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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.With Bhima Koregaon Decision, Uddhav Makes A Grand Start
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Maharashtra Government headed by Uddhav Thackeray has started well with a human rights face by agreeing to consider the withdrawal of cases against the activists who were implicated in the famous Bhima Koregaon case by the state police under the earlier regime of...
Stage Set For Withdrawal Of Cases Against Bhima Koregaon Activists
By Amritananda Chakravorty On 28th November, 2019, the Maha Vikas Aghadi (‘MVA’), a post-poll coalition between Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party, and Indian National Congress formed the government in Maharashtra under the aegis of Uddhav Thackeray, after almost a month long drama. It was difficult to envisage that...
A Tale Of Two Manifestos In Britain’s Elections
By Stephen Low The Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) has published their manifesto. Its 50 pages paint a picture of a party stuck in the past and concerned more with changing flags than changing lives. The contrast with the forward-looking radicalism of Scottish Labour’s manifesto couldn’t be clearer. Indeed...
NDA Allies Are Uneasy With BJP Power Right Now
By Kalyani Shankar All is not well with the BJP allies, as there are murmurs from the alliance partners more so after the Sena quit the NDA recently. But the BJP is not worried as it has absolute majority in the Lok Sabha though Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
BJP’s Period Of Expansion Is Not Over Yet
By Sagarneel Sinha Ever since the installation of the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress coalition government in Maharashtra, there have been discussions on BJP’s shrinking political dominance in the country compared to last year — when the BJP and its allies ruled states peaked to 21. Presently, it has dipped to...
Only A Labour Government Can Change Britain’s Future
By Ben Chako This is no ordinary election. Lying and deceit may be common to all elections but this campaign takes the biscuit. Facebook has banned a Conservative advert for containing misleading clips from the BBC. Google has banned no fewer than eight Tory ads for breaking its...
Few New Jobs, Rising Redundancy
By Nantoo Banerjee It may be time to track job losses in the country alongside the routine study of job growth. The government may disagree, the country’s job scene looks truly dismal, if not alarming. This is partly because of the dwindling economic growth and recessionary pressure on...
BJP Will Be Wary Of The Shiv Sena
By Amulya Ganguli Of all the BJP’s opponents, the party of which the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah duo will be extremely watchful is the Shiv Sena. The reason is that the Sena can be uncommonly sharp in its criticism, a trait it has acquired through its years as a...
Gotabaya Has Given Reassuring Signals To India
By Barun Das Gupta Perhaps the most significant of Sri Lanka’s new president Gotayaba Rajapaksa’s New Delhi visit was that as a man who has never concealed his Sinophilia, he made New Delhi, rather than Beijing, to be his first port of call. On assuming presidency, he...
Opposition Against PSU Disinvesment Is Now All-Pervasive
By Satyaki Chakraborty The opposition against the Narendra Modi Government’s decision to sell stakes in the five leading public sector companies including BPCL and the privatisation of Air India, has become all pervasive with the RSS think tank firing its salvo at the disinvestment policy and also the...
Johnson’s Election Campaigning Ignores Ethical Norms
By Arun Srivastava Rightist forces led by the Prime Minister Boris Johnson are resorting to all the mischievous intrigues having at their command to ensure the defeat of Jeremy Corbyn the Labour Party at the December 12 general election. From launching the disinformation campaign against Corbyn...
Maharashtra’s Pawar-Play Has Sent BJP Top Brass Reeling
By Harihar Swarup Politics is a weird game; yesterday’s enemies are today’s allies. Nobody thought the Congress and Shiv Sena will come on the same platform. One can give some margin to NCP; the Congress-NCP have been in alliance for so long. The BJP and Shiv Sena...
Nirmala’s ‘Discerning Eyes’ Have Magical Powers
By K Raveendran Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is endowed with a rare ‘discerning eye’, which has certain magical powers to see imaginary things and filter out the real ones. Not everyone can be expected to have such special faculties. But she has a problem there: she cannot imagine...
GDP’s Touching New Low Proves Modi Totally Wrong
By Gyan Pathak Four months from now, the financial year 2019-20 will come to an end. Eight months have already passed with such a fall in the GDP growth rate that all our hopes have been shattered. Slowdown in the Indian economy cannot be reversed in near future....
Centre-Kerala Faceoff Over Kannur Airport
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government in Kerala and the Centre are at odds over the Kannur International Airport Limited (KIAL). Tensions have flared up with the Corporate Affairs Ministry rejecting the Kerala Government’s stand that CAG audit is not necessary in the case...
Cuba Is The Most Sustainably Developed Country In The World
By Matt Trinder Cuba is the most sustainably developed country in the world, according to a new report released on November 29. The socialist island outperforms advanced capitalist countries including Britain and the United States, which has subjected Cuba to a punitive six-decades-long economic blockade. The Sustainable...
Supreme Court Has To Regain Its Credibility Through Verdict On Kashmir
By Amritananda Chakravorty On 27th November, 2019, following almost two weeks of hearing, the Supreme Court reserved its judgment in the slew of petitions filed by citizens and political leaders challenging the complete restrictions on internet communications and mobility in Jammu & Kashmir, after the abrogation of Article...
Amit Shah Is The Architech Of BJP’s Defeat In Bengal By Polls
By Barun Das Gupta Close on the heels of an ignominious fiasco in Maharashtra, came a stunning defeat for the BJP in the three bye-elections to the West Bengal Assembly. It lost all the three seats including Kharagpur Sadar which is one of the Assembly segments of the...
