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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.Modi Wave Is Waning But BJP Has Massive Organisation For 2019 Poll
By Harihar Swarup The BJP’s winning streak that seemed to have got a boost in North-East, after the setback in Rajasthan, has hit a wall in Gorakhpur, a party bastion for nearly three decades and chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s constituency which elected him to Lok Sabha for five...
Data drive; Link tech and JAM to farm insurance
FE Bureau A report by Icrier recommends use of technology and JAM to link land records of farmers with Aadhaar and bank accounts for assessment and faster settlement of claims. While the country has had crop insurance since 1972, crop insurance has been beset by problems like high premium,...
Natural gas markets: Storage vital for developing gas economy
With the government’s active pursuit of developing India as a gas-based economy, India’s gas imports (in the form of liquefied natural gas, or LNG) have been increasing supported by lower prices. With the Arctic blast, nicknamed ‘Beast from the East,’ lowering temperatures across the European Union (EU) and...
Why intuition is greater than debate
Plato and Aristotle in a detail from the painting ‘The School Of Athens’ by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. Photo: Wikimedia Commons In 1600, the royal British physician William Gilbert explained why the magnetic needle in a compass always faced “north”. It is possible that an ancient Indian...
TDP, YSR Congress Stir Up An Anti-Modi Alliance
By Sushil Kutty The big story is not the two no-confidence motions against the Modi Government. One of the YSR Congress and the other of Telugu Desam (TDP). The story of the day is that a fragile opposition alliance is taking shape; interestingly, put in place by the...
Indians Increasingly Becoming Unhappy
By Gyan Pathak India is increasingly losing happiness by the year. World Happiness Report 2018 of the United Nations reveals that Indians are increasingly becoming unhappy. It scored only 4.190 on a scale of 0-10 in 2017, which is only a little more than the passing mark of...
Corbyn Is Carrying The Flag Of Tony Benn
By Alan Simpson It is four years since the death of my friend and mentor, Tony Benn. I could argue that he turns up in every article I write, but that’s a poor substitute for the daily conversations into which he poured tea and optimism in equally copious...
Apathy Of BJP Workers, Collapse Of Administration Led To Debacle
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Besides the understanding between Samajwadi Party and BSP, the anger of BJP workers and leaders and the collapse of administration are responsible for the humiliating defeat of BJP in Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha by-elections. SP candidate Praveen Kumar Nishad won by 21,881...
Who wants kichdi-pulao? Bland taste, sallow complexion
By Sushil Kutty To say that politics is fragile is to bend with the wind. If anything, politics takes oxygen through democracy’s fault-lines. A particular party is rejected by the voter and politics peaks – EVM fraud! The machines are working for the ruling party and we don’t...
Opposition Has To Follow State-Specific Electoral Strategy For 2019
By Nitya Chakraborty In politics, situation changes very fast and one month is not a long period. For the ruling party BJP, only 11 days have passed since their victory in Tripura and successes in other two states on March 3 leading to the euphoria that the saffrons...
Party-Paradise Tamil Nadu Has Voters Spoiled For Choice
By Aditya Aamir Tamil Nadu’s is getting a bit crowded for political parties with one added every month. The last one was Kamal Haasan’s Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM). Thursday morning, TTV Dinakaran launched his party, Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam, with ‘Amma’ making its debut in a party name....
Congress To Harden Soft Hindutva Line
By Rahil Nora Chopra The AICC session, taking place over the next couple of days, is expected to reinforce Congress party’s new line of distancing itself from the image of being a pro-Muslim party and further the soft Hindutva line. As part of this approach, Rahul Gandhi has been...
Master File and CBCR: Towards global tax transparency
The fear is on account of increase in litigation on this aspect, as the income-tax department may allocate group profits based on the profit split method. Keeping in mind to adopt the global best practices in the area of transfer pricing (TP), India has, over the past few...
Those who aspire to rule by leveraging new coalitions of larger groupings must take marketing much more seriously
Marginal farmers, disadvantaged rural population, women, dalits, minorities are known for vigorous participation at every level of the democratic process. Democracy with universal suffrage, regular elections and presence of numerous political parties has flourished in India. It has deep roots and growing mass participation, as evidenced by one...
Tillerson’s Exit Signals Further Shift To Right
By Mark Gruenberg Pleasing few people but himself, GOP President Donald Trump dumped Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in an early-morning tweet on March 13, replacing him with CIA Director Michael Pompeo, a former Kansas right-wing congressman, foe of the Iran nuclear deal and past advocate of...
Trump Dumps Global Trading Rules For Political Gains
By G. Srinivasan The signing of the controversial tariff hike on steel and aluminum by the U.S .President Donald Trump on March 8 in the White House in the presence of workers from the afflicted industries has generated not only a lively debate within the country but also...
Token Censure Of Saffron Vandals Will Not Do
By Amulya Ganguli The delight which Tripura’s saffron governor Tathagata Roy, the go-between between the RSS and the BJP Ram Madhav, the Hindutva gadfly Subramanian Swamy, and others in the Sangh Parivar expressed over the toppling of Lenin’s statue in a town in Tripura was short-lived because it...
Gorakhpur Shows Both Modi And Rahul Their Place
By Sushil Kutty For the Congress, the dinner was ‘last’ night, the realization was ‘this’ morning. That was because in the line-up of the UPA, assuming that it will be an alliance of the UPA including the BSP and the SP in 2019, where does Rahul Gandhi and...
