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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.‘Famous Four’ sidelined in Judge Loya case
Sushil Kutty A fake news on a leftist website with the headline ‘Justice Mishra Recuses from the Loya Case’ with the article’s body saying otherwise remains on website even as news came that the case will be heard by a two-judge bench comprising of Chief Justice of India Dipak...
Modi At Crossroads, Rahul In Wonderland
By Gyan Pathak The political turn of events unmistakably indicates that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is at the crossroads, where he stands solely with his own wisdom and strength, and his bête noire Rahul Gandhi in wonderland. Modi has been trying to break the shackles of the...
Bihar Government Bid To Stifle Dalit Protest
By Arun Srivastava Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s convoy was stoned in Nandan village of Dumraon block during his tour to the village as part of his state-wide Vikas Samiksha Yatra. The police put the blame on dalits, which is considered a tactical ploy to shield the local legislator...
Mamata Hard Sells Bengalas Investment Destination
By Subrata Majumder After the three previous Bengal global investment summits turned dormant, the 4thsummit held this month threw some rays of hope. Most of the MOUs signed in the three previous summits remained on paper. But the latest made a seamless attempt to woo investors after Chief...
Fault Lines That Can Rock Our Judiciary
By K. Raveendran An unusually warm January has produced an unprecedented cold war, the first such in the annals of Supreme Court, with a detente totally absent. Four judges, all men of known integrity and eminence, one of them a future Chief Justice, have staged a mutiny against...
Dissent In The Justice League Of India
By Harihar Swarup This is not for the first time that Supreme Court judges have aired their grievances publicly, but the way four senior most judges of the apex court revolted against the functioning of the Chief Justice is unprecedented. Justice JS Verma spoke in late nineties...
U.S. Congress must appoint an independent prosecutor
By John Wojcik There is something rotten about the way the Russiagate probe is going these days, and the plausible explanations are quite troubling. The first thing that smells bad is the fact that the White House Counsel Don McGahn and former chief White House strategist Steve Bannon...
With Chinese At Doklam, Congress Goes After Modi, Sushma
By Sushil Kutty Congress President Rahul Gandhi, when he was Congress vice president, led a party delegation to the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi at the height of PLA intrusion into Doklam, and courted controversy, with the party first denying it and then accepting it. It appeared at...
Mayawati Asks Partymen To Be Ready For Early Polls
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BSP leader Mayawati feels that the Modi government may go for early Lok Sabha polls as things would be difficult for the saffron party next year. She made this clear in her birthday address, which was beamed live through TV channels. She was of...
A Reformist Budget Neither A Compulsion Nor An Option
By G. Srinivasan Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is all set to present his final budget on February 1, 2018 as the incumbent NDA would not technically present one in 2019 February. Presumably, with the nation going to the polls in May next year, a lot of hot air...
Healthcare Corporatisation Excludes Majority Population
By Dr Arun Mitra There have been several incidents recently which have drawn media attention on the exorbitant charges demanded by the corporate hospitals. Not that people were not protesting earlier; but media has become concerned about these now. The poor were already marginalised and devoid of quality...
American Labour Unions Line Up Against Trump
By Mark Gruenberg The determination of the United States’ labor movement to come out on the winning side of this year’s election battles was strongly reflected at Houston at discussions during last weekend’s AFL-CIO Martin Luther King conference. Unionists mapping plans here see 2018 as an election...
BJP’s new strategy to destabilise LDF govt.
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A desperate Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) unit in Kerala has hit upon a new strategy to destabilize the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front(LDF) in the State. Obviously, the party has crafted the new stratagem, having failed to succeed in its earlier attempt to ensure...
At Togadia’s Bedside, Congress Catches Hindutva Flu
Aditya Aamir What is the Congress getting into by seemingly joining hands with the Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s rabidly Hindutva leader Pravinbhai Togadia? Does Congress president and Shiv bhakt Rahul Gandhi even know which of the 36 million Hindu gods Togadia prays to? Maybe it is a god who might be...
Media Provokes Rajputs As Ambani’s Padmaavat Clears the Bar
By Sushil Kutty For television news channels to brand the entire Rajput community ‘fringe’ is nothing short of despicable. Tags such as ‘Fringe Singed’ and ‘Apex Court Slaps Fringe’ after the Supreme Court lifted the ban on Padmavaat on Thursday in BJP-ruled states only provoke the agitating Rajputs further....
Amarinder To Expand Ministry Soon
By Rahil Nora Chopra Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh is expected to expand his Cabinet in the next few days. But before that he will have a meeting with Congress president Rahul Gandhi. Aspirants and their supporters are approached senior Congress leaders for a favourable recommendation to...
Broadest Anti-BJP Front Is The Need Of The Hour
By Nitya Chakraborty The central committee of the CPI(M) is currently in session in Kolkata to finalise its draft political resolution for the coming Party Congress at Hyderabad from April 18 to 22 this year.The 91 wise members of the CC are supposed to assess the latest political...
West Is Selective In Talking Of Human Rights
By Ian Sinclair LAST month news website Politico published an extraordinary leaked US government document concerning US foreign policy.Written for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson by his senior policy adviser Brian Hook, the confidential May 2017 memo advises that “the US should use human rights as a club...
