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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.PLFS 2023-24 Wraps Up Disturbing Level Of India’s Labour Market Distortion
By Dr. Gyan Pathak After unemployment rate in India officially reaching 6.1 per cent in 2017-18, which was 45 years high, PM Narendra Modi led government has been successful in reducing it to 3.2 per cent on paper by 2023-24 which wraps up increasingly disturbing level of labour market...
Akshay Shinde’s Encounter Killing By Thane Cops Is Mired In Confusion
By Sushil Kutty Everything about the Badlapur sexual assault case accused Akshay Shinde’s encounter-killing is confusing except the reality that Akshay sexually assaulted two kindergarten kids in the school where he worked as a sweeper. Now, after he was killed in an encounter inside a moving police/prison van, there...
Rival Alliances MVA, Mahayuti Brace For Maharashtra Assembly Polls
By Rahil Nora Chopra The fight for Maharashtra assembly elections has commenced, with ruling alliance Mahayuti, comprising Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, BJP, and Ajit Pawar’s NCP, aiming to retain the power. While the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) of Shiv Sena (UBT), NCP (Sharad Pawar) and Congress,...
Defiant Kerala MLA Anvar Refuses To Mend His Ways
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Left Democratic Front (LDF)-backed Independent MLA P V Anvar seems to have lost his balance and sense of proportion. That is the unmistakable conclusion that can be drawn from the press conference Anvar addressed at Nilambur, the constituency he represents in the Kerala Assembly, the...
Removal Of Minimum Export Price Of Basmati Rice By Centre Is Welcome
By Tirthankar Mitra People on both sides of the Indo-Pakistan border have lot in common likings including sporting events in which players of the two countries pit their playing skills against each other together with tucking into a plate of fragrant basmati rice. Giving a leg up to Basmati...
Assessing Big Emergence Of BSW In Brandenburg Regional Elections
By Nick Wright BERLIN: A day before last Sunday’s vote for a new parliament in the east German state of Brandenburg, opinion polls had the ruling Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the far-right AfD neck and neck. The SPD finished up on 30.9 per cent, with the AfD on...
Litmus Test For BJP’s Policies In The Crucial Third Phase Of J&K Election
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Election campaigns for all participating political parties in the ongoing Jammu and Kashmir Vidhan Sabha election has unquestionably centred round the chief issue – restoration of the abrogated Article 370 of the Constitution of India and the lost statehood of this Union Territory. The electoral...
BJP Is Clueless On How To Deal With Its Lok Sabha Member ‘Queen’ Kangana Ranaut
By Sushil Kutty BJP’s Mandi MP, actor Kangana Ranaut, is a raw nerve in the BJP’s thick skin and a bundle of apprehension for party president JP Nadda, who cannot seem to decide whether she is in-disciplinable or indispensable? Is Kangana Ranaut a “Congressi” at heart? For, she sounds...
Only A Steep Rise In Steel Consumption In India Can Boost Manufacturing
By Kunal Bose How has China become an awe-inspiring manufacturing powerhouse backed by crude steel capacity of 1.078 billion tonnes and aluminium smelting capacity of 45.19 million tonnes? Any number of dissertations on the subject analysing the economic and political factors propelling the country’s rapid industrialization since the late...
Yogi Adityanath Intensifies Campaign For Ten Bypolls To State Assembly
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Even though, the dates for the by polls to the Uttar Pradesh assembly are not out, but all major political parties are gearing up for elections to 10 assembly seats. Since the outcome of these by-elections will decide the mood of the political parties and...
RG Kar Incident Of August 9 Has Imparted A New Dimension To Coming Puja Festival
By Devasis Chattopadhyay As Terence McKenna said that culture is a mass hallucination, likewise the annual festival of Durga Puja is typically an immersive carnival of food, music, community get-togethers and cultural programmes that holds West Bengal in its thrall for five hedonistic days and nights. With Kolkata as...
France Changes Its Liberal Face After It Tightens Immigration Laws
By Tirthankar Mitra Ministerial utterances on policy matters are pointers to a profound shift but sometimes drops more than a broad hint about an impending change in the socio-political landscape if utterance of France’ s interior minister, Bruno Retailleau on immigration is anything to go by. The French government...
Prime Minister Keir Starmer Has Given Some Concessions To Left At Liverpool
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is not Tony Blair’s. The lessons from its troubled conference last week demonstrate this in multiple ways. Some mark positive differences from the last Labour government. Then TUC leader John Monks said unions were treated as “embarrassing elderly relatives” by Blair;...
A Washing Machine Brand Named SEBI May Be An Excellent Entrepreneurial Idea
By K Raveendran SEBI would be a nice name for a new range of washing machines. The brand name is short, sweet and has good connect with its namesake market regulator, which has by far excelled in the act of cleaning. Additionally, the new range may not require a...
Anura Dissanayake’s Election As President Of Sri Lanka Promises Positive For South Asia
By P. Sudhir Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the Janata Vimukti Perumana (JVP) and the National Peoples’ Power (an alliance of Left and progressive parties) won the presidential elections held on September 21 in Sri Lanka. He polled 57,40,179 votes (42.3 per cent) in these elections, which is a...
Ailing Chinese Economy Gets Massive Stimulus As Central Bank Swings Into Action
By Anjan Roy The Chinese economy is seeing deflation —that is, prices are really falling in real time— for 23 months straight. This has really raised the concerns of the Chinese political bosses which was reflected in the central bank move on Tuesday. The central bank cut its policy...
Make In India Will Be Made Easier By Decriminalising 300 More Activities
By Dr. Gyan Pathak September 25, 2024, is the tenth birth anniversary of Make in India. It was launched on September 25, 2014. PM Narendra Modi government has tried its best to promote ease of business in the country, but finding the scheme not getting desired momentum, it decriminalized...
A Personal Tribute To The CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury
By Harihar Swarup The general secretary of the CPI-M, Sitaram Yechury, who passed away on September 12 at the age of 72, defied all the clichés one associates with hardcore “commies”. From his appearance to his demeanour, he was like “one of us”. Meaning, he didn’t shove his ideology...
