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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.Solar Electric Vehicles May Soon Be A Reality
By K R Sudhaman As global solar power generation touched 100 GW, of which nearly half is in China and an additional 20 GW in India, very soon a new application – solar powered electric vehicles will become a reality providing clean and green transportation particularly in...
Has secularism become a dead letter in India?
By Amulya Ganguli The Karnataka government’s decision to grant minority status to the Lingayat community is clearly intended to boost its prospects in the forthcoming Assembly elections. However, the assertion that the Lingayats constitute a religious community separate from the Hindus is yet another instance of how religion...
SP-BSP Alliance Unnerves BJP Leadership
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: After the success in Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha by-elections, the SP-BSP alliance seems to be all set to become a game changer in 2019 polls. Much significance is being attached to the announcement made by BSP national president Mayawati after the Rajya...
Supreme Court Dilutes Scheduled Castes & Tribes Act Drastically
By Amritananda Chakravorty In a shocking judgment, the Supreme Court, in a two judge bench of Justice Adarsh Goel and Justice U.U. Lalit, has completely overtuned the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (‘POA’), by diluting its provisions. Dealing with a case...
CPI(M) Once Again Betrays Its Anti-Agitation Mindset
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government has again proved its inability to ensure smooth and mature handling of a peaceful protest. At the receiving end of the wrath of the Chief Minister and the CPI(M) were ‘Vayalkkilikal’, a collective of residents...
Ever Changing Political Psyche Puts Parties On Tenterhooks
By Gyan Pathak No one seems to have a clue to the psyche of Indian voters, which has seen perceptible changes in the last four decades. The period of this transition has put political parties and their leaders on tenterhooks. Socio-political trends in the country are too diverse...
Global arms producers are not interested to ‘Make in India’
By Nantoo Banerjee There is nothing to be surprised if India has attracted a tiny Rs.1.17 crore ($180,000) as foreign direct investment (FDI) in defence production under the “Make in India” framework in the last four years. The reason is simple. India is the world’s largest arms importer....
Cambridge Analytica-Facebook scandal effect Here’s why India needs its privacy policy at the earliest
The Financial Express While the Aadhaar Act already deals with information leaks, a tough privacy law will make the information a lot more secure. (Cambridge Analytica) While law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has warned Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg that he will not hesitate to summon him to India in...
Trump Brings World Near Another World War
By John Wojcik In what is widely viewed as the most dangerous and consequential move of his presidency thus far, Donald Trump ousted H.R. McMaster as National Security Advisor on March 22 and replaced him with the ultra war hawk, John Bolton. Dropping his campaign promise to...
Nasty War Of Wits Going On Inside NDA
By Arun Srivastava It may sound ludicrous that Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar is working on the modalities to stage a comeback to the Mahagathbandhan. In view of the acute hostility between JD(U) and RJD and the mudslinging between the leaders of the two parties, this appears to...
The End Game For Facebook May Have Begun
By K Raveendran Predictions that Facebook will go out of business in the not too distant future appear more realistic than ever before, with the once darling of social media increasingly getting into trouble with regulators for its unsustainable business model. There have been a number of forecasts...
A Gnashing Of Teeth After Rs Polls
By Aditya Aamir The just-concluded Rajya Sabha elections have made some changes to the seating arrangements in the Upper House. Maybe some weeping of tears and gnashing of teeth, too. But ‘Bua Mayawati’ must not be among those weeping tears. She is the gnashing of teeth sort. ‘Bhatija...
Implications Of Break-Out Of Global Trade War
By Anjan Roy Now that US President Donald Trump has imposed tariffs on a host of Chinese goods worth some $60 billion and kicked off responses the world over, unpredictability has given way to some vague predictability. One can safely say that countries will react, currencies will...
Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Pandavas’ Metaphor Might Work
By Harihar Swarup Each plenary session of the Congress has sent a message for the people. Perhaps, the most important one was when the Congress completed 100 years of its existence. The centenary plenum was held in Bombay in June, 1985 where Rajiv Gandhi, who headed the Congress...
Germany Coalition Has New Faces But Old Polices
By Victor Grossman After nearly six months of haggling, the three-party German coalition puck is in the goal box. The suspense is over. For the fourth time in a row the country will again be run by Angela Merkel. Not a few feathers have been ruffled....
Corbyn Is Best Placed To Win Next Elections
By Mike Phipps and Liz Davies Nearly three years since Jeremy Corbyn became Labour leader, his standing has drastically changed. His opponents in the parliamentary party are a lot quieter. The Labour Party apparatus is at last being reshaped to match the new reality. Recent polls indicate Labour...
Data Mining For Poll Started In India
By Sushil Kutty Is it possible to fix Indian elections using data from Facebook? It depends funnily enough on who wins, and which party loses! Post-2014, chances that Facebook data helped was certain; post-Bihar gatbandhan, the view was the opposite – ‘no, hardly likely’. Post-Donald Trump’s election,...
Cambridge Analytica Boss Met Trump Before 2016 Poll
By John Wojcik The steady stream of Trump administration and campaign crimes worsens by the day, with the latest Cambridge Analytica controversy exposing to the world that the Trump campaign hired a company that stole and manipulated data from up to 50 million American Facebook users in an...
