Opinion
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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.Trump’s Visa Tariff May Be Blessing In Disguise For India’s Talent Reservoir
By K Raveendran Bill Gates’ recent revelation about how a critical recruitment drive of fifteen Indian engineers had once saved Microsoft from slipping into irrelevance comes at a time when the United States under Donald Trump is imposing restrictive visa measures that are designed to block the very talent...
Federal Government Shutdown Is A Sort Of Ego-Tussle Between Trump And Democrats
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: On The U.S. federal government shut down effective October 1 I as the Congress did not approve a funding measure before midnight. The standoff pitted House Republicans, who passed a “clean” continuing resolution, against Senate Democrats who insist on tying healthcare protections to...
Calling Sonam Wangchuk Anti-National By Centre And BJP Is Preposterous
By Sushil Kutty Like one newspaper wrote, he’s now a national security ‘threat’. The threat in single quote-unquote, which makes it double the threat, our man Sonam Wangchuk in Ladakh, who has just started his languishing phase in life in Jodhpur, where he has been incarcerated in jail and...
Controversy Over SIR And Bihar Electoral Roll Not Yet Over
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The final electoral roll of Bihar after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) was published on September 30, 2025 after over a three months of exercise since it was announced by the Election Commission of India on June 24, but the controversy surrounding the SIR refuses...
Muslim Brotherhood’s Fading Empire And Its Dangerous Heirs
By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury For decades, the Muslim Brotherhood has loomed large in the Western imagination, often described as the ideological mothership of global Islamism. To many policymakers in Washington, London, or Brussels, the name alone has become shorthand for a wide spectrum of Islamist activity. Yet, this...
Colombian President Gustavo Petro Has Emerged As A Principled Fighter Against Trump
By Cruz Bonlarron Martínez NEW YORK: The US Department of State published a tweet on Friday night stating its plans to revoke the visa of Colombian president Gustavo Petro due to his “reckless and incendiary actions” on his visit to New York City during the United Nations General Assembly....
China Is Making Every Effort To Attract Talent Thrown Out By America
By Anjan Roy Donald Trump’s high fees for H1B visas are a serious headache for India, not just for the sake of its impact on India’s IT sector and services exports to USA. This is a huge worry for the overall security environment and strategic- diplomatic scenario for India....
Trump’s Final Peace Plan On Gaza Is Out As Nobel Peace Prize Announcement Is Nearing
By Sushil Kutty President Donald Trump’s 20-point proposal for peace in Gaza has been accepted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump’s let it be known to the shady Hamas leadership, whatever is left of it, to agree to the plan or perish. Israel will have “our full...
Forest Regeneration Declining In India Needing Urgent Attention
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As against forest cover target of 33 per cent of country’s geographical area needed for maintain ecological balance, increase in India’s forest cover is moving very slowly. Recorded forest area (RFA) during the last decade (2013-2023) has only slightly increased from 23.48 per cent to...
Major U.S. Businessmen Are Not Happy At Trump’s Anti-H-IB Visa Moves
By Kunal Bose Newspaper interview pieces are generally on predictable lines and very little of substance generally emerges from the discourse. This is specially the case when the interviewees hold sensitive offices in business and finance. They are not expected to say things that will offend the powers that...
Capitol Crisis: How A Government Shutdown Could Reshape Federal Power
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: With less than 24 hours remaining before a potential government shutdown, the nation’s capital finds itself trapped in a political vise that threatens to squeeze the life out of federal operations and fundamentally reshape the American bureaucracy. The standoff centres on a familiar...
After Eric Adams Dropping Out, Zohran Mamdani Has A Golden Opportunity To Win
By Corey Robin NEW YORK: Reading this New York Times report on Eric Adams’s dropping out of the race — where Adams is described, with no sense of irony, as “politically moderate” and is quoted as warning against Zohran Mamdani’s desire to “destroy the very system we built together...
Nepal’s Political Course Till March 5 Elections Gripped In Uncertainties
By Nitya Chakraborty In Nepal, following the tumultuous developments on September 8, 9 and 10 as a result of Generation Z uprising, the 2.9 crore nation is crawling back to normalcy . Under the leadership of interim Prime Minister Sushila Karki, the new administration is making sincere efforts to...
India’s Refusal To Accept Asia Cup Trophy From Pak ACC Chief Is Pettyminded
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The nationalism of the ruling establishment of India has been reduced to jingoism, and touched a new low on Sunday night at Dubai. Under the direction of the Government of India, Indian team refused to take the Asia Cup 2025 trophy from Asia Cup Cricket...
U.S. President Donald Trump Is Desperate To Get Nobel Peace Prize In 2025
By Kalyani Shankar American President Donald Trump has set his sights on winning the Nobel Prize. His desire to become a Nobel Laureate has been a topic of discussion for nearly a decade, although he has yet to achieve this ambition. His recent speech at the United Nations, where...
Super Star Vijay Embodies Youth Aspirations And Anti-Establishment Sentiments
By T N Ashok The recent stampede at Karur has cast a dark shadow over what was meant to be another triumphant political rally by Tamil cinema’s reigning superstar, Vijay. With 39 people dead and dozens injured, the tragedy has raised uncomfortable questions about crowd management, political responsibility, and...
India-Pakistan Asia Cup Final In Dubai Turned Into A Theatre Of Absurd
By Sushil Kutty Funny, how India and Pakistan always end up playing the theatre of the absurd and if we’re the laughing stock of South Asia we have to appreciate the stoic Arabs for tolerating the subcontinent’s two nuclear powers for whatever India and Pakistan are not worth for,...
West Asia At The Crossroads: New Alliances Reshaping Global Power
By Bhasha Singh The global diplomatic landscape is showing signs of transformation. New alliances are forming, strategic agreements are being inked, and the epicentres of these changes appear to be in West Asia and broader Asia. As nations recalibrate their relationships and establish new structures, the possibility of a...
