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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.Pakistan’s Ailing Economy Gets Some Relief After Getting US$7 Billion IMF Facility
By Tirthankar Mitra It is no secret that Pakistan economy is in doldrums and International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved $ 7 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) for the beleaguered country following a staff level meeting with Islamabad. A United Nations report stated that Pakistan’s economy is to face...
Leftist Claudia Sheinbaum Takes Oath As President Of Mexico On October 1
By Kurt Hackbarth MEXICO CITY: Following her landslide victory in Mexico’s June 2 presidential election, Claudia Sheinbaum was officially inaugurated as president on Tuesday October 1. The first woman president in Mexican history, Sheinbaum will be the second president in a row from MORENA, the party founded by her...
Dr. Muhammad Yunus Emerged A Winner In Perception Battle Against India In New York
By Nitya Chakraborty In the first battle between the interim Government of Bangladesh and India in the international forum — that is the United Nations, Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Dr. Muhammad Yunus had a clear victory over Prime Minister Narendra Modi without having any one on one meeting...
PM Narendra Modi’s Political Worth Is Once Again At Stake
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Lok Sabha Election 2024 results have shown a drastically declined political worth of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, that has quantified it with a BJP’s win of only 240 seats, much less than 303 it had won in 2019. Public opinions differ on the question if...
How Modi Govt Lost The Plot On Make In India By Ignoring China+1 Strategy
By Subrata Majumder Proclaiming 10 years of Make in India a big success, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goel was euphoric to term India more competent than China+1 strategy. He said “ India is competitive, not dependent on China+1”, focusing Ease of Doing Business and improving India’s ranking. Incidentally,...
Will Japan Turn A New Leaf With Its New Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba?
By Anjan Roy Shigeru Ishiba becomes the new prime minister of Japan when Japan is in a sort of way at a cross roads. Shigeru has been in the wings for a long time. His efforts to emerge as the leader were foiled a number of times. But only...
Kharge’s Comments Bring Entire BJP Leadership To Its Shaky Feet
By Sushil Kutty Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge is under attack for feeling dizzy while addressing a rally in Jammu. Since then, the BJP is criticizing Kharge for his dizzying remarks centred on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Kharge said the dizzy episode had nothing to do with his death and...
Mithun Chakraborty Remains A Film Icon All Through His Career Of Four Decades
By Tirthankar Mitra Opinions are divided about the wisdom of conferring Dada Saheb Phalke award on veteran actor, Mithun Chakraborty. If high brow film critics are not too happy at this prestigious award being given to Mithun, this tribe of dissenters are outnumbered by his fans whose age group...
Regional Rural Banks Are Getting Big Focus In North Eastern States
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Nirmala Sitharaman, chaired a key meeting on September 30 in Itanagar to review the performance of seven Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) serving the North East region. The meeting covered RRBs from the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur,...
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...
