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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.Labour Focusing Campaign On Climate Change
By Ben Chako Labour’s promise to make all new homes zero-carbon within three years confirms that those wanting politicians to act on the climate emergency ought to throw themselves into the campaign for a Jeremy Corbyn government. On November 2, Parliament’s six-month window for the Conservative government...
Will the BJP-Shiv Sena Alliance Survive in Maharashtra?
By Harihar Swarup Politics is a weird game. Yesterday, it appeared that BJP-Shiv Sena alliance had been saved from breaking, but overnight the situation took a surprising turn. Tension between BJP and Sena, which had shown sign of abating on Wednesday flared up within 24 hours. Insisting on...
A Demon 2 More Disastrous Than The First
By K Raveendran Media reports had raised a scare about the possibility of another gold control order mandating the compulsory declaration of all household gold and gold jewellery. According to these reports, the move was to be accompanied by a gold amnesty scheme that will allow individuals and...
BJP Set To Isolate Nitish Kumar In Bihar
By Arun Srivastava Like his big brother, the chief minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar too is haunted by the element of erosion of the credibility. The situation has simply been aggravated by the jibes and snide hurled by the state BJP leaders at Nitish. The relation between the...
India Has To Tap Big Opportunities In Uk Market After Brexit
By Subrata Majumder With Brexit becoming reality after January 2020, a new dimension in UK-India economic relation will set off. It will throw new challenges to deepen the relation with UK, after its exclusion from EU. There are two areas, which will open opportunities to rebuild the...
Centre Must Review Uranium Mining Norms
By Dr. Arun Mitra The Uranium mining in the Telugu states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, has led to opposition from various sections of the society. The political parties, environmental groups, science associations, medical personnel and the local tribal people are up in arms against it. Several studies...
CIA-Funded Militia Accused Of War Crimes In Afghanistan
By Steve Sweeney CIA-funded militia forces in Afghanistan have been accused of war crimes including extra-judicial killings and the targeting of clinics, according to health workers on the ground. Soldiers in a secretive pro-Afghan government militia known simply as “01” have “committed summary executions and other grave abuses...
Kamal Nath Threatens To Stage Dharna Against Centre
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: If the Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath carries out his threat of staging a day-long protest fast, along with his ministerial colleagues, at Delhi, it would add a new chapter to the history of confrontation between the Central and the state governments....
Assembly Results Underline Maturity Of India Voters
By Binoy Viswam The propaganda mills of the BJP are on over time job to paint it as a victory of their majoritarian fascist policies. But what has happened in Maharashtra and Haryana was the peoples’ rebuff to their policies favoring the rich. When they had come, it...
Menace Of Fake Currency Continues Despite Demonetisation
By Gyan Pathak The sharp rise in the menace of fake currency notes and various crimes under Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Special and Local Laws (SLL) demands a fresh approach in tackling them effectively. The latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report for 2017 gives a...
Argentina’s New Peronist President Faces A Tough Task
By Emile Schepers There was good news out of Argentina for the working-class movement at the beginning of this week, as the neoliberal government of right-wing President Mauricio Macri was thoroughly trounced at the polls. Macri, of the “Together for Change” coalition, lost heavily in the presidential race...
On Foundation Day Of Madhya Pradesh – November 1
By Kamal Nath I extend my heartiest greetings to people on the foundation day of Madhya Pradesh. It is a historic occasion for all of us. I also extend warm greetings to all those who are abroad and miss the beautiful landscapes and winsome memories of Madhya Pradesh....
Gurudas Dasgupta’s Death Is A Big Loss To Left Movement
By Nitya Chakraborty Gurudas Dasgupta, the veteran CPI Member of Parliament for nearly three decades and one of the tallest leaders of the trade union movement in the country died in Kolkata on Thursday morning. He was 83. His passing away signals an era in Bengal when the...
Ranjan Gogoi Is Not Retiring With Glory
By Amritananda Chakravorty Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi is retiring on November 17. Lawyers often joke that an incumbent chief justice of India always makes the last one look better, and nowhere has it been more true than the present one. In the run up to the...
Communist meet worried at ‘Loot of Nature’
By Sankar Ray “Nature is plundered for the greed of profit of the monopolies, including the recent destruction of Amazonia in the interests of capitalism”, noted the 2200-plus word appeal of the 21st international meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties in Izmir, the third-largest city of Turkey on...
By-Election Blues For Congress And UDF
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The result of by-elections to the five Assembly constituencies held in Kerala recently has grave implications for the Congress in particular and the party-led United Democratic Front (UDF) in general. True, the Congress and the UDF won three out of the five constituencies...
BJP Opposes Kamal Nath’s Plan On Legislative Council
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: After registering massive victory in Jhabua Vidhan Sabha by-poll, Kamal Nath government has initiated move to constitute Legislative council in the state. Congress in its Vachan Patra (a sort of manifesto) promised to constitute the Upper House in the state. As the...
BJP Sees Alliance Fortunes Soar In Haryana, Flounder In Maharashtra
By Rahil Nora Chopra After the assembly election, it was assumed that in Maharashtra, BJP-Shiv Sena would soon form the government, and in Haryana, BJP opened their doors for Dushyant Chautala-led JJP and independent MLAs. It was believed that BJP-Shiv Sena would take no time in forming the alliance...
