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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.Promotional Activities Hurting Drug Prices
By Dr Arun Mitra With every passing day there are new innovations in the field of medicine. New drugs and devices are coming out. It is therefore important for the medical professionals to be regularly updated through continued medical education (CME) programs. Academic bodies hold their annual national...
India To Witness Coalition Era After Lok Sabha Poll
By Harihar Swarup India is all set to enter coalition era with the single-party rule appears to be ending. As the situation obtains now neither the BJP nor the Congress is in a position to form government at the Centre or in States on their own. The BJP,...
Modi’s Ayushman Bharat healthcare scheme gaining international popularity
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is gearing up to seek a second term and ahead of the Lok Sabha elections his Ayushman Bharat health insurance scheme has gained worldwide attention. Lately Microsoft founder Bill Gates praised the most ambitious healthcare initiative that seeks to cover 40 percent of India’s 1.3...
Arithmetic, Chemistry, Physics And Poll Poetry
By Sushil Kutty Nawabs of Negativity! The gender-misnomer is glaring. In prime minister-producing Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, the ‘nawab’ is a female. Is she negative? Will Mayawati be able to consolidate Dalit votes behind her? The BSP supremo never talks off the cuff, trusting the written word to the...
Democratic Party Speaker Shuts Down Trump’s Message
By John Wojcik Two of the women most in the news these days delivered blows to two of the nation’s most powerful and increasingly unpopular men. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi actually pulled off on January 16 what might be the only good thing to result from the government...
Mayawati’s Rise No Good News For Both Congress And BJP
By Sagarneel Sinha Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati has managed to emerge as a probable opposition candidate pushing other regional leaders like West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu, NCP chief Sharad Pawar and Telangana chief minister Chandrasekhar Rao behind for the post...
Coping With India’s Automation Assault
By B. Sivaraman The final version of the World Development Report (WDR) 2019 of the World Bank released at the end of November 2018 landed like a bombshell. It was a powerful refutation of World Bank’s own 2016 WDR, which declared that the proportion of jobs threatened by...
Sedition Charge Meant To Divert Focus From Real Issues
By Shameem Faizee After having failed in setting agenda of choice by raising various emotional and sectarian issues, this week the Narendra Modi government is back on using old cases and filing new cases on the charges of sedition against those who had dared to speak against the...
NDA Govt Disrupting Self-Reliance In Defence Industry
By C Srikumar The defence industry is under serious threat. The right to pension of the government employees is also under attack. The present government with the sole intention of supporting the private corporate houses has decided to handover the strategic defence production and related activities like Research...
Amit Shah to hold five public meetings in West Bengal
Bharatiya Janata Party now has a different plan for West Bengal following ruling of Supreme Court against the party’s proposed Rath Yatra in the state citing possible law and order situation issue. It is learned BJP President Amit Shah to hold five public meetings starting January 20 in Malda...
SP, BSP Form Alliance To Overcome Weakness
By Rahil Nora Chopra There is no doubt that SP and BSP know the strength of unity, but what forced the issue of alliance for the Lok Sabha elections is a sense of weakness by both parties over erosion in their ranks. Mayawati could not have easily overcome the...
It’s BJP Which Is Holding Kerala To Ransom
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: He came. He saw. But he failed to conquer. That broadly sums up Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Kerala, despite the claims by state BJP leaders to the contrary. The ostensible purpose of the PM’s Mission Kerala was to inaugurate the Kollam bypass...
Loan Waivers Can’t Solve Mp Farmers’ Woes
By Raju Kumar BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh government has started the process of receiving applications for farm loan waiver and Chief Minister Kamal Nath says that by the end of February the amount of loan waiver up to Rs. 2 lakh will be deposited in the accounts of eligible...
Rahul’s Promise Of ‘Surprises’ Excites Up Congress
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Snubbed by SP-BSP alliance leaders Akhilesh Yadav and Mayawati, Congress is preparing to contest all the 80 Lok Sabha seats with the cooperation of smaller parties. And this means that UP is set to witness a three-cornered contest involving three alliances. BJP won 73...
Bad Blood In Lunatic Asylum
By Sushil Kutty The Supreme Court will Friday hear a plea from Ayyappa celibacy-busters Kanaka Durga and Bindu Ammini for police protection. The two want protection in the aftermath of the image-shifting feat they conjured up in the Kerala chaos they are in part responsible for, along with the...
Making money in a potential CBS-Viacom merger deal!
By Matein Khalid Merger mania in Wall Street media shares was a profitable theme for me in 2018, particularly since I owned 21st Century Fox shares well before Walt Disney made its epic bid for the Murdoch clan’s flagship brand, the parent of President Trump’s beloved news channel. The...
Union Health Minister claims BJP to win 74 seats in Uttar Pradesh
Downplaying the alliance of BSP and SP in Uttar Pradesh state the Union Health Minister JP Nadda said Wednesday his Bharatiya Janata Party will win 74 seats out of eighty in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Nadda is the party’s election in-charge for UP and was addressing to senior...
Police Leadership Has Failed In India
By Sanjiv Krishan Sood It was disconcerting to see a Minister of Uttar Pradesh Government claim that the law and order situation in the State had improved after the Adityanath government took over. The statement, coming a couple of days after the brutal killing of a policeman in Gazipur...
