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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.December 12 Poll Is Crucial For Britain’s Future
By Arun Srivastava Britain has not faced a more critical election in decades than the one it faces on Thursday. Though it was envisaged that it would have direct bearing on the issue of Brexit, it is expected to decide and direct the future of Britain and...
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. Sometime in the 1980s, with the rise of...
Law Enforcement Needs To Wake Up To India’s Rape Epidemic
By Kalyani Shankar In William Shakespeare’s famous drama Julius Caesar, Cassius, a nobleman, speaking with his friend, Brutus, confides in the latter that in the best interests of the public, Julius Caesar must be stopped from becoming the monarch of Rome. Cassius tells him “The fault, Dear Brutus,...
Why Fake Encounters, Like Lynchings, Are Popular In India
By Amulya Ganguli As the showering of proverbial petals on the Telangana policemen — who gunned down four, accused of allegedly gang-raping and burning to death a young woman veterinarian in Hyderabad — showed, the summary execution of alleged criminals in circumstances which are outside the legal process...
Cab May Prove To Be BJP’s Waterloo
By Barun Das Gupta Even as Home Minister Amit Shah introduced the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB) in the Lok Sabha on Monday, the entire North-East erupted in anger, indignation and a sense of betrayal. Betrayal, because the Assam Accord of 1985, signed by the then Prime Minister of...
Under Current Sentiment To Decide Jharkhand Election Outcome
By Arun Srivastava Holding of the five phase peaceful assembly election is going to be the most important event for Jharkhand. Already the BJP leadership has started exploiting this as a major administrative gain. The argument is quite simple; the people are happy with the performance of the...
On Immigration, Labour Has Answers The Tories Do Not
By Ben Chako The Conservatives’ points-based immigration system has been the main focus of their weekend campaigning. And the constant reiteration of “Australian-style” by Tory politicians and sympathetic pundits cannot be explained by Australia’s immigration system being well regarded. It has been repeatedly denounced by the UN...
BJP Faces Internal Opposition To PSE Sale To Foreign Buyers
By Nantoo Banerjee It is interesting to note that Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) an economic think-tank affiliated to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has finally come out with its opposition to privatisation and sale of strategic state-owned industrial assets by the government. It has openly expressed its ire and...
Making A Scarecrow Of Our Judicial System
By K Raveendran “At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom”. This sentence in the ‘tryst with destiny’ speech of Jawaharlal Nehru has inspired generations of Indians and will continue to do so. But there is something that...
Mamata And Governor Are In No Mood To Stop Feud
By Ashis Biswas One intriguing feature of the highly politicised feud between state Governor Mr Jagdeep Dhankhar and West Bengal Government is that both squabbling parties are confident of winning it, never mind the consequential sufferings for Bengal’s stressed, aggrieved citizens. An added complication is that one side,...
The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 Is Unconstitutional
By Atasi Ghosh The Modi government has cleared the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 in a cabinet meeting on December 4, 2019 and it was introduced in Lok Sabha on December 9. The Bill proposes to amend Section 2 (1) (b) of the Citizenship Act, 1955 by excluding “persons...
British Elections Witnessing Intense Ideological Battle
By Arun Srivastava With only two days left for the polling in United Kingdom, the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has launched the final election push to deny Tories a majority. In spite of Tory candidate Boris Johnson being an unpopular contender, he has been ahead of Corbyn. This...
Jharkhand Assembly Elections: Close Contest Of Local Issues
By Harihar Swarup The ongoing elections in Jharkhand is yet another test for the BJP. The state elections are diverging from the Lok Sabha pattern and the BJP wants to arrest them. The five-phase Jharkhand assembly elections are taking place at an interesting juncture. Despite BJP’s dominance in...
Telangana Encounter Model Raises Many Questions
By Arun Srivastava All the four accused in the case of rape-and-murder of a 25-year-old veterinarian were killed by police in an encounter on Friday morning. While the killing of the criminals in encounter was celebrated and the policemen received applaud across the country from the frustrated and...
Treasury Documents Expose Johnson’s Brexit Falsehoods
By Lamiat Sabin Jeremy Corbyn revealed documents exposing Boris Johnson’s “falsehoods” over his Brexit deal — including his assurances that there would be no customs border in the Irish Sea. The Labour leader accused Mr Johnson of “deliberately misleading the country” over his Brexit deal. During a...
BJP’s Divisive Thrust Has Affected Economy
By Krishna Jha An unprecedented decline has started eroding the economy in the country. It has also induced an extremely slow pace to the growth in the eight core sectors, contracting it to 5.8 per cent in October 2019, leading to nose dive in the production in most...
Town Planning In India Requires A Fresh Appraisal
By Gyan Pathak The growing urbanization in India seems to be nothing but an urban sprawl since the legal, institutional, and financial challenges has been causing scant implementation of the Town Plan (TP) Scheme of the country that was institutionalized even more than 100 years ago. Economic development...
Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee Is Facing Revolt
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Senior Uttar Pradesh Congress leaders are gearing up for show of strength to confront the leadership. Shocked by their expulsion from party, senior Congress leaders have decided to hold big conclave of party leaders from all over the state on December 28 at Lucknow...
