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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.Modi-Shah Caution Against Bangladesh Infiltration In Jharkhand Is Ominous
By Arun Srivastava RSS and BJP have been consistently raising the issue of Bangladeshi infiltration but the manner in which they are putting it in the Jharkhand assembly elections, makes it obvious that they are working on some treacherous plot. More than merely being a design to polarise the...
Rich Nations Are Still Reluctant To Shell Out Enough Funds To Meet The Climate Challenge
By Asad Mirza The delegates at the on-going COP29 are expected to deliver news solutions to save the world from a climate catastrophe, but these expectations instead of focussing on climate warriors, should pressurise the developed world holding its purse strings tight, to loosen them and spend for what...
Hindu Preachers Mull Setting Up Sanatan Board On The Lines Of Waqf Body
By Sushil Kutty A Dharma Sansad was organized in Delhi at which “firebrand” Hindu religious preachers and ‘Hindu Sants’ called for the constitution of a ‘Sanatan Board’ on the lines of the Waqf Board. Fiery speeches with a call to destroy the ‘Waqf Board’ or the setting up of...
From Mahatma Gandhi’s Lap To Left Extremism – Barun Dasgupta’s Memoir Is Exciting
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: A recall of having taken baby steps clutching the fingers of Mahatma Gandhi and then wedded to Marxism will either be a rollercoaster life story or one spent in ideological confusion. But brought up in Abhay Ashram, Sodpur in West Bengal which the prophet of...
Brazil President Lula’s Proposal For Tax On Super Rich To Dominate Talks At G-20 Summit On November 18-19
By Nitya Chakraborty The 2024 G-20 Summit is taking place in Rio de Janeiro on November 18 and 19 in the background of two continuing wars in Ukraine and West Asia and the intensification of eco-political crisis in Europe. Moreover, the victory of Donald Trump in the November 5...
‘Bulldozer Justice’ Verdict Boosts Supreme Court’s Global Prestige And Credibility
By K Raveendran Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna’s tenure has had an eventful start with the Supreme Court delivering the landmark ‘bulldozer justice’ verdict that grabbed global headlines. That the verdict was delivered by a bench comprising Justices B R Gavai and K V Vishwanathan, of which the chief justice...
Centre Seriously Working For EPFO Reform Including Modernisation
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Centre is seriously working for Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) reform, which includes modernization of its database, centralization and other initiatives announced in the Union Budget 2024-25 to boost quality employment in the country through increased membership of EPFO. The reform agenda was recently discussed...
Mainstream Liberal Media In U.S. Having Appraisal What Went Wrong With Kamala Harris
By Sushil Kutty After the election of Donald Trump and the defeat of Kamala Harris, the owner of the Los Angeles Times is looking to balance opinion pieces in his newspaper. This, when the Washington Post and the New York Times, continue to go for Trump’s jugular, criticizing his...
Western Agencies Are Active In Fanning Separatism In North East Of India
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: Foreign policy hawks who gleefully remind the world how the mightiest country in the world, the US considers fast progressing India as its strategic defence partner in the Indo-pacific region, may face an acid test soon. Belying their rhetoric, the apparent Washington-Delhi bonhomie was not...
Trump’s Win Ignites Bitcoin Boom, India Watches From The Sidelines
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Bitcoin has been rising over the past few weeks and it is currently trading at above $90,000. With the $92,000 level breached, Bitcoin seems headed for the $100K mark. Bitcoin has surged 36.33% in 1 month, over 20% in 7-day and 3.45% in 24 hours....
Trump’s Health Secretary Pick Robert Kennedy Jr. Is A Hazard To American Lives
By Mark Gruenberg and C.J. Atkins WASHINGTON DC: Will Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Republican president-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the giant Health and Human Services Department, be—in the words of the warning on cigarette packages—a hazard to your health? Off both his past stands against vaccines, against fluoridation...
Left Coalition’s Sweeping Victory In Sri Lankan Elections Is A Major Event In South Asia
By Nitya Chakraborty Sri Lankan President Anura Dissanayake has led his leftist coalition of 21 parties National People’s Power (NPP) to power in the island nation with a massive victory in the elections to Parliament held on Sunday, November 14. With most of the ballots counted by Friday morning,...
Severe Air Pollution In Delhi Shows Graded Response Action Plan Ineffective
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Air pollution in the National Capital of India is neither a new phenomenon nor the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP). Every year at this season, air quality in Delhi turns severe, and in some places severe plus. A Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) is...
Regime Change: Shah’s Secret Parleys With Sharad Pawar At Adani’s Home
By Sushil Kutty “Oh the games people play now/every night and every day now/Never meaning what they say, yeah/Never saying what they mean…” Politicians play games and grabbing power is the name of the game if elections don’t throw up a clear verdict. A BJP-Ajit Pawar government was formed...
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...
