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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.Amit Shah Has No Business To Spoil Relations With Bangladesh For His Party
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Creating a bad neighbourhood is unwise, especially through totally avoidable unrestrained speeches. However, the leaders from the ruling establishment in India have been in the habit of making unrestrained speeches aimed at winning domestic elections that hurt our neighbouring countries unnecessarily worsening already strained relationships...
Labour Immigration To USA Has Helped The Economy By Boosting Consumption
By Dr. Nilanjan Banik Debates alone don’t win a presidential election, but they can certainly influence the outcome in a closely contested race. The last presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris was marked by numerous arguments and counter-arguments, but much of the discussion focused on economics and...
It Is Caste Battle In Indian States As Encounter Deaths Continue
By Sushil Kutty The grim truth holds that everybody Indian belongs to some or the other caste. Even Muslims and Christians. Prime Minister Narendra Modi identifies with an OBC. A Chief Minister has a caste. Criminals also have caste. Caste equations play important political roles. There was the ‘MY’...
Germany’s Ruling Social Democrats Halt Far Right Upsurge At Brandenburg Elections
By Satyaki Chakraborty The anti-fascist forces in Germany felt a big relief after the Sunday’s crucial elections to Brandenburg region showed that the beleaguered ruling Social Democratic Party (SPD) narrowly beat the surging far right party AFD defying all opinion polls about the AFD’s imminent victory. The SPD got...
New President Of Bengal State Congress Has A Tough Task On Alliance Strategy
By Tirthankar Mitra The decision of national leadership of Congress to make Subhankar Sarkar the president of the party’s West Bengal unit sends a message of cessation of hostilities with Trinamool Congress, the state’s ruling party. For Sarkar who replaces Adhir Ranjan Choudhury as the state chief, has never...
Nirmala Sitharaman Acts Spiritual While Commenting On Death Of E&Y Girl
By Anjan Roy Nirmala Sitharaman seems to have graduated from being a mere union finance minister to a lofty “management guru” and a spiritual leader. Nirmala Sitharaman’s comments on the untimely death of a young professional from overwork is symptomatic of the present government’s over-anxiety not to alienate foreign...
What Does Leftist Anura Dissanayake’s Win In Sri Lanka Mean To India?
By Nitya Chakraborty India’s neighbour Sri Lanka has elected the Marxist-Leninist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake as the next president in the intensely contested presidential elections held on Saturday, September 21. About 75 per cent of the total of 170 million population who voted, broke away decisively from the binary...
Poor Steel, Cement Output Reflects India’s Slow Growth Pace
By Nantoo Banerjee It may look rather odd that the steel production in India, the world’s most populous country, reached only 140 million tons as against China’s output of 1.019 billion tons, last year. The main reason is that India’s housing and construction sector is not showing the robust...
Prime Minister Faces Major Challenges In Pushing ‘One Nation-One Poll’ Proposal
By Kalyani Shankar The ‘ one- nation -one poll’ idea is moving towards Parliament and public debate, with the Narendra Modi government deciding to force the issue last week. The cabinet decided to bring a bill to Parliament in the coming session. The concept has been debated many times...
All Eyes Are Set On Pakistani Refugee Voters In J&K Election
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Election campaign for the second phase of Jammu & Kashmir Vidhan Sabha Election on September 25 ended on Monday while it is nearing its peak for the third phase scheduled on October 1. All eyes are set on Pakistani refugee voters in the state who...
QUAD Summit At Delaware Was US President’s Swan Song In Diplomacy
By Asad Mirza The latest Quad Summit is largely seen as an effort by the US President Joe Biden to leave a lasting legacy. Though Prime Minister Narendra Modi ticked all boxes, yet nothing substantial for India was gained at the summit, apart from the optics. PM Modi along...
Joint Parliamentary Panel Is No Match Before The Wakf Board Challenge
By Sushil Kutty Wakf Board. Wakf land, Wakf property. Wakf claim. ‘Once Wakf, always Wakf’. There is enough Wakf to go around for everybody to share. But no, Wakf is limited-ownership. The Muslim can claim ownership of Hindu land, but not vice versa. Just like the PLA salami-slicing India...
Setting Up Of A Semi-Conductor Complex In Kolkata Is Highlight Of India-US Talks
By Girish Linganna The highlight of the bilateral talks between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the US President Joe Biden in USA on September 21 was the agreement on the setting up of a semi conductor complex in Kolkata having potential of creating large number of jobs in...
Leftist Anura Kumara Dissanayake Sworn In As Ninth Sri Lankan President
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in on Monday as the ninth President of Sri Lanka in the first election since its economic collapse in 2022. marking a historic moment as the country’s first leftist head of state. The 55-year-old Dissanayake is the leader of the...
Junior Doctors Strike And Unprecedented Civil Society Upsurge In Bengal
By Satyaki Chakraborty The junior doctors’ movement in West Bengal partially ended on its 41st day on September 20 Friday. The striking doctors joined their duties on September 21 in emergency services only in the state government run medical colleges and hospitals still keeping the OPD work and surgical...
PMLA Review Has The Potential To Establish New Benchmarks In Judicial Oversight
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court of India is finds itself at the threshold of a unique opportunity to create history when a bench headed by chief justice D Y Chandrachud takes up next month a clutch of petitions seeking a review of the 2022 verdict concerning the Prevention...
BJP Facing Double Anti-Incumbency In Haryana Assembly Elections
By Sushil Kutty “No power on earth can bring back Article 370,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi roared in Jammu & Kashmir, apparently having regained some of his vitality after the “half defeat” on June 4. We hope to hear more of his return to form after he returns from...
Congress And NC Making Big Impact In Election Campaign In Jammu & Kashmir
By Harihar Swarup What makes the upcoming assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir different from previous ones is the altered constitutional framework. The reorganization post the scrapping of Article 370 brought Jammu and Kashmir under full purview of the constitution. Thus, the new government will have to operate without...
