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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.Phased Lifting Of Lockdown In Kashmir Is Immediate Need
By Ashok B Sharma India, after winning a series of diplomatic battles against Pakistan, now needs to gradually lift the lockdown imposed on the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. So far the diplomatic success scored by India has been to foil Pakistan’s attempt to internationalise the...
Flood Devastation In Bihar Gives Nitesh Kumar A Jolt
By Arun Srivastava With the floods situation continuously getting grim, the future of Nitish Kumar as the chief minister of Bihar is at the stake. Even his close aides and friends interpret the intensity of floods as a warning sign for Nitish Kumar The Congress lost...
Who really threatens world oil supplies?
By Art Perlo The U.S. response to the Mideast crisis is not about protecting the world’s oil supply. It is to tighten control of the world’s oil supply, to protect profits for the U.S. oil monopolies, and to further control by U.S. global financial, military, and other corporations....
Using Failure As Excuse To Continue Failed Policy
By K Raveendran A three-member bench of the Supreme Court has allowed the Modi government’s review petition against the dilution of powers of arrest under the controversial SC-ST Act, which had caused disquiet across a wide spectrum, including the affected class. This had even led to a certain...
LDF, UDF, BJP Square Up For The Electoral Battle
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the candidates of the three major political fronts filing their nominations, the state is set for an absorbing contest for the five Assembly by-elections from the State. Like in Pala, the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) has had a head-start in the...
Mystery Shrouds Frequent Changes In SIT
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Mystery shrouds the reasons behind frequent changes in the Special Investigation Team (SIT), constituted by the Madhya Pradesh Government to probe, what has come to be know as the ‘Honey trap case’. Within less than a week, the government has changed the head of...
Shiv Sena Projects Aditya Thackeray As Cm Candidate
By Rahil Nora Chopra Shiv Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray has recalled the promise he had made to his late father, Bal Thackeray, to install a Shiv Sainik Chief Minister of Maharashtra, even as the BJP is projecting the present Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis as the next CM. The...
National Convention Calls For General Strike On January 8
By Amarjeet Kaur The National Open Mass Convention of Workers held in New Delhi on September 30, 2019, decided to conduct extensive campaign for next three months amongst working people in all sectors of our economy formal & informal to make the call given from this convention for...
Over 700 Homeless People Died On Britain’s Streets In One Year
By Marcus Barnett Charities have called on the British government to take urgent action on the homelessness crisis after a record number of people died on Britain’s streets last year. Figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Wednesday show that 726 homeless people died...
Understanding Communist China On Its 70th Anniversary
By G Venkat Raman Since my first visit to China as a student nearly two decades ago, I have had several opportunities to go back and observe the remarkable changes occurring within that country. Recently, I supervised an educational tour of student-participants to Shanghai, which is referred by...
