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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.NDA’s VP Candidate CP Radhakrishnan May Help BJP In Its Southern Conquest
By Sushil Kutty As is his wont, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made one of his standard Smart Alec comments when holding forth on the BJP/NDA vice-presidential candidate, CP Radhakrishnan. Apparently, ‘CP’ and Modi are long-standing friends with Radhakrishnan’s deadly devotion to public service, the clincher in CPR’s favour. Modi...
Rahul Gandhi’s Voter Adhikar Yatra In Bihar Assumes Massive Character On Fourth Day
By Arun Srivastava PATNA:“Voter Adhikar Yatra” by the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and supported by the INDIA Bloc entered its fourth day in Bihar with massive participation by the common people, especially the poor and women in the march. For the Bihar people, the yatra is not merely an...
Central Ministry Pits Savarkar Above Mahatma Gandhi In Its Independence Day Post
By Krishna Jha On August 15, amidst the celebrations of the Independence Day, petroleum ministry in the social media came out with a surprise post, against the basic fabric of our freedom struggle. VD Savarkar, who consciously kept himself away from the freedom struggle, was shown placed above Gandhiji,...
After A 47 Day Gap, Israel-Iran Confrontation Has Come To The Fore Again
By Asad Mirza It has been only 47 days since the Iran-Israel war ended. The peace in the Middle East is only 47 days old. But barely after a month-and-a-half, the possibility of reignition of a new war has increased once again. The situation is tense again after the...
A Red Carpet For Putin In Alaska, No Clear Roadmap For Peace
By M A Hossain Anchorage, Alaska, is not the first place one thinks of when imagining global diplomacy. Yet, on a brisk day in Macomb, Michigan, Americans and the world were reminded that great power politics often thrives in unexpected places. There, U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President...
Prospects Of Ukraine Peace Deal Brighten After Trump-Zelensky Meeting
By Nitya Chakraborty The prospects of arriving at a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia to end the nearly three and half year old war have brightened after the Monday meeting of President Donald Trump with the Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House in the presence of...
Like Donald Trump, General Asim Munir Weaves A New Theory Every Day On Four Day War
By Sushil Kutty Pakistan is on a wing and a prayer, hoping against hope that spilling disinformation and spreading misinformation about India and against India with ‘Field Marshal’ Gen. Asim Munir doing his best to push United States President Donald Trump’s single-point agenda, pocket the Nobel Peace Prize against...
Unemployment Rate In Urban Areas Continues Rising Fourth Month In A Row
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Unemployment rate in urban areas in India has continued to rise in the fourth month in a row in July 2025 and stood as high as 7.2 per cent, as against 6.5 per cent in April. It rose to 6.9 per cent in May, and...
Contrasting State Of Minorities In Two States – West Bengal And Assam
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ruling in Assam and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal, it is not surprising that official policies adopted by the two state Governments regarding the minority communities are strikingly different. Avoiding the usual bureaucratic verbiage of sober language/words...
LDF, Congress Challenge Thrissur LS Constituency Poll Result
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A protracted politico-legal battle is in the offing as the CPI(M), CPI and the Congress are gearing up to move the Election Commission and courts with evidence of fraud in the Thrissur Lok Sabha constituency election in 2024 which BJP candidate Suresh Gopi won. CPI...
Bengal Congress Clueless On Alliance Strategy As High Command Is Keeping Mum
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: After having worked out an electoral alliance with Congress since 2016 Assembly polls, the West Bengal unit of CPI(M) wants the other political outfit to make the first overtures for a poll pact in 2026 Assembly elections. It needs to be stated that the state...
Haryana’s Contract Employment Security Act Has Some Welcome Features
By Rohit Mani Tiwari A paradoxical situation has recently emerged in the Indian employment landscape. On one hand, there are traditional bastions of ‘secured employment’ like Tata Consultancy Services (‘TCS’), which recently retrenched around 12,000 employees and halted the on-boarding of over 600 graduate trainees (‘GETs’) due to ‘skill-mismatch’...
India-US Ties Are Too Strong To Be Rocked By Trade Tariff
By Nantoo Banerjee Come August 27, the picture of the Indo-US trade may show a considerable change. India’s merchandise exports to the US will be generally subjected to a 50 percent import tax from that date. A few categories, including drugs and pharmaceuticals, have been exempted. The reason advanced...
India Squeezed Between Washington And Beijing As The Tariff War Rages
By R. Suryamurthy India today finds itself confronting a dilemma as old as statecraft itself: when forced to choose between two unpalatable options, which poison does one swallow? In 2025, that question has sharpened into a binary that policymakers in New Delhi cannot evade. On one side stands Washington,...
After Two Decades, Bolivia’s Left Wing Rule Is Ending In October This Year
By Nitya Chakraborty For the Latin American Left, August 17 was a sad day as the dominant ruling party of Bolivia Movement for Socialism (MAS) which ruled for two decades this South American country faced an ignominious defeat in the Presidential elections due to the vertical split of the...
Rahul Gandhi’s Yatra In Bihar For Right To Vote Getting Massive Response
By Arun Srivastava Rahul Gandhi’s Vote Adhikar Yatra got tremendous response in Bihar on the inaugural day on Sunday, August 17 when the Leader of Opposition exposed the Election Commission’s attitude in his speech and along with the other India Bloc leaders gave his one man one vote slogan....
Election Commission’s Credibility Is At Stake Due To Its Aggressive Stance To Rahul Gandhi
By Kalyani Shankar A serious conflict is rapidly escalating between the Congress-led Opposition, the ruling BJP, and the Election Commission of India over allegations of voter manipulation and “vote theft.” This issue has intensified following the announcement of the SIR initiative in Bihar, aimed at revising electoral rolls sparking...
Jan Vishwas Laws Provide Ease Of Living To Offenders But Not Victims
By Dr. Gyan Pathak On the third day after the Independence Day speech of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his government has introduced on August 18, 2025, the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2025 in the Lok Sabha and it was referred to a Select Committee of the...
