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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.Corporatising Rail Assets To Facilitate Privatisation
By Nantoo Banerjee Twenty years after the corporatisation of the strategic operational division of the government’s Department of Telecommunication (DoT) as Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) by the then BJP-led government, under Atal Behari Vajpayee, the present government is planning to corporatise a part of another department, the...
Shape Of Economy To Determine Future Political Discourse
By Anjan Roy Now that article 370 is abrogated, Ayodhya dispute settled, triple talaq law is formalised, BJP’s principal promises have all been fulfilled. What next? Once the current rainbow dusts also disappear over all these, BJP will face an existential crisis? Whaat issues will dominate the...
Lula’ Release From Prison Boosts Left Morale In Latin America
By Nitya Chakraborty The sudden release of the former Brazilian President Lula by the Supreme Court on November 8, has imparted a fresh dimension to the current Left-Right battle in Latin America which is undergoing a severe political turmoil in the recent months. The Supreme Court verdict came...
Boris Johnson Caught In His Own Quagmire Of Falsehood
By Arun Srivastava It is a pure case of misuse of power. Police officers using their official status and powers to protect their political masters has been a common practice in a developing country, but the police watchdog using its authority to freeze investigation into Jennifer Arcuri scandal...
CPI(M)’s U-Turn On Arrest Under UAPA
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s stand on the UAPA issue has been vindicated with the party coming round to his view that the State Police was right in slapping the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) on the two CPI(M) workers arrested for their Maoist...
Temple Emotions Overshadow The Wrong-Doings Of 1949 And 1992
By Amulya Ganguli Considering that a review petition is likely to be filed by the Babri Masjid action committee on the Supreme Court’s Ayodhya judgment, the case may continue for some more time. However, this may well turn out to be an exercise in futility since a...
Ayodhya Verdict Creates A New Template
By K Raveendran It was Justice Ranjan’s Gogoi’s moment for a tryst with history and he has set himself up eminently set up for such a glory by heading the bench that has issued the best possible verdict on the Ayodhya Ramjanambhoomi dispute. The Chief Justice had...
Stalemate In Maharashtra Underlies BJP-Shiv Sena Rivalry
By Harihar Swarup BJP and Shiv Sena have a history of difficult relationship. Despite being partners for the major part of three decades, the relationship between the two parties has been under almost constant strain—this is because the ideological affinities that brings them together also pits them against...
Toxic War Between Bengal Governor And Trinamool Congress
By Ashis Biswas A bitter war of words over basic procedural, governance-related issues in public perception, this is what the ongoing, unseemly spat between Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar and the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) looks like. At another level, it enables the BJP-run central government to challenge the...
Reflections On The Berlin Wall 30 Years After Its Fall
By John Wojcik This weekend, there are events in Germany commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In the pages of the press, prominent persons—from former U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker to current German Chancellor Angela Merkel to former Soviet President...
Supreme Court Giving No Priority To Electoral Bonds Case
By Nitya Chakraborty The Bharatiya Janta Party is taking full advantage of the existing electoral bond scheme of the NDA government in bringing about massive expansion of its finances by cornering more than ninety percent of the funds received under the scheme from the donors belonging mainly to...
Modi Govt Is Eroding Financial Viability Of LIC
By N Sundaramurthy Narendra Modi-led government has decided to list LIC on the Stock Exchange. The media appears to be excited that LIC, the country’s largest financial institution, will become a potential candidate for public listing. It is termed the big-bang reform. What is the big-bang?! In simple...
Left Must Fight Back BJP Move To Extend NRC To Other States
By Arun Srivastava The exercise to verify and identify the illegal migrants residing in Assam and create the National Register of Citizens (NRC) for the state has been going on for nearly four years, and so far not less than 2 million people have been delisted. Going...
As Maharashtra Stalemate Continues, Sena Bargains For More
By Rahil Nora Chopra Since the Assembly poll verdict, it has been 14 days and no headway made towards government formation in Maharashtra. Now, senior and influential leaders of BJP have started pressuring the central leadership to hasten government formation and in doing so, also criticizing and blaming Devendra...
Virginia Election Results Are A Warning For Trump
By Emile Schepers On Tuesday, November 5, there were many important victories for the Democratic Party, but none greater than in Virginia, where Democrats took control of both houses of the General Assembly (state legislature) for the first time in 26 years. Republicans went into the election...
Ruling Party Harming Formulation Of A Proper Science Policy
By Barun Das Gupta The BJP has never been able to resolve the mutually exclusive nature of science and pseudo-science. It has always been in a dilemma as to how to reconcile their irrational belief that thousands of years ago our ancestors used to travel from planet to...
New Zealand Tightens Visa Rules For Indians
By Arun Srivastava It appears that Indians are no more wanted in New Zealand. Else there is no genuine reason to fundamentally change the parameters of the visa issuing rules. In a swift move the New Zealand government has changed the provision of the Visa. Earlier the...
New Alignments in Middle East Erode U.S. Role
By Conn Hallinan The fallout from the September attack on Saudi Arabia’s Aramco oil facilities is continuing to reverberate throughout the Middle East, sidelining old enmities—sometimes for new ones—and re-drawing traditional alliances. While Turkey’s recent invasion of northern Syria is grabbing the headlines, the bigger story may be...
