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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.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...
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...
