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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.BJP’s ‘Congress-Mukt Bharat’ Programme Gets A Jolt
By Arun Srivastava The Prime Minister Narendra Modi should be appreciated for putting a brave face and refusing to concede the fact that the BJP has suffered electoral defeat in the states of Maharashtra and Haryana. This stance of Modi has wider implication. Acceptance of defeat would not...
By-Election Results: Lessons To Learn For All Fronts
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The result of the five assembly by-elections represents a spectacular victory for the secular ethos of Kerala’s polity. Politics of communalism and casteism has no place in the State, which has set an example which other States will do well to emulate. This...
Kamal Nath Gets A Big Boost After Jhabua By-Poll Win
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Result of Jhabua by-election has not only given stability to the Kamal Nath government but has also boosted the morale of the Congress. Almost all the newspapers have commented that it was the biggest Congress victory in the history of the state. The winning...
BJP Weakened In Maharashtra, Shiv Sena Is King-Maker
By Rahil Nora Chopra In Maharashtra, the Assembly election result reflects the BJP falling short of the halfway-mark on its own, with Uddhav Thackeray, the chief of its ally Shiv Sena, saying it was time to implement a fifty-fifty formula for power sharing as decided on earlier. The...
Citizenship Issue Takes Bizarre Turn In Assam
By Krishna Jha Assistant professor at Agartala Government Medical College, Kaushik Chakraborty (39), was placed under suspension on October 21, 2019, under the Central Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1965. He was charged with “objectionable remarks against the CAB” on social media, “which will definitely create...
Days Of BJP’s Surging Success Are Over
By Amulya Ganguli It may be too early to say that the latest election outcome indicates that the tide is turning, but there is little doubt that the days of the BJP’s surging success are over. That the setbacks which the party has suffered in Maharashtra in...
Opposition Has To Take Correct Lessons From Poll Reverses
By Mriganka M Bhowmick The outcomes of Maharashtra and Haryana Elections are giving a silver line of hope for Congress and its opposition allies. The much circulated picture of rain drenched Sharad Pawar addressing rally came out as the notion of a combative opposition, trying to save its...
Modi’s Charisma Received Battering In Two States
By Arun Srivastava It would appear to be an outrageous argument that Narendra Modi has lost the battle of Maharashtra and Haryana. But it is the fact which even BJP’s leaders and also its ardent supporters would find tough to refute. Usually a prime minister does not devote...
Opposition to Trump’s Anti-Cuba policy at new high in U.S.
By Emile Schepers WASHINGTON: With new sanctions just announced, the Trump administration’s effort to roll back the advances in U.S.–Cuba relations achieved toward the end of the Obama administration is going full blast. Will opponents of these policies in the United States be up to the challenge of...
Crucial Phase For Right To Privacy In India
By K Raveendran The next three months are going to be crucial from the point of view of individual privacy. The government has informed the Supreme Court, hearing a plea by social media giants Facebook and Whatsapp for transfer of several cases involving decryption of private messages of...
CBI’s case against p. Chidambaram is a part of political witchhunt
By Amritananda Chakravorty After spending more than two months in custody, the Supreme Court on October 22 granted bail to Shri P. Chidambaram, former Union Home Minister, and Senior Advocate, in the INX Media case. The Court was hearing an appeal from the Delhi High Court order dated...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Parties in Ayodhya case submit written submission in Supreme Court on ‘moulding of relief’ – On 16 October 2019, the five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court reserved its judgment in the Ayodhya land dispute case and asked all parties to submit their “moulding of relief” applications within 3...
Trump’s Middle East Policy Is In Shambles
By Arun Srivastava Global political scenario and relations are undergoing massive change with the United States under Donald Trump losing ground and Russia emerging fast as the new protector of global peace. American president Donald Trump might be having justifiable reason for withdrawing his troops from...
Israel Gripped In A Political Crisis After Elections
BY Eric A. Gordon As of July 20, 2019, Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu became the longest-serving prime minister in Israel’s history, edging out the founding Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion. In the general election on September 17, he narrowly failed to secure a majority for his Likud Party. It...
Trudeau Has A Good Chance To Reshape His Policies
By C.J. Atkins It’s going to take pressure from the movements outside parliament to wring progressive concessions from the next Canadian government after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals won a minority in the October 21 election. Falling short of the 170 seats needed for outright control in parliament,...
Protests In Haiti Show Signs Of Producing Change
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Food availability is uncertain for 60 percent of the people. Conditions are bleak, and bleaker still from shortages, rampant political corruption, and not much to show after two years of regular street protests....
Ayodhya Braces For Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi Verdict
By Kalyani Shankar Ayodhya is getting ready to face the impact of the Supreme Court judgment on the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmaboomi title suit by next month. The verdict will, hopefully, put a lid to the dispute between the two communities on the right of ownership. A violent mob...
Low Polling Upsets Calculations
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Low polling in all the five assembly constituencies which went to the polls on Monday due to heavy rains, has caused concern to all the three fronts, particularly the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) and the BJP-headed National Democratic Alliance (NDA) The CPI(M)-led...
