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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.Nikki Haley’s Concern On Trump’s Anti-India Tilt Is Shared By Traditional Republicans
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: When Nikki Haley, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a former Republican presidential contender, warned that “alienating New Delhi at a time of rising Chinese assertiveness would be a strategic disaster,” she was not speaking in a vacuum. Her intervention came...
Mamata Banerjee Scores Over Narendra Modi In The Propaganda War Over Metro Projects
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress, BJP and CPI(M) have always been at odds. Of late, post the inauguration of three Metro railway routes in and around Kolkata, last week by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, things have come to a head between the three political outfits as they...
Indian Students Are Grappling With Trump’s Immigration Clampdowns
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: In 2025, for hundreds of thousands of young Indians, the dream of studying in the United States is alive — but under siege. A fiery Reddit post recently captured the angst: “What’s so wrong with us that every country wants to limit us?”...
After Kashmir Home Department’s Ban On Books, Librarians Are Under Pressure
By Siddu Huded On August 5, 2025, the Jammu & Kashmir Home Department issued a notification banning 25 books. The order was justified on grounds that the works propagate “false narratives” and “secessionist sentiment.” This was not an obscure list. It included Arundhati Roy’s Azadi (2020), journalist Anuradha Bhasin’s...
Election Commission’s Degradation: From Watchdog To Caged Parrot
By K Raveendran Indian epics tell us that aggression should never be turned against the weak is a lesson etched into the Mahabharata. Karna, remorseful after joining in the humiliation of Draupadi, admitted the shame of deploying power in the wrong direction. Draupadi in that moment represented not just...
130th Constitution Amendment Bill Can Be Challenged In Supreme Court
By T N Ashok India’s Home Minister Amit Shah’s 130th Constitution Amendment Bill to disqualify high profile political leaders after a 30-day pre-trial custody has created a political storm besides raising questions over the constitutional validity of such a measure fraught with serious consequences for the governance of a...
Former CPI General Secretary S Sudhakar Reddy’s Death Is A Big Loss For Left
By Nitya Chakraborty Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy, the legendary communist leader of the undivided Andhra Pradesh and the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI) for seven years from 2012 to 2019 passed away on Friday August 22. He was 83. Sudhakar was a distinguished leader of the...
Amartya Sen’s Comment On Deportation Exposes PM’s Bogey On Infiltrators
By Arun Srivastava Trepidation expressed by the 91-year-old Nobel Laureate, Amartya Sen on Friday at a public discussion in Kolkata on ‘India’s Youth: Social Opportunities They Should Have’: “There remains a possibility that I might be sent back to Bangladesh because my ancestral home is in Dhaka,” has become...
Constitutional 130th Amendment Bill, 2025 Is A Damocles Sword
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Less than one month remains when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attain the age of 75 on September 17, 2025. Yet there is no announcement on his part that he would retire from public life, as politician and as ruler of the country. One can...
FBI Raid On Former NSA Of Trump Shows The Vindictive Character Of US President
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayer NEW YORK: The FBI’s early morning raid Friday on former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s Maryland home has reignited a cauldron of old enmities inside the Trump orbit, exposing once again the combustible intersection of classified secrets, loyalty tests, and the former president’s refusal to...
Kuki-Zo Council Finds Assam Rifles DG’s Clarification Comforting
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Clarification offered on August 21 by director general of Assam Rifles Lt-Gen Vikas Lakhera, AVSM, SM about Myanmarese nationals entering India under the Free Movement Regime (FMR) effective from last week of December 2024 has given an opportunity to the Kuki-Zo Council (KZC), a...
Monsoon Session Of Parliament Exposed Increased Authoritarianism Of Ruling Party
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As far as outcome is concerned, the month-long Monsoon Session of the Parliament of India that concluded on August 21, 2025, can be termed as near washout. Nevertheless, the symptoms it manifested signalled India’s great struggle ahead. The opposition battled for saving the Constitution and...
India’s Aviation Dream Is Built On A Fragile Safety Net And Compromised Regulator
By R. Suryamurthy The Air India Flight 171 crash in Ahmedabad this June, killing 241 people, should have been a line in the sand. A Boeing 787 — the pride of modern aviation — falling out of the sky seconds after take-off was not just a technical failure. It...
Narendra Modi’s Proposed GST Concessions Are Not Growth Oriented
By Prabhat Patnaik Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech was expectedly full of blatant untruths. He talked for instance of the great strides that India had made in the manufacturing sector during the years of BJP rule, while the reality is a drastic fall over the last ten years in...
US Tariff Policy Has No Definite Framework – Varies From Country To Country
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: For years, transatlantic economic ties have been both a bedrock of Western prosperity and a source of simmering disputes. The newly announced US–EU Framework Agreement on trade, unveiled in August 2025 after months of behind-the-scenes negotiations and public tariff threats, marks a critical...
Supreme Court’s Refurbished Order On Stray Dogs Of Delhi Is A Welcome Compromise
By Sushil Kutty The Supreme Court has modified its dog-order of August 11 and “dog-lovers” are beyond relief, except that the order doesn’t meet everybody’s expectations. The best thing about the order is that dog-lovers have been told not to feed strays on the streets and roads, in the...
INDIA Bloc Picks Strong VP Candidate In Retd Justice B Sudershan Reddy
By Rahil Nora Chopra The opposition INDIA bloc has chosen former Supreme Court judge, Justice B Sudershan Reddy, as its combined candidate for the September 9 Vice Presidential elections, which it termed an ideological battle against the BJP-led NDA, which has nominated Maharashtra Governor CP Radhakrishnan. Former SC Judge...
The 130th Constitution Amendment Bill Is Aimed At Pushing India To One Party Rule
By Arun Srivastava The bill to remove a prime minister, chief minister or any other minister in jail for 30 days, without conviction is awell-designed plot to accomplish the RSS-BJP mission of pushing India to one nation-one party rule. This is one of the alternate choices like the SIR...
