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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.Much More Than Ani-Incumbency Behind BJP Rout
By Arun Srivastava Attributing the defeat of the BJP in the by-elections to the anti-incumbency factor is nothing but a move to protect the party and Narendra Modi from further alienation and sullying. Anti-incumbency has always been a factor in deciding the fate of the ruling party,...
Iraq Elections Results Give Big Jolt To Trump
By David Bacon The U.S. media quickly dismissed the results of Iraq’s national elections on May 12. Journalists were puzzled by what the followers of Muqtada al-Sadr and the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP) might have in common, and even more, by why they garnered more Iraqi votes than...
Marxist Scholars Are Giving Big Focus On Environment
IT’S true that much of Karl Marx’s own work was to do with economics. And class is central to a Marxist understanding of history. Much of Marx and Friedrich Engels’s writing was concerned with examining the inherently exploitative and dynamic nature of capitalism, seen as underlying the struggle between...
Tough Challenge Ahead For A Cornered BJP
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The victory of RLD in Kairana Lok Sabha seat and SP in Noorpur assembly seat sets the tone for 2019 Lok Sabha polls for the Opposition parties to pull together. The UP verdict is a clear indication of the shape of things to come...
India Is Top Sacrificer For Peace Around The World
By Gyan Pathak India’s contribution in peacekeeping around the world has been recognized and applauded once again during the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers for laying down highest number of lives since 1948. A total of 163 military, police, and civilian personnel from the country laid down...
Nobody In BJP Makes The 1 Paisa Cut
Sushil Kutty Looks like come mid-2019 Modi will be out on the mat, memories of Jakarta 2018 fading. The one-time Prime Minister will then remember his many foreign trips and the diaspora will sing a hosanna with tears in their eyes. Madison Square Garden will continue to host...
Global Meet In Patna To Debate Marxian Thought
By Sankar Ray The broadest-ever international conference in India on Karl Marx – ‘’Karl Marx-Life, Ideas and Influence: A Critical Examination on the Bicentenary’ (16-20 June, 2018) under the aegis of the Asian Development Research Institute will take place in Patna, the capital of one of India’s most...
Naidu Thumbs-Up For Third Front
By Rahil Nora Chopra Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has revealed his card for the 2019 elections: his TDP will not align either with Congress or the BJP. According to him, 2019 will see the emergence of a winning coalition of regional parties and TDP will...
Why Farm Waivers Won’t Work
Nilanjan Banik On the eve of Karnataka election, waiver of farm loans was one of the major election promises. Now, Chief Minister H.D.Kumaraswamy wants to fulfill his pre-poll promise and has even threatened to resign if he cannot fulfill his promise. As has been seen time and time...
By-Poll Results Give Big Boost To Opposition Unity
By Amulya Ganguli The writing is on the wall. It is now obvious that a united opposition can defeat the BJP. As much is clear from the Kairana and Noorpur by-election results which are a continuation of the anti-BJP trends noted earlier in Gorakhpur and Phulpur. These...
Global Demand For Lula’s Release Is Growing
By Patrick Foley SINCE a parliamentary coup took place in 2016 against elected president Dilma Rousseff, Brazilian democracy has been under threat. October’s presidential election offers a way out of the political crisis, but the country’s most popular candidate has been arrested without material evidence against him. Brazilian...
A Despicable Murder That Diminished Kerala’s Stature
By P. Sreekumaran Keralites woke up to a black Sunday on May 27 that witnessed a murder of unspeakable brutality. One should have thought that such a despicable act would not happen in an enlightened state like Kerala, which boasts a high literacy rate and developmental indices that...
Madhya Pradesh Gears Up To Deal With Mandsaur Farmers Stir
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Mandsaur will turn into a Kurukshetra from June 1 onwards when various farmers’ organisations will launch a ten-day agitation to mark the first anniversary of the farmers’ agitation, which took a violent turn culminating in the killing of six persons last year....
What’s Pranab’s Antidote To RSS Poison?
Sushil Kutty Pranab for President is less exciting than Pranab all set to address an RSS convocation. The former President will be in Nagpur on June 7. And the Congress is fuming. Congress leaders cannot believe it. They can’t digest it. They can’t take it. They won’t take it....
Bangladesh Elections Crucial For India’s Interests
By Barun Das Gupta General elections in Bangladesh will be held by the end of this year. The constitutional requirement is that the elections be held between October 31, 2018 and January 28, 2019. This time the elections will be held in conditions that are different from those...
Pak Junta Grounds ISI Durrani To Grind Him
Sushil Kutty Of the two spies who came in from the cold to write a book not penned by them, one could be back in the icebox. Lt. General Asad Durrani, once chief of Pakistan’s notorious Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), is in trouble. He danced a tango with ex-RAW...
Emergence Of Regional Parties Strengthens Federalism
By Arun Srivastava Regional parties are often seen from the political perspective of the national parties and their leaders projected as villains operating in a narrow space with their vested interests. Undoubtedly they need to be criticized for their wrong doings, but if they raise local issues and...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Major decisions Review petition filed against Supreme Court’s decision in Judge Loya judgment – The Bombay Lawyers Association has filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking review and recall of the judgment given by the Apex Court in which the Court dismissed the bunch of petitions seeking an...
