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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.American Democrats Host Historic LGBTQ Presidential Forum
By Michelle Zacarias Last Friday Democratic candidates took the stage at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to attend the first LGBTQ presidential forum. The gathering was historic in that it was the first time that Presidential nominees got together to discuss the prevailing issues affecting LGBTQ communities...
ED Case Against Pawar May Backfire As Poll-Time Witch-Hunt
By Harihar Swarup Believe it or not, Congress has improved its position in election-bound Haryana and Maharashtra. Giving reigns of the party to Shelja and Bhupendra Singh Hooda, the Congress has consolidated its position electorally in Haryana. In Maharashtra, the Congress-NCP alliance poses a challenge to BJP-Shiv Sena....
Pala Victory Is Historic For LDF In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: September 27 is a Red Letter Day in the annals of left politics in Kerala. The day saw the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front(LDF) score a historic victory in the Pala assembly by-election. The LDF candidate, Mani C. Kappan wrested the seat from the...
By-Election Results Provide Relief To The Beleaguered Left
By Sagarneel Sinha After the abysmal performance in the Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal, Tripura and Kerala, the bye-election results, particularly, Pala constituency of Kerala provide a big relief to the Left. The Pala constituency, which has been a Kerala Congress (Mani) stronghold electing late party founder...
Hope For Victims Of Failed Atm, Online Transactions
By Arjavi Indraneesh It would be hard to spot even one person who hasn’t had a bad experience with an ATM transaction, payment at a point of sale (PoS) machine or an online payment. It often happens while withdrawing cash from an ATM that the message from the...
Johnson Pushing Britain To The Civil War Like Situation
By Arun Srivastava Senior allies of Boris Johnson have warned him of the threat of civil unrest on a major scale if he failed to deliver Brexit. This warning from the MPs came on Friday just after Johnson tried to incite hatred towards MPs. Labour leader Jeremy...
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...
