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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.Congress Is In A Bad Shape In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Priyanka Vadra Gandhi is the main face of Congress in Uttar Pradesh which is evident from the new executive announced recently. Ajay Kumar Lalloo who is serving second term as MLA from Tumkahiraj constituency in eastern UP, is the state President. Priyanka is...
Congress To Announce Its Delhi Chief Soon
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Congress party may announce its Delhi unit chief soon. The post of Delhi Congress president has been vacated since the death of Sheila Dikshit on July 20 this year. The absence of a Delhi Congress chief has impacted the Congress’s preparation for the...
Democratic Hopefuls Unite On Impeachment, Spar On Medicare-For-All
By Mark Gruenberg WESTERVILLE, Ohio: If there’s one issue the Democratic presidential hopefuls seemed to agree upon in their nationally televised debate on October 15, it’s the absolute need for an impeachment inquiry against their foe, incumbent GOP President Donald Trump. And, they said, the country agrees. ...
CJI Ranjan Gogoi’s Tryst With History
By K Raveendran If Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi manages to produce a verdict on the vexed Ayodhya land dispute before he retires next month, which he seems to be poised to do in all likelihood, his name will be etched in golden letters in the annals of Indian...
Economic Slowdown Turning Into A Real Crisis
By Anjan Roy In the foreground of the annual Fund-Bank brainstorming sessions in Washington, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been the latest to decipher India’s slow down. It has cut down growth forecast by close to one percentage point. But is predicting a rebuking in 2020 to...
Modi Govt Is Mistreating Its Own Public Enterprises
By Nitya Chakraborty The Narendra Modi Government has been aggressively following anti-public sector policy in its second term. The premier public sector enterprise like ONGC, BPCL, NTPC and HAL are getting step-motherly treatment from the Government and all focus of the Modi Government advisers is on bringing about...
Thirty Years After The Fall Of Berlin Wall
By Victor Grossman BERLIN: Remembrance Days are rewarding for journalists, especially since Google made research digging so easy. And how the German media love such days! We are again blessed with one such year. Not German unification, a 29th year is not round. But November 9th fits...
Congress In-Fighting Intensifies In Madhya Pradesh
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh Congress is contesting the Jhabua Vidhan Sabha bye-elections under the shadow of factional divide. At a time when the party should be devoting its entire energy to consolidating its electoral base, its leaders are dispatching letter after letter to the chief...
Shiv Sena Starts A New Chapter With Aaditya Thackeray
By Kalyani Shankar How would the late Sena Pramukh Balasaheb Thackeray have reacted to the idea of his grandson Aaditya entering electoral politics, when the Thackeray clan had so far scrupulously kept out of it? He would have chuckled. So far, the family has run a powerful political...
Reconstitution Of Bench On Land Acquisition Is Imperative
By Amritananda Chakravorty No week passes by when the Supreme Court is devoid of a controversial decision, whether on the judicial or on the administrative side, especially that of the Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi. On 12th October, 2019, the CJI set up a Constitution Bench of...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Supreme Court refuses to entertain plea to link social media with Aadhaar – On 14 October 2019, Supreme Court refused to entertain a plea for mandatorily linking social media accounts with Aadhar. The bench granted the petitioner liberty to approach the High Court, noting that the Madras High Court...
Drastically Changing Political Contour Of Middle East
By Arun Srivastava LONDON: The European Union which is already engaged in a bitter tug of war with the United Kingdom on the issue of Brexit is faced with yet another major challenge and this time from the Turkey president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issuing a warning to the...
American Left Must Back Move For Trump Impeachment
By C.J. Atkins In a recent op-ed that appeared in The Guardian, Samuel Moyn argues that the “coalition of long-governing elites, from liberal technocrats to ‘never-Trump’ conservatives” is declaring war on the president simply for their own interests—as part of an attempt to re-install centrist neoliberalism in power....
China’s High Speed Wealth Generation In Last 70 Years
By Nantoo Banerjee Few countries in the world have seen a single political party, following a democratic succession system within, enjoying such a long uninterrupted power and political authority as the People’s Republic of China. Under the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) seven-decade rule since 1949, the...
China Is A Big Challenge To India In Nepal
By Barun das Gupta Chinese president Xi Jinping came to India and had an “informal summit” (the second one after the Wuhan summit last year) with Prime Minister Narendra Modi down south in Mamallapuram (old Mahabalipuram) last Friday. Since it was an “informal” meeting, there was no agenda,...
Johnson Desperate To Stick To His Agenda By October 31
By Arun Srivastava LONDON: The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been desperate to salvage the situation and have his final say on the Brexit, but the prevailing political situation makes it explicitly clear that he ultimately may not succeed in his design as support for a new...
BJP’s Two Failsafe Political Weapons Continue To Work
By Amulya Ganguli Pakistan and sedition are the two brahmastras (ultimate weapons) in the BJP’s political armoury. The party almost always uses these two missiles in its battles with the opposition and, not surprisingly, comes out on top. Both are foolproof. Once fired, they not only do...
Maharashtra Polls An Acid Test For NCP-Congress’ Relevance
By Harihar Swarup Poll campaigning is at its peak in two important states—Haryana and Maharashtra. After return of Narendra Modi government in 2019 elections, this is the first test of whether the Prime Minister’s popularity remains intact, or whether the Congress and regional parties have mustered the capability...
