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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.Israel Election Results Still Too Close To Call
By Sputnik Correspondent Early results in the Israeli polls conducted on 17 September show that two major competing parties are nearly tied, with neither one appearing to get a clear-cut majority, meaning Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival Benny Gantz, the leader of the Israel Resilience Party,...
Supreme Court Bats For Uniform Civil Code, Again
By Kalyani Shankar Will Prime Minister Narendra Modi go for a Uniform Civil Code, particularly after the prompting of the Supreme Court last week? The Apex Court has once again batted for such a Code last week, pointing out that the framers of the Constitution had hoped...
Shahista Parveen pleaded for justice
By Arun Srivastava Shahista Parveen pleaded for justice. But her pleas fell on the deaf ears of the state administration. No police officer is willing to lend his ear to her wails and cries. Now having failed in her mission to get justice from the judiciary and the...
Corbyn Calls For A Green Industrial Revolution
By Marcus Barnett Jeremy Corbyn has said Labour will resist a “sweetheart trade deal” with US president Donald Trump and will deliver a “green industrial revolution” for Scottish workers. Speaking at the Fighting For Our Future rally in Kirkcaldy, Fife, the Labour leader said the party...
General Motors Not Willing To Grant 2008-Hit Workers Rights
By Mark Gruenberg General Motors’ intransigence on a new contract that would restore financial hits workers took during and after 2008 Great Recession has forced 49,200 members of the United Auto Workers toiling for the largest Detroit-based car company to strike at 11:59 pm-midnight Eastern Time on Sept....
China, Germany Take Investment Route To Combat Recession
By Nantoo Banerjee The fear of a major global economic slowdown is driving large economies make plans to push their growth machines back on track to avoid such a situation. Large economies such as the US, China, Germany and Japan are already at work to fight recession and...
Article 370 Is Dead, Long Live Article 371
By Amulya Ganguli Union home minister Amit Shah’s assurance that Article 371, which is meant to safeguard the distinctive identities of the north-eastern states, will not be touched should ease jittery nerves in the region. Nagaland’s governor, R.N. Ravi, had also told the “dear brothers, sisters and...
Has China got a Reason to Defy USA’s Trade Move?
By Nilanjan Banik and Parikshit Bhargava The US and China trade war has been at the center stage of economic discussion for quite sometimes now. The world’s two largest economies have imposed tariffs on each other’s goods. The US has imposed tariffs on over $360bn of Chinese goods...
Brexit Caught In Quagmire Of Ideological Vex
By Arun Srivastava The latest mass opinion that has gripped Britain is while Boris Johnson is damaging Britain, Corbyn betrays Labour values. People have their own indices to judge the two leaders, but the fact is their actions and the nature of politics pursued has given rise to...
The Raging Mess Of Assam NRC Is A Staggering Tragedy
By Harihar Swarup The following examples demonstrate the tardy manner in which National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam has been undertaken. On August 31, the state government released the final list of NRC who left out 19.5 lakh people. As many as 3.29 crore had applied...
Give A Boost To The Informal Economy: Manmohan To Modi
By Anjan Roy Dr Manmohan Singh, primarily an economist who was thrust into the position of a politician late in life, has offered sane advice to the Modi government to come out of the current economic crisis. In doing so, he was playing the role of a senior...
Government Needs To Come Out Of Its Denial On Economy
By K Raveendran His voice is few and far between. But when it does, it comes like that of an oracle. That’s former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. His description of Modi’s demonetisation as the ‘monumental blunder’ still rings loud and true. A man of few words, there...
Help Is Not Reaching To Those Who Need It The Most
By Gyan Pathak The Constitution of India guarantees safety of life and property, but both are unsafe in the hands our current government in the helm of affairs. To ease the miseries of the people, several private national and international philanthropist individuals and organisations are working. Indian...
Boisterous BJP Ringing Bells To Outmanoeuvre CM Kamal Nath
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Perhaps to take advantage of the division in the ruling Congress in Madhya Pradesh, the main opposition BJP has taken to the path of confrontation. As a part of this strategy, the BJP launched a campaign called ‘Ghantanaad’ (ringing of bells to wake up...
‘Medicare For All’ Dominates Democratic Primary Debate In US
By Mark Gurenberg Tussles over health care dominated the discussion as the ten leading Democratic presidential hopefuls debated each other before a boisterous crowd in Houston on September 12. The key disagreements were between Sens. Bernie Sanders, Ind.-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who championed single-payer government-run Medicare...
Crisis Accentuates In Both Polity And Economy
By Krishna Jha In India, for the first time, the extreme rightist forces have been elected to power with promises to serve the people’s cause. The shift represents a new stage in the old garb. Democracy has been perishing slowly in the hands of autocracy. ‘Divide and rule’...
Merger Of Banks To Favour Oligarchy
By S Sudhakar Reddy On the face of it, economic policies of Modi government appear to be clueless and directionless. However, underneath there is a deep rooted conspiracy to systematically loot the nation in favour of the few who have put their puppet in the prime minister’s chair....
CTUs To Hold ‘Open National Workers Convention’ On September 30
By C Srikumar Eighty-two thousand permanent defence civilian employees and 40,000 contract workers of the 41 Indian Ordnance Factories went on an unprecedented total strike from August 20 to 25, 2019. The three federations of defence civilian employees — All India Defence Employees Federations (AIDEF), Indian National Defence...
