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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.Obrador’s Win In Mexico Is A Big Boost To Left In Latin America
By Nitya Chakraborty The landslide victory of the maverick Leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in the crucial Presidential elections in Mexico on Sunday, comes as a major boost to the leftist forces in Latin America who have been fighting a battle for survival after a pink tide...
Congress In A Bind On Possible Alliance With Nitish
By Arun Srivastava After Nitish Kumar walked out from the grand alliance, Rahul Gandhi, then Congress general secretary, had accused him of sacrificing his credibility and rules for power. Power makes a man lose his credibility, he had stated. Annoyed with Nitish’s shifting of loyalty, Rahul had...
Continuing Assaults On Lawyers Is A Disturbing Trend
By Amritananda Chakravorty On 6th June, 2018, the Maharashtra police in one swoop arrested five activists, including a lawyer known for his work on dalit rights and political prisoners, in connection with caste-based violence that erupted in Bhima-Koregaon town in Maharashtra in the first week of January, 2018....
Market Betting With Workers’ Pension Funds Could Be Risky
By Nantoo Banerjee It is good to know that the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) investment in equities via exchange-traded funds (ETFs) generated 17.23 per cent return as of February this year. It had invested Rs 41,967.51 crore in ETFs. EPFO had sold ETFs worth Rs 2,500...
New York Victory Is A Turning Point For Left Democrats
By Michael Arney On Tuesday’s Democratic primary election for New York’s 14th Congressional District, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accomplished a nearly impossible task: She defeated her heavily overfunded incumbent opponent. With practically all votes counted, the bartender-turned-socialist-candidate trounced high ranking, ten-term incumbent and Queens Democratic Party Chair Rep. Joseph...
Modi’s Oil Stars May Be Turning Benevolent Again
By K Raveendran Astrology columns are often seen to forecast subjects of certain planets facing the risk of grave danger from fire and water, sometimes even life-threatening. It is not known if crude oil has a ruling planet of its own, but geo-political developments on the earth have been...
The Emerging Nepal-India-China Equation
By Barun Das Gupta Nepal Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli paid a five-day official visit to China from June 19. Before going into an analysis of that visit and its import and impact on Nepal, India and China relationship, it may be useful to take a brief...
Is emergency the only measure of Indira Gandhi?
By Harihar Swarup Howsoever, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his colleagues may abuse Indira Gandhi, compare her to Hitler, to mark the 43rd anniversary of Emergency, she remains the most popular leader of India. If BJP leaders think they can get votes by recalling days of Emergency and...
Disillusions Of Worshipping False Gods
Sushil Kutty “What the hell’s going on?” Resentment and bitterness have taken hold of the once redoubtable Arun Shourie. He says “we are so callous. We’re demoralizing the army. They’re endangering the lives of soldiers this way.” Retired army generals do not think the ‘leak’ endangers soldiers. The...
Pakistan Fails In Bid To Keep Off Terrorist Funding List
By James M. Dorsey The Pakistani government’s removal of a virulently anti-Shiite militant from its terrorism list at the very moment that an international money laundering and terrorism finance watchdog was deciding to put the country on a watch list, highlights Pakistan’s struggle to come to grips...
Comparing Indira To Hitler Is A Travesty Of Truth
By L.S. Herdenia I do not hold any brief for Indira Gandhi as far as her decision to impose Emergency is concerned. There is no doubt that the Emergency period will be recorded as a black chapter in the democratic history of the country. But certainly I have...
The Simple Prescription For Peace
By Dr. Arun Mitra July the 7th will always be remembered as a historical day. On this day in 2017 the world community decided to vote for complete nuclear disarmament and save the world from catastrophe that could threaten the very existence of mankind. It wasn’t an easy...
Headwinds Of Dalit Politics Force Mayawati To Change
By Arun Srivastava For BSP supremo Mayawati the 2019 Lok Sabha election is an opportunity to consolidate her grip on the dalits and untouchables of Uttar Pradesh and resuscitate her own image as a dalit champion. Unfortunately her impulsive political actions of the past have given her...
Mexico Is Poised For A Regime Change On July 1
By Mark Gruenberg In news U.S. workers won’t like to hear, particularly those in Midwestern industrial states that saw their jobs and plants decamp south of the border, some two-thirds of Mexicans support a new North American Free Trade Agreement. Some of that support seems to be coming...
BJP’s 2019 Election Launch Pad Is Out
By Sushil Kutty “What the hell’s going on?” Once journalist-now-dissident-BJP-leader Arun Shourie labels Indian Army’s ‘surgical strikes’ “farjical/farcical strikes” and the next day – 636 days after the army’s special forces struck and decimated terrorist launch pads in POK – television news channels are awash with video proof...
Chances Of Govt-Opposition Cooperation In Monsoon Session Bleak
By Nitya Chakraborty The monsoon session of Parliament beginning on July 18 is expected to see sharpest confrontation between the BJP and the Congress led opposition making the smooth functioning of the proceedings of both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha impossible. Right now, the political temperature has hottened...
Congress Warming Up To Kamal Haasan
By Rahil Nora Chopra Will the Congress tie up with Kamal Haasan’s fledgling party? We don’t know yet. But the Gandhi family, at least its younger members, did roll out the red carpet for the superstar. Apparently even as Rahul Gandhi was holding an intense discussion with Kamal on...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Bar associations cannot deny the right to legally represent any individual – The Supreme Court expressed that a bar association could not restrain advocates from defending an individual. The petitioner had filed a writ petition against a resolution passed by the lawyers of the trial court, where he was...
