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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.Trump Is Going Too Far In India Baiting By Saying India Is A Dead Economy
By Sushil Kutty President Donald Trump is showing his age, 79 going on 80 and it isn’t fine showing. Of course, Trump is an “obnoxious” proper noun and Trump has called India “obnoxious”, which is how an obnoxious person will talk. If Indians are thinking Trump’s a disappointed man,...
Arrest Of Kerala Nuns In Chhattisgarh Angers Catholic Bishops Council
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s desperate attempt to woo the Christian community in Kerala suffered another setback with the Kerala Catholic Bishops Council (KCBC) criticising the party over the arrest in Chhattisgarh of two nuns from the State over alleged conversion and human trafficking. KCBC president...
In A Strategic Move, Kuki-Zo Council Launches Public Consultation Exercise
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Is the leadership of the Kuki-Zos, who inhabit the Hills of Manipur, trying to gauze the views of different sections of their communities as a prelude to formulating a new strategy ? Is it a quest of the Kuki-Zo top brass to see that...
PM Narendra Modi Has Skillfully Avoided The Issue Of Trump’s Claim Regarding Ceasefire
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his long reply to the discussion in Lok Sabha on Operation Sindoor on Tuesday night skillfully avoided the issue of any mediation by the U.S. President Donald Trump by stating that no world leader told India to stop Operation Sindoor. His...
Trump’s Latest Move On Russian Oil Threatens Indian Economic Stability
By K Raveendran Donald Trump’s latest manoeuvre on Russian oil purchases marks a significant departure from his usual pattern of rhetorical escalation followed by quiet retreat. In a striking flip-flop, he has advanced the deadline for action against countries continuing to import Russian oil, and done so with an...
Five Years Are Lost Under India’s National Education Policy 2020
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Under India’s National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, the country has lost five years. There has been considerable backsliding of the level of education to the children because of ‘back focus error’ in place of ‘right focus’. Educational autonomy of the teachers and institutions has been...
U.S. Consumer Confidence Edges Up In July, But Inflation Fears Still Lurking
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The American consumers showed cautious optimism in July, as the latest data from the Conference Board indicates a slight uptick in consumer confidence. But beneath the surface of that modest gain lies an economy still weighed down by anxiety—particularly over the Trump administration’s...
There Is Immediate Need To Launch Battle Against Attacks On Dalits
By Krishna Jha We are almost living in a holocaust situation. One crime is committed against a Dalit every 18 minutes. Thirteen Dalits get murdered every week, 27 atrocities against Dalits are committed every day. According to India’s crime record bureau, some 45,935 cases are recorded each year and...
Multipolarity Or Dependency? Russia’s Bid For African Allegiance
By M. A. Hossain When Dmitry Medvedev, former Russian president and current deputy chair of Russia’s Security Council, addressed the Liberation Movements Summit in South Africa on July 27, his message was as predictable as it was provocative: Russia stands with Africa in the fight against neocolonialism and envisions...
In First Six Months Of Trump 2.0, Left Wing Latin American Regimes Feeling The Heat
By Roger D Harris and John Perry NEW YORK: With the Trump imperium passing the half-year mark, the posture of the US empire is ever clearer. Call it the “new cold war” or – in Trump’s words, “endless war” – this is the era that the world has entered....
Supreme Court Raises Many Doubts About ECI’s SIR Move In Bihar
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As Election Commission of India (ECI) was busy in giving final shape to the Draft Revised Electoral Roll of Bihar to be published on August 1, an oral direction of the Supreme Court to ECI on July 28 to proceed with accepting Aadhaar and Electors...
Trump’s Forced Trade Deals With EU And Japan Have Set A Template For Others
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump is emerging as a parallel to the WTO which we could eponymously call the “American Trade Organisation” — ATO — with his Art of the Deal with Indonesia, Japan and now EU. ATO is a unique organization that Trump...
Kharif Crisis Brews As China Weaponises Fertiliser Supply Against India
By R. Suryamurthy When China quietly shut off the tap on fertiliser exports to India earlier this year, it didn’t just disrupt supply lines or trigger a price surge. It exposed a far more troubling truth: India’s agricultural security is only as strong as the weakest link in its...
ECI’s Adamant Attitude Not To Accept Aadhaar And EPIC For Identity Has Angered Bihar People
By Arun Srivastava Quite intriguing, notwithstanding agreeing to the submission of petitioners, especially of the Association of Democratic Reforms, the Supreme Court has refused to pass order restraining ECI from publishing the draft voter list implying the implementation of its plan to remove names of nearly 1 crore Dalits,...
Amit Shah Gloats About Indian Success In Operation Sindoor But Avoids Intel Failure
By Sushil Kutty Union Home Minister Amit Shah spoke in the special debate on Operation Sindoor and Operation Mahadev and it was a clinical performance, concentrating as he did on explaining threadbare ‘Operation Sindoor’, which was primarily against ‘terrorism’ and Pakistan was a carrier of the disease. For Shah,...
U.S. Restriction On China Transshipping Goods Through Vietnam Is A Relief To Indian Exports
By Subrata Majumder Concerns loomed large, when the basic reciprocal tariff on imports from Vietnam to USA was drastically cut by Trump administration on July 9, 2025 from 45 percent to 20 percent, leaving India in a major setback. This is lower than import tariff from India, which will...
Harassment Of Bengali Speaking Muslims In BJP Ruled States Gives TMC Big Weapon To Hit Its Rival
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Processions are commonplace in West Bengal with its capital Kolkata being once dubbed “a city of processions” by a prime minister. But the “bhasa michil’ (language procession) taken out on Monday by Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee leading a sizeable number of activists in the...
EU Can’t Ban Non-Member India From Buying Russian Oil
By Nantoo Banerjee The European Union seems to have arrogated itself with extrajudicial power to prevent outside nations from purchasing Russian oil. It has no locus standi to impose its will on countries which are not members of EU. Thus, the latest expansion of the EU sanctions targeting Russian...
