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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.Crisis In Reserve Bank Is Deepening
By Binoy Viswam Political crisis will have a prelude in any country in the form of economic crisis. This fact is underscored by the political and economic developments in India too. The fuming crisis in the economy, was recently manifested by the resignation of Urjit Patel, the governor...
January Is The Month BJP Will Turn
By Aditya Aamir On the matter of triple talaq, BJP president Amit Shah offers the standard argument, heard a thousand times before from all sorts of people, which is that there are 20+ Islamic countries which have done away with instant talaq, so why should India not follow...
How Brexit could create a crisis at the Irish border
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How Fuchsia OS might REPLACE Android
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Pre-2014 no one thought Sajjan Kumar would be punished: Modi
It is a general concept, psychologically, that approaching the court with acquisition on the government means the government must be wrong and the verdict to favor the complainant, said prime minister Narendra Modi Tuesday addressing at Republic Summit organized by the Republic News channel. Modi cited Rafale issue adding...
Rafale Judgement: Product Of Lies And Misinformation
By Amritananda Chakravorty On 14th December, 2018, the Supreme Court of India, in a three-judge bench decision headed by the Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, dismissed the bunch of petitions questioning the Rafale defence deal, and seeking a court-monitored investigation. Though the court primarily dismissed the petitions on the...
Combative Women And The Army Chief
By Sushil Kutty Chief of Army Staff General Bipin Rawat is asked a question and he answers it honestly, maybe aware that his views on allowing women in combat roles in the Army will draw not only flak but also ridicule. And within hours of the General speaking...
Kamal Nath’s Break With Past In Swearing-In Ceremony
By LS Herdenia BHOPAL: Kamal Nath’s oath taking ceremony was unusual in many ways. Besides the presence of leaders of several parties that are likely to be partners in the future Mahagathbandhan, representatives of various faiths were given place on the main rostrum. Perhaps the most striking feature was...
‘Naya Pakistan’: Will-O-The Wisp
By Sankar Ray Optimism about translation of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi’s dream of carving out ‘Naya Pakistan’ is increasingly apparent as an ‘intellectual error’. To put it bluntly, the dream was taken kindly to by most seasoned analysts with acknowledged grasp over the polity of Pakistan....
Loan Waivers Can’t Increase Farm Income
By Nilanjan Banik In recent past, a lot has been written about farm loan waivers. Studies have pointed out loan waiver programmes do not make much economic sense (N. Banik (2018) Are Loan Waivers a Panacea for Rural Distress? Economic and Political Weekly). However, if current political discourse...
Congress Needs To Build On Its Assembly Election Success
By Kalyani Shankar For a party that appeared to be in existential crisis, the Congress has much to cheer about following the win in three big states – Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh this month. Success in polls is always heartening and it becomes even better when the...
At Loggerheads, Conviction And Perception
By Aditya Aamir Leave room for daily developments. That is what the conviction of Sajjan Kumar is, a development! A date in the Delhi high Court roster which is suddenly recorded history. And because nobody anticipated Sajjan Kumar’s conviction, no one significant stood up and opposed Kamal Nath’s...
Unbox Therapy – The Most Insane Laptop Ever Built…
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1984 anti-Sikh riots ghost haunts Congress again following Sajjan Kumar’s sentencing
Congress has long been trying to bury the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, but its ghosts have not left haunting and today the discomfort was to the highest level when a Delhi High Court bench of Justices S Muralidhar and Vinod Goel sentenced life imprisonment for party leader Sajjan Kumar. In...
Congress Resurgence Complicates Bengal Scenario
By Ashis Biswas Irrespective of the general impact of the recent Assembly elections in five states, resulting in a major setback for the BJP ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the political situation in West Bengal has just got much more complex. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee...
Poll Results Point To Re-Emergence Of Old Political Equations
By Arun Srivastava The defeat of BJP in the three states Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh is being ascribed as an anti incumbency mandate, but such a view overlooks the fact that the dalits and tribals have returned to the Congress fold. It is an open secret that...
Akhilesh Goes Out Of Way To Keep Mayawati In Anti-Bjp Fold
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav is playing second fiddle to BSP leader Mayawati to dislodge BJP from Centre. Enthused by the results of assembly polls in three states, Akhilesh Yadav is willing to leave more seats to Mayawati in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections....
Little To Celebrate Global ‘Anti-Corruption Day’ In India
By Nantoo Banerjee Few in the government or public life in India took note of the International Anti-Corruption Day, which quietly came and went on December 9, almost unknown, unrecognised. Rarely, a global UN event gets such a silent reception in India. There was probably no reason to...
