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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.Fascism And Cinema At The Toronto International Film Festival
By Bill Meyer TORONTO: While we’re on the theme of fascism and Nazism, it should be noted that there were several other new films at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) that addressed this increasingly popular subject. Fascism is defined as an authoritarian, nationalistic right-wing system...
New Corporate Tax Cut Will Boost India’s Prospects
By Mriganka M Bhowmick The surprising festive bonanza doled out by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to India Inc has already created widespread enthusiasm in Indian industry. The grappling business sectors are terming it as much-needed oxygen amidst slowdown, with a hope that they will sail through the low...
Sailing Indian Economy To Remain Challenging For Months
By Gyan Pathak Within two months, Asian Development Bank has to make a downward revision to its economic forecast for India for the current financial year by about 0.5 per cent. Asian Development Outlook 2019 update sees some silver lining on the horizon, but did not forget to...
No Child’s Play: Dangerous Connotations Of Nuclear Ambitions
By Dr. Arun Mitra The nuclear powers have conducted more than 2,000 nuclear test explosions. Out of this 1054 have been done by the United States of America. The last US nuclear weapons test took place 26 years ago on Sept. 23, 1992, at the Nevada Test Site....
Green Strategy: Building The Movement To Stop Climate Change
By Marc Brodine The key to creating fundamental change is to create a movement broad enough, diverse enough, powerful enough, and sophisticated enough to embrace billions of people the world over. We can confidently predict that the environmental movement will grow—in size, sophistication, importance, and political impact;...
Groupism Rears Its Ugly Head In Kerala Congress
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Election time sees the Congress leaders in Kerala at their bickering best. Party leaders cutting across generations have been following this script with sickening regularity over the decades. The latest manifestation of this phenomenon followed the announcement of the schedule for the five...
Madhya Pradesh Honey-Trap Scandal Shows Systemic Rot
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: In the last 24 hours, three significant developments have happened relating to the honey-trap scandal, currently rocking Madhya Pradesh. The most important and sensational development is the disclosure that more than a dozen IAS officers are involved in the scandal. Top police sources indicated...
All Eyes On Preparation For Haryana Assembly Polls
By Rahil Nora Chopra After the sweep in Lok Sabha elections, the Haryana unit of BJP, the ruling party in the state, is confident of its prospect in the assembly polls scheduled on October 21. The BJP formed the government independently for the first time in Haryana in 2014...
Indian Democratic Structures Can Learn From UK Example
By Nipun Saxena On September 24, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom delivered a historic verdict, a verdict which not only consolidated the core ethos and conventions of democracy, but also echoed the sentiments of Professor A.V. Dicey on Rule of Law, which still reverberates in the...
Impeachment Inquiry Begins Against Trump, At Last
By C J Atkins With the explosive whistleblower revelation that Trump allegedly threatened to withhold military aid from Ukraine to get dirt on the family of Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced the launching of a formal impeachment inquiry against the President of the United...
Need For A New Culture Of Opposition Politics
By K Raveendran India needs a new culture of opposition politics. In a democracy, opposition is supposed to play the role of a corrective role in the conduct of governance. ‘Corrective’ implies that it has to constructively intervene to correct the course. But unfortunately, opposition now means blind...
One Hundred Years Of International Labour Organisation
By B Sivaraman India was a founding member of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in 1919. It has been a permanent member of its governing body since 1922. At the time of ILO’s centenary, India, the world’s largest democracy, has not ratified two of its core conventions—Convention 89...
Missing From Indian Democracy: Independence Of Judiciary
By Amritananda Chakravorty Over the last few years, the issue of independence of judiciary in India has been in constant public domain and for good reasons, particularly after the landmark press conference of the four senior-most judges on 12th January, 2018, who decried the executive interference in judiciary....
Major Decisions of the Courts in India
Kerala High Court holds right to access internet as a part of right to privacy and right to education – Kerala High Court has declared right to access the internet a fundamental right forming part of right to privacy under Article 21 of the Indian Constitution. It has further...
Corbyn Challenges Johnson To Resign Over Court Ruling
By Lamiat Sabin Jeremy Corbyn accused Boris Johnson of disdain for democracy and called on the Prime Minister to quit now after the Supreme Court ruled today that his attempt to suspend Parliament for five weeks was illegal. The Labour leader’s speech at the Brighton party conference...
American Workers Must Unite To Defeat Racism, Capitalism
By Rick Nagin Racism in the United States has two fundamental aspects. One is systemic, the other ideological. The systemic aspect has numerous and pervasive forms, including unequal wages, working conditions, access to financing, education, housing, medical care, and environmental protection, where the capitalists impose harsher conditions on...
BJP-Shiv Sena Poised To Win Maharashtra Assembly Polls
By Kalyani Shankar The Election Commission has sounded the poll bugle for the two BJP ruled states — Maharashtra and Haryana — which will go for elections on October 21. The BJP is not only eying a big comeback but also with a much bigger margin. The saffron...
Mayawati Looking At The Future Of Dalits In Isolation
By Arun Srivastava While Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), the dalit outfit has been consistently losing its political relevance, the charisma of dalit messiah Mayawati, the BSP supremo, has been witnessing a steep decline. With the changing times and shifting economic priorities and compulsions, the BSP has also...
