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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.Second Trump Term Is Set To Witness Major Destabilisation Of U.S. Bureaucracy
By Anjan Roy It’s a contradiction in terms. You are creating a new department or agency to study and carry out paring of the size of the government. That’s what the US president-elect, Donald Trump, is up to. And who is to co-lead it, none other than Elon Musk,...
Centre’s Ultimate Insult To Victims Of Wayanad Tragedy
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The people of Kerala would find it difficult to digest it. But it is the grim, unalterable reality. The Union Government’s refusal to sanction any funds to cover the losses caused by the July 30 Wayanad landslide is the ultimate insult to the victims of...
Big Fight Between Yogi Adityanath And Akhilesh Yadav Enters Final Stage
By Rahil Nora Chopra The political temperature is soaring high in Uttar Pradesh as the upcoming by-elections for nine Assembly seats in the state is getting closer where the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Akhilesh Yadav’s stakes are very...
Mahayuti And MVA Are In Closer Contest In Maharashtra Than Expected
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Minister of Home Amit Shah have extensively campaigned in Maharashtra on behalf of the ruling Mahayuti, and the Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and the Congress Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on behalf of the...
Just Retired CJI D Y Chandrachud Showed His Hindutva Bias In Major Judgments
By P. Sudhir A large number of critical appraisals and commentaries have been written on the occasion of the retirement of Chief Justice of India (CJI), D Y Chandrachud. This is but natural as Justice Chandrachud is considered to be one of the most consequential chief justices of the...
Democratic Socialists Of America Need A Unified Strategy Under Trump 2.0
By Sam Datlof NEW YORK: Nearly a decade has passed since Bernie Sanders announced his first presidential run and ignited a democratic socialist electoral wave that has given us Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), the Squad, and democratic socialist officials at every level of government. Since its inauguration, however, the project...
Accused Families Have Much To Thank The Supreme Court For ‘Bulldozer Justice’
By Sushil Kutty Supreme Court justices BR Gavai and KV Viswanathan made it clear to the “Executive” that it cannot ape the “Judiciary” and pronounce judgements. They warned the “Executive” against prejudging the guilt of an accused, even those caught red handed, and delivering ‘bulldozer justice’. The Justices laid...
Supreme Court Strictures Show How SEBI’s Failures Span Both Commissions And Omissions
By K Raveendran Recent interventions by the Supreme Court into actions taken by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) have underscored mounting concerns about systemic issues within the country’s chief market regulator. SEBI’s actions in several high-profile cases—particularly its record of imposing significant penalties and its alleged...
Supreme Court Of India Bulldozes ‘Bulldozer Justice’ But Partially
By Dr. Gyan Pathak A Bench of the Supreme Court of India has bulldozed the ‘bulldozer justice’ on November 13, 2024, but partially, since it does make officials accountable for the damage and the cost for restoration would be recovered from their salary, but the power drunk politicians would...
Will TDP Withdraw Support To The Modi Govt On The Issue Of Waqf Amendment Bill?
By Sushil Kutty Elections come and go. Even these will pass. One nation one election is for the birds and the bees. What will not pass easily is the fracas over the Waqf Amendment Bill 2024. The next big political fight will be when the Joint Parliamentary Committee sends...
India Have Enough Cushion To Deal With Trumponomics In Bilateral Trade
By Subrata Majumder Donald Trump’s thumping victory for USA Presidency for the second term unleashed a mixed bag of signal to India-USA relations. Unlike first term, rising global political tension due to Russia-Ukraine war and western sanctions on Russian have India’s situation a but different from the first term....
Bangladesh Print Media And TV Channels Are Wild At Indian Coverage Of Yunus Regime
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: Rare exceptions apart, diplomats as well as foreign policy spokesmen in Delhi as well as Dhaka have in recent times observed protocol-related niceties and established norms while referring to current developments in Bangladesh. Their mutual restraint has been praiseworthy: Post Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s fall...
There Is No End To The Continuing Violent Ethnic Clashes In Manipur
By Krishna Jha She was running with her all three children when they shot at her. The pain was unbearable as she fell. Arsonists saw her and set her on fire. Zosangkim, a 31-year old mother was turned into ashes. It was November 7, the day when the great...
Dangerous Plans To Escalate The Ukraine War Before Biden Steps Down
By Ben Chacko LONDON: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer could respond to a renewed Donald Trump presidency by confronting the far right in Britain and internationally. He could have used his meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss the common causes of the rise of Reform UK in...
Lithuania’s Social Democrats Forge New Coalition To Form The Government
By Jurgis Valiukevičius LONDON: Confirming the trend in many countries in 2024, in Lithuania’s general election voters opted for change rather than more of the same. In the two-round contest that ended on October 27, the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) won a landslide victory, capturing fifty-two out of...
America Under Trump 2.0 May Turn Into 19th Century Buccaneering Capitalism
By Anjan Roy As president elect Donald Trump is edging towards taking over powers in America on January 20 next year, the country is lurching towards becoming a typical case of a plutocracy. Money bags, as opposed to public spirited men and women who have devoted a life time...
COP29 Must Deliver Agreement On Increased Climate Financing Target
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The 29th Conference of Parties (COP29) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at Baku in Azerbaijan must deliver an agreement on increased climate financing target up to the level that is at least necessary, if not enough, to tackle the present climate...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Is Keeping A Distance From Yogi’s Latest Slogan
By Sushil Kutty Everybody in the saffron ecosystem supports Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s unity call ‘Batenge toh katenge’ for the Maharashtra and Jharkhand assembly elections as well as for the Uttar Pradesh bypolls. The RSS picked it up, BJP spokespersons trotted it out on television news channels...
