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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.What to expect from interim budget 2019
Interim budget 2019 is believed to be featuring measures to tackle farm crisis and offer some good tax benefits to middle class. It is not yet clear what tax concessions would be announced on Friday and sources argue some of the sops could be made available during first few...
Falling To The Lure Of Opinion Polls
By Sushil Kutty The Times Now-VMR ‘Tracker Poll’ telecast Wednesday evening projects NDA will get 252 Lok Sabha seats ‘if elections are held today’. The UPA led by Congress will get 147 and ‘Others’ 144. Notably, SP-BSP gathbandhan can hope to notch up 51 of the 80 seats in...
Leadership Tames MP’s Dissident BJP Ex-CM
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Former BJP chief minister Babulal Gaur, who had stirred a controversy last week by disclosing that he has been offered a Lok Sabha ticket by Congress and he may even consider the offer, has been silenced by the central leadership of the party. Gaur was...
Priyanka’s Entry Seen Swaying Urban Voters
By Rahil Nora Chopra Reactions to Priyanka Gandhi’s entry into politics show she is not just a challenge for the BJP but also a message to the anti-BJP opposition that the grand old party still has a stronghold over large parts of the country. With Priyanka’s presence, the party...
Emerging Patterns In Kerala’s Political Kalaeidoscope
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi sounding the poll bugle during their visits to Kerala, political mercury has soared in the state. Consequently, political parties have slipped into the poll mode. Seat allocation talks have gathered momentum. Expectedly, hard bargaining over...
Unemployment Crisis Is Reaching The Stage Of Social Explosion
By Nitya Chakraborty The latest controversial report prepared by the National Sample Survey Office(NSSO) of the Government of India has exposed in a revealing manner the deception game of the Narendra Modi regime which did not allow the survey to be released leading to the resignation of the two...
Shankaracharya announces Ram temple ‘silanyas’ on Feb. 21
Religious leader Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati announced Wednesday at Kumbh Mela the ‘silanyas’ of Ram temple in Ayodhya is planned to take place on February 21 and Hindus are urged to reach carrying four bricks each. Called as ‘ishtika nyas’ (laying of bricks), the planned ceremony was announced at the...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Assam NRC deadline not to be extended beyond 31stJuly – The Supreme Court refused to extend the deadline for the publication of the final National Register of Citizens for Assam beyond 31 July. The State Co-ordinator informed the Court that due to the impending general elections, the finalisation of...
Supreme Court Upholding Insolvency Code Is A Big Relief
By Amritananda Chakravorty In a keenly watched matter, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (‘IBC’) last week in its entirety. The IBC was enacted in 2016 with the intention to amend the laws relating to reorganisation and insolvency resolution of corporate...
Bihar Lags Behind In Education Status, Reveals Report
By Arun Srivastava Ever since Nitish took charge as Bihar chief minister he has been claiming that he succeeded to reach education to the door steps of the poor and empower them. In the initial years of his rule he had provided some incentives, books, dress and cycle to...
Tharoor Gets The Yogi Cabinet’s Goat
By Aditya Aamir Congress MP of Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor is a naughty Malayali. He took to microblogging site Twitter to taunt Yogi Adityanath. At the Yogi taking a holy dip at the Kumbh. Encircled by his Cabinet. Water splashing, the camera catching the splashes in the light of the...
Encircling And Circling Of The Wagons
By Sushil Kutty The Modi government should have taken the decision in 2014 and not waited till January 2019 election-eve: Use Ram Mandir as propeller to catapult BJP-led NDA to another term in office. Blame it on Rahul Gandhi and Congress. If Rahul Gandhi had not announced ‘basic minimum...
A Recipe For Achhe Din Through Cement
By Nilanjan Banik As India heads for election, issues relating to jobless growth and farm distress are haunting the NDA government. The common perception is both these factors are responsible for widening income inequality in India. Oxfam International Report 2019, however, argues this worsening income distribution is a global...
Priyanka Gamble May Only Cost Congress
By Sagarneel Sinha Since the induction of Priyanka Gandhi, who resembles her grandmother and former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, into the battle of Uttar Pradesh officially as the Congress general secretary, the grand old party has been in a jubilant mood. Priyanka’s entry to the party was never doubted;...
Yogi approves longest expressway connecting Prayagraj with western UP
Uttar Pradesh is set to get two new expressways and one is to be counted as the longest in the world, about 600-km long. Known as the Ganga Expressway, the longest expressway is to connect Prayagraj with western districts of UP. It will touch Pratapgarh, Rae Bareli, Unnao, Kannauj,...
Domestic Investors Continue To Avoid West Bengal
By Subrata Majumder West Bengal has so far organized four Bengal Global Summits and the fifth one is on the way in February. Sarcastically, each summit raised big hopes for investment, but all those hopes were belied. In the previous summit, big houses queued up and they were...
BJP Engineering Dalit Division Using Sub Castes
By Arun Srivastava Ever since the 2017 UP assembly election, BJP has been trying to counter Ambedkar’s influence by projecting some lesser known dalit leaders and trying to exploit the differences amongst dalit sub castes. The party probably feels that playing up the sub caste icons will...
Too Early To Cheer For The Political Priyanka
By Amulya Ganguli Priyanka Gandhi’s entry into big-time politics from having been a part-time caretaker of the two family boroughs of Amethi and Rae Bareli of the Nehru-Gandhis has set the cat among the pigeons. Those in the BJP who thought that Rahul hasn’t yet matured sufficiently...
