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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 To Use Trade Muscle For Effective Diplomacy
By Nantoo Banerjee It is time that India boasting nearly a half-trillion-dollar annual merchandise import picks up right trade partner and not those who embarrass the country and challenge its diplomatic clout on every opportunity before international forums. The continuing critical response from some of the countries in West...
Indian TV Channels Under Fire In Arab World
By Amulya Ganguli After the Israeli historian, Yuval Noah Harari, voiced concern over the emergence of the “inner demons” of hate, greed and ignorance among people in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, UN secretary general Antonio Gueterres has spoken of a “tsunami of hate and xenophobia” sweeping the...
Snooping Apps May Be Integral To Post-Covid Era
By K Raveendran It took fewer days for the Modi government’s Arogya Setu to change from ‘voluntary’ to ‘mandatory’ than the number of days taken for the doubling of Covid-19 cases, at least in states like Kerala and Telangana, requiring 37 and 58 days respectively. The Covid app was...
Cash-Starved States Need Immediate Financial Assistance
By Dr. Prabhat Patnaik Despite repeated demands by the states, the centre still has not released what is their legitimate due, namely the compensation for their revenue loss owing to the introduction of GST; this has not been paid since August. Meanwhile the Covid-19 pandemic, while adding to the...
Central Trade Unions Urge PM Modi To Reconsider Labour Reforms, MHA Orders
By IPA Correspondent Central trade unions, including INTUC, AITUC, HMS, CITU, AIUTUC, TUCC, SEWA, AICCTU, LPF and UTUC, have penned a collective letter addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him not to repeal the Repeal Inter State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Services) Act 1979,...
Home Ministry Is Fighting For BJP Against Mamata
By Arun Srivastava The vitriolic campaign which the Union Home Minister Amit Shah has launched against Bengal chief minister, Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress government is part of his much bigger strategy to prove his invincibility for his party. Shah has been a known baiter of Mamata and...
Corona Issue Leading To Sealing Of Borders With Bengal
By Ashis Biswas By sealing its borders with West Bengal to prevent the spread of the corona virus pandemic, Assam has joined Bihar and Odisha, whose authorities had done so already. Assam has registered 62 CV positive cases so far. Days ago, two persons arriving from West Bengal tested...
Migrant Workers Plight Will Haunt Narendra Modi
By Sushil Kutty From all indications Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not stepped out of his residence-cum-office complex from ever since Lockdown 1:0 kicked off on March 25. He’s been sticking to home at all times and leading by example the fight against Covid-19. That’s why we can say...
Naked Profiteering Has Become The New Nationalism For India
By Gyan Pathak Profiteering has become the new nationalism for India, if the two recent orders of the Modi government happen to be any indication. While 800 million people are facing the conditions of near starvation, the government has allowed diversion of millions of ton surplus rice with FCI...
Health Should Be The Nodal Point Of Budget Making In India
By Dr. Arun Mitra Amidst the ongoing crisis, debate has already begun over the strategies for Post COVID – 19 economic growth. The discussion is centered around how to restart the industry and other work which have been on stand still since the lockdown. One opinion is to carry...
The Long March Of A Migrant Labour Towards A Dignified Life
By Mriganka M Bhowmick It was around 5 pm in May evening in the season of Lockdown. The Noida-Greater Noida expressway was depressingly empty. Few vehicles were plying amidst vigilant patrol of the Expressway police. Warm atmosphere demanded the car’s air conditioning be switched on. A group of eleven...
Yediyurappa Serving His Industry Friends At The Cost Of Poor
By Arun Srivastava Bad luck for the industries, builders and the owners of the real estate firms of Karnataka , their patron, the chief minister B S Yediyurappa could not keep his promise made to them to not to allow the poor labourers from moving out of the state....
Corona Forces Afghan Farmers To Opt For Poppy Cultivation Again
By Sankar Ray Amidst the awkward and disturbing coronavirus pandemic, Afghan farmers who gave up poppy cultivation in the southern province of Kandahar are feared to go back into poppy farming, especially in extreme poverty-ridden areas such as Zhari district in the southern province of Kandahar, mostly inhabited by...
Massive Opposition To Labour Laws Amendments In UP
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: There is a great deal of opposition to the UP government move to bring an ordinance to suspend labour laws for three years in the state in order to revive economic activity in the region and recover lost profits. Opposing the said ordinance, CPIML state...
Modi Regime Is At War With Workers During Pandemic
By Prakash Karat The war on the Covid-19 virus is quickly transforming into a war against the working class in India. In parliament, in March this year, the government had stated that there are estimated to be around 100 million (10 crore) inter-state migrant workers. A vast majority of...
Disappointing Approach Of Labour Ministry Towards Workers
By Amarjeet Kaur AITUC is shocked at the approach of the Union Ministry of Labour and Employment, which had called a meeting with the Central Trade Unions (CTUs) on May 6. The ministry did not respond to any of the concerns/issues/demands raised by the workers leaders and the CTUs....
China And US Have To Contain Increasing Tempers Over Virus Origin
By Anjan Roy The war of words, so far, between the US and China is fast spurning out of control into full scale diplomatic spat. President Donald Trump took the verbal bomb to its furthest height last night when he stated that the pandemic hit the US so hard...
Awarded Kashmiri Journalists Are High Professionals
By Sushil Kutty The last week saw considerable international interest in matters India with ‘foreign bodies’ such as the Pulitzer taking a hand in “needling” India, giving credence to claims of the decades old ‘foreign hand’ trying to hijack the Indian narrative with unsubtle interventions generally strengthening the view...
