Opinion
Appeal
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.Air India Has A Systemic Safety Culture Problem Requiring Immediate Attention
By K Raveendran Incidents of safety concerns surrounding Air India have become as routine as the weather snippet in a newspaper. What should have been extraordinary events meriting immediate and serious introspection have now assumed the quality of the mundane, the familiar, and the tragically predictable. The most recent...
Chaos In Parliament And Bihar Assembly Over SIR Is Just The Beginning
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Both the Houses of the Parliament of India – Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha – and the Legislative Assembly of Bihar witnessed total chaos on Wednesday July 23 due to which they had to be adjourned. The Opposition members in the Parliament of India were...
Trump’s $10 Billion Lawsuit Against The Wall Street Journal Starts A Media War
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: America’s historical publication, the Wall Street Journal, is unfazed by President Trump’s $10bn defamation suit and says it will defend itself on its story of the Trump letter to Epstein as the British Editor Emma Tucker, who changed the landscape of political reporting...
India’s Macro Fundamentals Are Strong Enough To Deal With Any U.S. Tariff Hike
By Subrata Majumder Notwithstanding COVID 19 pandemic escalating geo-economic turmoil, India continued to float on high growth. It pitched 9.2 percent growth in 2023-24 and 6.5 percent growth in 2024-25 (over and above high growth in the preceding year), which raised several eyebrows in the world. This compares well...
Chief Justice Gavai Just Spoke The Truth, Legal Education Was Never Equal
By Sahil Hussain Choudhury When Chief Justice B.R. Gavai stood before graduating students at NALSAR and told them not to pursue a foreign LLM by taking on a Rs 60-lakh loan, it may have sounded to some only as a cautious financial advice. But for those of us who...
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar’s Resignation Has A Political Context
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Health issue is the officially stated reason for the Vice President of India Jagdeep Dhankhar’s resignation, but it has a political context. It was only in December 2024, Dhankhar had rebuked its own government led by PM Narendra Modi over not talking to agitating farmers...
Why Is Not Prime Minister Clearing The Air Over Trump’s Claim On Jets Down And Ceasefire?
By Sushil Kutty There are media which dismiss the “4-day war” between India and Pakistan as a “skirmish”. US President Donald Trump claims five fighter-jets were shot down, which makes it a full-fledged war. Trump also claims he forced a ceasefire between the two “nuclear-powered neighbours”. Pakistan hasn’t denied...
Will Mohan Bhagwat Step Down In September After Completing 75 Years?
By Arun Srivastava As September 11 is approaching the day RSS supremo Mohan Bhagwat will turn 75- the retirement deadline set by the RSS, there is a big commotion and also excitement in the RSS ecosystem. They are all eager to know whether Bhagwat will finally end his term...
After First Six Months Of Trump 2.0, Americans Are Still Confused On Gains Or Losses
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: US President Donald J Trump completed 180 days in his 2nd presidency on Sunday that was marked by a high-octane governance full of confrontations, chaos, and calculated populism. Trump is barrelling into his seventh month in office with the throttle wide open—and the...
Trump Administration’s Battle With Federal Reserve Reaches Flashpoint
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayer WASHINGTON: The conflict between President Donald Trump’s administration and the Federal Reserve has moved from simmer to full boil. In a stunning escalation Monday morning, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called for a sweeping review of the Federal Reserve, questioning not just its recent decisions but...
An Era Has Come To A Close With The Passing Away Of V S Achuthanandan
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An epoch has come to a close with the passing away of Communist patriarch and former chief minister of Kerala, Velikkakathu Sankaran Achuthanandan. He was 101, and is survived by his wife Vasumathi, son VA Arun Kumar and daughter VV Asha. VS, as he is...
Mamata Banerjee Puts BJP On Backfoot In Bengal By Focusing On Bengali Identity
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Making a mix of emotions and facts, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee blew her poll bugle loud and clear from July 21 Martyrs’ Day rally. While calling upon her party activists to hit the ground running for the election campaign, she sounded a stern warning...
Israeli Genocide In Gaza Has Violated All Types Of International Laws
By Akansha Pillai, Akshat R.N The violence in Gaza has evoked a novel reaction from the U.N. specialists, who have clearly warned the Palestinians about the ‘annihilation’. As documented in the photos of dead bodies and funeral marches, the cost of human life has been deep. The crisis was...
Communist Stalwart V S Achuthanandan Played A Major Role In Shaping Kerala Politics
By Pinarayi Vijayan The life of Comrade VS Achuthanandan who passed away at the age of 101 on Monday is a remarkable chapter in the history of Kerala in general and the revolutionary movement here in particular. Comrade VS Achuthanandan was a symbol of a brilliant tradition of struggle,...
India’s Decision To Raise Oil Import From The US Is More Political Than Commercial
By Nantoo Banerjee President Trump’s trade and tariff tantrums seem to be strongly working on India. The country’s crude oil imports from the United States surged by 51 percent during the first half of the current year ignoring the very high cost of import, including shipping, and travel time...
Modi Govt Avoiding Discussion On Pahalgam, Operation Sindoor In Parliament
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Even a naïve can perceive that the Union Government is playing a trick in respect to discussion on the Operation Sindoor and the ensuing events in the Parliament of India. They had given assurance in the all-party meeting on the eve of the Monsoon Session...
Bihar To Witness One Of The Bitterest Assembly Polls By Year End
By Kalyani Shankar The politics is heating up in Bihar with the Assembly elections scheduled at the end of the year. Regional and national parties are preparing for this and have begun the seat-sharing process early to avoid last-minute hitches. The election will be a fiercely competitive battle for...
The Muslim Electorate In Bihar On The Margins Before Assembly Polls
By Jiyaul Haque, Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui On June 24, the Election Commission of India announced a Special Intensive Revision (‘SIR’) of the Electoral Roll (‘ER’) in Bihar, just months ahead of the State Assembly elections. While such revisions are standard electoral procedures, the conditions attached to this one, particularly...
