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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.Electing Victor Modi (EVM) From The Cave
By Aditya Aamir The way it is made, EVM is electing victors machine, not electronic voting machine: Sit in a cave and hack into the EVM and deliver votes to elect the government of the cave-hack’s choice. The guy obviously is hacking for a party, definitely the party...
Pro-Wall Street Democrats Want Sanders Out
By C.J. Atkins Bernie Sanders has a sexism problem. Bernie Sanders doesn’t get black voters. Bernie Sanders is becoming unlikable. Bernie Sanders is too old. Bernie Sanders is too white. The television talk circuit, newspaper op-ed pages, and Twitter are all filled these days with analysts eagerly...
Opposition Front Has Many Hurdles To Cross Before Poll
By Kalyani Shankar Can the Opposition unite and pose a challenge to the BJP in the coming months? There are so many ifs and buts. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had organised a mammoth rally in Kolkata’s Brigade grounds on Saturday. A who’s who of the opposition...
The Optimization of Electronics and Technology Application with Collaborative Robots
As the robotic automation continues to grow more modern robots such as the game changing collaborative robots from Universal Robots are entering the realm that was meant for humans. A ‘cobot’ is a robot, which works in harmony with a human worker hence the name collaborative. The cobot and...
Government planning to transfer cash to farmers: Source
Though it is not yet final and ready for public announcement, but an insider reveals the Narendra Modi-led government is planning to transfer cash to farmers instead of subsidies. The fund will club all farm subsidies including fertilizer costs. Following losing three key state elections lately the Bharatiya Janata...
Impeachment Calls For Trump Are Getting Louder
By John Wojcik Demands that President Donald Trump be impeached grew after revelations Thursday that he ordered his lawyer, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress. The deceptions Trump allegedly ordered were designed to hide talks Trump and his family held with people in Moscow regarding the building of...
May’s Inspirational Leadership Facing Perpetual Crisis
By Arun Srivastava It is too premature to predict that Theresa May’s career is over. Nothing is impossible in the game of politics. The latest development has not come as surprise. Things followed the dotted line. May’s friends had warned of the disastrous effect on her moves, but...
Opposition Parties Have To Focus On Big Picture
By Amulya Ganguli Even if the rally of the national opposition leaders in Kolkata last Saturday was a fairly impressive affair, it was nowhere near what the people of the city had seen earlier, notably during the Left Front’s heyday. Perhaps the opportunity provided by television to...
Shrinking Jobs Are Bad News For Education Loan
By Nantoo Banerjee The shrinking job market is becoming an increasing concern for the country’s millions of students studying at home and abroad with education loans. Also concerned are those unemployed youth who had finished education with the support of bank loans that they are unable to return....
Mamata’s Kolkata Rally Has Set The Right Tone For Opposition Unity
By Nitya Chakraborty The massive rally organized in Kolkata’s Brigade Parade Ground on Saturday by the West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee to demonstrate the unity of the opposition parties for unseating Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government in the coming Lok Sabha poll,...
Who Is MGB’s PM Face Will Decide GE-2019
By Sushil Kutty The ‘mahagathbandhan’ is in place. There is also the ‘gathbandhan’. And don’t forget the ‘federal front’. The first and third overlap, they say. The question then is ‘What now?’ Mamata Banerjee and Mayawati, if one is ambition, the other is Mayavi. The day Brigade Ground...
Confessions of a nervous sterling bull in Dubai!
Confessions of a nervous sterling bull in Dubai! Matein Khalid The epic political dramas of last week (Aunty Theresa’s Brexit plan was rejected by the House of Commons but she managed to survive a no-confidence vote by a narrow margin) strengthened the British pound, exactly as I had expected....
Grand alliance of opposition parties is against people of India: Modi
The grand alliance of opposition parties is against the people of India too apart from being anti-Modi, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Satruday in a Bharatiya Janata Party rally in Silvasa, union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli. The opposition parties staged a show of strength in Kolkata...
Alas, In Virtual Crypt No.51
By Aditya Aamir The Kerala government has ‘51’ reasons to hang its head in shame. And Pinarayi Vijayan is the ‘head’. The only place Vijayan can hide is Pinarayi, the village with the rock that delivered CPM. Friday, Pinarayi Vijayan was on a slippery slope. He is atheist...
LDF Govt Blunders Again On Sabarimala Issue
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) government has been lurching from blunder to blunder on the highly sensitive Sabarimala issue. The government has obviously learnt nothing from its past mistakes. The latest faux pas is a list it submitted in the apex court...
Kamal Nath Orders Probe Into Journalism University Affairs
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Chief Minister Kamal Nath has ordered a high level enquiry into the sordid affairs of Makhan Lal Chaturvedi National Journalism University. The enquiry committee is headed by M. Gopal Reddy, additional chief secretary, and has Bhupendra Gupta, public relations. officer on special duty in the...
Tejashvi’s Lucknow Parleys Upset Congress
By Arun Srivastava RJD leader Tejashvi Yadav dashing to Lucknow for meeting SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and BSP chief Mayawati and asserting that this alliance would wreck the ship of BJP in the 2019 elections has caused uneasiness in Congress. The Lucknow meetings have given rise to the...
Barely Four Months In Office, Cji Under A Cloud
By K Raveendran The credibility of the Supreme Court was considered to be at the lowest ebb during the tenure of chief justice Dipak Misra. The so-called ‘mutiny’ by the four senior-most judges was described as the darkest hour of Indian judiciary, amidst allegations of the CJI misusing...
