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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.Tribals In Jharkhand Revolted Against BJP
By Arun Srivastava Raghubar Das’s subterfuge to own up the responsibility for the defeat of BJP in Jhakhand is purely a latent machination to provide a cover to his leaders Narendra Modi and Amit Shah from cadres’ censure. More than being an anti-incumbency verdict this ought to...
Madhya Pradesh Assembly Adjourns Amidst Acrimony
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Another session of Madhya Pradesh Assembly elected in 2018 has ended abruptly without completing the duration for which it was summoned. Abrupt adjournment was the fate of the assembly elected in 2013 also. At that time BJP occupied the treasury benches and Congress...
RBI Allowed To Defy Supreme Court And RTI Act
By Shailesh Gandhi ON December 18 2019, the Supreme Court bench comprising Justices S Abdul Nazeer and Sanjiv Khanna, has given a very concise and brief order which reads as follows- “Upon hearing the counsel the Court made the following order: Inspection Reports/Risk Assessment Reports/Annual Financial...
Hanukkah: A Holiday Rooted Against Imperialism
By Henry Millstein This week, starting Dec. 22, Jews around the world are celebrating Hanukkah, the eight-day festival that commemorates the Jews’ successful struggle for self-determination from ancient Greek imperialism. A brief summary of the history behind this holiday echoes many struggles of the 20th and 21st centuries:...
Gujaratis Top India’s Wealthiest List
By Nantoo Banerjee Gone are the days of the multidimensional industrial house concept. And, so is the leadership of the Marwari business community. India’s private sector industrial and business environment has seen a sea change in the last 50 years. Among the majors, the only survivor is the...
Jharkhand Confirms That The Modi Magic Is Fading
By Amulya Ganguli The indications that were available from the Haryana and Maharashtra election results about the BJP’s declining popularity have been substantiated by the Jharkhand outcome where the BJP has fallen behind the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM)-Congress-Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) combine. Notwithstanding the 20-odd rallies...
BJP Leadership Is Clueless In Assam In Dealing With CAA
By Ashis Biswas Even as the dust begins to settle in troubled Assam following the agitation against the Citizenship Amendment Act(CAA) 2019, palpable ethnic tensions remain between the two major communities—the Assamiyas and the Bengalis. Assam-based observers agree that at present, a delicate truce prevails, but simmering tensions...
Modi Is Trying To Mislead People Again On NRC
By Arun Srivastava Launching his campaign against the forces which are out to malign his image and create confusion about the Citizen act and NRC , especially the Congress, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually distanced himself from his protégé Amit Shah on this issue of enactment and...
CAA And NRC Emerging As Core Issues For 2021 Bengal Polls
By Sagarneel Sinha West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, also the Trinamool Congress supremo, has hit the streets again in her usual style of aggressive politics — which she often practiced during her stint as opposition leader of the state against the CPM-led Left Front government. This time...
Section of Congress, IUML Reject ‘Mullappally Line’
By P Sreekumaran A section of the Congress and the Indian Union Muslim League(IUML) have categorically rejected the ‘Mullappally line’ on joint struggles against the Citizenship Amendment Act(CAA). Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee(KPCC) president Mullappally Ramachandran had taken strong exception to the joint rally held by the Left...
Government’s GAG Order Smacks Of Colonial Mindset
By K Raveendran The gag order issued by the Information & Broadcasting ministry to news channels asking them to refrain from broadcasting content which is “likely to instigate violence or which promotes an anti-national attitude” smacks of a colonial mindset. The order, the second in a fortnight,...
Jharkhand Assembly Polls: BJP Faces Tough Challenge
By Harihar Swarup In its 19-year history, Jharkhand has never voted for a single-party government. And, prevailing trends suggest that the state is unlikely to break the habit this time as well. Elections to the 81-member assembly, which were held in five phases, were over on December 20....
Musharraf’s Death Sentence Is A Defining Moment In Pakistan
By Sankar Ray The death sentence, handed down to the former President of Pakistan General Pervez Musharraf by the three-member special tribunal , headed by the Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth in a high treason case is a landmark verdict as it signifies a...
Govt Clarification On NRC Is A Tactical Retreat
By Arun Srivastava After ten days of emphatic proclamation by the home minister Amit Shah on the floor of the parliament that CAA and NRC are core to the establishment of nationality of an Indian, the government on Thursday made a tactical retreat and released a document...
Kamal Nath Launches Action Against State Mafias
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh government has launched war on mafia of different denominations. Chief Minister Kamal Nath has declared that he is determined to make Madhya Pradesh total mafia free. Interestingly one such mafia is being run by a semi government organisation. This organisation is...
Macron unites all french workers against his pension “Reforms”
By Dennis Broe PARIS—“Reform” is a word with a varied history. At the beginning of the last century, there were many battles among progressives over whether capitalism as a system could be reformed or whether it needed to be abolished. Some time in the 1980s, with the rise...
Movement Against CAA Is A Battle For India
By Binoy Viswam The inevitable struggle has begun, may be earlier than expected. The struggle is between two ideas, rather ideologies, ideology of secular state and ideology of theocratic state. One is represented by the Constitution, with its great legacy of freedom struggle and the values of unity...
Anti-CAA Protests Getting Global Dimension
By Satyaki Chakraborty The continuing protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act(CAA) throughout the country covering people of all religions, have now assumed a global dimension with the participation of large number of academics, students as also other public intellectuals in the programmes condemning the passing of such a...
