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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.Pro-Fascist Forces Are Surging Ahead Globally Including India In Recent Years
By Prabhat Patnaik All over the world there is an upsurge of fascistic forces. This includes India too where the fascistic Hindutva elements have been not just on the rise, but in power for more than a decade now. Liberal and progressive thinking in the country has been concerned...
Record Price For Sri Lankan Teas In Global Market Enthuses Indian Producers
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: Sri Lankan (black) tea recently secured the highest price in the world , as one kilogram of its FFE X SP variety was sold for a record price of 125,000 Yuros, (equivalent to 252,500 Sri Lankan rupees) , at a function in Japan . This...
BSP Supremo Mayawati Hints At Understanding With BJP At Her Mega Rally On Thursday
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: With her soft approach towards BJP and attack on Samajwadi Party and Congress, BSP national President Mayawati sent her clear political message to party leaders workers while addressing the mega rally here on October 9. Mayawati selected the occasion of 19th death anniversary of BSP...
Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal Is Welcome But The Follow Up Is Crucial For Enduring Peace
By Nitya Chakraborty The Israel-Hamas peace deal announced by the US President Donald Trump on Wednesday night in Washington is a welcome development, however limited it be at the moment as the agreement between the two warring parties is only for the first phase of Trump sponsored deal involving...
RSS Centenary Year Should Be An Occasion To Expose Its Dubious Past
By P. Sudhir In the middle of a huge public overdrive over the centenary of the formation of RSS, the country was shocked by a bizarre spectacle. A lawyer, Rakesh Kishore, registered with the Supreme Court Bar Association, was seen hurling a shoe at the Chief Justice of India,...
Fight Over Seat-Sharing Exposes Contradictions In NDA & INDIA Camps
By Arun Srivastava If the INDIA bloc in Bihar is facing serious incongruity on the issue of seat-sharing, with CPI(ML)-L, the BJP-led NDA is also fronting a serious challenge from the aggrieved state RSS leaders and ground-level cadres. Even the leaders of the smaller allies are aggrieved, but they...
Mosque Demolition At Sambhal In Uttar Pradesh Is A Continuation Of RSS Game Plan
By Krishna Jha The right reaction had started raising its head in our country around the time when Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh came alive a century back with Hindutva as its signature. Using Hinduism for achieving its political objective remained the core of the RSS. So was its double-speak. In...
Chinese Model Of Crash Development Disturbing The Climate In Himalayas In Tibet
By Anjan Roy The Chinese authorities are behaving in an extremely insensitive manner and destroying the Himalayan ecology while at the same time putting people at the risk of a frozen death. A Chinese government mouthpiece had proudly announced that last year more than half a million people from...
Union Government Has Let The State Down: Kerala High Court
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala High Court has administered a stinging rebuff to the Union Government for its callous attitude to the victims of the Wayanad landslide disaster. In an unusually strong-worded judgment, the court has condemned the Union Government’s reluctance to waive loans taken by the people...
India’s Steel Production Capacity May Go Up To 790 Million Tonnes By 2070
By Kunal Bose To the common man not aware of challenges of technology and issues of funding, the progress in production and procurement of low emission steel worldwide will appear to be excruciatingly slow. The global demand for low emission steel now at a measly 4 to 8 million...
Narendra Modi’s Eulogy To RSS For Sacrifice In India’s Freedom Movement, Is Not True
By Dr. Ram Puniyani On the occasion of 100th year of foundation of RSS, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the ex-Pracharak of RSS, paid eulogies to the RSS. He said that RSS has sacrificed tremendously for the freedom of the country and in places like Chimur RSS organized a protest...
India’s Opposition To Trump Bid To Take Over Bagram Airbase Has Special Significance
By Nitya Chakraborty Just forty eight hours within the external affairs minister Dr. S Jaishankar’s candid statement that Trump has to respect red lines drawn by India at trade talks, Indian officials joining China, Russia, Taliban government of Afghanistan and even Pakistan denouncing President Trump’s bid to take over...
CJI’s Pardon For Insolent Lawyer Dilutes Gravity Of Offence To The Institution
By K Raveendran Chief Justice B. R. Gavai’s dignified composure in the face of open provocation inside the courtroom this week drew admiration from many, but it also reignited a deeper conversation about the sanctity of judicial institutions and the limits of personal magnanimity when institutional authority is under...
Continuing U.S. Govt Shutdown Starts Affecting Air Flights, Education
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The federal government entered its eighth of shutdown on Wednesday October 8, with no end in sight as Democrats and Republicans remain locked in a bitter standoff over health care subsidies and government funding. What began as a familiar partisan dispute has evolved...
Herbert Matthews Of NYT Was The First To Tell The World About Castro And Cuban Revolution
By Simon Hall NEW YORK: Whether covering international conflict in Ukraine or Gaza or reporting from the front lines of the culture wars, journalists are, we are frequently told, unreliable, biased, and motivated by partisan political agendas. It is a charge that has echoed for as long as journalists...
Two Years After Hamas-Israeli War, Can Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan Succeed?
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayer NEW YORK: As Israel marks the second anniversary of the October 7 2023 starting of Israel-Hamas war , the cruel arithmetic of war has produced a sobering equation: 1,200 Israeli lives lost in Hamas’s brutal assault have been answered with over 67,000 Palestinian deaths, most...
Pakistan Is The Dearest To Trump In Asia As Islamabad Exports Rare Earth Minerals
By Sushil Kutty Rare minerals included lots of ores, this was something we were taught in school and we learned about stone age, copper age and iron age, the last of which remains to this day the most basic of minerals, out of which was born steel and the...
Dr. Meghnad Saha – The Outstanding Scientist Who Fought For A Technology Driven Inclusive India
By Nitya Chakraborty Dr. Meghnad Saha who was born on October 6, 1993 and died prematurely in 1956 of heart attack while going to the Planning Commission office to immerse himself in the building of a new India, was not only a great astrophysicist, but was also a consistent...
