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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.Strong Case For A More Democratic Republic Day
By K Raveendran Every citizen has the right to celebrate or observe the Republic Day, depending on one’s frame of mind and mood. There is no prescribed manner in which to this, although flag hoisting is a common event. As such, the protesting farmers have a right to...
Supreme Court Has Failed In Its Constitutional Duty On Farm Laws
By Arun Srivastava What will Supreme Court do now as the agitating farmers have outright refused to acknowledge the existence of the four-men committee set up by it to find a way out to the present impasse? Will the court pass an order making it obligatory for the...
Corona Pandemic Hits India’s LPG Imports From Bangladesh For North-East
By Ashis Biswas Thanks to recent improvements in road connectivity in the Northeast region, prospects for Indo-Bangla trade and business have brightened considerably. In recent months, Bangladesh companies began exporting liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to Tripura, following an agreement signed between Indian and Bangladeshi Governments in 2015. Prime...
In Parting Blow, Trump Administration Hits Cuba With ‘Terrorism’ Declaration
By W. T. Whitney Jr. In a stunning announcement on January 11, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared that the State Department was designating Cuba “a State Sponsor of Terrorism” for allegedly repeatedly “providing support for acts of international terrorism in granting safe harbor to terrorists.” ...
Supreme Court Judgement On Farm Laws Makes No Forward Movement
By Anjan Roy The Supreme Court’s judgement on the farm laws sounded like a theatre of the absurd. For whom the bell rang. For the government? For the agitating farmers? For neither? By deferring the implementation of the farm laws with its judgment on Tuesday, the...
SC Appointed Panel Of Four Members, Backed Farm Laws In Past
By Nitya Chakraborty Supreme Court of India these days are behaving in bizarre ways. After all the hearings on the petitions challenging the enactment of the three farm laws by the Narendra Modi Government in Parliament in a hurry during pandemic, the three member bench of the ...
Big Tech Giants Make All Powerful Trump Faceless In Social Media
By Sushil Kutty Guess what, the conservative lot in the United States of America, the “greatest nation the world has ever known”, is cursing its lot in the changed outlook since the January 6 “insurrection,” lamenting the hard times POTUS Donald Trump’s lot are getting at the...
Congress To Corner Yogi Govt On Malnutrition And Unemployment
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Mrs Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee are confronting Yogi Adityanath Government on the issues of unemployment, malnutrition and atrocities on women. Under the direction of Priyanka Gandhi, UP Congress Committee has decided to reach out to masses to spread...
Biden’s Nomination Of A Trade Unionist As Labour Secretary Is Significant
By Mark Gruenberg Organized labour of the United States of America, for the first time in years, will have a unionist at the president’s Cabinet table, as Democratic President-Elect Joe Biden nominated Boston Mayor Marty Walsh as U.S. Labour Secretary. This is a major appointment and the selection...
Capitol Hill Riot On January 6 Was A Major Blot For American Democracy
By Kalyani Shankar How does the largest democracy India compare with the oldest democracy US on practicing democracy? There is a WhatsApp message doing the rounds“ Americans recently found out that it’s much easier for them to change presidents in other countries than they can do in...
