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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.State Polls Signal New Narrative For 2019 Elections
By Mriganka M Bhowmick The political scenario of India is taking a new direction. The recently held elections of five states show that the electorates are taking decisions in such a matured fashion that it has taken many election pundits by surprise. Surely, accountability is sought from the...
BJP gearing up for 2019 Lok Sabha battle, to form next government
Bharatiya Janata Party is gearing up for the 2019 general elections battle following losing ground in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh in the Assembly polls. Sources reveal strategies are being prepared to once again form government for another five years in Lok Sabha. The sources added BJP will again...
Supreme Court’s Verdict On Rafale Is No Clean Chit To Modi
By Nitya Chakraborty The Supreme Court in its much-awaited judgment on Rafale petitions given on Friday, the last day before the winter recess of the Court, has given no glory to the learned judges, especially the Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi as the judgment seems to be...
NDA Partners See Straw In The Wind
By Rahil Nora Chopra The results of the assembly elections have had their fallout on the relationship of NDA partners with BJP. There is already speculation that Apna Dal leader and Union minister of state for ministry of health Anupriya Patel will soon announce her party’s decision to...
BJP’s Danger Signals From Hindi Heartland
By Gyan Pathak Election results of the five state Assemblies point to the shrinking support base of the BJP and the rising support for Congress, especially in the states where the two national parties were engaged in a direct fight. With the 2019 Lok Sabha elections round the...
French People Are Sick Of Austerity Programme
By Donald Donato According to the narrative repeated by most news sources, the “Gilets Jaunes” (Yellow Vests) uprising began ‘spontaneously’ on Saturday, November 17, when approximately 300,000 activists, incensed by a heavy regressive tax on fuel, began a series of roadblocks and protests which snowballed across France. ...
Congress Must Adopt A Two Pronged Strategy For Opposition Unity
By Nitya Chakraborty The results of the assembly elections in the three states-Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh have underlined the need for total unity of the opposition parties including the Congress, BSP and the Samajwadi Party. The Congress has done exceedingly well in Chhattisgarh on its own but...
Wah Taj Is Only For A Gandhi
By Sushil Kutty It’s cyclical, the reign at the helm. Never lasting. If it does, that will be monarchy. The closest independent India has been to monarchy is elected dynasty-rule. The BJP made dynasty an election issue, ever so often raking up the anachronism. But ‘Naamdar’ and “Kaamdar’...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Proceedings against Vijaya Mallya under Fugitive Economic Offences Act—The Supreme Court refused to stay the proceedings against Vijaya Mallya who was sought to be declared a ‘fugitive economic offender’ by the Enforcement Directorate (‘ED’), and also sought confisaction of his property, while seeking a response from ED to Mallya’s...
An Early General Election Is Possible In Britain
By Lamiat Sabin Prime Minister Theresa May would be expected to resign if MPs express no confidence in her leadership and this could trigger a general election if the Tories do not agree on a successor, a key Commons committee confirmed. The Commons public administration and constitutional...
Ominous Signals From Jungle Raj In Uttar Pradesh
By Sanjiv Krishan Sood Aaj mere pita ji ko mara ha, kal kisi IG ko marenge, parson kisi Minister ko marenge.” This was the anguished cry of the son of the deceased Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh of Uttar Pradesh Police in an interview to a prominent TV channel....
Nobody Owes Modi A Second Term
By Sushil Kutty From now to Lok Sabha elections 2019, the BJP will be on the wrong foot. The party has nothing to show for the 5-state elections. At fag-end 2018, the party cadre stand demoralised and the Modi-Shah election-machine is wrecked, beyond repair. What can the duo...
Mayawati support for congress to re-shape U.P. Alliances
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: With BSP national president Mayawati announcing the support of her party in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan to Congress, some ideas about the shape of the future alliance in UP against BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls are emerging. Mayawati categorically said that her...
Saffron Outfits To Step Up Pressure On Ram Mandir
REVERSES ADD TO PRESSURE POINTS By Arun Srivastava In the backdrop of the election results in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, the RSS and its frontal organisations are expected to become more aggressive and this could mean queering the pitch further for the construction of Ram mandir. With...
MP Reverse A Personal Setback To Modi, Shah
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Despite the voters failing to give clear majority, Congress has put together the numbers to form the government in Madhya Pradesh with the support of BSP and independents. And this is s a huge setback to the BJP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president...
2019 No Cakewalk For Modi, But He Will Still Be NDA Face
By Kalyani Shankar What does the crystal ball say about the year 2019? The Lok Sabha polls and the electoral fortunes of many political parties including the ruling BJP and the main opposition Congress will dominate the year. The fortunes of some regional satraps like Naveen Patnaik, N....
BJP’s Hope Of A Congress-Mukt India Dashed
By Amulya Ganguli The Congress’s revival after having hit the lowest point in its history in 2014 is the big takeaway from the assembly election results. By the same token, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) hope of ushering in a Congress-mukt (free) India has been dashed, along with...
Wheels Within Wheels In RBI Changes
By Anjan Roy The underlying story around the sudden resignation of the governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is not about what has happened, but what hasn’t. Dr Urjit Patel did not resign when the tussle had peaked. He had in fact dug in his heels...
