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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.Trump’s High Tariffs Regressive To Global Trade
By K R Sudhaman Globalisation was at cross roads at the turn of the century due to East Asian currency meltdown and the failure of Seattle WTO ministerial in 1999. There was an UNCTAD meeting in Bangkok in the early part of 2000 to put globalization back on...
‘Cough’ Campaign To Smoke Out TB
By Aditya Aamir Marshal Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. Two of the American Wild West’s real-life heroes. Wyatt tamed Dodge City and Deadwood and went on to Tombstone to clear it off the riffraff and the Cowboy Gang. The Gunfight at the Okay Corral set the tone for...
SP-BSP Upbeat But BJP Thoroughly Demoralised
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The upbeat mood of SP and BSP leaders and workers after the victory in Gorakhpur and Phulpur by-elections is contrasted by a sharp dip in the morale of BJP ministers and leaders. So much so that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has cancelled his engagements...
Godless Politics Of Present Day Prophets
By Sushil Kutty The ‘Hindu’ stood in his balcony and read the banner headline – ‘Lingayat Is Newest Religion’. His lips tightened. Right then his Lingayat neighbour stepped on to his balcony and danced a jig, raised a fist to the sky and popped right back into his apartment. The...
Putin’s Victory: Challenge To Western Hegemony
By Arun Srivastava Vladimir Putin’s re-election as the President of Russia, encompassing his decree over the world’s largest country for another six years, that too at a time when his ties with not only the Western world but also with other parts of the globe, including France and...
No Confidence Motion Against Modi Signals Change
By Kalyani Shankar Whoever thought that Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is touted as a strong leader leading an expanding BJP will face a no confidence motion after four years? When Modi rode into South Block in 2014, the BJP believed that the party and its leaders are...
Poor Politics: Congress’ idea of a 5% cess on India’s richest 1% demonstrates the party’s poverty of vision
The Financial Express Why the Congress plan will not be just ineffective but patently dangerous is that the only way to assess income is from tax filings, and the taxpayers in the top brackets already part with a large chunk of their income because of the taxes.(PTI) The Congress’s...
Forget Akhand Bharat or Hindu Rashtra, Bharat Mahasangh of like-minded nations is a more feasible goal
Bhanu Dhamija Hindu nationalists have long dreamt of a Greater India. They aspire to rebuild a nation matching the size and glory of ancient India – Akhand Bharat (Undivided India) and Hindu Rashtra (Hindu Nation). RSS and BJP leaders have often pushed for these aims much to the chagrin...
Crimes Against Women Force MP Police To Launch Crack Down
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Extraordinary increase in crimes against women in Madhya Pradesh has forced the police to resort to extra-legal measures to ‘terrorise’ the criminals. According to data available on the police website, 85 rape cases were reported from November 2017 to February 2018 in Bhopal alone....
KC(M) On The Horns Of A Dilemma
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Damned if it forges an alliance. Damned if it does not. That is the dilemma the Kerala Congress(Mani), which is currently ploughing a lonely furrow in Kerala politics, finds itself in. Deepening the dilemma is the sharp division in the party on the...
Kejriwal’s ‘Apology’ Is Not A Lovely ‘Sorry’ To Pinki
By Aditya Aamir ‘Apology’ is not like saying ‘sorry’, which is just another word Indians all over keep uttering, most times not even meaning it, sincerity not in tone nor in intent. ‘Sorry’ is generally looked down upon and cast aside disparagingly with these words, “Angrez Chala Gaya...
‘PM’ Rahul Gandhi Broadcasts A Message
By Sushil Kutty Okay, now we know who the next Prime Minister of India will be: A 47-year-old who has an aged grandma in Italy and tonnes of fans in Singapore, a man so steeped in Hindu mythology, he knows the Mahabharata from the Kaurava to the Pandava,...
India Wants To Be Global Solar Power Without Module Capacity
By Nantoo Banerjee How well is India ready to fulfill its highly ambitious solar power generation programme — from the current level of only around 15,000 MW, or 15 gigawatt, to 100,000 MW just within the next four years? To be honest, it is impossible to achieve such...
Powering industry 4.0 – The Financial Express
As per the International Energy Agency, the industrial sector accounted for 42% of the world electricity consumption in 2015. (Reuters) Industry 4.0 has become the buzzword of late. Interestingly, however, it was way back in 2011 that the German federal government announced ‘Industrie 4.0’ as one of the...
Global trade: Why WTO rules must not be trumped
Trump’s announcement comes closely on the heels of “investigations” under one of the most opaque provisions of US law. On March 8, US president Donald Trump announced a 25% tariff on imported steel and a 10% tariff on imported aluminium, on the reasoning that other countries’ trade practices...
India-US trade dispute: Why strong response and engagement is needed
The US last week asked for consultation with India, the first step in the WTO dispute settlement process. US president Donald Trump has been violently shaking up trade partners across the globe over the last few weeks in his bid to protect domestic manufacturers. The latest move by...
Araria Result Exposes The Myth Of Nitish Indispensability
By Arun Srivastava The verdict of the by-polls depends on the exigencies and compulsions of political parties, especially the one in power. And if the politicians are to be believed, the results do not necessarily reflect the mood of the people. There is a general tendency to...
Where Modi Failed To Trump While Donald Succeeded
By K Raveendran Governments all over the world are evaluating the success or failure of their policies in terms of the number of jobs created or lost. Donald Trump’s presidential campaign was predicated on the promise to protect American jobs, particularly in the steel industry, for the collapse...
