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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.Reclassifying Jobs By Skills And Qualification To Remove Discrepancies
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Given the significant discrepancies in job descriptions across nations, the Government of India and the International Labour Organization (ILO) have signed an agreement on 16 September to fund a feasibility study on an international classification of occupations based on skill and qualification requirements. The initiative,...
Special Intensive Revision: Kerala To Oppose Election Commission’s Agenda
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala has decided to strongly oppose the Election Commission’s move to conduct a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the State. As a first step to protest against the EC’s decision, the State Assembly will pass a unanimous resolution against the rolls revision....
Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee Move Makes Him India’s Biggest Headache So Far
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi continues to avoid confronting United States President Donald Trump, while the former real-estate developer with business interests worldwide including in India, harasses India with stupidly high tariffs and now by horrendously increasing the H-1B visa fee. Instead, PM Modi’s response was as...
Despite Being In Jail, Mohd Azam Khan Retains Prominence In Muslim Politics Of UP
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: There is no doubt that Samajwadi Party leader Mohd Azam Khan plays a larger-than-life role in Muslim politics of Uttar Pradesh. Is BJP scared of Mohd Azam Khan in forthcoming assembly polls in 2027? And is that why the saffron brigade will be more comfortable...
Why The 25th Congress Of CPI On September 21-25 In Chandigarh Is Significant In Indian Politics?
By D Raja The Twenty-Fifth Congress of the Communist Party of India will convene in Chandigarh from September 21, 2025, at Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy Nagar (Kisan Bhawan). We gather at a moment of extraordinary circumstances. Punjab is reeling under devastating floods. Fields are submerged, homes are damaged, and livelihoods...
Congress-BJP Political Fight On Role Of Election Commission Sees No End
By Dr. Gyan Pathak For quite some time now, India heard the Congress’s and BJP’s points-counterpoints on saving Indian democracy in their own way. Congress alleged that the ruling BJP establishment led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi not only undermined the Election Commission of India (ECI) an and institution...
Foreign Ownership Of Banks In India Will Only Help Big Corporate Groups
By Prabhat Patnaik The Reserve Bank of India has a limit of 15 per cent on ownership by non-residents of the equity of an Indian bank, a limit that is augmentable on a case-to-case basis but remains on the statute books to this date. And yet in 2018, the...
The States’ Fiscal Illusion: Borrowing Today, Mortgaging Tomorrow
By R. Suryamurthy When the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) released its State Finances 2022–23 report, the numbers confirmed what many economists have long feared: India’s states are not just borrowing, they are borrowing badly. The façade of buoyant Goods and Services Tax (GST) collections has concealed deep imbalances...
Why Does BJP Always Get Paranoid At Any Political Comment By Rahul Gandhi?
By Sushil Kutty Congress leader Rahul Gandhi at his hydrogen bomb presser made a mention of Gen Z and since then there’s talk that Gandhi was thinking of Nepal and the Nepalese Gen Z overthrowing the Nepalese government, wishing aloud his frustration of not being able to win his...
India Is Now Among The Strongest Drivers Of Growth In Global Steel Industry
By Kunal Bose One single factor that is primarily responsible for the weak finances of the world steel industry is installed capacity staying well in excess of demand. If that is not enough to stand in the way of most mills across the continents to generate surpluses to support...
BJP-led NDA Is In Full Action Mode As Bihar Polls Inch Closer
By Rahil Nora Chopra As the high-stakes battle for Bihar inches closer, the BJP has gone into full action mode to counter Mahagathbandhan’s political yatras. It seems Union Home Minister Amit Shah is himself taking charge to ensure success of Bihar Mission 2025. Already, the BJP has begun reinforcing...
Nvidia Bets $5 Billion On Intel, Deepening Its Bid To Dominate Global AI Race
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Nvidia Corp., the Silicon Valley chipmaker at the centre of the global artificial intelligence boom, is making its boldest move yet to consolidate power in the semiconductor industry. On Thursday, the company announced it would take a $5 billion stake in longtime rival...
CEC Officially Refutes Fresh Allegations By Rahul Gandhi Against Him On Vote Chori
By Sushil Kutty Ahead of the expansion of SIR to the rest of the Union of States, the Election Commission of India has rejected Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi’s fresh charge on Thursday against CEC Gyanesh Kumar as ‘baseless’. “Allegations made by Shri Rahul Gandhi are incorrect and baseless....
Modi’s Diplomacy: Balancing Putin’s Friendship And Pakistan’s Defiance
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: On his 75th birthday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi found himself at the center of a carefully choreographed display of international diplomacy and domestic strongman politics that perfectly encapsulated his evolving foreign policy strategy. As world leaders lined up to offer birthday greetings, Modi’s...
President Trump Is Feeling Taste Of British People Anger In His Current UK Visit
By Anjan Roy In the days prior to World War One, England had a popular song: “We don’t want to fight, But if we have to, We have the men, We have the ships, We have the money too” In these days, a bankrupt Great Britain was seen to...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Manipur Visit Marks Empty Rhetoric, Zero Empathy
By P Sudhir The prime minister last week made an inordinately delayed visit to Manipur after 28 months – 864 days to be precise – of internecine ethnic violence that was presided over by the then BJP-led government in the state under chief minister Biren Singh. The visit itself...
SC Gives The Green Signal For Global Ayyappa Sangamam
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The BJP-RSS combine suffered a second successive setback when the Supreme Court refused to intervene in the Kerala High Court’s order allowing the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) to conduct a Global Ayyappa Sangamam on the banks of river Pampa which flows adjacent to the famed...
Manipur: Free Movement Through NH 2 A Test For MHA, Governor-Led Regime
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: It is abundantly clear that the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Manipur on September 13, Saturday, has made little difference to the ground realities in the ethnically-divided north-eastern state. Optics may help the principal political outfit, the Bharatiya Janata Party, to live...
