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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.Covid Outbreak Drags Everything Down Except Gold
By K Raveendran Gold prices hit record highs last week, with 10 gm of the metal costing over Rs 48,000. Prices have since scaled back a little, but continue to be at multi-year highs. Gold is perhaps the only asset whose value has gone up when everything else...
Big Split In RJD Is A Boost To NDA On Poll Eve In Bihar
By Arun Srivastava Three decade old tryst of the RJD with the highly caste sensitive Bihar politics suffered the first ever worst jolt with the founder of the party, former union minister and vice president, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh quitting the party along with five MLCs. The reason...
Priyanka Gandhi Is The Fiery Face Of The Opposition In UP
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The Congress under the leadership and guidance of Priyanka Gandhi Vadhra appears to be taking the Yogi government head-on. She’s questioning the Uttar Pradesh government on various issues and it seems she is not even afraid of going to jail. Much significance is...
Political Considerations, Not Laws, Governing The Courts
By Apurba K Baruah It is necessary to remind ourselves in contemporary India that, politics makes the law as and when required and even remakes and replaces laws and therefore there is a limit to the judicial system under which you seek justice. The case of Akhil...
Corona-Warriors: Delhi Teen Creates Face Shields For Cops
By IPA Correspondent A fourteen-year-old student, Zareb Vardhan, has been able to create a one-of-its-kind face-shield at home using a 3D printer, and has gifted 100 such shields to policemen. Zareb has created the face-shield after noticing people closely interacting with cops in the middle of the ongoing...
Masks, Gloves – The Ocean Is Filling With Covid Trash
By Joseph Winters Are oil companies the true heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic? That’s sure what they’d like you to think. In a recent flurry of “corporate reputation advertising” highlighted by Emily Atkin in the newsletter HEATED, oil and gas companies, plus the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers...
BJP-Led NDA Inches Closer To Majority In Rajya Sabha
By Kalyani Shankar When the Rajya Savha reassembles for the monsoon session, it will be with new equations with a change in the composition of the house. It will see a shrunken opposition and an improved NDA. The BJP is inching towards a majority after this week’s...
Opposition Disunity Boosts Nitish’s Prospects In Bihar Assembly Poll
By Sagarneel Sinha Before the Coronavirus and the subsequent lockdown, it was widely expected that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar led NDA government would have an easy sail later this year when Bihar will go for assembly polls. Although the Election Commission has said that Bihar will be seeing...
Congress Leadership Is Still Clueless In Meeting Modi Challenge
By Arun Srivastava Bravado of Rahul Gandhi has neither helped boost his own personal stock and image nor instil confidence in the rank and file. Undeniably Rahul through his incisive questions has put Narendra Modi in an awkward situation on many occasions and forced him to look helpless...
KPCC President Scores A Self-Goal
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The United Democratic Front (UDF)’s attempt to wrest the political initiative has suffered a setback with Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Mullappally Ramachandran soring a political self-goal. What has pushed the UDF on to the defensive is an uncharitable remark made by...
Madhya Pradesh Gears Up For Vidhan Sabha By-Polls In 24 Seats
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: After election to Rajya Sabha, both the Congress and the BJP have turned their respective attention to the by-elections to 24 seats in the state Vidhan Sabha. The outcome of these by-elections will decide the fate of the state ministry. Never in the...
Massive Virtual March In Usa For Eradication Of Poverty, Racism
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—From eradication of poverty, an end to U.S. racism, to dismantling the war machine and creating a Green New Deal with thousands of well-paying jobs—especially union jobs—hundreds of thousands of people demanded a complete reversal and creation of a better society in three virtual...
Prime Minister’s Self-Reliance Mantra
By Nantoo Banerjee Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s self-reliance mantra is most welcome at a time when the country’s economy is suffering from a discomfortably slow-to-negative growth, following the nationwide phased lockdown measures to restrict the spread of Covid-19, compressing industrial production, market and throwing tens of millions out...
India’s Circle Of Friends Is Steadily Dwindling Under Narendra Modi
By Amulya Ganguli About a year ago, external affairs minister S. Jaishankar said that “we are getting to know who our friends really are”. He was speaking in the context of the criticism which the government was facing because of the crackdown in Kashmir, agitations against the enacted...
Supreme Court Needs To Mend Its Sullied Image
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court has its image progressively being sullied for some years now. Things were never as bad as they have been during the tenures of three chief justices, including the incumbent. The slide started with Dipak Misra at the helm, when the nation...
China Is Testing Nerves Of The Indian Government On Ladakh
By Barun Dasgupta The recent escalation of tension between India and China started with two incidents in the border. On May 10, at Naku La in Sikkim, the Chinese troops crossed into what India considers to be indisputably Indian territory. No firearms were used. It was a hand-to-hand...
Modi’s Statement On Ladakh Lacks Transparency
By Arun Srivastava Nothing is pariah in politics for Narendra Modi. For him having complete control over the political system and apparatus is more important and precious than caring for the people and honouring their sentiment and feeling. And if resorting to lies is the cozy and convenient...
Unemployment Rate Is Showing Signs Of Falling As Unlocking Begins
By Satyaki Chakraborty The unlocking of the economy from the beginning of June following more than two months of complete lockdown in the country, has started showing some positive results in improving the employment rate in the country compared to the lockdown period. By June 22, most of...
