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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.Rahul Gandhi Makes Big Impact In Madhya Pradesh
By Raju Kumar Congress remaining out of power in the state for last 15 years, is now adopted the strategy of “do or die”. The Congress party, which has been consistently sluggish, has been appearing to be very energetic from the last few months. In this regime, Congress has...
CJI Designate Ranjan Gogoi Has To Act As A Game Changer
By Amritananda Chakravorty President of India has appointed Justice Ranjan Gogoi as the 46th Chief Justice of India, and he would assume office on 3rd October, 2018, a day after the current Chief Justice Dipak Mishra retires. The prelude to any new Chief Justice being sworn in is often...
HDI For India Suggests ‘Good Days’ An Endless Wait
By Gyan Pathak Waiting for Modi’s promised ‘Good Days’ is now like waiting for Godot. The Human Development Index 2018 released recently by UNDP shows that India lagged far behind the majority of countries in health, education, and gender development despite its being the fastest growing economy of the...
RSS Meet Timing Has Big Significance
By Aditya Aamir Everybody is talking of whether or not Congress and the rest of the Opposition made a mistake not accepting the invitation to attend the RSS meet. But ask about the timing of the meet, why now? Therein, probably, lies a story, or maybe two. One of...
Saffron Camp’s NRC Bogey Is Cynical Election Tool
By Amulya Ganguli Chun chun ke nikaloonga (we’ll throw them out one by one). This was BJP president Amit Shah’s dire warning to the ghuspetiyas or the illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. They should be killed like kira, makaura (insects), threatened a BJP leader of Telangana, Raja Singh. Senior BJP...
Franco On Hold Will Ultimately Walk Free
By Aditya Aamir Okay, here’s the deal Franco. You step down for the time being and we deal with the nun. The spotlight is on you and our mission is to spread the light in Punjab. Evangelism in Punjab has stuck where it started 200 years ago with the...
Rapists Revel In Modi’s Silence And Khattar’s Eloquence
By Sushil Kutty “If a girl is dressed decently, a boy will not look at her in the wrong way.” That was Manoharlal Khattar before he took charge as Haryana Chief Minister in October 2014. “If you want freedom, why don’t they just roam around naked? Freedom has to...
Rupee Fall May Not Be Bad By Itself
By K R Sudhaman The joke going around social media is that an economic reporter wanted to interview finance minister Arun Jaitley. But Jaitley said he would talk only on cricket. The reporter, happy that he got at last a chance to ask Jaitley some questions if he should...
Nitish Admits Collapse Of Governance
By Arun Srivastava Despite the best efforts of his supporters to protect Nitish Kumar’s public image in the face of a vertical decline during last one year due to the serious break down in the law and order in the state, the Bihar chief minister seems to be finally...
Needed A Comprehensive Foreign Trade Policy
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s nearly a trillion-dollar foreign trade seems to be benefiting foreign shippers, shipowners, seafarers and insurance companies more than the local service providers. Foreign vessels are reportedly carrying over 90 percent of Indian cargo. The shipping industry is equipped more with bulk carriers than modern container...
Rahul Gadhi Must Have Spine And Vision To Fight Narendra Modi
By Nitya Chakraborty Rahul Gandhi completed nine months in office as the Congress President on September 16.This was a period of big challenges for the Congress and despite some small mistakes and a few wrong assessments, Rahul has come out as a stronger leader who can lead the opposition...
What is this BJP disease with hindi?
By Aditya Aamir ’English’. It denotes a people. It’s also a medium of exchange (yeah, not money) – a language spoken by more than half of the world. English has given voice to billions – status and riches, too. To the lost ship at sea, there’s no stronger emotion...
Kerala Scientist’s Saga Of Tenacity And Determination
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It’s a stirring tale of conviction, commitment and confidence: a super star scientist’s 24-year battle to redeem a reputation tarnished by false allegations; a fair name besmirched by a frightening concatenation of circumstances. The legal victory connotes a glorious testament to a man’s courage of...
Jaitley Has Much Explaining To Do
By K Raveendran Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has curtly ruled out any cut in the high excise duty on fuel prices, saying the petrol and diesel price hikes are caused by volatile international prices an, therefore, due to external factors. To add insult to injury, he has criticised the...
Migrant Labour Issues Pose New Challenges To Labour Policy
By B. Sivaraman The flurry of news on migrant workers’ issues in August-September has implications for policy. First came the strike threat by 7–8 lakh migrant sugarcane workers in Maharashtra, who were demanding doubling of the wages from the present Rs.200 per tonne. Powerloom workers in Surat, including five...
Decoding Amit Shah’s 50-Year-BJP-Rule Quip
By Harihar Swarup The BJP President, Amit Shah, has claimed that the saffron party will not only increase his party’s tally in 2019 general elections — get more seats than it obtained in 2014 polls — and, thereafter, it will rule India for 50 years. The assertion was made...
Apple Cuts iPhone Prices | World News Portal,Technology News
Apple has just slashed down the prices of its most of the old iPhone versions globally. In India the iPhone 6s 32GB variant is retagged as Rs. 29,900. The iPhone 6s Plus starts at Rs. 34,900. The flagship phone of 2017, the iPhone X, now is priced tagged Rs....
Corruption A Major Election Issue For 2019
By Sushil Kutty It is confusing, this democracy so confusing. Take Vijay Mallya, he’s a fugitive. The case against him in the United Kingdom magistrate’s court is for extradition. But questions are asked on “settlement” and his response is always “I want to settle” but on his...
