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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.Donald Trump Is Now Obsessed With His Passion To Defame India And Narendra Modi
By Sushil Kutty United States President Donald Trump is no less a boor than all of the boors who preceded him including the Jack and the Beanstalk ogre and cousins thereof. President Trump’s choice of words hurts even a snail engrossed in negotiating a curve in the beanstalk. Trump...
India’s Classrooms Must Become The Crucible For Innovation
By Satish Jha In India’s bustling classrooms, the future teeters, bright yet brittle. I’ve spent recent months visiting schools, sitting with teachers, and hearing their raw fears about technology’s place in education. Their words hit hard: tablets sap students’ focus, they say. Screens might radiate harm. Social media lures...
Bangladesh Health Sector Faces Collapse Due To Nepotism
By Tajul Islam When Bangladesh’s students took to the streets last year, their demands were clear: dismantle the structures of fascism, restore democracy, and build a government that put the people before politics. Their movement culminated in a historic moment on August 8, when Nobel laureate and Grameen Bank...
Decoding The Return Of Neo-Fascism In French Politics With Full Vigour After Decades
By Ugo Palheta PARIS: The far-right vote has risen steadily in every French election since 2012, reaching 41.5 percent in the runoff of the 2022 presidential contest. This is no isolated phenomenon. The traditional right has become extremist; civil liberties have been curtailed in the name of the fight...
Chicago People Resolve To Resist Trump’s Takeover Of Third Largest City In U.S.
By Brandon Chew CHICAGO: Hundreds of people gathered to attend Senator Bernie Sanders’ rally in Chicago Sunday amid the political backdrop of a potential military takeover of the third largest city in the USA. It was the latest stop for Sanders’ “Fighting Oligarchy” tour, which began in February and...
Why SCO Summit In China On August 31 Is Of Big Significance For Indian Diplomacy?
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be facing his major test in diplomacy at the coming summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) to be held in Tianjin in China on August 31 and September 1 this year. The SCO meet will be hosted by Chinese President...
As U.S. Official Order On Additional 25 Per Cent Tariff Takes Effect, PM Modi Has To Fight Back
By R. Suryamurthy From August 27, Indian goods landing at American ports will smash against a tariff wall so steep it amounts to economic warfare. With Donald Trump’s administration slapping an additional 25% duty on Indian exports, effectively raising tariffs to nearly 50% across a wide swath of products,...
Global Outrage After Israeli Strike Kills Five Journalists At Gaza Hospital
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The western news world has been outraged over the killing of five journalists in a tank fire in a hospital in Khan Younis in Gaza on Monday as Israel faced an unprecedented wave of condemnation after a pair of back-to-back strikes on Gaza’s...
Why Every BJP Leader Is Against Revealing PM Narendra Modi’s Degree?
By Dr. Gyan Pathak It was only last week, Union Minister of Home said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself put PM under the proposed Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill for the sake of equality before law that seeks automatic removal of PM, CM, and Ministers if detained for 30...
Home Minister Amit Shah’s Diatribe Against Opposition VP Candidate Sudershan Reddy Is Ominous
By Justice K. Chandru (Retd.) Last Friday, Home Minister Amit Shah, during a sudden tirade against the INDIA Bloc’s Vice Presidential Candidate former Justice B. Sudershan Reddy (who served as a judge at the Supreme Court between 2007 and 2011), accused the latter of being a supporter of the...
No News Of Jagdeep Dhankhar After His Resignation Deepens Mystery
By Sushil Kutty So where’s former Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar? One would have thought he would be easy to meet, come across, now that he is a free-bird and not the Vice President, a thankless job, if any, Dhankhar would have himself submitted to the people. But Jagdeep Dhankhar...
U.S. European Union And Russia Still Clashing Over Path To Attain Ukraine Peace
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: If this past weekend’s appearances on NBC’s Meet the Press were meant to clarify where the world’s power brokers stand on the Ukraine war, they instead underscored how fractured the road to peace remains. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, U.S. Vice President JD...
Personal Fight Between Two Brothers Of Matua Community Worries Bengal BJP
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: As 2026 Assembly polls in West Bengal are inching closer, two brothers both sweating by BJP ideology taking on each other have hit the headlines as they belong to the influential Thakur family whose word counts in the Matua community in the state tipping the...
The Trump Regime Is Promoting Incendiary Far-Right Politics In Britain
By Ben Chacko LONDON: A new wave of anti-refugee protests is threatening asylum-seekers held in hotels a year on from the violence that followed the horrific Southport murders. Lucy Connolly was released on Thursday after jail time for incitement to racial hatred, having posted on social media on the...
Trump’s USA Is Unreliable, Xi’s China Could Be Worse
By Nantoo Banerjee Notwithstanding India’s current trade tariff spat with the United States, India should apply caution to further open up imports from China with which it already suffers from massive trade deficits – nearly $100 billion last year when China had severely cut down imports from India. The...
Time For Reforming GST To Reduce Inequity Among States To Suit True Concept Of Federalism
By R. Suryamurthy When India rolled out the Goods and Services Tax in 2017, it was sold as a grand nation-building reform – a “one nation, one tax” revolution that would bind the economy together. Eight years later, it looks less like a fiscal triumph and more like a...
Pakistan’s Increasing Strategic Alliance With China And Bangladesh Is Ominous For India
By Asad Mirza The last week was full of hope and consternation both, for the Indian diplomatic community. On the one hand, the Chinese Foreign Minister met the Prime Minister Modi in Delhi. The Ministry of External Affairs described the talks as fruitful. But what rattled the Indian diplomats...
Gram Urja Swaraj Campaign Of Centre Is On Sans Scheme Or Budget
By Dr. Gyan Pathak It would be shocking for many to learn that the Union Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR) that runs a campaign named Gram Urja Swaraj has in fact neither any scheme nor any budget. PM Narendra Modi’s Gram Urja Swaraj is just an empty slogan with...
