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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.Israel Is Trying To Widen Its War Zone By Including Lebanon And Iran
By Ben Chacko LONDON: An emergency resolution at Britain’s TUC Congress warned that “Israel threatens a much wider war in the Middle East that will lead to far greater death, destruction and instability.” It vowed to back a Britain-wide workplace day of action to stop that. The “much wider...
Tirupathi Laddu Controversy Has Both Political And Religious Dimension
By Kalyani Shankar When controversy and suspicion surround an innocuous sweet like Srivari Laddu sold by the Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam, it does not stop there. It has gone much further in the past week and become a political weapon for Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandra Babu Naidu to...
Hassan Nasrallah Killing Reverberates Far Beyond The Middle-East
By Sushil Kutty Hassan Nasrallah, one of the Arab world’s most charismatic leaders, was the leader of Kashmiri politician Mehbooba Mufti, too. And National Conference leader Omar Abdullah couldn’t brush away a tear after the Hezbollah Chief was killed by 5000-pound bombs made in the USA, dropped on Nasrallah...
Far Right Surge Continues In Europe As Freedom Party Emerges At Top In Austrian Elections
By Satyaki Chakraborty The surge of the far right political parties continues unabated in Europe as the Austrian electorate voted most for the far right party Freedom Party (FPO) placing the ruling centre-right People’s Party (OVP) in the second position. This was for the first time since the Nazi...
China’s Latest Hyper Nationalism Is Spreading Hatred Against Japan
By Anjan Roy “Wish there is no hatred in heaven” wrote a mother in Shenzhen in China, while laying a floral tribute in memory of a slain Japanese school child in the city. That is symptomatic of the country’s current mood of sadness and self doubt about the Chinese...
Poor Haitian People Have Suffered U.S. Subjugation For Decades
By W. T. Whitney Jr. WASHINGTON: Republican presidential and vice-presidential candidates expressed horror a couple of weeks ago on apparently learning from social media that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating dogs and cats, “eating people’s pets,” as Trump put it. The reports, as we all know now,...
Madhabi’s Market Mantra: Regulatory Humility Is Both Flattering And Fattening
By K Raveendran SEBI chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch has revealed her mantra: regulatory humility. “Markets today are so complex; any arrogant regulator is doomed to fail,” she said addressing an event in Mumbai, held by the Association of Mutual Funds of India this week. Obviously, she has seen how...
Tipra Motha, Chakma Students Lead Stir In Chittagong Hill Tracts
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Tripura’s most prominent TIPRA Motha leader Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarman (ex-royal scion) and Chakma student outfits are in limelight following their successful protests to highlight atrocities against minorities and indigenous people in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh. The interesting part is that Debbarman...
India To Step Up Coal Production To 1.5 Billion Tonne In FY 2029-30
By Dr. Gyan Pathak To strengthen India’s energy security and realise self-reliance under “Atmanirbhar Bharat” programme by replacing imported coal with domestically mined coal, India will increase its production from the provisional 997.25 million tonne (MT) in FY24 to 1.31BT in FY25 and 1.5BT inFY30.It has been planned to...
New Army Regimes In West African Countries Posing Challenge To Western Powers
By Prabhat Patnaik West Africa, which had been largely under French colonial rule, never saw decolonisation of the sort that India did. For a start, the erstwhile French colonies’ currency continued to be linked to the French franc at a fixed exchange rate, which meant that they could not...
SBI’s Move To Buy Equity In Big Defaulter Company SIIL Is Preposterous
By C H Venkatachalam In a move that has surprised corporate watchers, State Bank of India (SBI) will take a dual role in the debt restructuring of defaulter Supreme Infrastructure India Ltd (SIIL). This development marks an unprecedented step in India’s corporate debt resolution landscape, as the country’s largest...
Himachal Minister Knows His State People More Than Rahul Gandhi
By Sushil Kutty Does Congress general secretary (Organization) KC Venugopal know Himachal Pradesh more than Himachal Pradesh cabinet minister Vikramaditya Singh? For that matter, does Raebareli’s Congress MP Rahul Gandhi? Venugopal is Rahul Gandhi’s eyes and ears within the Congress framework but it would be naïve to believe he...
In A Sudden Turn, Myanmar Junta Invites Armed Rebels To Political Talks
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav In quick-paced developments, Myanmar’s ruling junta has invited the armed rebel groups to stop fighting and participate in political talks. “We invite ethnic armed groups, terrorist insurgent groups, and terrorist PDF groups which are fighting against the state to give up terrorist fighting and communicate...
Decoding Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar On His 204th Birth Anniversary On September 26
By Nitya Chakraborty Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar whom Rabindranath Tagore had hailed as the symbol of ‘ajeya paurasha, akhanda manushyatva’ meaning invincible manliness and indelible humanism was the tallest among the social reformers and educators in 19th century Bengal. His 71 year life from September 26, 1820 to July 27,...
PLFS 2023-24 Wraps Up Disturbing Level Of India’s Labour Market Distortion
By Dr. Gyan Pathak After unemployment rate in India officially reaching 6.1 per cent in 2017-18, which was 45 years high, PM Narendra Modi led government has been successful in reducing it to 3.2 per cent on paper by 2023-24 which wraps up increasingly disturbing level of labour market...
Akshay Shinde’s Encounter Killing By Thane Cops Is Mired In Confusion
By Sushil Kutty Everything about the Badlapur sexual assault case accused Akshay Shinde’s encounter-killing is confusing except the reality that Akshay sexually assaulted two kindergarten kids in the school where he worked as a sweeper. Now, after he was killed in an encounter inside a moving police/prison van, there...
Rival Alliances MVA, Mahayuti Brace For Maharashtra Assembly Polls
By Rahil Nora Chopra The fight for Maharashtra assembly elections has commenced, with ruling alliance Mahayuti, comprising Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, BJP, and Ajit Pawar’s NCP, aiming to retain the power. While the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) of Shiv Sena (UBT), NCP (Sharad Pawar) and Congress,...
Defiant Kerala MLA Anvar Refuses To Mend His Ways
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Left Democratic Front (LDF)-backed Independent MLA P V Anvar seems to have lost his balance and sense of proportion. That is the unmistakable conclusion that can be drawn from the press conference Anvar addressed at Nilambur, the constituency he represents in the Kerala Assembly, the...
