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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.Priyanka Gandhi Boosts Morale Of Congress Workers
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The ongoing tussle between the Congress party and the Yogi Adityanath-led UP government over the issue of arranging buses for migrant labourers stranded in Uttar Pradesh has boosted the sagging morale of the Congress leaders and workers in the state. Priyanka Gandhi has succeeded in...
Power Of Conspiracy Theories And The China Syndrome
By Sushil Kutty Narendra Modi wants to win in India. And Donald Trump in the United States. But Xi Jinping wants to conquer the world! With a coronavirus vaccine which, he says, will be for the “global good.” That has set gremlins in several heads in a heightened state...
Corona Conversations: Rahul Speaks To Economists, Migrant Workers
By Rahil Nora Chopra After the online conversations of former Congress president Rahul Gandhi with the economists Raghuram Rajan and Abhijit Banerjee on the national response to COVID-19 pandemic, Gandhi had said that the central government should not behave like a moneylender and argued in favour of cash assistance...
Denis Goldberg, The Great South African Communist Is No More
By Ronnie Kasrils Integrity and defence of the truth, whatever the personal cost, was a choice Denis Goldberg made from a tender age and stuck to throughout his life. It is said that a life lived with integrity, served in a struggle for freedom and equality of all, is...
Modi Regime Has Messed Up Public Health System In The Country
By Prakash Karat The Covid-19 pandemic has brought out the stark inadequacy and abysmal neglect of the public health system in India. Even after 50 days of the lockdown, the Modi government seems to have not learnt from the experience of tackling the deadly virus. In state after state,...
Modi Package Stands For Sell-Out, Not Self-Reliance
By Binoy Viswam When the prime minister came out with the much-awaited package to fight the pandemic, certain enthusiasts of the Sangh ideology were fascinated. For them the most attractive element was his proclamation of ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’. They even went to the extent of believing that now India would...
FM’s Financial Package For MSMEs
By Aashna Jain In light of COVID-19, the Finance Minister of India (“FM”) on May 13, 2020, announced a slew of incentives for the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (“MSMEs”). The directions for the MSMEs formed the first tranche of the much-awaited financial package of Rs 20 lakh crores,...
Media Shutdown, Lay-Offs Are Now New Normal In Kerala
By N P Chekkutty The reports about the imminent closure of various editions of Times of India and the shutdown of most bureau offices of the The New Indian Express in Kerala did not come as a surprise, though they are signs of a long winter of deep and...
Violation Of Lockdown Norms By Madhya Prdesh Officials
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Enforcement of lockdown has been marked by several controversies in Madhya Pradesh. They include violation of lockdown by the government officials and public representatives. Controversy over the farm loan waiver by previous Congress government and notices to former Congress ministers to vacate official bungalows...
Vietnam Observes Ho Chi Minh’s 130th Birth Anniversary
By Steve Sweeney Vietnam celebrated the 130th anniversary of the birth of Ho Chi Minh on May 19 by announcing the imminent end of its COVID-19 outbreak, with no locally transmitted cases reported for 33 consecutive days. Despite bordering China, where the outbreak began, Vietnam has recorded no deaths...
Pakistan Offers Good Cash Assistance To Laid-Off Labour
By Sankar Ray Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan Niazi announced reimbursement Rs 12,000 to each laid-off worker due to Covid 19-led lockdown under the Ehsaas Kafaalat social protection and welfare program (Ehsaas Cash Emergency Programme), launched on 1 April last. It became operational right away. He tweeted ‘Yesterday...
Modi’s Rs 20 Lakh Crore Stimulus Is Virtual, Not Real
By Nitya Chakraborty Desperate situations demand innovative solutions. The Indian economy, ravaged by the lockdown for the last 57 days, is in a dark tunnel with no possibility of coming out in the near future. The Rs. 20 lakh crore stimulus accounting for 10 per cent of the GDP...
Lockdown May Be Going The Demonetisation Way
By K Raveendran Is Modi’s Covid lockdown going the way of the ill-fated demonetisation? Looks like it is. There have already been many similarities between the two events that have influenced the economy and people’s lives like none else. Both were announced in a jiffy, arbitrarily and without due...
Selling Off India’s Public Assets, Surrender To MNCs
By Chidambaram N It was more than a century and a half ago that Abraham Lincoln said: “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.”...
Corruption Fuels ‘Natural’ Disasters By Making The Poor Suffer
By Belinda Henwood Indian NGO, SEEDS in partnership with researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) is part of a research initiative termed the Corruption and Disasters Research Initiative (CADRI) to pioneer a new area of cross-disciplinary...
Remembering Ho Chi Minh On His 130th Birth Anniversary
By Pallab Sengupta “When you can uproot all the grass of Vietnam, only then will there be no anti-French fighters left in Vietnam”. It was told by Nguyen Trung Truc before he was killed by French colonialist when they invaded Saigon region in the year 1859. That was the...
Pandemic Is Bringing Political Shifts In America
By David Trujillo and Ismael Parra Rev. Dr. William Barber of the New Poor People’s Campaign has been preaching: “This virus is teaching us that from now on, living wages, guaranteed health care for all, unemployment and labour rights are not far-left issues but issues of right vs. wrong...
How Will The Post-Covid Society Look Like In India?
By Kalyani Shankar How will life change for us in the post lockdown exit period and what have we learnt from the coronavirus outbreak? As every doctor and administrator in the world claims that it will be a ‘new normal’ and you have to live with it but what...
