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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.Removal Of Minimum Export Price Of Basmati Rice By Centre Is Welcome
By Tirthankar Mitra People on both sides of the Indo-Pakistan border have lot in common likings including sporting events in which players of the two countries pit their playing skills against each other together with tucking into a plate of fragrant basmati rice. Giving a leg up to Basmati...
Assessing Big Emergence Of BSW In Brandenburg Regional Elections
By Nick Wright BERLIN: A day before last Sunday’s vote for a new parliament in the east German state of Brandenburg, opinion polls had the ruling Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the far-right AfD neck and neck. The SPD finished up on 30.9 per cent, with the AfD on...
Litmus Test For BJP’s Policies In The Crucial Third Phase Of J&K Election
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Election campaigns for all participating political parties in the ongoing Jammu and Kashmir Vidhan Sabha election has unquestionably centred round the chief issue – restoration of the abrogated Article 370 of the Constitution of India and the lost statehood of this Union Territory. The electoral...
BJP Is Clueless On How To Deal With Its Lok Sabha Member ‘Queen’ Kangana Ranaut
By Sushil Kutty BJP’s Mandi MP, actor Kangana Ranaut, is a raw nerve in the BJP’s thick skin and a bundle of apprehension for party president JP Nadda, who cannot seem to decide whether she is in-disciplinable or indispensable? Is Kangana Ranaut a “Congressi” at heart? For, she sounds...
Only A Steep Rise In Steel Consumption In India Can Boost Manufacturing
By Kunal Bose How has China become an awe-inspiring manufacturing powerhouse backed by crude steel capacity of 1.078 billion tonnes and aluminium smelting capacity of 45.19 million tonnes? Any number of dissertations on the subject analysing the economic and political factors propelling the country’s rapid industrialization since the late...
Yogi Adityanath Intensifies Campaign For Ten Bypolls To State Assembly
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Even though, the dates for the by polls to the Uttar Pradesh assembly are not out, but all major political parties are gearing up for elections to 10 assembly seats. Since the outcome of these by-elections will decide the mood of the political parties and...
RG Kar Incident Of August 9 Has Imparted A New Dimension To Coming Puja Festival
By Devasis Chattopadhyay As Terence McKenna said that culture is a mass hallucination, likewise the annual festival of Durga Puja is typically an immersive carnival of food, music, community get-togethers and cultural programmes that holds West Bengal in its thrall for five hedonistic days and nights. With Kolkata as...
France Changes Its Liberal Face After It Tightens Immigration Laws
By Tirthankar Mitra Ministerial utterances on policy matters are pointers to a profound shift but sometimes drops more than a broad hint about an impending change in the socio-political landscape if utterance of France’ s interior minister, Bruno Retailleau on immigration is anything to go by. The French government...
Prime Minister Keir Starmer Has Given Some Concessions To Left At Liverpool
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is not Tony Blair’s. The lessons from its troubled conference last week demonstrate this in multiple ways. Some mark positive differences from the last Labour government. Then TUC leader John Monks said unions were treated as “embarrassing elderly relatives” by Blair;...
A Washing Machine Brand Named SEBI May Be An Excellent Entrepreneurial Idea
By K Raveendran SEBI would be a nice name for a new range of washing machines. The brand name is short, sweet and has good connect with its namesake market regulator, which has by far excelled in the act of cleaning. Additionally, the new range may not require a...
Anura Dissanayake’s Election As President Of Sri Lanka Promises Positive For South Asia
By P. Sudhir Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the Janata Vimukti Perumana (JVP) and the National Peoples’ Power (an alliance of Left and progressive parties) won the presidential elections held on September 21 in Sri Lanka. He polled 57,40,179 votes (42.3 per cent) in these elections, which is a...
Ailing Chinese Economy Gets Massive Stimulus As Central Bank Swings Into Action
By Anjan Roy The Chinese economy is seeing deflation —that is, prices are really falling in real time— for 23 months straight. This has really raised the concerns of the Chinese political bosses which was reflected in the central bank move on Tuesday. The central bank cut its policy...
Make In India Will Be Made Easier By Decriminalising 300 More Activities
By Dr. Gyan Pathak September 25, 2024, is the tenth birth anniversary of Make in India. It was launched on September 25, 2014. PM Narendra Modi government has tried its best to promote ease of business in the country, but finding the scheme not getting desired momentum, it decriminalized...
A Personal Tribute To The CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury
By Harihar Swarup The general secretary of the CPI-M, Sitaram Yechury, who passed away on September 12 at the age of 72, defied all the clichés one associates with hardcore “commies”. From his appearance to his demeanour, he was like “one of us”. Meaning, he didn’t shove his ideology...
Bombay High Court Order Quashing Amended IT Rules Is A Welcome Step
By Krishna Jha Bombay high court has quashed the amended Information and Technology rules that enable the Centre to set up its own Fact Check Unit (FCU). Justice AS Chandurkar’s order, which set aside the IT Amendment Rules, 2023, broke the tie of the split verdict given earlier by...
Indian Officials Have Taken The Right Step In Contacting Rebel Groups In Myanmar
By Tirthankar Mitra India has extended an invitation to political and military opponents of Myanmar junta for a seminar in New Delhi. It is a signal of recalibrating Indian stance towards Myanmar conflict. It is a pointer to the fact that Indian policy towards its neighbour is undergoing a...
Kamala Harris Campaign Represents The Broadest Anti-MAGA Movement
By Juan Lopez NEW YORK: Vice President Kamala Harris’s entrance into the 2024 presidential race has transformed a limping electoral contest into a full-blooded dash to the finish line. Perhaps what seems to be the most underappreciated is Harris’s expressed recognition of this unprecedented moment in the nation’s life—bloodthirsty,...
Bernie Sanders To Move Resolution In U.S. Senate To Block Arms Sale To Israel
By Linda Pentz Gunter WASHINGTON: Democratic socialist senator Bernie Sanders, one of the lone critics on Capitol Hill of Israel’s carnage in Gaza, is set to introduce a joint resolution this week to block the ongoing billions of US dollars in arms sales to Israel. “Much of the carnage...
