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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.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...
India May Gain From Fta With USA
By Subrata Majumder In 2018-19, USA became the biggest trading partner of India, scuttling Chinese predominance for over half a decade. Paradoxically, however, the reasons for the trade buoyancy with two countries are diagonally opposite to each other. While USA reached the helm of trade due to large...
Sangh Parivar Working On ‘Hindu Rashtra’ Though Nrc
By Arun Srivastava The NRC is part of the BJP’s attempt to redefine India’s identity. A closer look would make it imperative that it is simply the part of the saffron strategy to convert India into a Hindu Rashtra. The element of political confusion and fragility about the...
Wife Rashmi, Sena’s Sanjay Raut Behind Uddhav’s CM Grab
By Rahil Nora Chopra Recently, Uddhav Thackeray’s decision to walk out of the NDA and stake claim to the post of chief minister is supposed to be the outcome of the pressure from his wife Rashmi, along with Saamana editor Sanjay Raut. In the beginning, when the assembly election...
At Last, Silver Lining Over The Darkest Political Gloom
By Krishna Jha It was no surprise when BJP joined the power-wagon in Maharashtra immediately after the NCP-Sena-Congress expressed willingness to form government. It was also no surprise when on the turbulent night of November 23, the BJP government at the Centre bypassed due process in recommending the...
Indian Official’s Comment On Settlements For Kashmiri Pandits Undesirable
By Arun Srivastava India’s consul-general in New York arguing for Indian leadership follow the Israeli model of building settlements to take Kashmiri Pandits back to the Valley and suggested that those at the helm are determined to do so is certainly the matter of concern. Raising...
Labour Exposes Tory Plans To Open Up NHS To US Firms
By Lamiat Sabin Labour has exposed secret trade talks between the US and the Tories — now at an “advanced stage” — that would pave the way for the NHS to be opened up to US pharmaceutical firms. At a press conference Jeremy Corbyn held up...
Maharashtra Defeat Is A Jolt To BJP’s Financial Muscle Power
By Nitya Chakraborty The defeat of BJP’s diabolic game in Maharashtra on the Constitution day of November 26 is the biggest blow to the image of Modi-Shah duo since the formation of the second Narendra Modi government at the centre in May this year. Only the senior BJP...
World Oil Market Set For A Pivotal Shift
By Arjavi Indraneesh The world oil market is poised for a pivotal shift, which will see the US emerge as energy-surplus and this has implications for all major importing countries like India. The major oil producer is only months away from full energy independence, which could materialise...
