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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.Bengal Chemicals Is A Unique PSE Turnaround Story
By K. Raveendran At a time when the privatization of the central public sector enterprises, is sweeping the Modi Government, a number of PSEs are striving hard to retain their PSE character. Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals ltd (BCPL) is one which has performed a miracle by its turnaround in...
Women-Centric Films Dominate Toronto Festival
By Bill Meyer TORONTO: She’s the only woman who won the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields—physics and chemistry. And now she’s the subject of the first biopic by Iranian-born director, Marjane Satrapi, known for her award-winning animated history doc, Persepolis. The famed Polish-French physicist Marie Curie’s story...
Edifice Of Judicial Independence Is Collapsing
By Prannv Dhawan and Anmol Jain The downgrading of the credentials of India’s constitutional democracy has been a subject of severe domestic and global critique in recent times. Nevertheless, the Indian diplomatic positions in the global fora continue to emphasise upon its track record as a vital...
India Has Long Way To Go As Arbitration Hub
By Arjavi Indraneesh The Modi government’s plan to make India an international hub of arbitration may be well-meaning and sincere, but it is too ambitious to be realistic. For, arbitration as a means of dispute resolution has not progressed beyond the rudimentary stage in the country. And it...
Health Should Not Be A Victim Of Political Machinations
BY Satyaki Chakraborty Healthcare is a fundamental right of every citizen. Under no circumstances it should become victim particularly under politically made situation. There have been several reports about health care problems in the Kashmir valley after imposition of curbs on 5th August 2019. Dr Arun Mitra,...
Sense Of Gloom Pervading Indian Economy
By Krishna Jha A sense of gloom is swallowing up all the glow there is in the Indian economy. The noticeable among them is fall in the consumption pattern. Among the factors leading to such dire miseries is absence of jobs. That, in its turn, has led to...
Modi And Shah Strengthen Separatists In Kashmir
By Gulzar Bhat Mohammad Ahraf Bhat prefers to sit indoors since the ruling dispensation in New Delhi did away with the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and split the state into two UTs — Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh. For Bhat the continuing lockdown or curbs are...
October 20 Elections To Test Bolivia’s Socialist Govt
By W. T. Whitney JR. Bolivian President Evo Morales and Vice President Álvaro García Linera are presently campaigning for their fourth term in office. In elections set for October 20, Morales, candidate of the Movement to Socialism Party (MAS), is polling 15 points ahead of ex-President Carlos...
Right-Wing President Macri May Lose In Argentina Elections
By Mark Gruenberg The October 27 Argentinian election, which will probably unseat current right-wing President Mauricio Macri, will have a big impact on workers and unions, Argentina’s former ambassador to the U.S. told a recent congressional briefing. That’s because the leading presidential candidate, who appears to have wide...
Opposition Legislators Disobeying Party In Uttar Pradesh
By Rahil Nora Chopra Those days are long when a leader rarely ever left his own party to join hands with the ruling party. However, now, it has become a symbol for success for politicians to change their stripes and join hands with ruling dispensation, or at least...
Modi Government Does Not Act On Its Own Irregularities
By Gyan Pathak Many high profile economic offences surfaced during Modi’s rule, and actions were taken mostly against his political opponents, the latest victim being Sharad Pawar of Maharashtra, the state undergoing elections. However, nothing is being done against his political supporters, or the departments that are...
Supreme Court Treats Flats Case In Kerala On A Different Footing
By P. Sreekumaran The Marad flats issue, which has hogged national headlines, has entered the final phase with the actual demolition of the apartment complexes, ordered by the Supreme Court, beginning from Friday. Marad was a sleepy town with no pretensions to fame till the Supreme Court...
Kamal Nath Averts Confrontation With Governor Over Ordinance
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Using his formidable skills at political management, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath, managed to prevent a direct confrontation between the Raj Bhawan and the state government. The state cabinet had cleared an ordinance making drastic changes in the procedure for electing Mayors...
Shiv Sena Has Scope For Modernising Under Aditya
By Sagarneel Sinha Shiv Sena, founded by Hindutva mascot Bal Thackeray, has been BJP’s one of the oldest allies — as both have a common ideology, Hindutva. Sena used to play the role of big brother with BJP agreeing to aid the former in Maharashtra, the state with...
RBI Finally Wakes Up To Declining GDP Growth
By Chidambaram N The Reserve Bank of India seems to have finally woken up to the all-pervading economic slowdown though it is still under the misconceived notion that mere lowering of interest rates will result in the revival of the economy. The CPI and other left parties...
Corporate-Communal Fascist Threat Is Growing
By D. Raja A calamity is hitting India today – calamity caused by corporate-communal fascism. This is being articulated aggressively by RSS. The recent speech made by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat at Nagpur is an emphatic reiteration of this. RSS which claims to be the largest...
Capitalism And Climate Change Cannot Go Together
By Ben Chacko Big sister says her brother’s Brexit rhetoric is “reprehensible,” the British Prime Minister’s girlfriend will meet the whole family including brother Jo, who resigned from his ministerial post, citing “unresolvable tensions.” And now Old Man Stanley Johnson has joined the Extinction Rebellion “crusties” and a...
Wall Street Is Scared Of Any Talk Of Socialism
By Rick Nagin As the world dominance of U.S. imperialism fades and the social fabric of American capitalism disintegrates, Wall Street is beset with persistent nightmares and, as proclaimed in Marx’s Manifesto, continually haunted by the spectre of communism. Its mouthpiece, The Wall Street Journal, tries to...
