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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.Police facial recognition tech roll-out ‘threat to human rights’
By Ceren Sagir A Metropolitan Police scheme to snoop on Londoners using live facial-recognition (LFR) technology is “dangerous” and a “threat to human rights,” privacy campaigners warned today. Warnings flooded in after the Met announced it would begin deploying the technology, which has failed multiple trials, across...
India Budget Exercise Is Different This Year
By Gyan Pathak India budget exercise for the fiscal 2020-21 is different this year, not only because our Prime Minister has involved himself in the exercise, but also due to multiple new political and economic challenges that enforced him to come into the picture. The focus is on...
BJP’s Machination To Divide The Indian Society Continues
By Arun Srivastava The BJP leadership usually boasts of their fight against Emergency and claim they were primarily responsible for forcing the autocrat Indira Gandhi to retreat. They are free to make any claim which suits them. But the fact is fight during the Emergency was simple. It...
Women’s Protest Against CAA-NRC Spreading To Up Towns
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Much like the now iconic Shaheen Bagh in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh women’s protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) at Ghanta Ghar, Lucknow is gaining strength and support with every passing day. In fact, it is infectiously...
Davos Summit 2020: Rising Global Inequalities Cast Shadow
By N Sundaramurthy Oxfam Rights Group has come out with a study, ‘Time to Care’, on the occasion of the 50th annual meeting of World Economic Forum (WEF), a five-day summit from January 20, 2020, at Davos, Switzerland. The data were sourced from Credit Suisse Research Institute’s Global...
Delhi To Witness Triangular Contest Despite Frontrunner AAP
By Rahil Nora Chopra After the decisive Jharkhand elections, now on 8 February, Delhi will witness a triangular fight among Congress, BJP and AAP, when the national capital votes to choose a new legislative assembly. The Congress, which ruled the city for 15 years till 2013, but drew...
Nitish Kumar Must Come Clean On Citizenship Controversy
By Arun Srivastava Will Nitish Kumar strive to keep his flock together and united, or sacrifice the interest of his party JD(U) for protecting and promoting the personal interest of Modi and Shah? This is the question haunting most of the JD(U) leaders. This question has attained huge...
‘Social Unrest’ Also A Factor For Growth Plunge To 4.8% In Current Fiscal
By S. Sethuraman India, with a revised down growth projection at 4.8 per cent in current fiscal (2019/20), finds itself on a rough road to regain the lost momentum for 7 per cent, given the latest IMF projections of 5.8 per cent in fiscal 2021 and 6.5 per...
Remembering The Constitution On India’s 70th Republic Day
By Krishna Jha Our Republic Day is here, a moment for us to introspect how close we have been to meet the ideals spelt out in our Constitution. In India, for more than half a decade, the extreme rightist forces have been in power, elected with promises to...
China Emerges As Potential Investor To Stimulate Make In India
By Subrata Majumder Domestic investment is sluggish and consumption is in slump. It dragged GDP growth in tailspin. On the contrary, foreign investors were unperturbed and poured in cash, reposing confidence in strong parameters of the Indian economy. Amidst this paradoxical situation of investment, China emerged as a...
Madhya Pradesh Split Wide Open On CAA-NRC Debate
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Along with rest of India, CAA and NRC are causing tensions and clashes between us of the two measures and administration in Madhya Pradesh, too. However, an incident in Rajgarh, which happens to be the home district of Digvijaya Singh, caused a flutter...
Kerala, Chhattisgarh Move No More Than Posturing
By K Raveendran The suits filed by the state governments of Kerala and Chhattisgarh in the Supreme Court, challenging the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Investigations Agency (NIA) Act respectively, appear to be too ambitious to produce the results that they desire. In any case,...
Between Revenue Shortfall And High Money-Requirement
By Gyan Pathak Having seen the dismal performance of the ‘bahi-khata’ budget 2019-20 of the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, t\Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reportedly involved himself in the budget exercises for the year 2020-21, first of its kind for a Prime Minister. He not only...
Illegal Killing Of Iran’s General Soleimani Must Be Condemned
By N C Asthana From a legal angle, the killing of General Qasem Soleimani was murder, plain and simple, that must receive international opprobrium. The USA has been killing terrorists all over the world. There is, however, a fundamental difference in the killing of a terrorist like Osama...
Mitch McConnell’s Trump Impeachment Rules Are A Travesty
By John Wojcik If President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell prevail on rules they are introducing today the impeachment trial will be nothing more than a sham and a cover-up. The trial is underway today with the controversial rules scheduled to be introduced around 1...
Tories’ Universal Credit Scheme Deemed ‘Disastrous’
By Bethany Rielly Low-income families in “left behind” parts of Britain will be worse off under universal credit (UC), a think tank has warned, prompting fresh calls to scrap the “disastrous” scheme. Although benefit claimants will gain on average £1 a week more after the switch...
Two Cases That Test The Core Of Federalism Of Constitution
By Amritananda Chakravorty The protests against the draconian trio of CAA-NRC-NPR continue in India, while the Judiciary waits for the ‘violence to stop’, before making any meaningful intervention. In contrast, several state governments have voiced their strong disagreements on the principle behind and implementation of these laws;...
Modi Must Assert The Credibility Of His Government
By Arun Srivastava Suddenly an innocuous question has started making rounds in the political circles of Bihar, which has been causing consternation in the BJP circle. The question is: who is running the BJP government? Is it Narendra Modi or Amit Shah? While a section of the...
