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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.Xi Makes A Changez Khan Pitch
By Sushil Kutty The Chinese girl looked him in the eye and declared, “China Ver Beeg; China Ver Strong.” Stung by her dismissing tone, he retorted: “India Also Ver Beeg; India Also Ver Strong.” That brought a faint smile on her inscrutable face and she exchanged a knowing...
39 Returning In Boxes Dash Families’ Hopes
By Aditya Aamir Finally, it is confirmed that all 39 Indians gone missing, believed abducted by ISIS, in Mosul in Iraq were killed by ISIS and buried in a mass grave there. Told this news, opposition MPs in the Lok Sabha did not let External Affairs Minister Sushma...
Unwise To Choose Paper Ballot Over Evm
By Amulya Ganguli There were two notable features of the recent All India Congress Committee (AICC) plenary session in Delhi. One was about Sonia Gandhi demonstrating that she was a more aggressive speaker than her son, although the latter tried to make up any shortfall in this respect...
Indian Labourers In Big Distress In Foreign Lands
By Ashis Biswas Indian external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj has finally drawn the curtain over the four year old story of the disappearance of the 39 Indian workers in Mosul in Iraq. She admitted in Parliament on March 20 that all of them had been killed by the...
Foreign Law Firms Prohibited From Setting Offices In India
By Amritananda Chakravorty In a judgment with wide-ranging ramifications, the Supreme Court has rejected the plea of foreign law firms to set up offices in India or practice in Indian Courts. But it allowed them to act on a fly-in and fly-out basis, for giving legal advice on...
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...
