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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.Time For Democratic Forces To Unite To Save Constitution
By D. Raja The Constitution of India, whose prime architect was Dr. Ambedkar, was adopted on 26th of November 1949. It was not conceived just as a document of codified laws and regulations but it was an embodiment of the values inherited from our freedom struggle. The leaders...
Public Health Suffers Most In Conditions Of Violence
Dr Arun Mitra Violence is a complex issue with various factors involved in it. Violence may be interpersonal, or self-inflicted. Whereas these carry negative impact, but the collective violence has much larger ramifications and can cause collateral damage. According to ‘World report on Violence and Health’ by the...
Hong Kong Verdict Is A Setback For Chinese President
By Arun Srivastava The defeat has been monstrous for the Chinese president Xi Jinping. The ruling establishment of China has never imagined in its dreams that the young Pro-Democracy candidates of Hong Kong would show the Chinese veterans their right places. The present government of Xi claims...
China Gets Involved In Rohingyas Repatriation Efforts
By Ashis Biswas China has come up with a fresh idea to kickstart an organised movement of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh to Myanmar. Progress on this critical part of the proposed resolution of the Rohingya repatriation issue has remained stalled for months, despite ongoing parleys involving India, China...
British Artists, Filmmakers Pledge Support To Labour
By Marcus Barnett An open letter signed by scores of artists, filmmakers, playwrights and writers has pledged “full support” for Labour’s manifesto, It’s Time For Real Change, which they describe as “the most visionary offered to the British electorate in living memory.” Published in Tribune, the letter...
BJP Refuses To Learn From History
By K Raveendran We must thank our stars that Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has not cited the Official Secrets Act to prevent questioning of the ‘secret’ manner in which President’s Rule in Maharashtra was lifted and BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar, the exact status of whose...
Vodafone Idea And Bharti Airtel Financial Crises Are Serious
By Nantoo Banerjee No country in the world is known to have witnessed such a messy situation with its vital telecom industry as India. In last 10 years, 16 telecom operators, most of them with foreign links, had to shut down India operations. Of them, as many...
BJP’S Surgical Strike Will Cement Maha Aghadi Ties
By Amulya Ganguli More than any other state – Karnataka, Goa, Arunachal Pradesh – where the BJP’s “Operation Lotus” succeeded in winning over opposition legislators, Maharashtra is a prize which the party was loathe to lose. Hence, the unseemly haste in swearing-in a government of its...
Maharashtra Twist Shows Sena Resenting Being Bjp’s B-Team
By Kalyani Shankar No political party has come out of the mess in the formation of the Maharashtra government smelling of roses. It sends out a clear message that they are after power and for that they are willing to go any length. The Devendra Fadnavis government formation...
Fiscal Federalism Needs New Mechanism In Present Day India
By Anjan Roy There are some resolved and hitherto unthought of issues on fiscal federalism in the aftermath of the introduction of the GST framework. It is time to critically examine these and introduce necessary changes and amendments to the laws and even the constitution. The entire gamut...
Indian Economy Is In Virtual Recession
By Sitaram Yechury ON the first day of the winter session of Parliament, the finance minister has stated that though the economy has slowed down, it is well on the target of reaching a $5 trillion economy by 2025. At the current rates of growth, notwithstanding all the...
India Should Be Most Worried Nation Amidst Trade War
By Gyan Pathak India is now most worried nation in the world on account of new trade restrictions and increasing trade tensions that has been taking the world in its grip since July 2018. It is also a matter of a serious concern for G20 governments and the...
Corbyn Is Determined To Build A New Britain
By Arun Srivastava It has been the most radical election manifesto but unlike the past documents, this second election manifesto presented to the Britishers by the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has virtually no critiques. An impression was being created by the Tories and Lib-Dem leaders that this “most...
Students Demand Restoration Of Unions In Balochistan
By Sankar Ray The sexual harassment scandal at the University of Balochistan in early October this year emboldens the demand for lifting the ban on the right of students to form unions. This ban was clamped in 1984 by General Zia-ul Haq and the same was upheld...
Coup in Bolivia has U.S. Fingerprints all over it
BY W. T. Whitney Jr. The socialist government of Bolivian President Evo Morales took power in February 2006. He and Vice President Álvaro García Linare on October 20 had been elected to their fourth terms in office. A coup culminating on Nov. 10 removed them—a coup that the...
Confrontation Imminent On Industrial Relations Code
By Satyaki Chakraborty The passing of the revised Industrial relations Code by the NDA Government in its cabinet on November 20 has imparted a fresh dimension to the continuing confrontation between the central trade unions and the centre on the economic policies of the Government. Already the job...
An Unspeakable Crime Against Humanity
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: November 20, 2019 will go down as one of the darkest days in the annals of Kerala’s history. The day witnessed an unpardonable crime against a 10-year-old school girl. It is an unredeeming tale of human beings’ shocking insensitivity to a fellow human...
Sabarimala Verdict – Curious Case Of Review Petitions Adjudication
By Nivedhitha K A week before his retirement on November 17, the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi had the task of pronouncing judgments on various significant cases. He presided over the bench that dismissed the review petition in the Rafale deal and pronounced a contorted order...
