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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.Mamata To Go On European Tour
By Rahil Nora Chopra Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will visit Germany and France in the month of September to attract investments in the state. She will be accompanied by a group of businessmen and will participate in meetings of the Chambers of Commerce in the two countries. Her ambition...
Who is Responsible for the Deaths of 100 Odd people in Queues?
By Nitya Chakraborty An 8 year old girl dies in Uttar Pradesh’s Mahua village after being allegedly deprived of timely medical attention after demonetisation in November 2016 as her family had only old notes and had no time for exchange. On November 10, 2016, Teerthraji, 60 died...
Rahul Will Do Well With An Army Of Admirers
By Aditya Aamir The fault-lines have deepened. Opposing armies are arms-ready. Supporters have marked themselves in watertight compartments. Poison-tipped verbal barbs cut across boundaries. Media, the ever-ready facilitator, is telling stories bolstering and blistering egos, chances. The BJP and Congress are at the throats of each other’s...
Arrest Of Rights Lawyers Is An Ominous Sign For Democracy
By Indira Jaising Lawyer Surendra Gadling successfully defending his clients under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) was arrested and thrown behind bars since June 6 of this year. Now lawyer Susan Abraham defending Gadling in Pune has seen her house in Mumbai raided and her husband Vernon...
Public Sector On Tenterhooks For Lack Of Policy Clarity
By G. Srinivasan The commanding heights of the domestic economy as the public sector undertakings (PSUS) were once famously lionized in the Nehruvian socialist past have come a long way since the liberalisation of the Indian economy unleashed by the non-family but non-pareil Prime Minister Narashima Rao in...
Arrest Of Rights Activists Smacks Of Unofficial Emergency
By Raman Swamy Varavara Rao is 77 years old – he is a well-known Telugu poet, college principal and human rights activist – his house in Hyderabad was raided on Tuesday morning. The reason, according to the police, is that he is suspected of plotting to assassinate Prime...
Siddaramaiah, Digvijay Singh spoilsports for Congress?
By Amulya Ganguli The basis of the Opposition challenge to the BJP in the forthcoming State Assembly elections and next year’s general election is the formation of an alliance of regional parties. As is known in political circles, this togetherness will not be easy to achieve in view...
Policies Are Meant To Help People, Not Harass
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Policies are meant to wipe off tears, not reduce people to tears. The rulers and politicians would do well to recall the famous words of Mahatma Gandhi in this regard. Gandhiji said in a memorable quote which has universal relevance: Before you take...
Latest Scam In Madhya Pradesh Is About Footwears To Tribals
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: While Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is continuing his Ashrivad Yatra, two controversial events have hit the headlines. One relates to the supply of shoes to tribals and the other about the dispatch of over one crore letters addressed to women voters...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Denial of sanction to prosecute Yogi Adityanath in hate speech case challenged in Supreme Court – The Supreme Court has issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh Government in an appeal filed against an Allahabad High Court judgment, given earlier this year, dismissing a petition seeking an investigation into...
1984 Delhi Riots Make Headlines Again
By Aditya Aamir Of course, the Congress was not involved. Rogues wearing the Congress name on their sleeves busted into tyre shops and tested them in an innovating manner, cast the tyre round a Sikh neck to see how the tyre burned, the Sikh burned. The testing method...
Delhi High Court Shows Its Firmness Against Dalit Killings
By Amritananda Chakravorty The recent times have been a mixed bag for legal developments in dalit rights. While the Supreme Court sought to dilute the protections in the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 last year in a much criticised judgment in Subhash Kashinath...
Stalin Takes Charge With Brother In Shadow
By Aditya Aamir Finally, after decades there is a Stalin at the head of a party, never mind if he is not Russian but a Tamil of India. MK Stalin is only the second president of the DMK and he’s got an elder brother who has no Russian...
Many Challenges Before New J&K Governor Satya Pal Malik
By Kalyani Shankar Jammu and Kashmir has got a political governor after five decades. Former Bihar governor Satya Pal Malik, who has a socialist background, has taken over the reins of the state last week. The last time Kashmir had a political governor was when Karan Singh became...
Modi-Shah Combination Reconciled To 2019 Reality
By Arun Srivastava Reports that point out that BJP would lose around 100 seats but eventually emerge as the single largest party in the Lok Sabha after the 2019 elections may sound soothing to the ears of the leaders of the party and its rank and file, but...
Congress Manifesto Can Act As The Core Of Opposition Programme
By Nitya Chakraborty The Congress leadership has finally announced the panel for preparing the manifesto of the Party for fighting the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls in 2019.The content of the GOP’s manifesto is of crucial importance to the grassroots cadres of the Party since these will...
Flood, Coastal Erosion Need Strong Policy Intervention
By Nantoo Banerjee Kerala might have witnessed this August the heaviest-ever rainfall since 1924 causing a disastrous flood killing over 300 people, rendering thousands homeless and destroying crops in nearly one million hectares of land, but experts assessing the causes behind the calamity and its impact substantially blame...
Congress dominates in mizoram:
By Barun Das Gupta Tiny Mizoram (area 23,000 sq. kms, population 11 lakh) is the last outpost of the Congress in the North-East. State Assembly elections are due in Mizoram by the year end. In the last Assembly elections held in 2013, the Congress won 34 of the...
