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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.Modi Has No Choice But To Mellow BJP’s Ram Temple War Cry
By Harihar Swarup Howsoever hard Prime Minister Narendra Modi may try to construct Ram temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya, there appears to be no possibility of the temple coming up before 2019 Lok Sabha elections. That was why the PM has stated that the government would abide...
Working Class Feeling Let Down By Modi’s Interim Budget
By Nitya Chakraborty The central trade unions representing both organised and unorganized workers of the country are seething with anger at the step motherly treatment to the entire working class of India in the interim budget of the Modi government presented on February 1. Only the BMS belonging to...
More people becoming homeless in major U.K. Cities
By Ceren Sagir ROUGH SLEEPING rose in most major cities in England last year, government figures revealed on Thursday, with thousands left to languish on the streets as temperatures drop below zero. The findings by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) showed that more than 4,600...
BJP, RSS Going The Whole Hog To Retain Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP-RSS and other organisations are working day and night to retain 71 seats won by the party in 2014 Lok Sabha elections. BJP and Sangh Parivar are working to take on the alliance of SP and BSP on one hand and resurgent Congress with the...
Massive Protests Over Amendment To Citizenship Act
By Dr. C. Sadasiva The North-East is boiling with people there on the streets protesting over the ill-thought out amendment to the Citizenship Act. It is not just the people of north-eastern states but all the democratic and secular minded people of India are genuinely concerned at the way...
Starvation Wages For Mid-Day Meal Workers
By B. Sivaraman They provide food for thousands of children every day in the schools. For this they receive a wage ofRs.1250 per month; or, Rs.42 per day. Unbelievable! In this day and age! But this is the reality of Nitish Kumar’s Bihar. Pointing to 42% of the country’s...
Narendra Modi Has Thrown A Big Political Challenge To Rahul
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister and RSS veteran Narendra Modi has fought many a political battles in his long career but on the eve of 2019 Lok Sabha elections, he is facing a big onslaught from the opposition parties, especially the president of the rejuvenated Congress Party Rahul Gandhi...
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...
