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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.Supreme Court Should Send A Suo Moto Notice To Home Minister Amit Shah For Calling Sudershan Reddy A Naxal
By Prof G Mohan Gopal India’s current Home Minister is no ordinary minister. He is one of the two most powerful leaders of the Union government, one whose words command wide authority. It has been widely reported that in the course of delivering a public speech in Kochi, Kerala,...
Both Election Commission And BJP Anxiously Waiting For Rahul Gandhi’s Political Bomb To Explode
By Sushil Kutty The most powerful nuclear bomb ever was the Tsar Bomba, a thermonuclear weapon the Soviets tested. It was a three-stage hydrogen bomb. Congress MP Rahul Gandhi says he’s going to detonate a hydrogen bomb soon. Rahul’s hydrogen bomb is political and will fall on NDA aspirations....
Xi-Modi Meeting Sends Some Positive Signals For Indian Foreign Policy
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s bilateral talks with the Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday at Tianjin in China on the sidelines of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit have sent some very positive signals which may herald the evolution of an independent foreign policy of India voicing...
India May Be Late To Wake Up For A Genuine Export Push
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s fear for an uncertain outcome of the trade shock from the US looks rather out of sync with its pro-import economic policies. The country never aspired to become an export-oriented nation. Domestic manufacturing is heavily taxed. The government was never serious about export push and...
The Mystery Of Voter List Manipulation In Bihar Deepens After Sept 1 Deadline
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The mystery of voter list manipulation in Bihar through SIR of the Electoral roll has further deepened on September 1, 2025, the earlier announced last day of submission of claims for deletion and addition. There are lakhs of addition and deletion requests pending before the...
U.S. Policymakers Stunned At The Outcome Of Narendra Modi-Xi Jinping Meeting
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to SCO at Tianjin in China with an arm stretched out for Xi Jinping has taken the world by surprise, especially the USA which was building the Asian giant as a counterweight to China in the Quad...
India’s Labour Intensive Sectors Are Feeling The Brunt Of Trump’s Tariff Hike
By Kalyani Shankar On Wednesday morning, last week, India woke up to 50 per cent tariffs imposed on its goods sold to the US. The Trump administration followed through on its threat to double levies from 25 per cent due to India’s purchase of Russian oil. Since his return...
Mohan Bhagwat’s Backtracking On Retirement Issue Exposes His Weakness For Power
By Arun Srivastava Even a chameleon cannot contemplate to compete with the swiftness with which RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat changes his colour. In past too he had brazenly demonstrated his skill. Bhagwat has inherited this legacy. The most exceptional instance has been his latest denial that he never suggested...
Xi-Modi Bonhomie Unnerves Many Diplomats Both In South Asia And USA
By Sushil Kutty It’s not just US President Donald Trump and his attacks who are stewing in their juices watching the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) take the Trump tariff bull by the horns but also hawks in India who don’t like India and China get closer even if by...
Trump’s Tariff Weapon Working Like A Boomerang On Americans And Economy
By K Raveendran There are increasing signals that Trump’s weaponised tariffs will most likely be his nemesis. A US court of appeals has thrown out his tariffs against other nations, ruling that he exceeded his authority in declaring an emergency to justify the draconian measures. The development is more...
Indian Economy’s 7.8 Percent Q1 GDP Growth Is A Strong Sign Of Revival
By R. Suryamurthy India’s economy has once again surprised on the upside. The first quarter of FY26 clocked a 7.8% expansion, a five-quarter high that has been hailed as evidence of resilience and momentum. In a world where global growth is sputtering, the figure drew applause as another data...
Indian Techie Pratik Pandey’s Death In Silicon Valley Raises Many Crucial Issues
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayer NEW YORK: The discovery of 35-year-old Microsoft engineer Pratik Pandey’s body on August 20, 2025, at the company’s Silicon Valley campus has sent shockwaves through the tech industry, raising urgent questions about the human cost of the relentless artificial intelligence arms race that has consumed...
Opinion Divided On Implementation Of Four Labour Codes
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though the RSS-backed Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) has demanded immediate rollout of the Code on Wages 2019, and the Code on Social Security 2020, opinions in the political leadership and the officials are still divided. BMS has created a fresh concern within the BJP-led Union...
U.S. Vice President J D Vance Spoke Of Trump Both In Present And Past
By Sushil Kutty US President Donald Trump is trending on ‘X’, not because Elon Musk has returned to Trump’s fold. But Trump is all over X-comments because Vice President JD Vance spoke of Trump in both the present and past tense and though he should have been tense there...
BJP Cadres’ Attack On Congress Office In Patna Is A Part Of Design
By Arun Srivastava PATNA: Weaponisation of politics by the BJP strongman, Amit Shah, got its crude manifestation on Friday August 29 with the BJP cadres led by their two senior ministers, attacking the state office of Congress, Sadaquat ashram, which was once the abode of the former president Rajendra...
Congress Capitulates To Threat Of MLA Accused Of Sexual Misconduct
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In a major political setback to the Congress in Kerala, the Crime Branch of the Kerala Police has constituted a Special investigation Team (SIT) to probe the accusations of sexual misconduct against Congress MLA Rahul Mamkootathil. In view of the digital nature of the alleged...
Madhya Pradesh BJP Government In A Bind Over The Slapping Of IAS Officer By Party MLA
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh BJP is in a dilemma over how to handle the ugly incident involving an IAS officer and a party legislator. If the party does not punish the legislator as per the demand of the State IAS Association, it will face angry...
Israel Seeks To Silence The Truth By Targeting Journalists In Gaza
By Ben Chacko LONDON: The latest Israeli assassination, of six Palestinian journalists, has resulted in worldwide condemnation. Al Jazeera identified the attack as part of a systematic campaign to silence the truth. The bombing attack on the Nasser hospital in the Gaza city of Khan Younis earlier this week...
