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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.Satyajit Ray’s Socially Relevant Film Jana Aranya Is Now 50 Years Old
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Jana Aranya (The Middleman) inarguably one of the leading social oriented films of Satyajit Ray is five decades old. Looking back on its turning 50, the director shows he was in pace with the prevailing times as his anguish bursts into almost every frame of...
Trump-Putin Meeting In Alaska On August 15 Can Be A Gamechanger In Geopolitics
By Nitya Chakraborty The stage is finally set. U.S. President Donald Trump will be meeting the Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska in USA on August 15 to discuss the Ukraine war issue and bring about a settlement for facilitating a long term solution. If a framework of a...
Trump’s Tariff Barrage: A Real Gun In A Child’s Hands
By K Raveendran Donald Trump’s announcement of a 50 percent tariff against India is the latest in his string of economic pronouncements that ripple across borders with unpredictable force. While the White House may frame it as a move to “protect American interests,” the reality is that the decision...
From 2017 To August 2025 – The Bizarre Trump-Modi Relations From Hugs To Bluster
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: In the summer of 2017, when U.S. President Donald Trump hosted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the White House Rose Garden, the atmosphere was charged with warmth. The two leaders clasped hands, exchanged bear hugs, and spoke of a shared vision —...
Rahul Gandhi Wins The Perception Battle Against Election Commission Over Electoral Fraud
By Sushil Kutty Congress’ all-in-all Rahul Gandhi is no easy meat and from the looks of Rahul, the Leader of Opposition, in his trademark muscle-bound white t-shirt, is all grit, a tough cookie to boot. The treasury bench have tried every trick in the book but haven’t succeeded in...
High Court Order Failed To Get MGNREGA Started From August 1 In West Bengal
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Calcutta High Court order has miserably failed to get Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme started from August 1, 2025. The Centre has stopped releasing funds to the state under this scheme since 2022, though it is the only employment guarantee...
India-US Tariff Dispute Now Morphs Into Diplomatic And Security Row Between Two Countries
By Anjan Roy TORONTO: Indo-US trade dispute has now quickly morphed into a full scale diplomatic and security row. Both sides are digging in and refusing to budge from their respective positions as apparent from the statements from even the highest levels. This is clearly an escalation set in...
Trump’s Tariff Rate For Japan Is Helpful For Larger Japanese Investment In India
By Subrata Majumder Caught in the crossfire between Japan’s submission to Trump’s tariff war linking with investment and incentivizing Japanese investors to quite China , India is opened with a new opportunity to combat Trump’s threat of tariff war, which is linked with scrapping of oil and defence deal...
People’s Power Can Shatter Israel Government’s Sense Of Impunity On Gaza
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Reckless and genocidal, Israel’s government is now bent on an impossible-seeming intensification of its Gaza atrocities nearly 22 months into the invasion. Plans to occupy Gaza City will inevitably lead to thousands more deaths. Not as “collateral damage,” the cynical term for bystanders blown up...
Bengal’s 100-Day Job Scheme Impasse Continues Despite High Court Order To Resume
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Applications for jobs under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 are being submitted by card holders in West Bengal districts but applicants do not have the slightest idea when the authorities will, if at all, allot them work. MNREGA job remains...
Kerala Boasts The Country’s First Integrated Land Records Digital System
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The country’s first comprehensive land records digital system, launched in October last year, has attracted attention from many States and Union Territories. Among the States which have consulted Kerala to learn from the system, named “Ente Bhoomi”, was Assam. Kerala has agreed to provide software...
Pro-BJP Hindutva-Corporate Nexus Vertically Split On Strategy To Deal With Trump’s Tariff War
By Nitya Chakraborty The additional 25 per cent tariff on Indian exports to the USA announced by President Donald Trump to be effective from August 27, has led to an intense ideological and political battle within RSS, the BJP as also among the industrialist friends of Prime Minister Narendra...
ED’s Neutrality As Central Investigating Agency At Its Lowest
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Enforcement Directorate’s (ED’s) neutrality as a central investigating agency under the Union Government led by PM Narendra Modi has plummeted to its lowest since its inception in 1956, when a bench of the Supreme Court of India has to ask it on August 7, 2025...
Rahul Gandhi’s Exposure Of Electoral Fraud Unites INDIA Bloc Parties
By Arun Srivastava Undeterred of the innuendos and jibes by the second rung BJP leaders, describing him as destroyer of the democratic system and having some brain problem, which are being hurled against him certainly at the behest of Narendra Modi, for his expose of the Chief Election Commissioner’s...
Trump’s Tariff Threats Have Opened Up Possibilities Of A Viable Alternative
By Dr. Soma Marla President Trump’s imposition of 25 percent tariffs on Indian exports, effective August 1, 2025, is beyond mere commercial friction. Mr. Trump, is now attempting to pressure India by imposing various measures aimed at weakening our economy. USA now is weaponizing tariffs as a political leverage...
Rahul Gandhi’s Presentation On Electoral Fraud Enthuses INDIA Bloc
By Rahil Nora Chopra Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Thursday hosted a dinner for leaders of 25 INDIA bloc parties at his Sunehri Bagh residence in Delhi, where he showed them a presentation alleging fraud in the Lok Sabha voter rolls in a...
Rahul Gandhi Is Going All Out Against The Prime Minister Narendra Modi
By Sushil Kutty The whole thing about Trump’s tariffs bringing all sorts of Indians on to the same platter is a chimera, a lie told in the flush of the moment; in times of adversity when people comfort themselves with dreams and lies, which is what has happened and...
BNP Wooing Jamaat-e-Islami For Alliance In Bangladesh Polls In February
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) the strongest political party in Bangladesh that had fought a running battle against the ruling Awami League (AL)-run Governments for over a decade, has appealed to the Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI) to contest the coming elections in February next year. Mr Shamsuzzaman Dudu,...
