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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.Time For Broader Left Unity In India To Combat Authoritarianism And Communalism
By D. Raja The coming to power of the BJP with an absolute majority in the 2014 general elections was not merely a routine transfer of power from one democratically elected government to another. It marked a qualitative shift in the very nature of our polity. The BJP is...
Maoists And Other Communist Groups Failed To Offer A Good Governance In Nepal
By Arun Srivastava The uprising of the Nepali youth on September 9 and 10 leading to the ouster of the KP S Oli government, does not simply manifest their anger and frustration against the rulers of the Himalayan country, instead points to a deeper and gangrenous like malaise that...
America Has Changed Radically In 24 Years Since That Fateful Morning Of September 11, 2001
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: On a crystalline morning twenty-four years ago, time itself fractured. The world watched in horror as commercial airliners became weapons, transforming symbols of American prosperity into pyres of unspeakable grief. The Twin Towers, once monuments to human ambition reaching toward the heavens, collapsed...
Wary Of Legitimacy, India Refuses To Regulate Crypto Despite Global Shift
By A K Shrivastav Despite favourable developments in the US, India is not going to change its stance on cryptocurrency and stablecoin regulations. According to a report by Reuters based on a new policy document, India will keep a watch on how digital assets play out in the Indian...
INDIA Bloc Is Playing At The Hands Of BJP On Controversy Over PM’s Mother
By Sushil Kutty The Congress party’s motherly love for rival Bharatiya Janata Party is the talk of the town , especially in poll-bound Bihar. And as it happens, the Congress hasn’t lost sight of the important role Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother played in child Modi, young Modi and...
Supreme Court Call For Pan-India Firecrackers Policy Is Welcome
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Diwali 2025, may be a little different. Supreme Court of India has just called for pan-India policy on firecrackers ban, while assuring that it would hear the livelihood concerns also on the next hearing on September 22. The apex court has also issued directions to...
Bihar Polls: NDA, Mahagathbandhan Zero In On Seat-Sharing Talks
By Rahil Nora Chopra As the high-stakes battle for Bihar inches closer, seat-sharing talks have started in both NDA and the Mahagathbandhan alliance. While talks in the NDA has become challenging due to the demands of Chirag Paswan, Jitan Ram Manjhi and Upendra Kushwaha, in the Opposition camp, two...
President Trump Is Using Kirk Killing To Declare War On The Left Wing Democrats
By C.J. Atkins WASHINGTON DC: Having neither a subject in custody nor any confirmation of the motive of a shooter didn’t stop President Donald Trump on Wednesday evening from seizing on the killing of Christian nationalist youth leader Charlie Kirk as an excuse for declaring war on the political...
Youth-led outrage turns deadly across Nepal
At least 19 people have died and hundreds have been injured amid escalating protests, as Nepal rescinds its recent ban on social media platforms. Thousands of young demonstrators—largely students—took to the streets in Kathmandu and other cities to oppose the ban on 26 online services, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp,...
Dramatic Stakes as Verge of Expose Sets Assam Ablaze
On the eve of the Chief Minister’s self-imposed deadline of 10 September to unveil explosive allegations connecting MP Gaurav Gogoi with Pakistan’s intelligence agency, Raijor Dal president Akhil Gogoi boldly asserted that only a dramatic turn awaits: “either Gaurav Gogoi is going to jail or Chief Minister Sarma will...
Johnston Warns Trump Could Be Pressured From Office Over Epstein Records
Pulitzer‐winner David Cay Johnston asserted on Thursday that President Donald Trump might be “forced out” of office if the full Jeffrey Epstein files were exposed and showed damaging evidence. Johnston’s comments came during an appearance on “Times Radio” as Congress intensifies its efforts to uncover records tied to Epstein’s...
Collegium Moves to Fill High Court Chief Justice Vacancies
The Supreme Court Collegium has proposed three appointments to fill the Chief Justice posts for Patna, Meghalaya and Manipur High Courts. Led by Chief Justice of India B. R. Gavai, the collegium has forwarded names to the Union government after evaluating seniority, judicial record and administrative capability. Justice P....
From Nepal To France And Now Political Assassination In US—The Globe Is Burning
By Sushil Kutty Nepal burned and continues to simmer. Next, France is in turmoil. French citizens have invaded streets and roads blocking all that stands in their way, from roads and buildings and commercial establishments. The agitators are calling it ‘Block #verything Movement’, which is not only telling, prophetic...
CPI’s Clarion Call To Defend Democracy In Danger
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Communist Party of India (CPI) has made a strong pitch for defending democracy under attack in the country and strengthening the communist movement. The clarion call for realizing the twin objective was given by CPI general secretary D. Raja while inaugurating the delegates’ conference...
Labour Party To Form Government Again In Norway Emerging As The Largest Block
By Satyaki Chakraborty Norway rebuffed the surge of the far right political parties in European countries in the September 8 general elections by placing trust in the incumbent Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store whose Labour Party emerged again as the largest single political party with 48 seats in the...
Time For Every Indian To Stand In Solidarity With The People Of Palestine
By P. Sudhir Gaza is at a flashpoint – a moment of reckoning when history convulses for the Palestinian people, yet equally charged with the potential to transform, to dismantle a genocidal settler state that wages an incessant campaign of racist violence and destruction. Nothing perhaps underlines this moment...
Narendra Modi Is Wrong – Mohan Bhagwat Did Not Work For Social Harmony
By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s piece on Mohan Bhagwat released in all national newspapers on September 11 on the occasion of RSS supremo’s 75th birthday ought not to be construed as his praise or eulogy for the RSS chief. It is sheer a manifestation of his surrender...
Unorganised Sectors May Not Get Full Monetary Benefits From GST 2.0
By Krishna Jha India is a country where poverty is the most normal experience, no one is free from it except a few. Beginning from the day a child is born, hunger starts haunting it. Most of the days of life are spent in the grim shadows of a...
