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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.Bhagwat’s U-Turn On Constitution Is A Paradigm Shift
By Harihar Swarup If the 92-year-old RSS is seeking an image makeover, it is a welcome sign. The wind of change is blowing all over the world, and it is time the RSS, should also bring about reforms and shed its image of an obscurantist organization. Those who have...
Rewarding Bad Behaviour At Unga
By Sushil Kutty Bad behaviour is repeated until it is punished. With serial rapists and Pakistan, there is never a singular incidence of any really bad behaviour. Bad behaviour is in their DNA. But seems like Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided enough of the punishment, let’s give Pakistan another...
Nitish Kumar Is Fighting For His Survival
By Arun Srivastava Nitish Kumar has finally succeeded in getting his second in Command. Induction of his former electoral strategist Prashant Kishor into the Janata Dal United was initially presumed as a move by Nitish to work out a blue print of working policy and also to evolve a...
Peace Is Imperative For Health
By Dr. Arun Mitra The International Day of Peace was established in 1981 by the United Nations General Assembly. Two decades later, in 2001, the General Assembly unanimously voted to designate the Day as a period of non-violence and cease-fire. The United Nations invites all nations and people to...
Sky-Rocketing Stock Prices Amidst Corporate Fizzle-Out
By Mala Jay It’s always nice to have someone from the outside to give good counsel and issue timely warnings. Especially if, like Raghuram Rajan, the outsider is actually an insider who knows the system inside-out. The advice and warnings are all the more valuable in times of crisis,...
Bar Bribery Case Haunts Mani Once Again
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Politics can be unpredictable. It can be cruel, too. Ask Kerala Congress(M) chairman K M Mani. He will nod in vigorous agreement. Till the other day, Mani was sitting pretty. Three vigilance reports had given him a clean chit in the bar bribery case. The...
Why Is Mayawati So Scared Of Chandra Shekhar Ravan
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Why is BSP national president Mayawati so scared of Chandra Shekhar Ravan of Bheem Sena, who was recently released by the Yogi government? The manner in which Mayawati reacted to her being referred as buaji (aunt) by Chandra Shekhar Ravan speaks for the total antipathy...
Why India Dithers On Trade Retaliation Against US
By Subrata Majumder While all the major countries, pinched by Trump’s unilateral high tariffs, took retaliatory measures by raising the tariff on imports from USA, India went one step forward and two steps back. Twice, it suspended its decision to impose high tariff on 29 items from the US....
Cow In The Time Of Narendra Modi
By Aditya Aamir Okay! No need for anybody to talk on behalf of the holy cow. Joyful Swami Nityananda, of the “in compromising position with an actress” fame, says within the year he will have cows and bulls talking! In chaste Sanskrit and hoary Tamil (Imagine the Jallikattu!). Not...
Selja Heads Candidates Panel For Rajasthan
Congress President Rahul Gandhi has made Dalit leader of Haryana and Rajya Sabha MP Kumari Selja as the chairperson of the Congress screening committee for the distribution of tickets in Rajasthan. Four national secretaries are given the responsibility of 200 seats, that is 50 seats to each. Although the...
Nirmala Sitharaman Is At War With Her Own Departmental Undertaking
By Nitya Chakraborty Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has done something unprecedented. She is openly defaming her Ministry’s high tech undertaking Hindustan Aeronautics Limited for its technological incompetence to defend the selection of Anil Ambani’s new company as the offset partner in the Rafale deal. What is shocking is that...
Rape Has A New Political Grammar
By Sushil Kutty Judge Bret M. Kavanaugh and Bishop Franco Mulakkal. Two powerful men. Both wear a collar and for the time being both look collared. Arrayed against them are two women and #MeToo. A Catholic nun of Kerala and a professor in Palo Alto University, California. The women...
Britain Is On The Brink Of Social Collapse
By Ben Chako BRITAIN is on the brink of “social collapse” after “eight years of uninterrupted austerity” caused by brutal Tory spending cuts, Labour council leaders warned. Twenty-six leaders of Labour-controlled councils have signed an open letter calling on the government to “recognise the catastrophic impact” that austerity has...
Shah Sounds Bugles, Modi Puts On The Acts
By S. Sethuraman Ethics and morals get pushed under the carpet as the country makes a seamless stride into the 2019 Lok Sabha Poll Campaign, the ruling majoritarian BJP bracing itself more in a fire-fighting mode while its hated adversary, the Congress is engaged in digging for more scams...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
i. Supreme Court modifies the guidelines of Section 498A, IPC: The Supreme Court has modified the directions issued by it in Rajesh Sharma v Uttar Pradesh, which were aimed at controlling the misuse of Section 498A, but ended up diluting the whole law. The Court felt that the directions...
Rahul Road Show Success Energises MP Congress
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: While Congressmen are celebrating the successful visit of Congress president Rahul Gandhi to Bhopal, angry demonstration against chief minister Shiv Raj Singh Chouhan at many places are causing worry for the BJP. On the day Rahul Gandhi was being welcomed by the cheering crowd...
Strong Case For Arrest Of Bishop Franco
By P Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Will the Kerala Police arrest Jalandhar Bishop Franco Mulakkal, who has been accused of multiple rapes of a nun? That is the question uppermost in the minds of Keralites. Interrogation of the Bishop, who had been asked to appear before the probe team in Kochi,...
The Failing Rationale Of Modi Govt’s Economy Claims
By Arun Srivastava Conjectures are making rounds in the political circles about Amit Shah and Narendra Modi salvaging the electoral prospect of their party and ensuring its return to power after the 2019 general elections. The assumption is that they will manage to carry the urban middle class voters...
