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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.Kamal Nath Threatens To Stage Dharna Against Centre
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: If the Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath carries out his threat of staging a day-long protest fast, along with his ministerial colleagues, at Delhi, it would add a new chapter to the history of confrontation between the Central and the state governments....
Assembly Results Underline Maturity Of India Voters
By Binoy Viswam The propaganda mills of the BJP are on over time job to paint it as a victory of their majoritarian fascist policies. But what has happened in Maharashtra and Haryana was the peoples’ rebuff to their policies favoring the rich. When they had come, it...
Menace Of Fake Currency Continues Despite Demonetisation
By Gyan Pathak The sharp rise in the menace of fake currency notes and various crimes under Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Special and Local Laws (SLL) demands a fresh approach in tackling them effectively. The latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report for 2017 gives a...
Argentina’s New Peronist President Faces A Tough Task
By Emile Schepers There was good news out of Argentina for the working-class movement at the beginning of this week, as the neoliberal government of right-wing President Mauricio Macri was thoroughly trounced at the polls. Macri, of the “Together for Change” coalition, lost heavily in the presidential race...
On Foundation Day Of Madhya Pradesh – November 1
By Kamal Nath I extend my heartiest greetings to people on the foundation day of Madhya Pradesh. It is a historic occasion for all of us. I also extend warm greetings to all those who are abroad and miss the beautiful landscapes and winsome memories of Madhya Pradesh....
Gurudas Dasgupta’s Death Is A Big Loss To Left Movement
By Nitya Chakraborty Gurudas Dasgupta, the veteran CPI Member of Parliament for nearly three decades and one of the tallest leaders of the trade union movement in the country died in Kolkata on Thursday morning. He was 83. His passing away signals an era in Bengal when the...
Ranjan Gogoi Is Not Retiring With Glory
By Amritananda Chakravorty Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi is retiring on November 17. Lawyers often joke that an incumbent chief justice of India always makes the last one look better, and nowhere has it been more true than the present one. In the run up to the...
Communist meet worried at ‘Loot of Nature’
By Sankar Ray “Nature is plundered for the greed of profit of the monopolies, including the recent destruction of Amazonia in the interests of capitalism”, noted the 2200-plus word appeal of the 21st international meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties in Izmir, the third-largest city of Turkey on...
By-Election Blues For Congress And UDF
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The result of by-elections to the five Assembly constituencies held in Kerala recently has grave implications for the Congress in particular and the party-led United Democratic Front (UDF) in general. True, the Congress and the UDF won three out of the five constituencies...
BJP Opposes Kamal Nath’s Plan On Legislative Council
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: After registering massive victory in Jhabua Vidhan Sabha by-poll, Kamal Nath government has initiated move to constitute Legislative council in the state. Congress in its Vachan Patra (a sort of manifesto) promised to constitute the Upper House in the state. As the...
BJP Sees Alliance Fortunes Soar In Haryana, Flounder In Maharashtra
By Rahil Nora Chopra After the assembly election, it was assumed that in Maharashtra, BJP-Shiv Sena would soon form the government, and in Haryana, BJP opened their doors for Dushyant Chautala-led JJP and independent MLAs. It was believed that BJP-Shiv Sena would take no time in forming the alliance...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Power To Condone Delay Under Sec 5 Limitation Act Applies To Special Or Local Laws If It Is Not Expressly Excluded: The Supreme Court held that Section 5 of the Limitation Act can be invoked to condone delay in case a revision under Section 48, Himachal Pradesh Value Added...
Trump Sinks Deeper Into The Impeachment Mud With Each Passing Day
By John Wojcik Testimony by Christopher Anderson, a State Department Foreign Service officer, that Rudy Giuliani was orchestrating for President Trump the administration’s policy towards Ukraine was just the latest in a string of voices confirming for Congress the worst claims of the two whistleblowers. At this...
Modi Govt’s PR Offensive On Kashmir Turns Into A Disaster
By Barun Das Gupta Erle Stanley Gardner could well have written another Perry Mason thriller with the title: “The Mystery of the European Union Parliamentary Delegation” visiting Kashmir. There is a lot of mystery about the status of the delegation, who invited them, who fixed their meeting with...
UN Body Crosses Limit In Doubting Supreme Court’s Integrity
By K Raveendran One may or may not agree with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights about its assessment of the situation in Kashmir. But no proud Indian can back its attempt to cast aspersions on the integrity of our Supreme Court. “We are extremely concerned...
Shiv Sena Aiming For A Leadership Role In Maharashtra
By Mriganka M Bhowmick The coalition is always a compulsion; it is never a choice for peaceful co-existence to take the power sharing ahead. Political power, by its nature, is always up for grab and sharing it with any other political party hinders the organizational growth of the...
Samajwadi Party Gets A Big Boost After By-Poll Results
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national President and former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav should read wake up call for his party in recently concluded by-elections for 11 assembly seats. Samajwadi Party not only retained its seat in Rampur but also added Jalalpur from BSP and Jaipur from...
Britain Set For Elections On December 12
By Arun Srivastava LONDON: In his fourth bid the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson managed to get the approval of the MPs to finally resolve the Brexit deadlock by calling a general election, on 12 December which would be the most unpredictable in a generation. The margin...
