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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.Yashwant Sinha’s New Front In Bihar Is Aimed At Both RJD And Congress
By Arun Srivastava The announcement to form a Third Front by the former Union finance minister Yashwant Sinha on Saturday is more than his expression of intent and interest to effectively intervene in the election to the Bihar assembly. Sinha certainly does not nurse a huge utopian...
Crisis In Congress-Led UDF In Kerala Accentuates
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The crisis bedevilling the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) has deepened with the Congress leadership expelling the Jose K Mani-led faction in the Kerala Congress(M). The expulsion followed the refusal of the Jose faction to obey the directive of the Congress to resign...
When Jail, Not Bail, Rules During Pandemic In Indian Courts
By Nilima Dutta and Susan Abraham Imagine for one moment, what it would be like to be kept in jail for years, deprived of your family, your freedom of speech, your liberty of movement and your right to work, merely on suspicion and conjecture. A terrifying concept for...
Democratic Presidential Candidate Gives Support To Striking Workers
By Mark Gruenberg BATH, Maine—Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and a parade of other prominent politicians are supporting the 4,300 Machinists Local S6 workers forced to strike by their bosses at the Bath Iron Works shipyard in Maine. “A job is about a lot more than...
Economic Boycott Of China Is Easier Said Than Done
By Nantoo Banerjee China’s fast economic incursion into India looks as portentous as its constant land-grab attempts into Indian territory along the Line of Actual Control. The entire Sino-Indian border (including the western LAC, small undisputed section in the centre, and the McMahon Line in the east)...
Saffrons Still Consider Rahul Gandhi As Their Main Rival
By Amulya Ganguli His party is in disarray. It practises politics only sometimes, as a former M.P. said. It doesn’t have a full-time president, only an interim one. Apparently, the organization is waiting for a sulking former chief to take the reins into his own hands from his...
Community Response Needed To Minimise Spread Of Coronavirus
By Dr. Arun Mitra Continuous increase in number of COVID 19 cases in the country is a pointer to its community spread. Even though the ICMR does not agree with this, but several Epidemiologists have different opinion. No community transmission of Covid-19 is a falsehood, says Dr Jayaprakash...
Modi’s Nehru-Bashing Is Meant To Attack Democratic Values
By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been trying to build his empire on the foundation of Nehru bashing, he has been outdoing the Emergency of Indira Gandhi by creating a more crude and ruthless Emergency like situation. Nehru bashing has not at all been...
For Indian Policy Makers, China Policy Is A Big Riddle
By Sushil Kutty Chinese incursions against India, it seems, are unstoppable. What’s more, this incursions date back to the 1950s. Long before Mao Zedong categorized China’s ties with India as “armed co-existence.” The transgressions which came with the ‘salami-slicing’ of India’s territory at the LAC has kept India...
High Level Political Intervention Is Needed To Deal With Border Conflict
By Prakash Karat The clash at the Galwan river valley which resulted in the deaths of 20 Indian soldiers, including the commanding officer of the 16 Bihar regiment, has understandably roused the anger of people in India. The incident was shocking and condemnable as it happened after the...
Lesson From Emergency: When Institutions Cave In, Democracy Dies
By Harihar Swarup Most commemorate Emergency on June 26 as a reminder of the bleak 21 months when democracy was derailed. Actually, the Emergency came into effect on June 25 at 11:45 pm when the then President, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, signed the proclamation even though he was...
Deliverance From Chinese Products Virtually Impossible
By K Raveendran Nationalist elements have called for a ‘boycott China’ movement in the wake of Chinese border incursions in Ladakh. But it is clear that independence from China would take a bigger struggle than India’s freedom movement for deliverance from the colonialists. China has established a...
Absurdity Of Continuing Oil Price Hike Under Modi Regime
By Prabhat Patnaik Between, say December 25, 2019, and June 23, 2020, world crude (brent) oil prices have fallen by nearly 37 per cent. They had fallen by over 60 per cent between end-December and mid-April, but there has been some price-recovery since then; even so, the...
United Nations Experts Demand The Release Of Anti-CAA Activists In India
By Satyaki Chakraborty Leading experts of the United Nations have urged upon the Government of India to release the activists who have been arrested in the last few months for their protests against the introduction of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in the country. The experts in...
Congress Has A Glorious Past Of Which It Can Be Proud
By Mriganka Mouli Bhowmick Amidst of Corona Crisis, the China-India border conflict has become new area of political slugfest where Congress with Rahul Gandhi at its front has nullified every claims of Modi Government about the ground control. The unfortunate death of Indian soldiers while fighting against Chinese...
Centre’s Policies Bringing Miseries To Common Masses
By Binoy Viswam On the 18th day of incessant rise of fuel price, diesel has out beaten petrol. It may be for the first time that diesel becomes costlier than petrol. Everybody knows that now fuel price in India has nothing to do with the price of...
PM Has Infused New Life To Make In India Through Atmanirbhar
By Subrata Majumder Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a new lease of life to his much fancied Make in India programme by calling for Atmanirbhar Abhiyan as a means of giving a push to the Indian industry in the period of the pandemic and as also in...
Forty Five Years After Declaration Of Emergency By Indira Gandhi
By Mohan V Katarki Our hard experiences teach us lessons. But, India hasn’t learnt its full lesson from the State of emergency clamped by the then Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi on 25th June 1975, to save herself from disqualification after the historic judgement of Allahabad High Court....
