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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.Rising Income Inequality Leading To Political Turmoil: UN Report
By Mark Gruenberg Income inequality is increasing worldwide and within specific nations, and that’s producing political turmoil, too, a recent United Nations report says. “Rising inequality creates discontent, political dysfunction and can lead to violent conflict,” the report warns, in a statement buried deep in its 218 pages. But...
GST Evasion Is Becoming Commonplace
By Nantoo Banerjee It took over 10 years for the government to enact a law to introduce goods and services tax (GST), since it was first conceived, to replace the cumbersome indirect tax system. The genesis of the introduction of GST in the country was laid down on February...
Sanders Has Given New Life To American Left
By Nitya Chakraborty Bernie Sanders’s overwhelming victory at Nevada caucus on February 22 is a major development in the present campaign for the Democratic Party nomination for the Presidential poll on November 3 this year. Nevada results have given a new perspective to the changes that are taking place...
RSS Seems Concerned About BJP’s Recent Electoral Washout
By Amulya Ganguli How worried is the RSS about the BJP’s lacklustre electoral performance can be gauged from some of Mohan Bhagwat’s observations in the wake of the Delhi results. By saying that Narendra Modi and Amit Shah cannot win all the elections for the BJP and that the...
AAP Has To Finetune Its Strategy For National Role
By Sagarneel Sinha The Aam Aadmi Party currently is in a jubilant mood. After all, party supremo Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, who has now established himself as the popular face of Delhiites with a well crafted progressive image aided by soft shades of Hindutva and nationalism, has managed...
Nitish Kumar Facing Challenge From Young Leaders
By Arun Srivastava Senior politicians of JD(U) and LJP, both allies of BJP, confide that the Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan have categorically asked the national BJP leaders not to thrust their ideas and dictates which made the BJP lose the Delhi polls last...
Montek Singh Ahluwalia’s Biography Of Manmohan Singh Is A Must-Read
By Harhar Swarup Manmohan Singh’s biography by former Chairman of the Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia reveals many facets of the former Prime Minister’s personality and landmark decisions taken during his ten-year rule. One of the most significant achievements of former PM was the conclusion of the Indo-US nuclear...
Need For Improved Road Design To Reduce Highway Fatalities
By K Raveendran The Brihat Mumbai Corporation (BMC) decision to appoint safety auditors to determine design faults in road construction that are mostly responsible for road accidents marks a change of approach to one of the long-neglected aspects of road safety in India. The civic corporation has identified hundreds...
A Tragedy That Traumatised Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: February 20, 2020 will go down in the history of Kerala as a day that witnessed a horrifying tragedy. The people of Kerala and Tamil Nadu woke up to a terrible road accident that snuffed out 19 precious lives. The accident occurred at Avinasi in...
Britain’s New Immigration Policy Would Be Counter Productive
By Arun Srivastava The UK’s “sky-high” visa fees could deter vital NHS staff and the “brightest and best” scientists that Boris Johnson wants to attract with his new immigration policy. The tech experts who till recently flocked to the UK from the EU may not be able to afford...
India’s High Courts Stepping Up Is Silver Lining In Judicial Gloom
By Amritananda Chakravorty On 19th February, 2020, the Supreme Court Collegium, which decides the appointment of judges to the High Courts and the Supreme Court, recommended the transfer of Justice S. Muralidhar, a noted and upright judge of the Delhi High Court to the Punjab & Haryana High Court....
Doctors Demand Transparency In Drug Prices
By IPA Special Correspondent A delegation of the Alliance of Doctors for Ethical Healthcare (ADEH) in a memorandum submitted to the Chairperson of the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), Ms Shubhra Singh, has demanded that the prices of drugs which include medicines, consumables and medical devices should be streamlined....
Mamata Takes Lessons From Kejriwal’s Success In Delhi Polls
By Ashis Biswas In the aftermath of the spectacular AAP victory in Delhi polls, the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) has effected a tactical shift in its dealings with the Centre. From now on, its policy of all-out opposition to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will be laced with...
Bihar To Witness New Political Combination
By Arun Srivastava The month long election to Bihar Assembly likely to be held from October 21 to November 20 is pregnant with possibility of former JNU students’ leader Kanhaiya Kumar and poll strategist Prashant Kishor coming together to challenge the JD(U)-BJP combination led by Nitish Kumar. With RJD...
Unified Common Agri Market Is Imperative
By Ashok B Sharma It is a matter of shame that even after 73 years of country’s Independence nothing substantial have been done for agriculture. Governments have come and gone but none of them have been able to understand the real problem of the farmers. Continual suicides of farmers...
Move To List Lic In Stock Market
By N Sundaramurthy LIC continues to be in front page news for wrong reasons. Stories are in circulation in the media, more so in the news portals that Prime Minister Narendra Modi government’s disinvestment targets make worsen LIC’s health and wealth. There are headlines that LIC’s bad loans have...
Delhi And Kejriwal Show Mutual Love At CM’s Swearing-In Ceremony
By Rahil Nora Chopra The winning of the Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi Assembly election has proved three things which are at present affecting voters at large. Firstly, the voters of Delhi favoured the party which declared the name of his CM candidate. Secondly, the work done by the...
Trump Visit is Meant to Bolster U.S. Interests
By Binoy Viswam Donald Trump and Narendra Modi can be rightly termed as birds of the same feather. They share many things in common. Allegiance to corporate capital, hatred towards minorities, contempt for immigrants, preaching of Islamophobia, etc, are their most savoured traits. That is why within no time...
