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.True To His Self, Trump Beats Retreat From ‘Confusion’ Tariff On Gold
By K Raveendran President Donald Trump’s latest policy reversal has once again demonstrated the peculiar mixture of impulsiveness and calculated disruption that has become the hallmark of his economic interventions. Having first announced a 39 percent tariff on imported gold, the President has now abruptly dropped the plan, dismissing...
Ordinary Americans Are Aghast At Trump’s Increasingly Totalitarian Moves
By Anjan Roy TORONTO: America under Donald Trump has moved, to use a sub-continental simile, towards an alternative reality of a Pakistan and further away from India. The Washington streets might look familiar to any war zone than a western capital of diverse views. No wonder, that United States...
RSS Supremo Mohan Bhagwat To Stay In Office After Attaining 75 Years
By Arun Srivastava RSS Supremo Mohan Bhagwat is not stepping down from his position on September 11 this year when he reaches 75 years. This decision of Bhagwat has come as a big relief to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi who attains 75 years on September 17 this year-...
Community Dogs Need More Compassion And Less Cruelty
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Chief Justice of India (CJI) B R Gavai’s assurance of giving a relook at the ban order passed on “Community Dogs” on Monday, August 11, 2025 by a Supreme Court Bench comprising of Justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan has given a cause to be...
Bangladesh Becomes American Deep State’s Newest Victim
By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury In 2003, Washington justified its invasion of Iraq by claiming Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction and ties to Al Qaeda. These allegations -later proven false – enabled the toppling of Iraq’s leadership, replacing it with an externally controlled regime of opportunists and...
Narendra Modi Govt Works Out Emergency Action Plan To Assist Most-Hit Exporters
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayer When the U.S. President Donald Trump slapped heavy tariffs on a range of Indian goods this month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi responded almost immediately with quiet contingency planning: supply a targeted, limited financial backstop to exporters and small manufacturers whose cash flows are being squeezed...
Enforcement Of Competition Law In India Is Having Little Impact On Industry
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Competition Commission of India imposed a penalty of Rs. 20,350.46 crore as of April 30, 2025, but could realize only Rs. 1,823.57 crore. A massive amount of Rs. 18,512.28 crore has been either stayed or dismissed by appellate courts. Obviously, the enforcement of the competition...
US-China Hybrid Deal On AI Chip Sales Has Major Trade-Security Aspects
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: In a startling move with far reaching consequences, the United States government has brokered a deal under which Nvidia and AMD will remit 15% of their revenue from certain AI chip sales to China directly to Washington. The unprecedented agreement in cross border...
Congressmen In Karnataka Have Landed The Party Functioning In A Total Mess
By Sushil Kutty The Congress in Karnataka is in a mess. The Congress high command is also in a mess when dealing with the mess in the Karnataka state unit of the Congress. There is also LoP in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi whose functioning style cannot be challenged....
Bangladesh Turmoil Adversely Affects Eateries And Hotel Industry In Kolkata
By Kunal Bose KOLKATA: People in this subcontinent, except for a miniscule, will be pining for the food they are eating all the time at home as they make a trip abroad instead of trying the local fare. Take the case of Bangladeshis, who before prime minister Sheikh Hasina...
Bengal Congress Is Waiting For Central Directive On Electoral Alliance In 2026 Polls
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: With 2026 Assembly elections scheduled for March/April, West Bengal unit of Congress finds itself at a crossroads. It has to make a choice between going for an electoral alliance with the state’s ruling dispensation Trinamool Congress or revive its poll pact with the CPI(M)-led Left...
Samajwadi Party Supremo Akhilesh Yadav Launches Big Movement Against Up Govt Order
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: By jumping over police barricading in Delhi to protest against the Election Commission on Monday, Samajwadi Party national President Akhilesh Yadav attracted nation-wide attention and made it clear the he would hit the road to take on Modi government at the centre and Yogi government...
ED Probe Into Anil Ambani Group Is Creating Loathsome Sensation
By Nantoo Banerjee The regular news feed by India’s Enforcement Directorate on alleged massive money laundering by the Reliance Anil Ambani Group (RAAG), which is also known as the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG), seems to have been designed more to create an abominable sensation around the flamboyant entrepreneur...
Zelensky’s Final Position Is Still Crucial For Success Of Alaska Summit
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The upcoming August 15 summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, has become the hot topic of world leaders and the media, for its potential to reshape the trajectory of the Russia-Ukraine war. But the conspicuous absence of Ukrainian...
Issues Of Vote Theft And SIR Acquire All India Dimension
By Dr. Gyan Pathak INDIA bloc MP’s protest march against “vote theft” by the ruling establishment in India led by PM Narendra Modi with connivance of the Election Commission of India (ECI) through voter list manipulation has just escalated the issues to acquire a national dimension. Leader of the...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Is Set To Play A Major Role In Future Indian Elections
By Kalyani Shankar Last year was a high-profile election year with 60 countries going to the polls. This included India. Artificial Intelligence played a prominent role in predicting voter turnout, identifying potential swing voters, voter preferences, and optimising campaign schedules for maximum impact. It was hailed as the AI...
ECI Is Having Big Resistance From Opposition In Bihar To Go Ahead With SIR
By Arun Srivastava Majoritarianism, a political philosophy has always been striving for a permanent majority. Saffron ecosystem through the SIR has been trying to experiment with this. Majoritarianism basically is totalitarian in character and nature and intends to govern and make decisions, potentially at the expense of minority communities’...
The Great INDIA Bloc Opera Was In Full Glare On Monday At Sansad Marg
By Sushil Kutty MPs fainted. Probably no breakfast! Not even a glass of water. Doctors would recommend orange or mausambi juice. Avocado would have done the trick. Any number of smoothies. The best would have been an upma breakfast; perhaps a boiled egg along with butter-toast! Yummy! But no,...
