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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.Renewable Energy Sector In India Must Be Made Risk Free
By Gyan Pathak Energy Sector in India will soon be undergoing a paradigm shift, if the Union Government implements two key announcements made by the Finance Minister. The first is to shut down all the thermal power units spewing out pollutants over the permissible limit, and the second in...
New Immigration Policy Creates Big Confusion In Britain
By Arun Srivastava Within a month of Boris Johnson occupying the office of the Prime Minister, the Britain government has announced to close the door to “low skilled” migrant workers. Earlier the unskilled labours would land up in UK and then would start search for any opening, according to...
Sanders Winning More And More Support In Democratic Primaries
By Eric A. Gordon In the lead-up to the statewide Democratic primary caucus on Saturday, February 22, Nevada’s early voters on February 15, the first day, turned out in record numbers—more than 18,500 Democrats, almost twice the turnout on the first day of advance caucusing in 2016. Enthusiasm over...
Delaying Trade Deal To Have Nominal Impact On India
By Subrata Majumder India refused to join RCEP. Because, China became a big burden for India’s trade deficit. Export is recognized a strong driver for the growth when the nation is reeling under slow growth, according to Economic Survey. USA is to play an important role as it is...
From Silence To The Assertion Of Identity
By Ranu Jain and Fahad Ahmad The most unnerving aspect of the Ayodhya verdict was the silence of the Muslim community. The community was dissatisfied with the verdict and felt that justice had not been done, but nobody protested. It had lost faith in its sense of agency, citizenship...
Sabarimala: An Alternative View That Merits Consideration
By K Raveendran Shorn off the emotional quotient of the Sabarimala women’s entry issue, the proceedings of the nine-member bench considering the larger issues of religious practices and fundamental rights constitute a real thriller. The arguments and interjections by the bench are so absorbing that there is no scope...
India And Pakistan Should Fight Hunger Not War
By Dr. Arun Mitra The other day Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned that India can defeat Pakistan in less than ten days. Similar overtones have been heard repeatedly from Pakistani leadership and the army as well who have even warned of using nuclear weapons in case of war between...
‘Parasite’ Is Essentially A Political Movie
By Rolando Pérez Betancourt In 2019, the euphorically intoned question on everyone’s lips that defined the tiny world of cinematography was: Have you seen Parasite yet? In May last year, the latest film by the South Korean Bong Joon-ho not only unanimously won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes...
Can Congress Survive the Current Political Wilderness?
By Kalyani Shankar Many people are writing off the Grand Old Party, the 135-year-old Indian National Congress, after its poor performance in the recent Delhi polls, as it has suffered one set back after the other since 2014, despite some good patches in between. Can the Congress with such...
Of Madrasas And ‘Tols’ In Eastern India
By Ashis Biswas More often than not, political developments in Assam have an instant ripple effect on neighbouring West Bengal. With the unsettling effect of the Assam NRC updating exercise on Bengal and other states still continuing, another administrative decision announced in Guwahati has set Muslims elsewhere restive and...
Scotland Gets Ready For A Walkout From Post-Brexit UK
By Arun Srivastava EDINBURG (SCOTLAND): Boris Johnson has rejected a call from Scotland’s first minister for a second independency referendum. He said a referendum would “continue the political stagnation Scotland has seen for the past decade”. This is nothing but to simplify the peoples’ aspiration and deny the failure...
Delhi And Ahmedabad Top In Added Fat Consumption
By Satyaki Chakraborty The daily average consumption levels of visible fat (added fat) in Delhi and Ahmedabad was highest among the seven metro cities in India and the lowest in Hyderabad, according to a special analysis carried out by Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Nutrition (ICMR-NIN) from...
Amid Corona Scare, Global Investors Diversify Portfolios
By Arnab Sengupta The outbreak of the coronavirus, coupled with record valuations in equity markets, has triggered a global sell-off of high-risk investments and a significant shift in sentiment among global investors. Accompanying the dip is a well-reported surge into traditional safe-haven assets such as gold. As global investors...
Trump Cuts Trillions From Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—Congressional Democrats, progressive groups, and defenders of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid all blasted President Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts for the fiscal year that starts October 1. Two top government worker unions chimed, in, too, slamming Trump for proposing only a 1 per cent raise...
Government Advising Public To Invest In Stock Market
By Nantoo Banerjee Ignorance may be a bliss for India’s most know-all politicians in power. Otherwise, how else could a top functionary in the government advise the country’s poor fixed depositors with banks and post offices to invest in stock market for better returns? To many, such a suggestion...
After Delhi Debacle, BJP’s Dilemma: To Hate Or Not To Hate
By Amulya Ganguli As Union home minister Amit Shah’s subdued body language during a recent media interview showed, the BJP has been shell-shocked by the Delhi defeat. It is also aware why the party was trounced. As Shah’s distancing of the party from the “golimaro” (shoot them) comment of...
Tough task Ahead for New Kerala BJP Chief K. Surendran
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: After a seemingly endless rounds of discussions, deliberations and debates, the Kerala unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) has found a new president: K. Surendran, who is at present one of the four general secretaries of the party. Kunnummel Surendran has managed to secure the...
New Political Party To Be Launched In Bihar On March 2
By Arun Srivastava It will be a party with difference. Same claim was made by the BJP leaders when they floated their party in 1980; a party with a difference. But the activist busy giving the final shape to the proposed Young India Party claim that the formal launching...
