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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.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...
Whatsapp Is Not A Law And Order App, Mr Prasad
By K Raveendran In parts of the world where extreme principles of Shariah justice are practised, an eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth are still the norm. People have been blinded for hurting their victims in the eye and hands chopped off to ensure retribution...
Battle Of Coalitions In 2019 Lok Sabha Poll
By Harihar Swarup What will be the scenario like if the general elections are held today—nine months before schedule? If the Opposition unites against the BJP and Narendra Modi, then it will be a battle between UPA and NDA, seeing a return of coalition governments, according to a...
Greece Finally Ends Its Bailout Phase
By Kevin Ovenden It had been planned to be a lavish celebration on the Pnyx hill next to the Acropolis in Athens where the citizenry would hold popular assemblies in the ancient democratic period. The angry aftermath of the forest fires last month put paid to Greek...
Face Recognition Verification Process Mandatory For New SIM Cards
Indian telcos have been given directed by Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to collect a two-factor verification process while issuing new SIM cards to customers and one of the factors must include facial recognition to prevent misuse of Aadhaar authentication. In previous circular UIDAI had asked to ensure...
Going Up In Smoke That Never Was: A 100 Million
By Aditya Aamir Flood waters that badly wounded Kerala’s present and jeopardized its future are receding but controversies swirl and one of them involves the sandy country of UAE “which is a home away from home” for the Malayali, according to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Turns out...
Akhilesh Yadav Surprises With Soft Hindutva Card
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Now it seems to be Akhilesh Yadav’s turn to play the soft Hindutva card. With the Lok Sabha elections not far, the Samajwadi Party national president has surprised everyone with his move. Akhilesh Yadav has announced that if his party was voted to...
Kuldip Nayar’s Death At 95 Signals The Closing Of An Era
By Angshukanta Chakraborty Veteran journalist and a one-time editor of The Indian Express and The Statesman, former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and prolific author — Kuldip Nayar — breathed his last in the wee hours of Thursday, August 23, in a New Delhi hospital. He was...
PM’s Red Fort Announcements Barely Touch Core Issues
By Dr. Arun Mitra There were high expectations from the Prime Minister on healthcare issues while addressing the nation from Red Fort on 15th August. His announcements of building toilets, Ayushman Bharat, and opening up of more AIIMS do not fulfill the requirements for universal comprehensive health...
North East Heading Towards Bitter Political Battle
By Gyan Pathak Following the main election manifesto 2014, the BJP had come out with a supplementary promise about the North East, which said that the party “will take initiatives for the permanent solution of the long pending issues of the Bodos and other tribals of Assam, the...
ILO’S India Wage Report: Some Hits, Many Misses
By B. Sivaraman How do you rate a report released in August 2018 by an authoritative UN agency like ILO exclusively on the wage scenario in India that makes no scrutiny of the Code of Wages, 2017 that was tabled in parliament in August 2017 itself and...
Mamata Creates A Silicon Valley For Bengalis
By Rahil Nora Chopra Mamata Banerjee wants Bengal to have technology hubs on the pattern of Bengaluru and Hyderabad. She has just inaugurated the Silicon Valley in Rajrahat area near Kolkata in which Infosys and Reliance Jio have already announced huge investments. The technology hub is expected to...
Beef Over $100 Million From The Empty Quarter
By Sushil Kutty ‘Strings attached’ is what Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government wanted to avoid while making it a policy in 2004 not to accept foreign government aid at times of disasters. Several small and big disasters have hit India since then and Kerala floods 2018 is a...
