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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.Revolt Over BJP Move To Deny Tickets To Sitting MLAs
By LS Herdenia BHOPAL: It is an uphill task to select candidates for the elections. The parties, particularly BJP and Congress, are finding it extremely difficult to handle the problem. For BJP it is much more arduous to select proper candidates with reports that the ruling party may...
Chinese Debt Trap Escalates Trade Colonialism
By Subrata Majumder China’s Belt and Road Initiative, later renamed as BRI, is feared to be a cobweb for debt trap for developing and emerging nations. China woos small and weaker nations with infrastructure loans and when their debts are not paid, it captures their land and...
Sabarimala standoff: govt. Slips into proactive mode
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Pinarayi Vijayan government has shed its ambivalence and reactive mode on the Sabarimala issue. A combative chief minister has sounded out a stern warning to the ‘criminals’ camping at the hill shrine and fomenting violence to thwart the attempts of the government...
Another One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
By Aditya Aamir Morning, we found, it was a night of the long knives. But was it actually the night of the scorpion? It was raining allegations of corruption and the scorpion was in the house. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in danger of being Rafale stung...
Smaller parties set to hit U.P. Alliances
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: It is becoming clear that smaller parties can cause damage to all possible alliances and force new alignments for 2019 Lok Sabha elections in UP. Samajwadi Party led by Akhilesh Yadav is likely to hit by Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia ) of...
Achhe Din, No Corruption, Good Governance
By Nitya Chakraborty Come December. It can be the cruellest month for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party BJP. If the present trends continue and the Congress and the other opposition parties can meet the electoral challenge of the assembly polls in the five states-Rajasthan, Madhya...
French Politics Is Facing A Crisis
By Tom Gill It’s been 18 months since France was rocked by the crushing victory of the pro-European Union Emmanuel Macron and his new political movement in the presidential and legislative elections last year. That victory delivered a body blow to the two established parties—the conservative Les Republicains...
Urban Naxal: Parivar’s New Weapon To Fight Dissent
By Arun Srivastava Lynching and urban naxals have the same ideological background. While lynching was resorted to by the RSS and its frontal organisations to terrorise Muslims, Dalits and other minorities, traditionally anti-saffron and secular forces, the phrase urban naxal is the latest weapon designed by the RSS...
Cbi Is Now Central Bureau Of Extortion
By Sushil Kutty For the first time in Central Bureau of Investigation history, the top-dog and second top-dog in the CBI are engaged in an ugly dogfight, each snapping at the heels of the other, leaving it to the imagination as to who is Honest George Washington...
Was RSS Chief’s ‘Glasnost’ Speech One More Jumla?
By Amulya Ganguli One wonders what Pranab Mukherjee, Kailash Satyarthi and Ratan Tata will make of the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s latest speech in which he gave a clarion call for an ordinance to build the Ram temple without any further delay. The three stalwarts – a...
CM Raje Worried Over Battle Royale For Rajasthan
By Kalyani Shankar All eyes are on Rajasthan, as among the three BJP ruled states going for Assembly polls in November-December, Rajasthan seems to be more vulnerable than the other two – Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh – for the BJP. The Congress is upbeat with the pre-poll surveys...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Kerala Brahmana Sabha files review petition in the Sabrimala judgment – The All Kerala Brahmins Association, also known as Kerala Brahmana Sabha filed a review petition in the Sabrimala decision arguing that the restriction did not pertain to gender discrimination. The Court should have considered similar restrictions placed on...
Amritsar Disaster Exposes Unpreparedness Of State, Railways
By Gyan Pathak With the passage of Disaster Management Act 2005 and subsequent disaster management policies adopted by our country, we know that managing large assembly of people and preventing any disaster during such times is the responsibility of the state and the concerned departments, which are supposed...
Brazilian Democracy Is On Trial On October 28
By Kevin Ovenden The advance of the extreme right-wing candidate Jair Bolsonaro in the first round of the Brazilian presidential election confirms the global threat of the growth of authoritarian reaction. With nearly 50 million votes, 46 percent, it will take an enormous upset for the center-left Workers...
Time Ripe For Revisiting Earlier Judgement On Defamation
By Amritananda Chakravorty Last week witnessed the biggest fall out of the #MeToo movement, with the resignation of M.J. Akbar, Minister of State for External Affairs, and an (in) famous journalist, known for his sexual predatory ways. This was the first time that a Minister accused of...
Navjot Singh Sidhu Is No Ravana
By Aditya Aamir Can we say hurtling technology killed the 60 in Amritsar? And we’re not talking of bullet trains. The two trains that mowed people to death would have been least bothered if there were no folks to kill on the tracks. Regardless, it would have hurtled...
Electric Mobility Will Largely Replace Oil Imports
By Nantoo Banerjee Prime Minister Narendra Modi is right in saying that the International Solar Alliance (ISA) could replace Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) as the key energy supplier in the future. However, alongside a rapid use of solar power, the world also needs to fast...
Trump Moving Ahead With Sanction Plan Against India
By Arun Srivastava Abandoning the Obama-era rule of granting work permits to H-4 visa holders, mostly Indians, who are spouses of professionals holding H-1B visas, is the first major move to make India bend to the wishes of President Trump. Soft measures against India were on the card...
