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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.Supreme Court Striking Down Section 377 Goes Beyond Law
By Amritananda Chakravorty “Finally!” “Relieved!” “Long Overdue!” these were the reactions from the members of the LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and inter-sex), after the historic judgment of the Supreme Court of India in Navtej Johar & Ors. vs. Union of India [Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 76 of...
Nepal Gets Access To Chinese Ports For Trade
By Barun Das Gupta Last week Nepal signed a Transit and Transport Agreement with China which will give the land-locked country access to four Chinese seaports. These are: Tianjin (3276 kms from Nepal), Liyanyugang (3379 kms), Shengzen (3064 kms) and Shenjiang (2755 kms). As against these, the Kolkata...
Great Expectations From Justice Ranjan Gogoi
By Paras Nath Singh After months of speculations that were not entirely unjustified, Justice Ranjan Gogoi is at last set to adorn judicial firmament as the 46th Chief Justice of India (CJI). The incumbent CJI, Dipak Misra has officially recommended the name of Justice Ranjan Gogoi, the senior-most...
50 Years To Give India The Hindu Soul
By Aditya Aamir Amit Shah says the BJP will rule for 50 years, i.e., till 2069 from 2019. By then Amit Shah will be history as will Narendra Modi along with an entire generation. Whether Modi and Shah get to become statues on the Sabarmati will depend on...
Reinventing The Declining Appeal Of Narendra Modi
By Arun Srivastava Uncertain electoral prospect has caused trepidation to the BJP top leadership, especially Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his close aide Amit Shah and the element of desperation was manifest in his speech at the executive meet of the party in Delhi. Though the senior leaders...
Not The Best Of Times For Mamata Beyond Bengal
By Amulya Ganguli For a politician like Mamata Banerjee, who is aspiring to move from state politics to play a national role and even become the prime minister, the recent past has been eminently forgettable. The snub which she has received from her former anti-BJP Federal Front...
Ongc, Oil Explore India’s New Petro Reserves
By Nantoo Banerjee It is highly admirable that India’s public sector oil giants — ONGC and OIL — continue to vigorously using their experience and skill to explore new oil and gas reserves within the country. Oil exploration is considered to be a big financial and technological gamble...
Sanders And Warren Take Position Against U.S. Corporations
By Mark Gruenberg Two of the Senate’s top supporters of workers, Vermont Independent Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren, have gone on the attack against corporate subsidies and irresponsibility. And though their legislation will go nowhere in the GOP-run 115th Congress, the two lawmakers are laying down...
Kerala CPI(M) Finds Itself In A Tight Corner
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The sexual harassment complaint against P K Sasi, the CPI(M) MLA representing the Shoranur constituency, has put the party in a tight spot. What has invited people’s wrath is that the party took almost three weeks – that is the public perception although...
Rajasthan Becoming A Political Hot-Pot
By Gyan Pathak On the eve of the assembly election, Rajasthan has become a political hot-pot in which both the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress are performing a tight-rope walk. Communal polarization has somewhat weakened giving way to a stronger caste polarization on the issue of reservation....
Why Govt Wants Dalits To Be Called Only Scheduled Castes
By K Raveendran The BJP’s disconnect with Dalits is well-known. So, nobody can be faulted for seeing a sinister move in the I&B ministry’s advisory to media units not to use the term Dalit while referring to Scheduled Castes. The Dalit word has been posing the ruling establishment...
Turbulence Over The Office Of Chief Justice Of India
By Harihar Swarup The tenure of Justice Dipak Misra, who retires as Chief Justice of India on October 2, was mired in controversies, but he firmly stood against all the odds and had ultimately his way. The Opposition led by the Congress sought to bring an impeachment motion...
The ‘Whole Thing’s Crazy
By Aditya Aamir Earthworms are worming from under the soil and committing mass suicide in Wayanad, north Kerala. The earth is getting too hot for them, say some folks, post the battering earth got from unprecedented rains and floods. There are lots of people around the world who...
Tony Blair Hits Out At Jeremy Corbyn
By Ben Chacko Labour has changed — and for the better, MPs and trade unionists told Tony Blair on September 7 after the former prime minister launched a broadside against Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. The war criminal behind the invasion of Iraq lamented that Labour was “a different type...
China, India Should Stop Getting Subsidies from United States: Trump
United States President Donald Trump said growing economies like China and India should grow faster than any other developing nation, but subsidies received by them from Washington should be stopped. Trump added addressing to a fundraiser event in North Dakota’s Fargo city, “We have some of these countries that...
Why Ayushman Bharat Will Fail
By Dr. Arun Mitra A ‘senior citizen’ means any person being a citizen of India who has attained the age of sixty years or above. Population Census 2011 revealed that there are nearly 104 million elderly persons (aged 60 years or above) in India; the number of...
Staff Angry Over Impasse In Bank Wage Revision Talks
By B. Sivaraman Nearly five lakh employees were stunned early this year when the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) responded to their demand of 25 percent wage increase with a counter offer of a mere 2 percent. It took a two-day strike on 30 & 31 May 2018 to...
Imponderables Impede Imran’s Innovatives
By Sankar Ray There is no denying that Pakistan’s charismatic Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi will leave no nerve unstrained to carve a niche to prove that he is not just another premier while it will be naïve to speculate that he plans to get out of the...
