliance of the western nations led by the USA is having an uneasy period after celebrating its 75th year of founding in July this year with big fanfare. The recent summit of the BRICS in Kazan of Russia...
RSS Engaged In A Cold War With Narendra Modi Over The New Face Of Hindutva
By Arun Srivastava For RSS blowing hot and cold in the same breath is not the sign of its irresoluteness, instead it reflects the highest form of its duplicity; when its right face is not aware of the message its left face was sending. Only a week back the...
Political Uncertainty Looms Large Over Japan As Ruling LDP Faces Defeat In Elections
By Anjan Roy Japan’s election results last Sunday demonstrate once again that good economics often fail to get political gains. That does not of course necessarily mean that bad economics gets good political revenues. As the results of the election became apparent this Monday, it was clear that Prime...
Seat-Sharing Blues Chase MVA And Mahayuti To The Brink In Maharashtra
By Sushil Kutty On Tuesday, the last day for filing nominations for the November 20 Maharashtra assembly elections, both the Mahayuti and the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliances were still looking for closure to their seat-sharing blues. Nobody in either grouping could provide clarity to the goings on, the protracted...
Bihar School Education Gets A Digital Makeover With E-Service Books
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Bihar often creates contrasting images about itself. On the one hand, it produces many IAS, IPS, and professionals in other fields. On the other hand, school education with mass copying in the exams and malpractices in evaluating the copies are too familiar to be talked...
Trump’s Madison Square Garden Rally Echoes Nazi Event There In 1939
By John Wojcik NEW YORK: Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday more than lived up to predictions that it would echo the Nazi rally held there in 1939. It was filled with vitriol and profanity-laced racist attacks against people the convicted criminal ex-president sees as political enemies...
India, China Are Looking At Possible Gains And Losses With Change Of Guards In The US
By Nantoo Banerjee Domestic issues often override international commitments in diplomacy. China’s preference of Kamala Harris to Donald Trump as the next US president may look unusual but not entirely illogical from the world’s second largest economy’s business point of view. China may not mind if such a possibility...
BRICS Bloc’s Move To Boost Alternative Payment System Should Worry U.S.
By Asad Mirza BRICS nations concluded their annual summit in the Russian city of Kazan on October 24 resolving to deepen economic ties. Plans to deepen financial cooperation and develop alternatives to Western-dominated payment systems were also discussed, besides offering African nations a bigger say in the changing global...
