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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.SP MLA Mehboob Ali Sends Some Warning Signals To Yogi Adityanath
By Sushil Kutty Amroha’s Samajwadi Party MLA Mehboob Ali jumped the gun. Ahead of Gandhi Jayanti, Ali said “population of Muslims is increasing” and predicted that “your rule” will come to an end. It sounded like “Hindu rule” but the vigilant print media of India read Ali’s lips correctly....
Continuing Ethnic Clashes In Manipur Show The Collapse Of Governance
By Krishna Jha Tragic situation in Manipur has been continuing without any respite. To resolve the crisis the efforts made are almost half hearted. The peace stands fragmented. Responsibility to restrain the violence has been left with the forces of violence itself. Security forces are expected to restore peace....
Deadlock Over Refugees Continues Between Centre And Mizoram Govt
By Ashis Biswas With more tribal migrants from Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh fleeing to India in the wake of political turmoil, the cost of maintaining nearly 40,000 refugees is rising for both Indian government and Mizoram state authorities. During the last few weeks, many more tribals from...
Removal Of 35-A Enables Many Groups To Vote In J&K Assembly Elections
By Sant Kumar Sharma JAMMU: There were celebrations at Labba Ram Gandhi’s house in Samba district as dozens of his supporters raised slogans in favour of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday. For them, voting in assembly elections for the first time in decades was a novel experience. Gandhi...
Narendra Modi Did Not Ask Netanyahu To Stop Strikes Against Lebanon
By Dr Arun Mitra Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is without any outcome, commitment or even hope of ending war in the Middle East. In his quote on X Modi has said that he told to the Israeli Prime Minister “Terrorism has no...
Pakistan’s Ailing Economy Gets Some Relief After Getting US$7 Billion IMF Facility
By Tirthankar Mitra It is no secret that Pakistan economy is in doldrums and International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved $ 7 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) for the beleaguered country following a staff level meeting with Islamabad. A United Nations report stated that Pakistan’s economy is to face...
Leftist Claudia Sheinbaum Takes Oath As President Of Mexico On October 1
By Kurt Hackbarth MEXICO CITY: Following her landslide victory in Mexico’s June 2 presidential election, Claudia Sheinbaum was officially inaugurated as president on Tuesday October 1. The first woman president in Mexican history, Sheinbaum will be the second president in a row from MORENA, the party founded by her...
Dr. Muhammad Yunus Emerged A Winner In Perception Battle Against India In New York
By Nitya Chakraborty In the first battle between the interim Government of Bangladesh and India in the international forum — that is the United Nations, Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Dr. Muhammad Yunus had a clear victory over Prime Minister Narendra Modi without having any one on one meeting...
PM Narendra Modi’s Political Worth Is Once Again At Stake
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Lok Sabha Election 2024 results have shown a drastically declined political worth of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, that has quantified it with a BJP’s win of only 240 seats, much less than 303 it had won in 2019. Public opinions differ on the question if...
How Modi Govt Lost The Plot On Make In India By Ignoring China+1 Strategy
By Subrata Majumder Proclaiming 10 years of Make in India a big success, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goel was euphoric to term India more competent than China+1 strategy. He said “ India is competitive, not dependent on China+1”, focusing Ease of Doing Business and improving India’s ranking. Incidentally,...
Will Japan Turn A New Leaf With Its New Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba?
By Anjan Roy Shigeru Ishiba becomes the new prime minister of Japan when Japan is in a sort of way at a cross roads. Shigeru has been in the wings for a long time. His efforts to emerge as the leader were foiled a number of times. But only...
Kharge’s Comments Bring Entire BJP Leadership To Its Shaky Feet
By Sushil Kutty Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge is under attack for feeling dizzy while addressing a rally in Jammu. Since then, the BJP is criticizing Kharge for his dizzying remarks centred on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Kharge said the dizzy episode had nothing to do with his death and...
Mithun Chakraborty Remains A Film Icon All Through His Career Of Four Decades
By Tirthankar Mitra Opinions are divided about the wisdom of conferring Dada Saheb Phalke award on veteran actor, Mithun Chakraborty. If high brow film critics are not too happy at this prestigious award being given to Mithun, this tribe of dissenters are outnumbered by his fans whose age group...
Regional Rural Banks Are Getting Big Focus In North Eastern States
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Nirmala Sitharaman, chaired a key meeting on September 30 in Itanagar to review the performance of seven Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) serving the North East region. The meeting covered RRBs from the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur,...
Israel Is Trying To Widen Its War Zone By Including Lebanon And Iran
By Ben Chacko LONDON: An emergency resolution at Britain’s TUC Congress warned that “Israel threatens a much wider war in the Middle East that will lead to far greater death, destruction and instability.” It vowed to back a Britain-wide workplace day of action to stop that. The “much wider...
Tirupathi Laddu Controversy Has Both Political And Religious Dimension
By Kalyani Shankar When controversy and suspicion surround an innocuous sweet like Srivari Laddu sold by the Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam, it does not stop there. It has gone much further in the past week and become a political weapon for Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandra Babu Naidu to...
Hassan Nasrallah Killing Reverberates Far Beyond The Middle-East
By Sushil Kutty Hassan Nasrallah, one of the Arab world’s most charismatic leaders, was the leader of Kashmiri politician Mehbooba Mufti, too. And National Conference leader Omar Abdullah couldn’t brush away a tear after the Hezbollah Chief was killed by 5000-pound bombs made in the USA, dropped on Nasrallah...
Far Right Surge Continues In Europe As Freedom Party Emerges At Top In Austrian Elections
By Satyaki Chakraborty The surge of the far right political parties continues unabated in Europe as the Austrian electorate voted most for the far right party Freedom Party (FPO) placing the ruling centre-right People’s Party (OVP) in the second position. This was for the first time since the Nazi...
