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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.Russia-India-China Troika Is Helpful To New Delhi In Meeting Tariff Challenge From Trump
By Subrata Majumder Amid world deepening in geopolitical tensions and global trade turmoil, Russia-India-China troika paves the way for India-China thaw, geared by Russia and poses a challenge to Trump’s unilateral tariff imposition policy, even with political considerations. Russia-India-China (RIC) troika evokes both primary challenge and opportunity. Russia took...
Recognising Palestine As A Sovereign State By Western Nations Is A Welcome Step
By Asad Mirza As Israel pushes for Gaza takeover, several Western nations have formally announced their plans to recognise a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly. The move, which is being led by major western nations among others, is poised to deepen Israel’s international isolation, but will...
GST Blueprint Was Done During UPA Regime, Narendra Modi Opposed It As CM
By Anjan Roy Prime minister, Narendra Modi’s address to the nation on Sunday on the eve of the cut in GST was a purely political play. The GST has been reformed and reset by the GST Council, which is the competent body to finally amend the GST regime. Its...
Starved Of Power For Decades In Tamil Nadu, Congress Is Itching To Be In Govt After 2026 Polls
By Sushil Kutty The Tamil Nadu unit of the Congress wants a bigger share of everything from the DMK alliance in the 2026 assembly elections which isn’t far away, a few months more and all things polling will be on the state’s head. And Tamil Nadu is a political...
The Great Brain Drain Reversal: How Trump’s Visa Gambit May Backfire
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: In the annals of economic self-harm, few policies rival the spectacular myopia of Donald Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee. What began as a weekend of bureaucratic chaos—complete with panicked flights from Bangalore and corporate travel bans—has evolved into something far more consequential: America’s...
Global Ayyappa Sangamam: Shot In The Arm For LDF Government
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The habitual critics of Kerala’s Left Democratic Front Government (LDF) are running for cover; the incorrigible detractors have ended up with egg on their faces. The reason for their acute embarrassment: the success of the Global Ayyappa Sangamam held by the Travancore Devaswom Board. Belying...
Let’s Block Everything: A New Unity Of Protestors On The French Streets
By Dennis Broe PARIS: Building on last week’s Bloquons Tout movement on the streets of France , a national protest against Emmanuel Macron’s austerity budget, which drew supporters from both left and right, the combined might of the French unions last week led an even more impressive mobilisation. “Let’s...
Higher GST Will Hurt Oil-Starved India’s Exploration Drills
By Nantoo Banerjee Few will disagree that India should keep investing substantially in both onshore and offshore oil search as the country is becoming increasingly dependent on the import of petroleum crude to meet its energy needs. Currently, almost 86 percent of India’s annual crude petroleum needs are being...
Tamil Nadu Is Witnessing Spectacular Rallies By New Political Film Star Vijay
By Sushil Kutty Kamal Haasan and Vijay Joseph are rivals on the big screen, but they parallel and therefore their films strike different notes with the movie crazy Tamil diaspora at home and abroad. Kamal Haasan is age-wise older and had a head start over Vijay, which also ensured...
Trump’s Latest Salvo Against India On H-1B Visa Fees Can Be Used As An Opportunity
By Anjan Roy The blow on India has now landed. Donald Trump has, in effect, slapped a very steep hike in services exports through movement of professionals from India to the United States. Until now, the fees from H-1B fee application fees used to vary from $1700 to $4500...
Politics And Economics Of ‘GST Saving Festival’ Of PM Narendra Modi
By Dr. Gyan Pathak When one uses a word to mean different than the lexical meaning, then it becomes politics. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation on September 21, 2025 fits into the definition, since he intended to push up expenditure of the people while calling it...
Talibans Have Every Right To Reject Trump’s Demand For Bagram Military Base
By Asad Mirza President Trump has fired a fresh salvo from his wish list, ignoring sovereignty of an independent nation and ignoring all norms of international decorum and diplomacy. He seems to act like a child who must cry, when he wants to take control of any other sovereign...
Bangladesh Allows U.S. Troops In Sensitive Island Of Bay Of Bengal
By Ashis Biswas Not many people believed in the serious warning addressed to her countrymen by former Prime Minister, of Bangladesh, Mrs Hasina (Sheikh) Wazed. Days before her flight to India on August 5 2024, when an armed mob attacked and looted her residence. in Dhaka city, she had...
How The Pro-Rich Bias Of Visa System Will Be Adversely Affecting U.S. Tech Supremacy?
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: India’s measured diplomatic response to Trump’s latest H-1B visa sledgehammer—a punitive $100,000 annual fee that effectively prices out most employers—carries the understated fury of a nation whose skilled professionals have been branded economic pariahs. External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal’s words about “humanitarian...
Madhya Pradesh BJP Holding Marathon Sessions To Rejig State Party Machinery
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Both the state units of Madhya Pradesh BJP and Congress have initiated major strategy to streamline the organisation setup, The Congress has drawn up three day programme involving all the district Congress committees. The district Committees were given task by Rahul Gandhi. Now the...
Deportation Of A 73 Year Old Ailing PIO Woman Tells Of Absurdity Of Trump’s Immigration Machinery
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: In the annals of bureaucratic absurdity, few episodes rival the spectacle of the United States government deploying its vast immigration enforcement apparatus to detain a 73-year-old grandmother with arthritic knees. Harjit Kaur, a Sikh seamstress from the San Francisco Bay Area, has become...
Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee Redefines U.S. Liberal Immigration Policy
By T N Ashok The Trump administration’s latest immigration directive has stunned employers, foreign workers, and higher-education leaders alike: a $100,000 surcharge on each H-1B visa application, announced by executive order on 19 September 2025. What might appear on the surface as a routine adjustment to visa fees is,...
No Surprises In SEBI Clean Chit To Adani Over Issues Flagged By Hindenburg
By K Raveendran The Securities and Exchange Board of India’s clean chit to the Adani Group over allegations raised by the Hindenburg report has hardly surprised anyone who has followed the regulator’s history. For decades, SEBI has functioned less like an independent watchdog and more as an extension of...
