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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.‘Why are you lying about my working for an intelligence agency?’ asks Jadhav
Sushil Kutty Did Kulbhushan Jadhav pull a fast one on his captors? The abducted Indian national on death row in Pakistan is heard asking in the fourth Jadhav video (JV), “Why are you lying about my working for an intelligence agency?” He asks the question immediately after he tells...
Congress To Persist With Soft Hindutva In Karnataka
By Rahil Nora Chopra Congress wants to make it a repeat of Gujarat in Karnataka in terms of election campaigning. This will mean that more of the soft Hindutva card will be flaunted, as the party believes it worked in Gujarat. As such, Rahul Gandhi’s campaign tour, beginning...
UN Report On Human Rights Slams New Trump Tax Law
By Mark Gruenberg The new tax law the passed by the Republicans-run Congress and signed by President Donald Trump “stakes out America’s bid to become the most extreme society in the world” in unequal distribution of wealth, a new United Nations report says. And, adds Philip Alston,...
Punishment Key To Kill Talaq As Banned By SC
By Aditya Aamir The average Jameel in India has delivered instant triple-T to his wife by smartphone, whatsapp and email. And not a single average Jameela has stepped forward and said she was thrilled at getting talaq-e-biddat. Clerics, scholars and politicians who say the triple-T Bill, now...
Cyber Risks And Potential Costs Runs Into Billions
By Gyan Pathak People are being enforced to become participant in zealously pursued digitalization by the government of India, a country where almost 26 percent people are illiterate and 950 million people are digitally illiterate out of the total population of about 1.3 billion. Moreover, we are not...
Triple T: Argument against jailing in the name of alimony completely flawed
Aditya Aamir The average Jameel in India has delivered instant triple-T to his wife by smartphone, whatsapp and email. And not a single average Jameela has stepped forward and said she was thrilled at getting talaq-e-biddat. Clerics, scholars and politicians who say the triple-T Bill, now roiling Parliament, leaves...
GST Adversely Impacts Exports
By Gyan Pathak The output and quality of exports from India has decreased in the first five months of the GST regime in the country, says the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce after assessing its impact on exports. It cannot be taken lightly merely on the claim...
Islamabad Reaps Political Dividend Out Of Provocative Trump
By Sankar Ray The 45th US President Donald John Trump’s 50-word tweet, accusing Pakistan of siphoning US $ 33 billion-plus aid to Afghan terrorists giving them ‘safe heaven’ and ‘given us nothing but lies & deceit’ has been volleyed back by Pak Minister of Foreign Affairs Khawaja...
Trinamool’s Compulsions To Change Line On Triple Talaq Bill
By Ashis Biswas In recent weeks, certain decisions of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) have kept political circles guessing on issues such as floor coordination in Parliament, putting up a joint front against the Centre, or the anti-triple talaq legislation sponsored by the NDA government. The TMC, known...
Bitcoins May Not Be A Flash In The Pan
By G. Srinivasan With traditional investment avenues not guaranteeing even plausible returns and the equity markets stymied by the greed and recklessness of firms floating even initial public offerings (IPOs), leave aside those established ones not living up to their reputations for fair-play, it is small wonder that...
RSS apprehends farm crisis affecting rural economy
By Arun Srivastava The tragedy of farmers and peasants has become so grave during the Modi government that even the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has to finally raise the issue with the BJP leadership. At a recent meeting of senior RSS leaders, attended by BJP president Amit Shah, it virtually...
Rajinikanth in politics: another Kejriwal?
By Amulya Ganguli Ever since the degeneration of politics into a virtual cesspool, as Amitabh Bachchan called the profession after a brief period of entry and exit, Indians in general have been fascinated by the idea of a knight in shining armour wielding a broom to clean the Augean...
Bill Criminalising Triple Talaq Passed Hurriedly In Lok Sabha
In a sudden move, the Central Government introduced a bill criminalising the practice of unilateral instantaneous divorce by Muslim men, commonly known as triple talaq, vide, the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2017 in the Lok Sabha on 29.12.2017. The Bill was passed, amidst lots of...
Pakistanis go from pretty jumpy to pretty cocky
Sushil Kutty When The Donald tweeted “lies & deceit” it left Pakistanis foaming at the mouth and millions of Indians happy like hippies. But the happiness was short-lived. It did not take long for Pakistan to talk as if it had secret evidence to prove it doesn’t owe a...
Can Rajinikanth’s ‘spiritual politics’ succeed?
By Kalyani Shankar Tamil super star Rajinikanth’s punch line in his super hit film Kabaali is “Naan Vandthttenu chollu (Tell them I have come.)” On Sunday, wearing a spotless white kurta and pants, Rajinikant announced to his millions of fans: “My entry into politics is certain”, thus ending...
RSS fears farm crisis affecting rural economy
By Arun Srivastava The tragedy of farmers and peasants has become so grave during the Modi government that even the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has to finally raise the issue with the BJP leadership. At a recent meeting of senior RSS leaders, attended by BJP president Amit Shah, it virtually...
No country for eligible bachelor farmers
Aditya Aamir Young farmers may end up committing suicide not because of crop failures or mounting debts but because women don’t want to marry a farmer and end up as widows! Even marriage bureaus have taken farmers out of their list of eligible bachelors. Farmer suicides in the country...
Pakistanis terrified of an ‘unhinged-Trump’ unleashed
Sushil Kutty US President Donald Trump threw Pakistan under the bus on New Year Day and Pakistani journalist Rauf Klasra said a “bankrupt Pakistan is ready to go to war with the Superpower,” The sarcasm was lost on the Government of Pakistan, which called an “emergency meeting” and then...
