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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.Portugal’s Avante! Festival Combines Culture With Politics
By Chauncey K. Robinson AMORA, Portugal—Hundreds of thousands gathered this past weekend for a three-day extravaganza of culture and revolutionary politics in the Lisbon suburb of Amora. While the annual Avante! Festival (Festa do Avante!) has a musical lineup that could rival the profit-driven Coachella, the jamboree was...
India Set To Carry Out Biggest War Games Near China Border
NEW DELHI: India is set to launch its biggest war games in disputed Arunachal Pradesh, near the Chinese border. The exercise, involving around 15,000 soldiers, including air force personnel, is most likely to coincide with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to India in October for bilateral dialogue on...
Preparations On For Upcoming Assembly Polls In Three States
By Kalyani Shankar After a stunning victory in the recent Lok Sabha polls, the BJP is targeting to retain the three poll-bound states — Maharashtra, Haryana and Jharkhand — where elections are scheduled for later this year. The party chief Amit Shah has prepared an ambitious “Mission 75-plus”...
Kashmiri People Must Have Full Rights For Healthcare
By Dr. Arun Mitra Healthcare knows no boundaries. The work of Red Cross and Doctors without borders is acknowledged globally. They work in conflict situations many a times risking their lives. Dwarkanath Shantaram Kotnis born on 10 October 1910 in Solapur, Maharashtra, also known by his Chinese name...
Ram Jethmalani And Raj Sethia
By Anjan Roy Ram Jethmalani, who died over the last weekend, would always remain as one of the finest lawyers who could mesmerise a court room. This correspondent had a courtroom view of the spell that he would cast while arguing his client’s case. It was...
China Retaliates To Protect Its Culture And Social Order
By Arun Srivastava Announcing withdrawal of the Extradition Bill has in fact been a strategic move of China to downplay the accusation of world fraternity of denying and crushing the democratic rights of the Hongkongers But this move of Beijing does not appear to cut much ice...
Corbyn Pledges To Create New Ministry For Employment Rights
By Conrad Landin Labour will set up a brand new employment rights ministry alongside a new workers’ protection agency to bang up bad bosses, Jeremy Corbyn pledged at TUC Congress on Tuesday. The Labour leader said the new agency would have “real teeth,” including powers “to enter workplaces...
Trump Has Failed At Regime Change In Venezuela
By John Wojcik Trump’s first problem when his administration launched a full-scale effort earlier this year to overthrow the Venezuelan government was that he was working against history. Since the months before the presidential elections in that country in 1998 up to now, the U.S. has repeatedly failed...
Bank Mergers May Benefit Banks, Not Customers
By Nantoo Banerjee The latest round of public sector bank (PSB) mergers — the third since 2017 — may help the merged banks cut their operational expenditure and improve bottomline, but the initiative seems to have come at a wrong time. The merger of 10 PSBs into four...
Investment Not Coming To Uttar Pradesh As Desired
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Shocked by the present scenario, the Indian Institute of Management here advised Yogi Government to ‘ improve law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh to bring more investment’. This observation was made when experts of IIM prepared road map for the development of UP...
BJP Finding Resistance In Moving To Hindu Rashtra
By Amulya Ganguli Whether in Kashmir or Assam, the BJP has been trapped by the fallout from the pursuit of its right-wing policies which militate against the liberal tenets of the constitutional system. As a result, the party does not appear to be able at the moment...
BJP Trying To Divide JD(U) By Targetting Prashant Kishor
By Arun Srivastava Pro BJP elements holding key position in the JD(U) have launched a resolute attack on the close aids of the party supremo Nitish Kumar. This insinuation campaign has been hastened by these leaders once they came to comprehend that RJD was trying to have fresh...
One Year After Scrapping Of Section 377 By Supreme Court
By Amirtananda Chakravorty It is often said that one year is a short time in the lifetime of a country, and even law, but one year could be a long tumultuous one in an individual’s life. On 6th September, 2018, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (‘LGBTQ’)...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
CBI granted two more weeks’ extension for completion of probe in the Unnao Case – The Supreme Court has agreed to grant an extension of two more weeks to the Central Bureau of Investigation (‘CBI’) for completion of probe in the Unnao victim’s alleged accident, which killed her aunt,...
Manmohan Singh Not First PM To Lose SPG Cover
By Harihar Swarup One wonders what prompted Narendra Modi government to withdraw the SPG security cover to former Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh. He will now be guarded by the CRPF in Z+ category, much like Mukesh Ambani, but with one difference. The tycoon pays for his security....
RBI Response To Online Fraud Far Too Inadequate
By Arjavi Indraneesh It is a no-brainer that when there is an increase in digital payments, a proportionate rise in fraud is a given. But India’s payment digitisation programme has gone ahead without a requisite improvement in the infrastructure for fraud detection and prevention. Over the past five years,...
Green New Deal For Climate Change Is Need Of The Hour
By Conn Hallinan When most people think of climate change, what come to mind are the poles, Asia’s fast vanishing glaciers, or Australia, where punishing droughts are drying up the subcontinent’s longest river, the Murray. But climate change is an equal opportunity disrupter, and Europe is facing a...
Boris Is Desperate For Snap Election Only On Brexit
By Al Neal Will there ever be an end to the Brexit crisis? With a stubborn new Prime Minister apparently unwilling to admit defeat, and Members of Parliament opposed to a no-deal U.K. withdrawal from the European Union—the so-called “Rebel Alliance”— holding their ground, it seems the end...
