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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.Profiteering In A Period Of War Danger
By Sarah Anderson The prospect of war with Iran is terrifying. Experts predict as many as a million people could die if the current tensions were to lead to a full-blown war. Millions more would become refugees across the Middle East, while working families across the U.S. would...
Present Students Movement Gives A Ray Of Big Hope
By Arun Srivastava The independent India for the first time during 70 years of existence has been witnessing unique students’ movement. In the past we had seen militant student’s movement, precisely Naxalite movement. But that movement was primarily confined to West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh. In seventies Bihar...
Labour’s Leadership Candidates Set Out Their Programmes
By Nick Wright The Parliamentary Labour Party hustings this week presented the leadership hopefuls with their first chance to woo MPs. It gave them the problem of doing so without blowing their pitch to the party’s electorate. The dilemma of appearing to be simultaneously in tune with...
Priyanka Galvanises Up Congress Against Yogi Misrule
By Rahil Nora Chopra Congress Leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on January 4 met family members of those killed during protests against the new citizenship law in Meerut and Muzaffarnagar and asked local party leaders to help the families in filing cases against police brutality. She met relatives of five...
Urban-Rural India Up In Arms Against Modi-Shah Policies
By Amarjeet Kaur The unprecedented total shut down of the entire country — both urban and rural — on January 8, 2020 is really a historic one. If the RSS-controlled BJP government led by Narendra Modi still ignores the writing on the wall, it will be a big...
January 8 General Strike Has Opened Up New Vistas
By Binoy Viswam India witnessed the biggest ever working-class strike after independence on 8th January. 25 crores of working men and women from all sectors of the economy once again served their notice to the RSS led government that plays to the tune of corporate looters. This strike...
Violence In Educational Institutions And Political Myopia
By Surajit Mahalanobis Two of the basic tenets of conflict resolution for peace are tolerance and negotiations. In Indian government educational institutions, these two are wantonly missing. Mind you, the conflicts generally are not given a voice in private or cushy institutions, where democracy does not exist, and...
Our Wealth Creation Models Have Failed
By K Raveendran Owners of pubs and liquor outlets in Bengaluru have told the Karnataka government that they could help the state government with additional Rs 1,000 crore this year if they are allowed to keep their outlets open for one more hour daily. The state government might...
Marinaleda Is Now A Model Village In Spain
By Sean Meleady LEFT-WING political parties are doing better in Spain than in much of Europe, with the PSOE (socialists) emerging as the largest party in the last two general elections. In 2019, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez retained power by doing a deal with the more left-wing Unidas...
Global Cooperation Can Only Ensure Climate Change
By John Bachtell Humanity faces a planetary emergency, and survival of all life is at stake. Four years ago, the Paris Climate Accords were adopted. The Accords, signed by 197 nations including the U.S. under the Obama administration, marked an unprecedented level of global cooperation to fight...
Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra Is Absolutely On Dot In 2020
By Nitya Chakraborty On June 25 last year, the first time Lok Sabha member of Trinamool Congress Mahua Moitra mesmerised the house in her debut speech indicating how the Indian state under the Prime Minister Narendra Modi is showing early signs of fascism. Based on the poster put...
Lawyering In A Period Of Judicial Collapse
By Amritananda Chakravorty It is often said that lawyers’ language and doctors’ handwriting are hard to understand. The legalese of lawyers accompanied with legal jargon often sounds alien and too technical for common people, and for long, the Constitution of India remained the instrument mostly for lawyers, and...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Supreme Court heard arguments on the validity of amendments brought by the Finance Act 2017 – A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court began the hearings on the challenge to the amendments made by the Finance Act 2017, wherein the petition argued that the bill could not have...
‘Remarkable Feat’ Label Buries Serious Concerns In The Forest
By Gyan Pathak A serious concern is buried by the Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar under his label of a ‘remarkable feat’ of increase in forest and tree cover in India by more than 130 million hectares in the last four years. His comment came after he released...
Congress Leadership Has To Be Involved More In Anti-CAA Movement
By Arun Srivastava For strategic reasons Rahul Gandhi may not have been actively participating in the anti CAA and NRC agitation, but his action would not do well to the Congress. One of the reasons may be he does not desire to get trapped in Mod-Shah accusation that...
Rebecca Bailey Emerges As A Strong Candidate For Labour Leadership
By Lamiat Sabin The left has rallied around Rebecca Long Bailey as she confirmed that she was standing to lead the Labour Party. After her announcement in Tribune on Monday night, Labour Party chairman Ian Lavery pulled back from entering the race and offered his “full support” to...
Joe Biden Is In Backfoot In Campaign Over Middle East
By John Wojcik The Trump-ordered killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s second in command, has made its way into the 2020 presidential campaign, with Bernie Sanders, on national television, stepping up his sharp criticism of former Vice President Joe Biden. Sanders singled out Biden’s record on foreign...
Will Modi now touch the Question of Population Control?
By Kalyani Shankar Will there be a move to contain India’s population explosion? After Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced from the ramparts of the Red Fort that “keeping one’s family small is an act of patriotism” hinting at some measures to contain the population, there were expectations...
