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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.Time Is Ripe To Form A Broad Anti-Fascist Front In India To Fight BJP-RSS Combo
By Dr. Arun Mitra The word democracy is derived from the ancient Greek words demos (people) and kratos (rule), literally meaning “rule by the people.” Democracy signifies a system in which political power ultimately rests with the people and is exercised either directly, through citizens participating in decision-making, or...
America Observes Its 250th Birthday In Great Style With Trump Trying To Steal The Limelight
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers WASHINGTON, D.C.: Two hundred and fifty years after thirteen rebellious colonies declared that they would no longer submit to the British Crown, Americans marked the nation’s semiquincentennial on July 4 with an extravaganza of fireworks, military flypasts, concerts, parades and remembrance that stretched from the...
Twist And Turns In Bangladesh-Turkiye Political And Defence Ties
By Ashis Biswas Suddenly, there is a new twist in Bangladesh politics. For a change, it comes as a puzzle for the Turkiye/Pakistan axis that is playing an increasingly assertive anti-Indian role in Bangladesh. Bucking Bangladeshi’ media’s usually hostile coverage of India, analysts are asking critical questions about the...
Land Availability Problem Dogs BJP’s Plans To Industrialise West Bengal
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Availability of land to set up industries appears to be a stumbling block in the path of West Bengal’s first BJP-run state government. This is an issue two previous state governments have found to be insoluble. Efforts to restore West Bengal’s old industrial glory were...
China’s New Ethnic Unity Law Seeks To Impose Uniformity By Abolishing Minority Identity
By Asad Mirza China’s newly enacted “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress” marks a definitive shift from managing diversity to enforcing homogeneity. By legally institutionalising the assimilation of Uyghurs, Tibetans, and other minorities, Beijing aims to replace distinct cultural, linguistic and religious identities with a singular, state-defined consciousness...
Kerala Opposition To Move Court On Vizhinjam Stakes Transfer
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The controversy over the proposed transfer of a 49% stake of the Adani Vizhinjam Port Private Limited (AVPPL) has deepened with the Opposition deciding to challenge it legally and politically. Announcing the decision, leader of the Opposition (LoP) Pinarayi Vijayan said the transfer of the...
Manipur Chief Minister Failing To Control Situation Despite All Help From Centre
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Ground realities in Manipur do suggest that the Union home ministry and the state ministry headed by Yumnam Khemchand Singh, which is in office since February 4, are yet to succeed in identifying a clear roadmap for reconciling inter-community political differences and restoring normalcy....
Faith Assets Need Secular Oversight As Temple Fraud Exposes Governance Vacuum
By K Raveendran The alleged theft of donations from the Ayodhya Ram Temple has pushed a long-simmering question into the national foreground: who should guard the wealth of religious institutions when faith, money and power converge without adequate public accountability? The issue is not confined to Ayodhya, nor to...
Sangh To Embark On Massive Campaign To Recruit Bengali Youth
By Arun Srivastava Notwithstanding its best efforts in projecting its Baudhik Pramukhs (intellectual chiefs),Vicharaks and Prajna Pravah (overarching “intellectual wing” of the RSS that acts as a think-tank for scholars, academics, and intellectuals), the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is unhappy with the number of Hindus in its formal membership umbrella....
Indians Have Been Contributing To U.S. Economy And Education Since 1965
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: In 1965, a new law scrapped America’s whites-only immigration quota system, and the trickle of Indians into the United States began the slow climb toward becoming a flood. Nobody in 1965 could have foreseen that the sons and daughters of that first wave...
China Is Hopeful Of India Pursuing Independent Position In Japan Led Security Bloc
By Satyaki Chakraborty The three day visit of the Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to India from July 1 to 3 has drawn big attention in Chinese media with experts analyzing whether India is joining Japan led move for an Indo-Pacific security bloc as a part of Japan’s anti-China...
USA At 250 On July 4 – The American Revolution That Is Yet To Be Completed
By John Wojcik NEW YORK: Two hundred and fifty years ago this July 4th, a group of colonial merchants, lawyers, and planters put their names to a piece of parchment that shook the world. They declared, in the most radical language their age could imagine, that governments derive their...
President Donald Trump Has Gone Bizarre As U.S. Celebrates 250th Birthday
By Linda Pentz Gunter NEW YORK: An inflatable frog has been pepper-sprayed, spawning (sorry) an army of affinity frogs and other creatures real and fictional, protesting at the often violent arrests of immigrants. A clarinettist in a brass band has been assaulted and arrested, abbreviations have been outlawed and...
Latest UN Report On Israel Occupied Territories Exposes The Ruthlessness Of Atrocities
By R. Suryamurthy Every war leaves behind shattered cities, broken societies and grieving families. But some wars destroy something less visible yet infinitely more consequential: faith in the institutions created to prevent humanity from repeating history’s darkest chapters. The latest report of the United Nations Independent International Commission of...
In Twelve Years Of His Rule, PM Narendra Modi Has Undertaken 102 International Trips
By T N Ashok There is a photograph that has, by now, become a genre unto itself: Narendra Modi, garlanded or embracing, disembarking from an Air India One flight onto a red carpet somewhere between Washington and Abu Dhabi, Tokyo and Rio. Multiply that image by 102 and you...
Bengal Govt’s New Act To Control Anti-Socials Has Scope For Big Misuse
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: West Bengal Public Safety and Control of Anti-Socials Bill has been passed and enacted into law It permits the state to detain individuals deemed to be a threat to public safety without trial. Under its provisions, habitual offenders can be barred from entering specific districts...
Possible Merger Of MVA Parties May Rejig Maharashtra Politics
By Rahil Nora Chopra Politics in Maharashtra is buzzing with intense speculation as the Congress and Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party are holding discussions over a possible merger. The move, if it materialises, could trigger a major political realignment in the state. Once a broad agreement is attained at...
Both The Centre And UP Govt Can’t Evade Responsibility From Ram Mandir Scam
By Krishna Jha Ram Mandir was built on the debris of Babri Mosque. When the centuries old Mosque was dismembered by karsewaks on December 6, 1992, in the clear visibility of BJP leadership, the nation was shocked. It appeared to be a major blow to India’s secularism and pluralism...
