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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.Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill Is An Outrageous Move Of Narendra Modi Govt
By P. Sudhir The last day of the monsoon session of the Parliament came to surprise and shock the people and their representatives. Amidst a session which had been extremely stormy over the charges of large scale manipulation of people’s basic right to vote, late in the evening the...
U.S. Visa Overhaul Hits Most The Indian Meritorious Students And H-1B Holders
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: In a blunt, unfiltered declaration, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced on national TV that the H-1B visa system is a “scam.” He lambasted it for displacing American workers and favouring cheaper foreign labour, then unveiled plans for sweeping reforms. “Hiring American workers...
More Than One-Third Of World’s Undernourished Children Live In India
By Krishna Jha India is fast becoming a nightmare for its children. They are bearing the brunt of extreme poverty and malnutrition. The confession is official. Also it is substantiated with data that are painfully true. Maxim Gorky, the Russian novelist, author of ‘Mother’, had once said that he...
Global Market Endorses India’s Resolve To Continue Russian Oil Purchases
By K Raveendran The oil market has by now mastered the skill to absorb shocks, even when they appear designed to disrupt trade flows and destabilise long-term patterns. Rather than creating turbulence, as many initially feared, the global oil market has taken the imposition of punitive tariffs by the...
Raids On Anil Ambani By Centre Show How Proximity To Power May Sometimes Boomerang
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: India’s most watched rivalry isn’t on a stock exchange so much as it is in the corridors where policy, capital and infrastructure intersect. On one side is Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries, the $200-billion colossus straddling oil-to-chemicals, the country’s largest mobile network and a...
Now 70 Per Cent Students In Urban Areas Are Studying In Private Schools
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India is shifting fast towards privatization of education. In urban India, about 30.1% of students were enrolled in government schools, while 70.0% were enrolled in schools other than government schools in the beginning of the current year. In contrast, about 66.0% were enrolled in government...
Industrialist Swraj Paul Was An Ideal Head Of A Family Run Business In India In Last Century
By Kunal Bose KOLKATA: Like many other celebrated family businesses in the country where the brothers will work together to make a success of their operations before going their separate ways for a number of commercial reasons and family compulsions, the four Paul brothers, namely, Stya, Jit, Swraj and...
Donald Trump Is Now Obsessed With His Passion To Defame India And Narendra Modi
By Sushil Kutty United States President Donald Trump is no less a boor than all of the boors who preceded him including the Jack and the Beanstalk ogre and cousins thereof. President Trump’s choice of words hurts even a snail engrossed in negotiating a curve in the beanstalk. Trump...
India’s Classrooms Must Become The Crucible For Innovation
By Satish Jha In India’s bustling classrooms, the future teeters, bright yet brittle. I’ve spent recent months visiting schools, sitting with teachers, and hearing their raw fears about technology’s place in education. Their words hit hard: tablets sap students’ focus, they say. Screens might radiate harm. Social media lures...
Bangladesh Health Sector Faces Collapse Due To Nepotism
By Tajul Islam When Bangladesh’s students took to the streets last year, their demands were clear: dismantle the structures of fascism, restore democracy, and build a government that put the people before politics. Their movement culminated in a historic moment on August 8, when Nobel laureate and Grameen Bank...
Decoding The Return Of Neo-Fascism In French Politics With Full Vigour After Decades
By Ugo Palheta PARIS: The far-right vote has risen steadily in every French election since 2012, reaching 41.5 percent in the runoff of the 2022 presidential contest. This is no isolated phenomenon. The traditional right has become extremist; civil liberties have been curtailed in the name of the fight...
Chicago People Resolve To Resist Trump’s Takeover Of Third Largest City In U.S.
By Brandon Chew CHICAGO: Hundreds of people gathered to attend Senator Bernie Sanders’ rally in Chicago Sunday amid the political backdrop of a potential military takeover of the third largest city in the USA. It was the latest stop for Sanders’ “Fighting Oligarchy” tour, which began in February and...
Why SCO Summit In China On August 31 Is Of Big Significance For Indian Diplomacy?
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be facing his major test in diplomacy at the coming summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) to be held in Tianjin in China on August 31 and September 1 this year. The SCO meet will be hosted by Chinese President...
As U.S. Official Order On Additional 25 Per Cent Tariff Takes Effect, PM Modi Has To Fight Back
By R. Suryamurthy From August 27, Indian goods landing at American ports will smash against a tariff wall so steep it amounts to economic warfare. With Donald Trump’s administration slapping an additional 25% duty on Indian exports, effectively raising tariffs to nearly 50% across a wide swath of products,...
Global Outrage After Israeli Strike Kills Five Journalists At Gaza Hospital
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The western news world has been outraged over the killing of five journalists in a tank fire in a hospital in Khan Younis in Gaza on Monday as Israel faced an unprecedented wave of condemnation after a pair of back-to-back strikes on Gaza’s...
Why Every BJP Leader Is Against Revealing PM Narendra Modi’s Degree?
By Dr. Gyan Pathak It was only last week, Union Minister of Home said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself put PM under the proposed Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill for the sake of equality before law that seeks automatic removal of PM, CM, and Ministers if detained for 30...
Home Minister Amit Shah’s Diatribe Against Opposition VP Candidate Sudershan Reddy Is Ominous
By Justice K. Chandru (Retd.) Last Friday, Home Minister Amit Shah, during a sudden tirade against the INDIA Bloc’s Vice Presidential Candidate former Justice B. Sudershan Reddy (who served as a judge at the Supreme Court between 2007 and 2011), accused the latter of being a supporter of the...
No News Of Jagdeep Dhankhar After His Resignation Deepens Mystery
By Sushil Kutty So where’s former Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar? One would have thought he would be easy to meet, come across, now that he is a free-bird and not the Vice President, a thankless job, if any, Dhankhar would have himself submitted to the people. But Jagdeep Dhankhar...
