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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.German Left Wins State Elections In Thuringia
By John Wojcik Shouts of joy rang out on October 27 night at Berlin’s Karl Liebknecht Haus, headquarters of Germany’s Left Party (Die Linke), when it was learned that Die Linke won the state elections in Thuringia with 31% of the vote, the highest total ever for the...
Economic Losses In Kashmir Are Mounting With Every Passing Day
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi talked about the Development priorities and his vision of new Kashmir in an interaction with a delegation of European parliamentarians on Monday. The delegation is in Kashmir on Tuesday to see the situation and make their own assessment. This is...
RITES Emerging As Indian Multinational
By Satyaki Chakraborty RITES, the public sector enterprise under the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India is making waves in the global market as the exporter of rolling stocks and project contractors. The developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America are wooing RITES to set...
Honduras’s Right Wing President Hernandes Facing Massive Protests
By Emile Schepers Since the re-election of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández of the right-wing National Party in 2017, mass protests have been ongoing in the streets of Honduran cities. That election was considered fraudulent by many, but now a court decision in the United States has added...
GDP Growth Is Useless If It Fails To Connect Common Man
By Nantoo Banerjee In a country where poverty, hunger and human destitution growth rates more than match the economic growth indices there ought to be something seriously wrong with that country’s economic progression system. Such a situation is possible only in a radically capitalist economy or in banana...
Argentina Victory Gives A Big Boost To Left In Latin America
By Nitya Chakraborty Things are finally looking up for the Left in Latin America again. After the victory of Eva Morales in the presidential poll in Bolivia on October 20 following a bitter battle with his rightwing opponents, on October 27 just a week after, the conservative government...
Recurrent Floods Causing Concern In Assam And North East
By Ashis Biswas India urgently needs to work out new agreements with China and Bhutan to save its Northeast region from floods, land erosion and ecological destruction. Policymakers and economists in Assam feel this more strongly than ever, especially after experiencing the most recent spate of devastating floods....
Kanti Lal Bhuria Getting Support For State Congress Presidentship
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Jhabua Vidhan Sabha by poll is causing serious repercussions in both the BJP and Congress. While in the BJP series of dissenting voices are being raised while analysing causes of defeat, in Congress whispers are being heard about the likely changes because of...
Has a Recalcitrant Rahul Gandhi Shot himself in the Foot?
By Amulya Ganguli Quite unexpectedly, Rahul Gandhi has shown that he cannot be taken seriously. His mournful silence at a time when the Congress has shown faint signs of revival in the Maharashtra and Haryana assembly elections is one of the most curious political events of recent years....
Kerala BJP Chief ‘Banished’ To Mizoram As Governor
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The poor performance of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the five assembly by-elections held in the State has taken a heavy toll on the party. The first casualty has been the party president himself. P S Sreedharan Pillai has been sent...
Maharashtra, Haryana Verdicts Show Limits Of Bjp’s Saffron Stratagem
By Harihar Swarup What is the most significant message of the Haryana and Maharashtra Assembly election to the BJP? The message is this: the ongoing economic slowdown is finally starting to show up as a non-trivial electoral determination. BJP’s Haryana performance can be explained by a re-consolidation of...
People Assume Role Of Failed Opposition
By K. Raveendran The assembly election results carry two kinds of messages: one for the incumbent BJP governments in the states that people’s patience is wearing thin; more importantly, there is a national message, which has implications for both the ruling parties as well as the opposition at...
On Celebrating Hundred Years Of AITUC
By Amarjeet Kaur All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), the first Central Trade Union of India founded on October 31, 1920, in Mumbai with unions of various sectors from all over the country is entering into its centenary year on October 31, 2019. The year-long centenary celebrations...
Sangh Parivar Distorting Definition Of Nationhood
By D. Raja With arrogance of power and Machiavellin politics, the RSS-BJP combine is trying to appropriate, nay to misappropriate, India’s glorious past. The latest in this regard is the call for Bharat Ratna for Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. The Maharashtra BJP incorporated the demand as part of...
For Labour Party, An Early Election Is Imperative
By Ben Chako The EU’s decision to hold off on a decision on an Article 50 extension until it sees whether British Parliament will vote for a general election in December will prompt a wave of eye-rolling throughout Britain. MPs have had three years to implement the outcome...
Ease Of Doing Business Rank Of India Is Deceptive
By Gyan Pathak India’s moving up 14 places to be ranked 63rd among 190 nations in the World Bank’s Doing Business 2020 report, fails to give a clear picture of the situation prevailing in the country, since the two most important areas among 12 are not included in...
BJP Has To Focus More On Urgent Economic Issues
By Sagarneel Sinha Although the BJP is going to form the government again both in Haryana and Maharashtra, the voters have given a strong message to the saffron party. The message is — to give more time to other important issues like the dwindling of country’s economy, rising...
Strong Anti-Poverty Programmes Can Only End Hunger
By Dr. Arun Mitra That with a Global Hunger Index (GHI) score 30.3, India is at 102 among 117 countries is a matter of serious concern. We are lowest among the South Asian countries. The countries which fall below us are Sierra Leone, Uganda, Djibouti, Congo Rep., Sudan,...
