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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.Narendra Modi Govt Reduces Funding Allocation For UGC In A Significant Shift
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav This month, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a significant shift in the funding allocation for the University Grants Commission (UGC) in the latest budget. This historical institution, which saw an allocation of Rs 6409 crore during the 2023-2024 fiscal year, will receive only Rs 2,500...
In Post Election Period, Organisational Rejig Emerges As Major Task Of BJP
By Arun Srivastava Dreams of crores of Indian that their country would be empowered soon and have faster connectivity, more jobs, better education and improved quality of life do not appear to be a reality with the ruling BJP losing its track and its czar unable to connect with...
Bengal BJP Vertically Split Over Attitude To Voters Of Muslim Community
By Tirthankar Mitra With its back to the wall post its tally of 18 seats won in 2019 Lok Sabha polls reduced to 12 in 2024 parliamentary elections, West Bengal BJP unit is still at a crossroads. If leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari is advocating a line which...
United States Overhauling Its Military Presence In Japan Is Ominous For Asia
By Asad Mirza In a sweeping step to modernise their alliance in the face of mounting security threats in Asia, particularly the South China Sea, US and Japan have announced plans to further the bilateral military cooperation. The United States has announced that it will overhaul its military forces...
Kamala Harris Nomination Ignites Democratic Party Campaign For Prez Polls
By Diane Abbott Donald Trump was facing an easy ride to the White House when he was matched against Joe Biden. Now he has to face off against Kamala Harris things look very different. Trump has good reason to be scared. He might even lose, again, although it is...
Nirmala Sitharaman Gives Congress Its Best Campaign Point For Assembly Elections
By K Raveendran Rahul Gandhi and a host of Congress leaders have criticised Nirmala Sitharaman and the Modi government for copy-pasting from the Congress manifesto while formulating the new budget. Looking at the issue from another perspective, they must be happy that the finance minister has given Congress their...
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath May Be The Sacrificial Goat To Protect Narendra Modi
By Sushil Kutty Who benefits from blaming Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for the BJP’s poor Lok Sabha polls performance in Uttar Pradesh? As things have moved, Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya is the dark horse though Union Home Minister Amit Shah is also talked about as somebody who...
Centre’s Withdrawal Of Ban On Govt Employees To Join RSS Has Ominous Consequences
By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi lifting the 44-year-old ban on government employees from joining RSS and allowing them to actively participate in its programmes, might be construed as a tactical move to buy peace with RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, but more than that, it is a move...
India’s Employment Generation To Remain Much Below The Required Number
By Dr. Gyan Pathak “Indian economy needs to generate average of nearly 78.5 lakh jobs annually until 2030 in the non-farm sector to cater to the rising workforce,” said the Economic Survey 2023-24 tabled in the Parliament of India on July 22. Next day on July 23, the Union...
Cracks Appear In South African Coalition Govt As Partner DA Takes ANC To Court
By Satyaki Chakraborty The new coalition government of South Africa formed last month after the national elections on May 29 is facing a major crisis as the leading party African National Congress (ANC) has been taken to court by its partner Democratic Alliance (DA) on the issue of a...
Puducherry’s Coalition Govt Facing Rebellion From Disgruntled BJP MLAs
By Harihar Swarup Puducherry is said to be the BJP’s plan B to get a foothold in the Dravida land. But it took a serious hit in the Lok Sabha elections when its candidate in the lone constituency in the union territory, home minister A. Namassivayam, suffered a humiliating...
G20 To Work Together To Ensure Ultra-Rich Effectively Taxed
By Dr. Gyan Pathak G20 has made a history to agree on working together to ensure ultra-rich are taxed effectively, even after the United States dismissed the need for an international accord on the matter for now. The agreement was reached on July 25 at a meeting of G20...
Budget 2024-25 Proposals Still Inadequate To Boost Medium And Small Industries
By Subrata Majumder For the first time, the Indian annual budget for 024-5 focused on the aim of manufacturing from the perspective of job creation, rather than boosting GDP. Manufacturing has been a failure in the earlier years to drive the GDP growth. The , BJP led NDA government,...
Defection-Hit Ajit Pawar Is In Sticky Wicket In Maharashtra Politics
By Sushil Kutty Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar is still to recover from defections of NCP (Ajit Pawar) leaders to the NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) faction of Ajit Pawar’s uncle Sharad Pawar. Four Pune-based NCP (Ajit Pawar) leaders resigned and rejoined Sharad Pawar’s NCP and a week later the...
Author Pankaj Mishra Wins Coveted $75K Weston International Award
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Early this week, Indian writer Pankaj Mishra won the 2024 Weston International Award. The $75,000 award is given to an international non-fiction writer based outside Canada by The Writer’s Trust of Canada. “Through a compelling and essential body of work that braids memoir, philosophy, history,...
Under Neoliberalism, Permanent Employment Is Being Replaced By Flexible Work Regime
By Sanjay Roy The radical shift in labour relations from regimes of standard employment to fragmented and flexibilised labour force under neoliberalism is signified by a radical shift of responsibilities of their production of labour force from the capitalist employer to the State through the denial of indirect wage...
Narendra Modi’s Budget ‘Bonanza’ To Bihar Is Of No Use To Poor And Dalits
By Arun Srivastava The 2024-25 budget proposals of Narendra Modi government simply endorse the common perception that instead of being a tool for ameliorating the economic condition of poor, planning and allocating financial resources to meet the needs of common people and organisations it has become a device to...
Congress High Command Set To Rejig State PCC In Himachal Pradesh
By Rahil Nora Chopra The All-India Congress Committee has dissolved the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee following the party’s dismal performance in the State and general elections, Now the next prominent change is to take place in Himachal Pradesh as Congress high command is looking to change the state organization...
