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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.Finally, Relief Package For Poor Indians Caught In Covid-19 Lockdown
By Sushil Kutty Just when we the thought the Government had probably forgotten the poor caught in the storm created by the COVID-19 pandemic and would be left to reap the whirlwind, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Thursday announced a 1.7 lakh crore welfare package for poor daily wage workers...
Nirbhaya’s Babaric Rapists And Barbarism Of The Gallows
By Sushil Kutty The four rapists of Nirbhaya have been executed. Hanged till they were pronounced dead by a doctor. Don’t know why doctors who take the Hippocratic Oath to save and protect lives go watch somebody getting hanged to death on the orders of the state. The medical...
Early Testing Failures, Trump’s Inaction Crippled Us Covid-19 Response
By Michael Biesecker, Mike Stobbe and Matthew Perrone WASHINGTON: A series of missteps at the nation’s top public health agency caused a critical shortage of reliable laboratory tests for the coronavirus, hobbling the federal response as the pandemic spread across the country like wildfire, an Associated Press review found....
Sitharaman’s Masterclass In Beating About The Bush
By K Raveendran Nobody can beat Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in beating about the bush. Her press conference on Monday to announce major concessions to people and businesses in view of the Covid virus outbreak in the country was a classic flip-flop. Even before the actual press conference started,...
Corona Lockdown: India Awaits Modi’s Plan For Survival Of Poor
By Arun Srivastava On March 22, the poor and daily wage earners had enthusiastically responded to the appeal of Narendra Modi to observe Janata Curfew. His announcement nonetheless was perceived as a prelude to the long-drawn lockdown. Their apprehensions have come true. On that day, the people nursed the...
BJP’s Shivraj Singh Chouhan Is Back On The Madhya Pradesh Saddle
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: After winning confidence vote and assuming the charge for the fourth time as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shivraj Singh Chouhan took several steps to undo many decisions taken hours before resigning by Kamal Nath. Nath appointed several important Congress leaders to various posts. Most...
Covid-19: India’s Preparedness And What Lies Ahead
By Nipun Saxena The word “novel” in the Novel Coronavirus is a misnomer. As part of human nature, there is a propensity to compare the deadliest of diseases and while Covid-19 does not appear to have a high mortality rate, yet the rate of exposure seems to be unprecedented....
Sanders & The Squad On Covid-19: Supporting Workers Top Priority
By John Bachtell “This is an unprecedented moment in history, and we need to act in unprecedented ways, no matter what it costs,” declared Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). “We need to guarantee to every American they will not be left hanging,” and that they have the health care, food,...
Janata Curfew Success Shows People’s Resolve To Resist
By Kalyani Shankar India shut the door on the deadly Corona virus on Sunday by observing an unprecedented voluntary Janata curfew responding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to stay indoors. In a cautious but effective public appeal Modi requested the people of the country to stay indoors from...
Rethinking Bhagat Singh’s Idea Of India Amid Corona Crisis
By D Raja March 23, 1931. The day woke up the people of India shaking their conscience and stirring their minds. Bhagat Singh, along with his two comrades Rajguru and Sukhdev, were hanged to death by the British colonisers. In October 1930, they were sentenced to death in the...
We Need To Finetune India’s Coronavirus Combat Strategy
By Gyan Pathak Almost all of India is under lockdown as a defensive measure against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID -19), but the ever increasing number of patients and the death cases on account of the disease is a certain indication of the country’s urgent need to fine-tune its strategy....
No Place To Run From Corona, But State Excesses Galore
By Sushil Kutty The worldwide spread of Covid-19 continues unabated. Relentless. At last count there were over 400,000 coronavirus-positive individuals in quarantine across the world. India’s numbers rose to 498 positive cases and nine deaths. Global fatalities were several thousands more. The WHO it’s being said has lauded India...
Kerala Government Declares Total Lockdown
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala Government has declared a total lockdown amidst mounting fears of a community spread of the dreaded disease and alarming rise in Covid-19 cases in the State. With the number touching 95, Kerala has become the State with the most number of covid cases...
Labour Party Leader Election Under The Shadow Of Coronavirus
By Arun Srivastava While UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is contemplating to enforce lockdown by the police, as it has become imperative with people not taking seriously the preventive measure of social distancing and staying inside, interestingly the Labour Party is going ahead with its programme of electing its...
Europe And The Coronavirus: Report From The Front
By Dennis Broe Europe is being called the epicentre of the coronavirus, and particularly western Europe, where the responses have varied from the new Socialist-Podemos coalition in Spain nationalising the country’s industry to a total quarantine in France by the neoliberal Emmanuel Macron, criticised for being three weeks too...
Virus Scare Poses A Big Threat To Economy
By Nantoo Banerjee The country’s economy faces the biggest ever threat as public income and consumption are severely under ‘forced’ compression with the coronavirus scare spreading across states. Thousands of Indian workers abroad, regarded as a great asset for the country remitting billions of dollars annually, the highest by...
The Aces Which BJP Holds Over The Rest
By Amulya Ganguli Jyotiraditya Scindia’s transition to the BJP underlines one of its advantages over Congress. Apart from the BJP’s control over its own members, unlike that of the Congress, the BJP has the ability to exert its influence over politically susceptible individuals and parties even if they do...
Corona Virus Pandemic: A Ticking Time Bomb
By Barun Das Gupta Way back in the 14th century when medical science was in its infancy, plague broke out in Europe on a massive scale. The pandemic lasted for five years, from 1347 to 1352 and took an estimated toll of 30 million human lives. Today, medical science...
