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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.Indian Ports And Shipping Suffer From Woeful Inadequacies
By K R Sudhaman With global trade from India now surging towards $1 trillion (exports and imports), port and shipping too have been growing rapidly in the country in the last decade or so. But port development has been vastly inadequate and none of the Indian ports figures...
Reservation For Upper Caste A Political Gimmick
By Arun Srivastava The BJP and especially Prime Minister Narendra Modi boasts of performing a master stroke by announcing 10 per cent extra reservation for economically weaker sections without tinkering with the quotas of the SCs, STs and OBCs. Though Modi and the BJP leaders feel the...
Mighty indian state is trapped in a rat-hole!
By B. Sivaraman It is almost a month since tragedy struck the Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya when 15 miners got trapped in a rat-hole mine that got flooded from a nearby river. The rescue workers — from the state and the national disaster management authorities from the Navy,...
BJP open for alliances, cherishes old friends: Modi
Bharatiya Janata Party is lately seeking further strengthening of the NDA and probably more in the South. Interacting with booth-level workers Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the party is open to alliances. Modi was talking through video conferencing to party workers of five districts in Tamil Nadu through video...
Grey ‘Woman’ Deception In Sabarimala
By Aditya Aamir Dalit activist Kollam Manju used deception and ruse to enter the Sabarimala shrine for Ayyappa darshan much to the delight of the Pinarayi Vijayan government. So much so, Pinarayi lost the power of speech! He did not, like he had done twice before, announce to...
iOS Ad Clicks Cost More Than Android
Some scammers found out that iOS Ad clicks cost more than Android. Because of that, they created malware. The malware masqueraded infected Android devices as Apple gear. This was done in order to earn a few extra dollars. The malware, known as Andr/Clickr-ad malware, takes advantage of the demand...
Modi Left With A Hindu Bellyache
By Sushil Kutty The gut has feelings. The 10 per cent EWS Quota (124 Amendment) Bill was bound to happen. The Ayodhya title suit hearing was bound to see further delay. Jobs or the lack of jobs are an election issue. Ram Mandir butts in and is pushed...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Supreme Court dismisses petition for day-to-day hearing in Ayodhya case – The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition seeking speedy hearing in the Ayodhya land dispute. The petition cited the delay that had already happened and the feelings surrounding the issue prevailing in the nation as the reason for...
Reinstatement Of CBI Director Is A Big Indictment Of Modi Govt
By Amritananda Chakravorty On 8th January, 2019, after much anticipation, the Supreme Court gave its verdict on the removal of Alok Verma as CBI Director, wherein the three judge bench headed by the Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi quashed the order dated 23.10.2019 passed by the Central Vigilance Commission...
Modi Govt Amends Trade Unions Act In A Hurry
By Raman Swamy It was one of those surreal moments in Parliament. Outside more than two crore workers of the country were on an all-India strike. Inside the Lok Sabha, a bizarre Bill to amend the Trade Unions Act was being discussed to determine the criteria for recognition...
Successful General Strike Will Impact Lok Sabha Polls
By B. Sivaraman Will the impact of General Strike of 8-9 January reverberate in general elections? A general strike barely three months before general elections, that too stretching for two days, is bound to assume special significance no matter whether it is a total success or not in...
American Capitalists Are Split On Trump
By Rick Nagin The resignation of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in late December represents a qualitatively new stage in the split in the U.S. monopoly capitalist ruling class. There now are two distinct groups, differing in fundamental ways in their foreign and domestic policies. First, there are...
MP Speaker’s Election Marred By Bitterness
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Billed To Woo Voters For BJP
By Aditya Aamir Tuesday the 10% EWS quota amendment bill got the Lok Sabha nod despite adding to the laughing stock piled against the Narendra Modi government outside Parliament. Likely headlines ranged from ‘A Steal’ to ‘Finally.’ Every party when in power attempted to give economically weaker sections...
Modi’s New India Mission Has Lost Path Midway
By Mriganka M Bhowmick With every passing year India evolves to a new collective consciousness of its people and it moves from strength to strength. It’s a process of evolution where the collective consciousness of people abandons the bad and gradually adopts the good with focus for better...
Flash Go Hartal And Verma Removal
By Sushil Kutty Bandh is closure of village, town, city and state – country. Nothing should be moving. But that’s not how it happens. Rail roko, buses attacked and vandalized, markets forcibly closed, strikers marching through the streets, protesting against this or that issue and the top court...
With 7.3 Per Cent Growth OECD Paints Rosy Picture For India
By Gyan Pathak The Indian economy is forecast to grow by 7.3 per cent in the medium term during 2019-23, says the OECD Economic Outlook for Southeast Asia, China and India 2019. Labour market conditions point to solid growth in private consumption, although rising inflation and interest rates...
Azadi Restricted To Non-Sunni Muslim Sects And Christians
By Sankar Ray Twenty-seven year-old Sonia Riasat is the lone Christian employee in any government office along with a dozen sanitation workers in municipalities in the whole of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, which in India is known as Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. She has a postgraduate degree in English literature...
